Internet Explorer or Firefox?
By hippyman27
@hippyman27 (76)
United States
7 responses
@hulahulahoj (14)
• Slovenia
29 Aug 08
I use FF and you should too, cuz u can customize FF much more than IE, FF is faster and IE has some leak in security and ppl can acess your personal data.
Greetings :D
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@slavezero (833)
• Philippines
1 Sep 08
For me I prefer Firefox, for a lot of reason. One is, Firefox features the all-too-familiar tabbed browsing feature. No more opening multiple browser windows, eating up your precious RAM and slowing down everything on your computer. While a more recent Explorer version can provide the same feature, Firefox pioneered the idea and there is a definite difference in feel when using tabs in Firefox as opposed to Explorer.
Also a very important topic amongst those interested in browsers is that of security. Most studies show Firefox as marginally better in this field as well even though Internet Explorer had years of a head start. This has been partially associated with the way in which Explorer is tied into the operating system while Firefox is a completely independent application.
Add-ons are a popular browser feature that enables enhancements to be made to browser by users. Well Firefox does anyway. Internet Explorer is notoriously hard to code add-ons for while Mozilla even provides help in doing so on their website. They welcome users who add functionality to the browser and a much wider range of applications are available, doing everything from music playing to game downloads.
Finally, a feature of Firefox exists that is not really a part of the browser on a whole, but is rather a modified version made by users called Firefox Portable. This application allows you to take your browser, along with its history and bookmarks, with you everywhere on a USB Flash Drive.
@GemmaR (8517)
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29 Aug 08
On my old laptop I used to use FireFox, but on this one I use IE, just because I've never got around to installing firefox again.
I will do one day, and IE gets more and more in my bad books by the day, so i guess it will be fairly soon that I do get around to it.
I agree that it is much better.
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@insaneduck9 (836)
• United States
29 Aug 08
I use Firefox because it seems to be faster on my computer rather than Internet Explorer.
Firefox does have unique add-ons and there are more variety than Internet Explorer. It's also more personal and it feels more comfortable and simple to maneuver.