firefox & IE6

[JunkMonkey]

Has anyone noticed that after installing Firefox, that IE6 acts kind of
"flaky". It's too early for me to say definitely that I've got a problem
with IE6, or that Firefox is the cause, but there are some weird things
going on. I'm also running the Google toolbar and much of the flakiness
occurs around Google. When I uninstalled Firefox the problem disappeared,
and then reappeared once I reinstalled FF. This problem never occurred with
Firebird (for those who don't know, the previous version of Firefox).

Firefox works fine, but I am concerned that so much commercial software uses
IE as the communications component that I may be causing myself grief
somewhere down the road by keeping Firefox. I'm sure that's what Microsoft
wants me to worry about!

 

[Michael Forsythe]

Has anyone noticed that after installing Firefox, that IE6 acts kind of
"flaky". It's too early for me to say definitely that I've got a problem
with IE6, or that Firefox is the cause, but there are some weird things
going on. I'm also running the Google toolbar and much of the flakiness
occurs around Google. When I uninstalled Firefox the problem disappeared,
and then reappeared once I reinstalled FF. This problem never occurred with
Firebird (for those who don't know, the previous version of Firefox).

Firefox works fine, but I am concerned that so much commercial software uses
IE as the communications component that I may be causing myself grief
somewhere down the road by keeping Firefox. I'm sure that's what Microsoft
wants me to worry about!

I noticed similar things with Firefox, but I've been having far fewer
problems with Mozilla, even with the 1.7 beta I'm using. Its email and
news client is also far better than Thunderbird in my opinion.

 

[Kerodo]

Has anyone noticed that after installing Firefox, that IE6 acts kind
of "flaky". It's too early for me to say definitely that I've got a
problem with IE6, or that Firefox is the cause, but there are some
weird things going on. I'm also running the Google toolbar and much
of the flakiness occurs around Google. When I uninstalled Firefox the
problem disappeared, and then reappeared once I reinstalled FF. This
problem never occurred with Firebird (for those who don't know, the
previous version of Firefox).

Firefox works fine, but I am concerned that so much commercial
software uses IE as the communications component that I may be causing
myself grief somewhere down the road by keeping Firefox. I'm sure
that's what Microsoft wants me to worry about!

I'm sure it's just coincidence.. Firefox has nothing to do with IE and
nothing in common.

 

[Trey Hunner]

JunkMonkey said the following on 3/30/2004 5:33 AM:

Has anyone noticed that after installing Firefox, that IE6 acts kind of
"flaky". It's too early for me to say definitely that I've got a problem
with IE6, or that Firefox is the cause, but there are some weird things
going on. I'm also running the Google toolbar and much of the flakiness
occurs around Google. When I uninstalled Firefox the problem disappeared,
and then reappeared once I reinstalled FF. This problem never occurred with
Firebird (for those who don't know, the previous version of Firefox).

Firefox works fine, but I am concerned that so much commercial software uses
IE as the communications component that I may be causing myself grief
somewhere down the road by keeping Firefox. I'm sure that's what Microsoft
wants me to worry about!

It is probably coincidence but it could also be a file/folder that
firefox uses that IE wants to keep to itself or something similar.

 

[Michael]

Has anyone noticed that after installing Firefox, that IE6 acts kind of
"flaky". It's too early for me to say definitely that I've got a problem
with IE6, or that Firefox is the cause, but there are some weird things
going on. I'm also running the Google toolbar and much of the flakiness
occurs around Google. When I uninstalled Firefox the problem disappeared,
and then reappeared once I reinstalled FF. This problem never occurred with
Firebird (for those who don't know, the previous version of Firefox).

Firefox works fine, but I am concerned that so much commercial software uses
IE as the communications component that I may be causing myself grief
somewhere down the road by keeping Firefox. I'm sure that's what Microsoft
wants me to worry about!

No problems here. But, I don't use google toolbar.