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What's your main web browser?
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: muzzy ---Well, I have firefox too, but I tend to only use it on sites which absolutely won't work without javascript. It's kind of my "plan B" browser. My IE is configured to work without activex/activescripting, so 99% of IE security holes never apply to me. The rare ones that do, I patch. IE has worked perfectly for me, and for a while I thought it was misbehaving until I started debugging it and realized the glitches I was having were because of my own browser helper objects leaking. Oops! :D
I've found that in every way that matters to me, IE has been superior for a long time.
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So hang on, you say "Internet Explorer it superior" yet you admit that you've disabled ActiveX and JavaScript under IE for security reasons and yet you use FireFox for pages with JavaScript. :confused:
--- Quote from: muzzy --- Only recently (like, late last year) the firefox has become actually usable. I'll still stick with IE, though, I see no reason to switch over. Oh, and I'd have to reimplement all my plugins for firefox, and I hear they need to be rewritten every now and then as different firefox versions have plugin compatibility issues. Yay.
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FireFox was still beta back then it's a lot better now, this just proves how much further FireFox has come in a just over a year than Microsoft Internet Explorer has in over 10 years!
That's understandable but Internet Explorer 7 will probebly break your existing plugins anyway.
--- Quote from: muzzy ---I also have various versions of netscape and opera installed, back from the times I did some webdesign. I only use them for testing purposes, though.
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I can't see any reason to use netscape, opera has some good features (I like the zooming) but it's a bit slow.
themacuser:
I use FireFox and Safai. Mainly Safari, firefox just isn't Mac-like yet.
I also use Links from Terminal (in case you can't figure it out, I do use Mac OS X), it's great because Microsoft People can't work out that I'm secretly browsing the web...
sjor:
--- Quote from: bedouin ---but on Mac it's just not close enough to acting/feeling like a native OS X app for my taste.
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u could get camino.
i mainly use firefox
muzzy:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---So hang on, you say "Internet Explorer it superior" yet you admit that you've disabled ActiveX and JavaScript under IE for security reasons and yet you use FireFox for pages with JavaScript. :confused:
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Yes. ActiveX and javascript and such are features I don't need, the plain IE without annoying features is my preferred browser. However, since IE isn't safe with javascript and activex turned on, I use firefox for untrusted sites that need them. For trusted sites (microsoft, banking, etc) I've turned scripting on. Firefox is pretty much just a backup solution. Typically, if a site doesn't work without javascript/flash it's not worth checking anyway. If I absolutely have to, I have the backup plan.
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---FireFox was still beta back then it's a lot better now, this just proves how much further FireFox has come in a just over a year than Microsoft Internet Explorer has in over 10 years!
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I assume you realize that your comparison isn't based on any factual evidence, or any hard numbers. You're just throwing stuff out of your hat, expecting people to be amazed. Anyway, mozilla's rendering engine has been getting pretty good lately, but how long did it take? Let's see what's going to happen as microsoft finally continues development of IE...
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---That's understandable but Internet Explorer 7 will probebly break your existing plugins anyway.
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Well well, we'll see. Most probably it will still keep the same interfaces around and support the same stuff, so everything will work fine.
Aloone_Jonez:
Thanks of the quick reply! :thumbup:
Edit: Just in case anyone thinks I am, I'm not being sarcastic, I sent muzzy a PM reminding him about this thread and re replied very quickly. :)
--- Quote from: muzzy ---I assume you realize that your comparison isn't based on any factual evidence, or any hard numbers. You're just throwing stuff out of your hat, expecting people to be amazed. Anyway, mozilla's rendering engine has been getting pretty good lately, but how long did it take? Let's see what's going to happen as microsoft finally continues development of IE...
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Granted it was my opinion, not fact, but wouldn't it have been quicker just to say that?
Why do you think Internet Explorer is superior to FireFox?
--- Quote from: muzzy ---Well well, we'll see. Most probably it will still keep the same interfaces around and support the same stuff, so everything will work fine.
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Well if their past record on Microsoft office and Windows is anything to go by I can't see everything working that smoothly.
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