Why use IE?

[Smartweb]

My primary browser is FireFox because its just plain
better. My questions is, for those that prefer IE, why do
you prefer it. Is there some feature of it that I missed
or do you just not know about the better browsers.

 

[Jone Doe]

You are entitled to have an opinion. This is why some people drive KIA's
and Fiat's.

 

[Guest]

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You are entitled to have an opinion. This is why some people drive KIA's
and Fiat's.




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Ya I drove a kia 5.5 and upgraded to a fiat 6.0,traded

it in on a Caddy at www.download.com and got the free
avant browser that even blocks popups,and for those poor
souls that have dial-up,it has an option to disable the
flash animation,so your web pages load faster(upgraded
the fiat dialup to caddy cable baby)!

 

[Guest]

Is there a Mail Icon in FireFox, I tried it, and then I have to access my Outlook Express out the Browser
I like it, but I think IE6.0 beat FireFox.

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Smartweb" said in news:[email protected]:

My primary browser is FireFox because its just plain
better. My questions is, for those that prefer IE, why do
you prefer it. Is there some feature of it that I missed
or do you just not know about the better browsers.

For those that use BHOs (browser helper objects) to enhance or enlarge their browser feature set, how would switching to FireFox help (since it doesn't include those added features)? Does FireFix support the Adobe Acrobat BHO (so you can read PDF files inside of the browser window)? Does it support anti-virus BHOs to ensure that downloads gets checked before saved? Does FireFox support all the COM plug-ins for IE? FireFox has popup blocking but is it so rich in features that it thrashes other popup stopppers, like PopUp Cop?

Even if free, many users would prefer to wait until the freebie was no longer consider a beta release (which, these days, is more accurately an alpha release)? Why duplicate functionality and waste the disk space if what you have provides more than what you need? For corporations that are accustomed to pre-purchase of problem tickets or paying for support, what advantage is there to go with an unsupported web browser (i.e., the only support is from a user community and obviously for which no service level guaranteed contract can be obtained)?

No support for VBscript and ActiveX - which were deliberate decisions to supposedly hark greater security. Make sure any web sites that you important to you do not require these technologies. Theirs doesn't use Microsoft's Java. Well, no programmer ever did except to include and test support of it.

Someday down the road, and for home use only (because the expense of which comes out of my personal pocket), I may decide to use Mozilla Firefox for browsing and their Thunderbird for e-mail (well, mostly for newsgroups because Thunderbird is an Outlook Express replacement, not an Outlook replacement), and I'll probably end up going to OpenOffice for word, spreadsheet, and other Office-similar features. Not yet, though. But, by then, I'll probably also decide to move to Linux, Slackware, or some *NIXie OS.

For me, it's "gain some, lose more", so it isn't quite the logical choice yet. But it's getting there.


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[Smartweb]

I hear they're putting the mail button into 0.9.

IE drives me crazy especially because of no tabbed
browsing.

 

[Smartweb]

1) Anyone that needs support for a web browser is a
moron. (No offense to you morons out there.)

2) What makes developers like IE sometimes is it supports
lots of non-standard stuff, like ActiveX for example.
FireFox will display all w3c compliant pages perfectly.

3) Its only 8MB on hdd. Anyone that can't spare 8MB has
issues.

4) FireFox actually allows users to navigate. For full
descriptions, go to
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why.

5) FireFox does everything faster than IE and takes up so
fewer system resources. Gecko is in all ways superior to
IE's rendering.

 

[Smartweb]

Here's my complete article on the two:

http://techmine.zapto.org/Programs/webbrowsers.php

If you still aren't convinced go to http://short-
circuit.zapto.org, register, and head over to the
Applications section and start talking.

 

[John Richards]

There are some web pages that don't render properly with Firefox.
Ever tried going to the Windows Update site with Firefox?

 

[*Vanguard*]

"John Richards" said in news:[email protected]:

There are some web pages that don't render properly with Firefox.
Ever tried going to the Windows Update site with Firefox?

I thought the Windows Update web site used ActiveX controls. If so, that's one of the security "features" of FireFox that it will NOT support AX.

 

[Dick Sartori]

This is an IE site....why are you here.

There are some web pages that don't render properly with Firefox.
Ever tried going to the Windows Update site with Firefox?

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Dick Sartori" said in news:[email protected]:

This is an IE site....why are you here.

You responded to the wrong poster. Smartweb was the one proselytizing FireFox, not John.

 

[3W]

For those that use BHOs (browser helper objects) to enhance or enlarge
their browser feature set, how would switching to FireFox help (since it
doesn't include those added features)? Does FireFix support the Adobe
Acrobat BHO (so you can read PDF files inside of the browser window)?
Yes.

Does it support anti-virus BHOs to ensure that downloads gets checked
before saved? Does FireFox support all the COM plug-ins for IE?

COM is not an Internet standard. It's MS only.

FireFox has popup blocking but is it so rich in features that it
thrashes other popup stopppers, like PopUp Cop?

No clue, I don't need other pop-up blockers.

Even if free, many users would prefer to wait until the freebie was no
longer consider a beta release (which, these days, is more accurately an
alpha release)? Why duplicate functionality and waste the disk space if
what you have provides more than what you need?

Funny, it's actually less beta than IE 6. It has full support for PNG,
CSS (even some v3), and DOM. IE can't claim any of that, and MS have
stated that they're not improving on features anymore.

For corporations that
are accustomed to pre-purchase of problem tickets or paying for support,
what advantage is there to go with an unsupported web browser (i.e., the
only support is from a user community and obviously for which no service
level guaranteed contract can be obtained)?

Where's MS support regarding broken PNG transparancy support,
incomplete AND inaccurate CSS 2 support?

No support for VBscript and ActiveX - which were deliberate decisions to
supposedly hark greater security.

Again, those are not Internet standards, but MS proprietary add-ons.