Firefox Or Internet Explorer?
POSTED BY: Haze
UPDATED: Saturday, February 25, 2006 20:03
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Iv just bought a new PC and after years of Microsoft loyalty I’m thinking of ditching Internet Explorer in favour of Firefox. The question is, should I? If you have or indeed are using Firefox please share your thoughts on it.
Also, and I apologise for my ignorance here but if I install Firefox does that mean I cant use Internet Explorer anymore should I choose to?
Anything you can share would be of great help.
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Rabbit Toad Rat
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FIREFOX- Great browser, very few problems ever.
You can still use IE. I have to use now and then for websites that use IE specific Code.
Only the half mad are wholly alive!
E.A. 
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Firefox. It also starts with "fire" and makes me think of firefly. So go with firefox.
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I'm very illiterate when it comes to computers but I really like firefox and find it easy to use.
I especially like the Tabbed browsing and the way it manages your downloads but I think they might be introducing it to internet explorer now (they may have done already).
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complicated childhood
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Have to say Firfox is a much better browser. It's updated regularly, I love that you can customize the broswer with all sorts of widgits depending on what you want. It's more stable and less prone to viruses, spyware and malware.
At one time there was an issue with some pages and web sites not being configured for Firfox, but those are very rare now; I can browse my bank and credit card sites without any problems, I browse this forum and several others without trouble. If you have a gmail account I suggest an extension called "Customize Google". It allows for cookie-less logins and secure login to gmail among other things.
Lady Shelley
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I used Firefox at home and IE at work. I like Firefox a lot better and it's a lot more secure.
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Please don't think they give a shit.
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Well, I have been using Firefox (and Mozilla before that and Netscape before that) for years now and I love it. I also use Thunderbird as email programm.
I still have IE installed, though, and there are rare cases when a site will not be displayed correctly in Firefox because it uses some Microsoft specific stuff which is not supported yet.
But Firefox definitly is the Browncoats' choice 
Be independant!
Have fun and keep flyin'
Capella
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Firefox is great, especially when you add a few extensions like mouse gestures and flashblock. Another excellent alternative to IE is Opera, which I am using right now. It's the fastest fully featured browser. Firefox actually got a lot of their ideas from Opera (like tabbed browsing).
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Firefox.
Firefox Firefox.
Firefox Firefox Firefox Firefox.
Firefox.
That is all.
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"SUMMER!!"
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We happily use Firefox...(I luvs me my tabs and my right-click "Search web for "___"). We got a hand-me-down computer that had an outdated version of IE that functioned just well enough for us to get Firefox. But, Firefox didn't quite work right until we updated the version of IE on the computer, even though we didn't use IE. I guess my computer was old enough that it needed updated files that IE will install but Firefox won't. But seeing as how you have a new computer, you shouldn't have a problem anyway.
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