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Avatar of catfishcore

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.

Avatar of GotGoose

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

Avatar of Majere1313

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.

Avatar of exigentsky

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. Cool

Someone should take IE around back and ...

Avatar of CoconutTiger

im in love with the chrome.

Avatar of donngerard

am using Firefox :) 3 also downloaded safari

Avatar of Maat

Firefox is so good.

i don't understand why you would take explorer over it.

Avatar of ColoradoKyd

resistance is futile.  you might as well decide to open a hydrogen pumping station as a protest against gas cars.

Avatar of jonnyjupiter

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.

Avatar of Spiffe

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.

Avatar of RetGuvvie98

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.

Avatar of Baseballfan

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.

Avatar of laporte

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..

Avatar of Majere1313
exigentsky wrote:

Someone should take IE around back and ...


beat it like it owes you $20.

Avatar of Majere1313
laporte wrote:

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.

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laporte wrote:

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.

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laporte wrote:

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.

Avatar of exigentsky
laporte wrote:

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.

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Grakovsky wrote:

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)

Avatar of DarkNight54

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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