As a web developer, I encourage everyone to use a standards-compliant* browser like Firefox, Chrome, or Opera. It makes my job so much easier!
*at least signficiantly more standards-compliant than Internet Explorer
As a web developer, I encourage everyone to use a standards-compliant* browser like Firefox, Chrome, or Opera. It makes my job so much easier!
*at least signficiantly more standards-compliant than Internet Explorer
I was using Firefox and after reading this tried Chrome. For myself it proves to be much faster and I LOVE the options it provides. It is superior, in my opinion of course.
Firefox FTW! I could never give up Firefox because of all the great extensions. With Firefox's AdBlock Plus extension, I haven't seen an ad in years. Get Firefox and you too can experience web nirvana. 
Someone should take IE around back and ...
resistance is futile. you might as well decide to open a hydrogen pumping station as a protest against gas cars.
I have a mac and use Safari, which I love. I have recently downloaded Firefox because I keep getting lines of code when pages load for chess.com and I can't create tournaments in Safari (because all I see is reams of code).
Firefox is good, but I still marginally prefer Safari. Livechess works ok in both.
IE is not a fun experience for me and never has been.
If you're going to switch, Firefox is the only real alternative. Chrome, Safari, and Opera are all new & sexy, but their market penetration is very low, and most web developers don't bother to support them. So while most web sites work in them, some won't, and in those cases you're going to need to have IE or Firefox as a "backup" browser anyway. Not much of a product if you have to use its alternatives 5% of the time.
I switched to firefox 3 in order to play live chess and have only looked back at IE7 once or twice since then. GoogleChrome tried to change my settings, but I removed the checkmarks in the boxes and it worked, but not as flexibly in other applications (sites) for me. Sticking with Firefox3 for the present.
I use Chrome for almost all sites. There are a few that Chrome doesnt like, and I use Firefox for that, but Chrome is so much faster that I use it whenever I can.
this is not the place for stupid anti-microsoft propaganda.. espescially when we all know that 90 percent of what you use is from microsoft..even if you wont admit it..
this is not the place for stupid anti-microsoft propaganda..
this is not the place for stupid anti-anti-microsoft propaganda..
then either. Complaining about other people complaining? Get it? If not...
Hypocrite: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.
this is not the place for stupid anti-microsoft propaganda.. espescially when we all know that 90 percent of what you use is from microsoft..even if you wont admit it..
This was a lead story across most major news channels this morning as well; it's more of a public service announcement than "propaganda". There's a serious security problem with IE at the moment, and nobody should be using it until it's patched.
this is not the place for stupid anti-microsoft propaganda.. espescially when we all know that 90 percent of what you use is from microsoft..even if you wont admit it..
I personally try to avoid Miscrosoft if at all possible. Not because of any political or philisophical reason, but because I generally find their products to be big, clumsy and filled with loads of stuff I will never use. I like apple software (Pages, Keynote, Mail, Safari, iTunes etc.) because I like the appearance, the feel and the way it seems to put what I really want at my fingertips with more powerful stuff I might possibly need sometime way in the future hidden a bit further away where I won't break things. I only use Word if I need to share files with other Word users and they have some formatting which doesn't transfer well. Word isn't bad though. Vista and IE are.
As with everything, horses for courses. I like slick and simple.
this is not the place for stupid anti-microsoft propaganda.. espescially when we all know that 90 percent of what you use is from microsoft..even if you wont admit it..
This wasn't about Microsoft's countless unethical business practices or any philosophical debates. It was a strict discussion of products. This isn't propaganda, it's just reality. Microsoft is a dead-end in browser technology at the moment. Not only are their products locking you in to their platform as well as lacking in standards compliance, but they are simply inferior in features, performance and design. Firefox is open source, community driven, cross-platform and free in every sense of the word. No one on this forum makes a dime from promoting it.
I've been using IE since the first day I sat in front of a computer and am still using it. For me, it works fine...
ok, it may work fine, but try firefox or chrome (although firefox is safer) and then tell which is faster and safer (although chrome is safer than IE)
I only don' t use chrome beacause "the bad" referred in this site:
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=49970
AND
in this site:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/150828/browser_battle_firefox_31_vs_chrome_vs_ie_8.html
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I tried Firefox and it changed all my settings. I had to take it off and reset my computer to and earlier date to get it to work right.