Firefox or Internet Explorer?

[toon_marth]

You should not have to ask this. Internet Explorer fails.

 

[JennetteMcCurdyFan]

Internet Explorer = Epic Fail.
But I must agree that the ''clean'' Firefox isn't the best browser in the world, but with the help of some complements, it PWNS.
You should also try Google Chrome if you have a nice Internet. ( don't ask me why, I read it somewhere )

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

I don't really care if anyone is a Firefox fan or not. You know what the best browser is? Not Internet Explorer. It's easy.

 

[MBreeto]

Safari 4 ? I use firefox. I love it. I tried songbird out just because of the customization, but I never kept it.

 

[Pazx]

Noone comments on my spammy post about firefoxe's alter-ego?

Does anyone use iceweasel? It's almost identical to firefox... They are from the same stream of open source software and the only reason it's named (and logo-ed) different is to avoid a lawsuit... Or something...

Iceweasel and Weegee have something in common eh?

 

[meta master]

firefox wins. end of story

 

[noradseven]

Firefox is better than IE, it has the most support, is a pretty stable browser it has a slight memory leak but, IE is far worse.

By statistics Opera 10 beta , and safari 4 beta are the best browsers right now, Opera is the best at flash/java, and safari is the best at html.

Safari 4 sucks on windows though, Opera 10 is currently the best for windows.

Once Firefox 4 comes out, probably this fall, it will be on top again, and like I said firefox has the best support right now so there is no reason to use IE, its slower than firefox even with its speed boost because of the way its integrated.

 

[Zero X Unit]

IE gave me a virus somehow :/

 

[noradseven]

IE gave me a virus somehow :/

It didn't give you a virus it failed to have the appropriate protection to stop and auto load script on a page give you the virus, this can happen on Firefox as well, though its alot harder to write the script, this is why you need anti virus software.

 

[toon_marth]

I have never tried Opera. Is it better than FireFox?

 

[AltF4]

It didn't give you a virus it failed to have the appropriate protection to stop and auto load script on a page give you the virus, this can happen on Firefox as well, though its alot harder to write the script, this is why you need anti virus software.

One could argue that IE IS a virus.

 

[toon_marth]

One could argue that IE IS a virus.

To the debate hall this goes --------------------->

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/05/215209

That is painful.

 

[noradseven]

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/05/215209

That is painful.

Who reads things on slashdot any more, its just a bunch of angry pre-CJ's getting all worked up about stuff, that may or may not be true.

Example this story does it matter is it relevent no its just some random study done by some people who proably don't know anything about computers or are microsoft fanboys.

Also if you keep IE's defaults and never go anywhere it warns you to not go aka 95% of the internet, it is the most secure, even though its proven that nobody listens to any of their warnings and plows right ahead while Firefox, has far far fewer warnings but they are often more relevant and people might actually listen too them. But because of the fewer warnings there are a few security flaws that Firefox has that it doesn't report that IE does. So while Firefox has less security flaws that exist if you follow the warnings IE has less that will occur.

That is precisely how IE is more secure than Firefox, on paper that is. So they arn't wrong they are just using a different definition of secure.

Before you flame me back, consider this I still think IE is the worst most bugged, easily tricked browser, and I don't even think firefox is the best right now it has too many problems still, but its the best supported, and I can't live without my addons so I just deal with its problems, and get on with it, the same way people deal with IE.

 

[AltF4]

Well, I agree with one thing you said: Slashdot may not be very relevant anymore. I still go there, but it's not the same.


But in terms of security, there's no contest. No matter how you try to "define" security. I mean, come on. Firefox is Open Source. Open Source is always more secure than proprietary.

And IE doesn't have the market share defense. Firefox has a large market share, too. Over 20% and growing.

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

Stupid people are the biggest security holes.

 

[II Bolt II]

Firefox ftw. End of Story.

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=224593

Let's settle this. I'll keep this thread around for the sake of discussing IE vs FF specifically.

 

[Lore]

Main reason I like firefox is the nice little Pipelining settings and 9001 max requests... tihi.

Addons are good too.