Mozilla vs IE - topic split from WOW = World of Warcraft

[Draupner]

Originally Posted by Rogean

Porn may not be the only reason, I'm sure there are others.. But a lot of times its when you click yes on the plugin popups. Don't let other people use your computer if they don't know what they're doing, unless your watching closely.

which is why you should just delete all internet explorer icons and use firefox duh. Then you don't ever get those.

[mysticalninjajesus]

yes exactly. firefox is usefull if you dont know what your doing.

[mrea]

Sometimes I wish you could ban people solely upon ignorance..

Originally Posted by mysticalninjajesus

yes exactly. firefox is usefull if you dont know what your doing.

Also, I have found a flaw!! When clicking links on www.packetnews.com there is supposed to be a little string copied to your clipboard to make it easier to ask for something in mIRC (or whatever prog. you use) but Firefox doesn't allow this. :(

[sotonin]

Thats because they used IE (microsoft specific) code, which is NOT standard and unsupported by anything but microshit. A poor web-design decision on the site creators part, there's other ways to do the same thing.

[Stealth_raptor]

My vote: Firefox.

I've used Firefox for quite awhile now and i'd never go back to IE. Why?

Well, it's agreed that if you go to porn/advertising websites with IE, you will get a whole heap of spyware, etc on your computer. Go to those same websites with Firefox...I'd bet you wouldn't get any.

Then there's those sites with annoying pop-ups....with IE, sure, you could download an external program to stop SOME of that (I tried quite a few)...but wait, it's already in Firefox and it actually works.

Tabbed browsing...Well, I don't even see that in IE.

Customisation;
Firefox - Loads of extensions and themes to choose from.
IE - What? Where do I get those?



Mysticalninjajesus - I do not use Firefox to be a l33t h@xor that r0x0rz j00 w0r|d and thinks microsoft is t3h n00bz0r (I am making fun of you here, just so you know)...I use it simply because it is superior to IE in each and every way and I got sick of having annoying pop-ups and spyware (although granted it was probably someone else that got it on my computer...which wouldn't have happened if I had of made them use Firefox).

How about you try it and then give a reason for why IE/Firefox is better?

Edit: By the way, if anyone has Firefox, I like how you can customise quite a few settings by typing in about:config in the address bar. (I never knew that before now. ) Anyway, it seems you can change a few settings in here and Firefox will actually load pages even faster than IE (for all those complaining). http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html

Try what's mentioned here, with the exception of that last one, which has been removed in the latest versions.

[mysticalninjajesus]

Go to those same websites with Firefox...I'd bet you wouldn't get any.

go to those same websites with a brain and you wont get any either.

[Cisyouc]

Originally Posted by mysticalninjajesus

go to those same websites with a brain and you wont get any either.

Mysticalninjajesus: Explain to me how you would go about to a spyware infected site without installing A SINGLE external application, as just said you can.

Even if you would have to go into the Internet Explorer options, hah, guess what Firefox does it automatically.

What? Huh? Is that a pwn I smell? It is!

[Spike]

He's right, it's stupid to install another browser. My computer had tons of spyware and adware because of IE then I got netscape which doesnt work with certain movie extention files.

But then I got a program that completely whiped my slate clean of adware and spyware and it works beautifully. If I ever screw it up again I can clean it up with either...

adaware6.0

or

hijackthis.exe

[Stealth_raptor]

Originally Posted by mysticalninjajesus

go to those same websites with a brain and you wont get any either.

Don't be angry at me because I made fun of you :cry:. You know you had it coming with the comments you were making.

Anyway, I assume that means go to them with IE? How about....no.

Spike...go try Firefox, much nicer to just not have spyware...instead of going through the process of cleaning it up each time you get it. Even Adaware wont clean up some of the stuff out there.

[Cisyouc]

/begin soft music

Popup Blocker              ....Two external Program(s) and Plugin(s).
Spyware Preventer      ....One external Program(s) and Plugin(s).
Antivirus                       ....Two external Program(s) and Plugin(s).
Integrated Search Bar  ....One external Program(s) and Plugin(s).
Tabbed Browsing          ....Priceless.

There are some things Internet Explorer can't buy. For everything rolled into 1, theres Firefox.

[mysticalninjajesus]

Popup Blocker ...comes with sp2
Spyware Preventer ...my brain, spyware comes from accepting things from sites you shouldnt and installing p2p networks and other exe's
Antivirus ...never have let an antivirus program run in the background ever
Integrated Search Bar ...no thanx, having google as my home page is plenty fast for me
Tabbed Browsing ...why not just open a new window.. all tabbed browsing is is a waste of window space to me.

my IE ui which i cant do in firefox

Popup Blocker ...comes with sp2

yea a crappy one, i turned off my second popup blocker to test this new feture and got so many popupt i had to hard boot.

Spyware Preventer ...my brain, spyware comes from accepting things from sites you shouldnt and installing p2p networks and other exe's

Wrong again, Google got busted for automaticaly installing spyware a wile back, and many other *normal* web sites do it too.

Antivirus ...never have let an antivirus program run in the background ever

I agree with this

Tabbed Browsing ...why not just open a new window.. all tabbed browsing is is a waste of window space to me.

Tabbed brousing takes up LESS window space.

[a_Guest03]

Yeah, how can a tab use up more space? It's a TAB: one flap in the current window.

MNJ, I'm done arguing with you about this stuff. I don't think anyone can change your mind on anything. The definition of insanity is attempting to do the same thing over and over and always to expect a different result. At this point, I would be insane to expect you to use your mind when I argue with you.

[mysticalninjajesus]

look at the bar where the back and forth buttens are and the adress bar, you have a whole nother empty bar there in firefox dedicated to tabs, why not just open a new window and the tabs are now in your start menu

example, Mirc, MSN messanger, yahoo messanger, Solitare. Open 2-3 IE's and all you see is a shortend internet exployer, cant see what page thay are. And i have 4-5 web pages ope at a time a lot.