Which is better Firefox or IE?

alton

Hi all,
Acording to me Firefox is the better compare to IE, because it has more benefits as
well as more features compare to IE like as,
1) Popup Blocking
2) Download Manager
3) Tab Browsing
4) Integrated Search Engine
5) Page Info
6) Options
7) Faster Response
8) Keeps HTML Formatting
9) Security
10) Open Source Advantage
11) Cleaner Interface
12) Block Images

mtrox

Alton the last thing the internet needs is yet another thread full of people shouting at each other about who has the best [insert fanboy item here]. But if you think Firefox has it over IE becasue of "innovative features" like popup bocking and tabbed browsing, etc. - you haven't been on IE for a few years.

As for speed, Google a few benchmark comparisons. It really depends on how you measure them.

Can't we just leave this whole thing alone and let people use something different than what you use?.

GnomeWizardd

This wont be a shouting thread because everyone on IC thinks IE is the bottom of the barrel browser

for options Firefox
for speed Chrome

Gate28

Also, Firefox has private browsing and it's easy to clear your recent history...:woowoo:

Kwitko

GnomeWizardd wrote:

everyone on IC thinks IE is the bottom of the barrel browser

'Cept Tim, of course.

NiGHTS

Gate28 wrote:

Also, Firefox has private browsing and it's easy to clear your recent history...:woowoo:

All browsers use them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_mode

Leonardo

Internet Explorer 8 is pretty nice. I'm so accustomed to Firefox though, I haven't put much time into IE8 to formulate a solid opinion.

For me, Firefox seems smoother and faster, but that may be simply a perception, as I'm too lazy to give IE8 a true chance to compete.

GnomeWizardd

I personally use Chrome for everything, IF Chrome cant open a page correctly I pop open IE8 but thats only happened 1 time, I used Firefox for years but I started having issues around 2 months ago with my banking websites

chrisWhite

I go back and forth between Chrome and Firefox, both are fantastic, especially now that Chrome has a few key extensions like xmarks. I'm a Safari guy on the Mac, it's rubbish on Windows though.

RichD

GnomeWizardd wrote:

I personally use Chrome for everything, IF Chrome cant open a page correctly I pop open IE8 but thats only happened 1 time, I used Firefox for years but I started having issues around 2 months ago with my banking websites

This. IE8 is a big improvement on previous verions. That said I am using IE now as I am on the laptop and for general browsing IE is fine for me. It has nothing to do with me being too lazy to download and install Chrome to here!!!:rolleyes2

Linc

IE8 establishes a great baseline for supporting web standards, but it lags in almost all benchmarks and is generally behind in implementing next-gen features and standards support. IE8 is a great upgrade from IE7 or IE6. It's really a non-competitor if you're shopping for a browser based on your above criteria though. Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all out-perform it and get updates more frequently. You won't see an IE 8.1; you'll be waiting for IE9 in a few years. Meanwhile there are incremental improvements from the Opera, Mozilla, and Webkit teams constantly.

Kate_IE8_Team

Hi there, this is Kate with the IE Outreach Team. IE8 has many security advancements over previous versions. Have you seen the recent study conducted by Cenzic that shows how few vulnerabilities IE8 has compared to other browsers?
You can check it out here: http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3847461/Firefox+Tops+Vulnerability+List.htm
Or read more about browser security here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/safer.aspx

BuddyJ

Hi Kate. Thanks for dropping in. Cenzic's study deals with Q1 and Q2 of 2009 so it's rather dated now. And it says that IE8 is twice as vulnerable as Opera. But what's most telling is that Cenzic uses Mozilla products as part of its security solutions, despite the numbers they've published. Wonder why?

AlexDeGruven

Unfortunately for IE, it has so much negative perception in the market these days that it's considered the afterthought browser, or the browser of choice for the uninformed. Doubly-unfortunate is that it truly earned those designations during the 6 era.

7 was better, but still laughably behind almost every other product available.

8 makes some great strides, and is generally a pretty solid product. But it still lags (even accounting for that study) in security, standards, and extensibility.

Maybe IE9 will be better. In fact, I'm quite sure it will be a really great browser. But I sincerely doubt it will be able to touch the competitors again.

Kate_IE8_Team wrote:

Hi there, this is Kate with the IE Outreach Team. IE8 has many security advancements over previous versions. Have you seen the recent study conducted by Cenzic that shows how few vulnerabilities IE8 has compared to other browsers?
You can check it out here: http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3847461/Firefox+Tops+Vulnerability+List.htm
Or read more about browser security here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/safer.aspx

kryyst

AlexDeGruven wrote:

Unfortunately for IE, it has so much negative perception in the market these days that it's considered the afterthought browser, or the browser of choice for the uninformed. Doubly-unfortunate is that it truly earned those designations during the 6 era.

I don't get why you consider this unfortunate. MS has made a continual series of poor choices. Yes IE is getting better but it's still not a great browser and they have insane resources and an inside scoop to the OS. There's no reasons why IE shouldn't be fantastic on windows. It should be able to blow FF out of the water, be 100% stable and not fully of stupid little bugs. The fact that it's not is not excusable at this point in the game.

We shouldn't feel sorry for them, we shouldn't pat them on the head and say 'Good try, better luck next time'.

AlexDeGruven

It's unfortunate because a lot of people have worked very hard on a product that is considered second-tier, at best, from a company that strives to be (and has been, at least in terms of saturation) #1.

For precisely the reasons you mention, it's unfortunate. It's not that I feel bad for them, but I can identify with them.

kryyst wrote:

I don't get why you consider this unfortunate. MS has made a continual series of poor choices. Yes IE is getting better but it's still not a great browser and they have insane resources and an inside scoop to the OS. There's no reasons why IE shouldn't be fantastic on windows. It should be able to blow FF out of the water, be 100% stable and not fully of stupid little bugs. The fact that it's not is not excusable at this point in the game.

We shouldn't feel sorry for them, we shouldn't pat them on the head and say 'Good try, better luck next time'.

kryyst

AlexDeGruven wrote:

It's unfortunate because a lot of people have worked very hard on a product that is considered second-tier, at best, from a company that strives to be (and has been, at least in terms of saturation) #1.

For precisely the reasons you mention, it's unfortunate. It's not that I feel bad for them, but I can identify with them.

All it's proven is that product saturation has bread laziness and greed. What is unfortunate is that Windows and IE are so integrated that we have to deal with it.

I certainly won't look at the gas companies as being unfortunate when an alternative fuel comes along and their lobbyists run out of money and arguments to squash it.

Nor will I look unfortunately down to a drug companies that spend more money in selling quick fix solutions then they do in researching long term ones.