Firefox vs IE7

Li Moo Bai · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:49 pm

So I doonloaded Firefox this week to avoid IE7-related scary stories. And I have to say I think on the face of it, it's much better. Certainly faster, more lightweight etc.

What does anyone else think?

Adam

tr7v8 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:58 pm

V Slow! Been using it for about 18monthsor so. It's much faster, has lots of useful linked in products such as a spell checker!
Issues are it gets a lot of updates, mostly non-disruptive.

Li Moo Bai · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:13 pm

tr7v8 wrote:

V Slow! Been using it for about 18monthsor so. It's much faster, has lots of useful linked in products such as a spell checker!
Issues are it gets a lot of updates, mostly non-disruptive.

I am spread a little thin atm what can i say :lol:

i'll have to see my mate artie effem then

sam · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:20 am

Used to use it about 18 months ago also, developed too many glitches and conflicts for my likeing...............so binned :wink:

Li Moo Bai · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:36 am

sam wrote:

Used to use it about 18 months ago also, developed too many glitches and conflicts for my likeing...............so binned :wink:

So did you go back to IE then?

sam · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:41 am

yup, and found it much more stable

Li Moo Bai wrote:

sam wrote:

Used to use it about 18 months ago also, developed too many glitches and conflicts for my likeing...............so binned :wink:

So did you go back to IE then?

tr7v8 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:02 pm

sam wrote:

Used to use it about 18 months ago also, developed too many glitches and conflicts for my likeing...............so binned :wink:

I've had less issues with FF than with IE7, I have to use IE for work & hate it! :evil:

I much prefer the way FF works & so do most of my mates.

ExAudiSi · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:36 pm

Latest version isn't comaptible with the old version of OSX on my eMac

Looks like I'll have to upgrade to Leopard :roll:

Pete917 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:32 pm

Downloadeed firefox on Monday this week. Awesome. IE sucks .

tr7v8 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:02 pm

Pete917 wrote:

Downloadeed firefox on Monday this week. Awesome. IE sucks .

Worth down loading the dictionary as well :mrgreen:

Pete917 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:19 am

that and a more adept set of fingers

Rat · **Joined:** Fri May 30, 2008 7:19 pm **Posts:** 52

Other alternatives are Googles Chrome and Opera

Anything is better than IE.

Could always resort to links/lynx

stratfordshark · **Posted:** Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:52 pm

Does anyone still use clunky stuff like IE?

Browsers like Firefox are far superior on basis of tabbed browsing alone, let alone raft of other advantages. If I have to use IE on someone else's machine it seems kind of quaint by comparison.

sam · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:40 am

yup, probably at least 80% of users worldwide, which is probably quite a few.

stratfordshark wrote:

Does anyone still use clunky stuff like IE?

Browsers like Firefox are far superior on basis of tabbed browsing alone, let alone raft of other advantages. If I have to use IE on someone else's machine it seems kind of quaint by comparison.

Li Moo Bai · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:35 am

stratfordshark wrote:

Does anyone still use clunky stuff like IE?

Browsers like Firefox are far superior on basis of tabbed browsing alone, let alone raft of other advantages. If I have to use IE on someone else's machine it seems kind of quaint by comparison.

Tabbed browsing is in IE7 though. I think that's one of the reasons I didn't bother with the competition.

Adam

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