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Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox ?

Posted by pipedreamer • 3/19/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Tags: explorer, Firefox, internet explorer 7 versus firefox

I'm using Internet Explorer 6 at present, but a message on Facebook suggests upgrading to Explorer 7 or changing to one of the others, like Firefox.

Any thoughts about which is better? If it's just a matter of feature preference, which do you find most useful or user-friendly?

User Comments

3/19/08

crkian

I prefer firefox myself

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Thanks, crkian. Scrolling down the line here, that seems the popular choice.
3/19/08

saxyphone

Firefox for me!

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Thanks, Saxyphone. The little face looks happy about it!
3/19/08

TheMrs

Firefox.. although just tonight I downloaded Safari: www.apple.com/safari/ You can use it for an apple OR a PC... so I decided to give it a go.

IE I refuse to use and even the latest version of Firefox was giving me problems. I hadn't had any previously, but it's been using apx. (over) 100K of memory and was running slower than molasses. Even with a patch released by Mozilla and stopping all unnecessary processes, it had a 'leak' - at least that is what one of my techie friends told me.

Anyway, this Safari thing seems to be running VERY quickly.

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  That's VERY interesting! My PC seems okay, but perhaps that explains my laptop's reluctance at times. Perhaps I should try Firefox on the PC and Safari on the laptop as a comparison?
2. 3/20/08
  
  fatalhilarity
  
  Couldn't agree more with The_Mrs - I have used Firefox for about 3 years now but whilst setting my blog up decided to do some testing on safari - wow, not only faster but so much prettier; it uses Apple's text rendering so all text on sites looks much more atheistically pleasing (it makes more of a difference than you would believe). Also, whilst using Firefox all of my bookmarks were simply dumped into a folder and I would scramble through them to find a particular site, with Safari it almost encourages you to be more organized with bookmarking.
  
  RSS reader is also much better - this I think is being addressed with Firefox 3.
3/19/08

natxohm

No doubt about it: FIREFOX

Once you have all the pluggins downloaded and installed, IE has nothing to do with FIREFOX.

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Thanks, natxohm. Your follow-up below is actually great testimony to Firefox.
3/19/08

natxohm

Im gonna check Safari too and see how it goes. It has to be awesome in order to discard FIREFOX because I have never had a problem with Mozilla since I first started it using 4 years ago.

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1. 3/19/08
  
  natxohm
  
  I tried Safari and I like its design but I do not see many differences from Firefox. Anyway, my guess is that both of them are better than IE7. As "Toppy" said, "Anything but IE. Please"
2. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Thanks for that feedback. Seems pretty convincing that IE is not the way to go!
3/19/08

Toppy

Anything but IE. Please.

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Hi Toppy - that's pretty definite! thanks.
3/19/08

doffer

Upgrade IE to 7 anyway, but I'd really recommend using FireFox. The plugins alone make it worth playing with.

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Thanks, doffer. It sounds like the way to go.
3/19/08

MiLan

I use Firefox for design purpose only. IE 7 is latest and most common (with 85% users). If something (design or anything) works in IE7 then it has to work on Mozilla.

IE7 is best.

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Hi MiLan. So Mozilla can do anything IE7 can do, but you prefer IE7 ?
3/19/08

pipedreamer

Does changing over have any negative repercussions on existing files?

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3/19/08

xtremer

None of the above!! I would certainly choose Opera ....... it's loaded with features including a feed reader, unlike IE or Firefox!

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1. 3/19/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Hi xtremer. I've just been reading the related discussions in the discussion "Firefox not loading Blogspot blog". I use a Blogspot template, so those discussions worry me a bit.
  
  Your comment there about the sidebar and the way it loads is very interesting. Thanks.
2. 3/20/08
  
  friedclyde
  
  Im a fan of Opera as well atlast someone else on BC
3/19/08

musampa

FireFox

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3/19/08

souldrift

Firefox for me too, definitely! I tried Opera for a while & liked it a lot, but my laptop is too slow for it & I can't access some websites with it.

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1. 3/20/08
  
  friedclyde
  
  wat opera is lighter and faster than FF
3/19/08

jims

I used to use IE7, now I have switched to firefox. I don't have much knowledge about these but I noticed that the number of viruses that were entering my computer has decreased after using firefox.

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3/19/08

pipedreamer

That's interesting - I've heard someone else mention the issue about viruses as well.
Any problem accessing Blogspot sites?

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3/19/08

silvertooth26

Firefox for non-work related sites.
IE for our work sites.

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3/19/08

ccRicers

Firefox for me. For a while I was in the Opera camp but when I was using version 8 it would crash unexpectedly so I went back to FF.

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1. 3/20/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Seems like Firefox all the way and and Safari following up.
3/19/08

thegnr

Hey pipedreamer

Firefox is the way to go! I wrote an article on my blog not to long Why internet explorer is the worst browser
thegnrgroup.com/blog/internet-explorer-is-the-worst-browser/

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1. 3/20/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Hi thegnr. I read your blog - thanks. Pretty compelling stuff!
  
  Now I also understand why my laptop crashed one day and wouldn't load up again when I switched on. It would try, then switch off again. Had to format and reload. Thankfully, I had partitioned my hard drive, so personal files were still there!
3/20/08

pipedreamer

Thanks to everyone for this illuminating discussion! I only discovered BlogCatalog this week, but now I don't know what I've been doing without all of you and this site. Actually, I do - I stuffed up! It's great to be here.

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1. 3/20/08
  
  thegnr
  
  Hey Pipedreamer ;
  
  Good to meet you. BC is a great resource I have met some wonderful bloggers on here.
3/20/08

voodooKobra

Firefox.

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3/20/08

towr

Firefox! faster to load and more user friendly.

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3/20/08

graphicidentity

O p e r a faster to load than anythingelse

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1. 3/20/08
  
  friedclyde
  
  I A G R E E
3/20/08

pipedreamer

Okay, I've downloaded Firefox! Seems great, and fast, compared to what I'm used to!
Should I uninstall IE6, or do I just leave it there and use Firefox as the default?

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3/20/08

jeremylong

Firefox wins 'cos of speed!

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3/20/08

soarkaios

Firefox. No competition.

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3/20/08

filmasia

I have both; but I use IE7 as for now

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3/20/08

dotartdude

Microsoft stopped making versions of IE for the Mac.

I was using Safari until videos started making it crash. Then I kept running into sites that said to view with Firefox.

Firefox is what I now use.

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3/20/08

DeadRooster

Way too easy to get a browser hijacked with IE. I use Firefox mostly, but Safari seems to run better (I just don't know all the gadgets yet so, for now, I'm sticking to Firefox).

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1. 3/21/08
  
  pipedreamer
  
  Before this discussion, I had no idea that IE was such a risk. It's quite an eye-opener. I really thought that, apart from some functionalities, a browser was a browser!
  
  Well, I'm using Firefox now! I still have to explore the add-ins, but I'll get there.
3/20/08

WilDip

Firefox.

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3/21/08

sarahspy

when i switched to firefox i got noticably less virus threats.

sarah
sarahspy.blogspot.com

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