Internet Explorer vs Firefox Revisited

Published on January 27, 2006 By kona0197 In Internet

Check this out guys. What do you think?

Comments (Page 2)

Phoon

on Jan 30, 2006

IE7 will have tabs as well

This I know. I tried the first beta of it several months ago. It had a loooong way to go then. I do plan on giving it a thorough exam when it comes out. I'll have to look at my technet library tomorrow and see what version is in it.

Yes, IE is still my default browser, but so far I must say FF is out performing IE, Avant and Maxthon hands down. There are still several sites that require IE based browsers though. The idea of using an extension to emulate IE for those sites is an option, but I really don't care to go down that road right now.

Opera... no! It doesn't support RoboForm and I will not give that up.

Kevin_C

on Jan 31, 2006

There are still several sites that require IE based browsers though

Phoon, there's an extension called "User Agent Switcher" that you might want to try. Most of those IE only sites are that way because the developers were lazy. However, if you use user agent switcher and set your user agent to IE6 and go in you'll find that most of those sites will work in FF. As long as they don't use ActiveX you should be good to go.

As far as the RoboForm toolbar, it sounds like a problem in the toolbar code itself. If there's a homepage for that extension you might want to go there and see if anyone else is having a similar problem.

If you are big into tabbed browsing and you want to have complete control over how you browse with tabs you should check out "Tabbrowser Extensions", it has a *TON* of great options for setting up exactly how you want to use tabs while browsing. You'll have to remove any other tab related extensions and try it when you have a bit of time to mess with the options because there are lots of them!

Phoon

on Jan 31, 2006

extension called "User Agent Switcher"

I am trying out "IE Tab" 1.0.7 at work. We have a few web based applications that require IE. (Intuits Track-It Enterprise) for one. Yes, that seems to work. It's the IDEA of having to do that that bothers me, but it does seem to resolve the issue.

Otherwise, I'm still messing with it and enjoying it.

Thanks for all your assistance!!

Phoon

on Jan 31, 2006

On a side note.
IE7 Beta 2 is now available for download.
Link

The software should not be used on production systems in mission-critical environments. Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview will only run on Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) systems, but will ultimately be available for Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003.

Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 31, 2006

Hmmm, I'd like to know what I need 20 zillion tabs for. The one window is quite sufficient

kona0197

on Jan 31, 2006

Yeah I don't use tabs either.

Adamness

on Jan 31, 2006

Yikes, I'd be wary of installing IE7 beta. I'd bet it's buggy as hell.

I hope that in Vista it won't be necessary to have IE installed. Don't like having stuff installed that I almost never use. Wouldn't count on it though.

liquidguru

on Jan 31, 2006

this screenshot is why i have firefox:

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no menus because i use all-in-one-gesture
lots of tabs on the bottom of my window ('cos that's where i like them) and i like to browse around a few different websites at the same time
many other extensions i like (and i like them all

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it's fast and it's extremely customizable.....oh, and tabs are great, you should try them....

Andy02369

on Jan 31, 2006

I use IE and Firefox interchangeably. Some things work faster on IE and some things work faster on FF. IE does start up faster than Firefox, though. I hate Opera due to it's ignorance in some of the standards like page margin and transparency. As for the link above the "acid2" test failed worse in IE7 Beta 2(just downloaded it), worked a little bit better in Firefox, and worked a little bit more in Opera. As a web developer, I test all my pages first in Firefox, then in IE, then in Opera.

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