which is better? firefox or IE?

[jan_andrada]

can anyone tell me what is the right choice?

[Sharky]

I'll tell ya what, try these:

http://forums.x10hosting.com/crossfi...7-firefox.html
http://forums.x10hosting.com/crossfi...ox-better.html
http://forums.x10hosting.com/crossfi...o-you-use.html
http://forums.x10hosting.com/crossfi...irefox-ie.html
http://forums.x10hosting.com/crossfi...r-firefox.html
http://forums.x10hosting.com/crossfi...mpetition.html

It's a FAQ around these parts, and I'm sure there will be plenty of posts with "Micro$oft", "Internet Exploder" and "sucks" dotted around.

[gazzamc]

IMO i think firefox is the best. ;)

[chrisslat]

IE ftw
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ok maybe not, firefox over IE anyday :P

[petunia]

for me firefox. i dont like IE.

[alexandgruntz]

No one here would say IE. The question is a rhetorical question.

Firefox for the win.

[marshian]

There'll be IE8 soon, maybe you should wait with the next discussion till it comes out.
And for all FF lovers, is there any hard evidence FF is better then IE?

[noerrorsfound]

There'll be IE8 soon, maybe you should wait with the next discussion till it comes out.
And for all FF lovers, is there any hard evidence FF is better then IE?

Yeah. IE is only for Windows. I think IE5 came out for Macs but Microsoft doesn't port new versions, as far as I know. Firefox is also more secure than IE, and I don't predict that changing since it's still integrated with Windows. Firefox better supports web standards than Internet Explorer.

[tnl2k7]

Hello there,

Let me first of all make it straight that I'm not a Microsoft hater. I like a lot of their applications and use many of them in my everyday life, how could I survive without Outlook there to manage my emails? I just hate their lack of respect for some standards, and appreciate the way that the IE team is doing the best they can, it would seem, to get IE8 standards compliant.

In this case, I have to say Firefox. The UI of Firefox 3 is much improved, the new address bar is excellent (it searches for pages that contain words you've entered in the titles of your history), and I like the way I can customise it and make the browser do what _I_ want.

But above all, I like Firefox because of the way the Mozilla team and the other contributors have made it so compliant with standards. While I won't deny the browser certainly has its own quirks and it does occasionally go on RAM raids, it's improving at a phenomenal rate at works well with all standards compliant (and not-so-) pages.

Firefox's developer addons are very useful, just head on over to the Mozilla addons site to see what I mean. Internet Explorer 8 has some that are getting better (they're pretty good :D), but the lack of respect for standards has pushed me further from the browser.

Let's hope Microsoft ditches its past with regards to the internet and allow itself to move forward. They've made mistakes in the past that have messed up the web a little, and I sincerely hope they can improve. Microsoft plays a big part in the computing industry and it's be nice seeing them work with the W3C to fix IE.

But yeah, Firefox is definitely best for now in my opinion.

-Luke.

[DarkDragonLord]

Firefox 2.
Why?

IE6 - Its a buggy browser....No.. it IS a Bug itself ;P
IE7 - a veryyyy bad copy of Firefox.
IE8 - I don't want to install beta's.
FF3 - Its in RC 1.. When it be Final, i'll install :D


Ok, now for the good / bad things:
FF - ONLY ONE BAD THING: darn RAM use when its open for a long time. But i dont care, i got 2Gb RAM with a nice processor. But in my job's pc, this is a bad thing.
Good things: ADD-ONS, TABS, CUSTOMIZATION.

IE - It's the bad thing itself. I just think IE6 its a LITTLE faster to load than FF in crappy pc's... In Faster ones, didn't noticed. Mine is a lilttle slower than IE because i have too much add-ons on it..


I use:
ColorZilla (pick colors without printscreen and Eyedropper in Photoshop)
DownloadStatusBar (nice to see download status while browsing)
FasterFox (make ff a lil faster increasing pipelining, and we can see the load time of pages)
Firebug (no explanation needed :D)
IE Tab (Open IE as one FF's Tab.. useful to check my website in IE, compatibility issues etc)
Megaupload SX (open free slots in Megaupload sexupload EVEN when u try and it says 'slots full')
User Agen Switcher (so i can disguise as 'google bot' or anything to ppl's website)
Web Developer (no explanation needed :D)
United States Dictionary (Because i know english but, sometimes is good when i cant remember word or typed something wrong like 'wich' instead of 'which')