Internet Explorer 7 VS. Mozilla Firefox 2

I have been getting those page hangs with FF2 also for the last couple of weeks. Sometimes it takes up to 75 seconds to load the page (Fasterfox) if it loads at all. If it wasn't for my themes and extensions, I'd probably bail on it too.

 

It's all about the extensions in FF2, folks. Once you try AdBlock Plus + FasterFox, there's no recourse to a M$ product.

Yes, very true, Pita.

 

I am also performing the 24 hour challege thingy, and I've concluded that IE 7 is much faster and stable than Firefox 2
I havent tweaked FF2 though
If you have suggestions please suggest

 

sa_ill: install the Adblock Plus Add-On/Extension for Firefox2, and give it 24 hours. I guarantee you that you'll come back to the fold

 

I'm using IE 7 as i'm too lazy to download Firefox. Besides i never had a chance to see an exploit in action..so by using IE7 i hope to!

 

Well hell, go here then. Once you're done with that, install Firefox2 with Adblock+, and you'll have no idea how you lived without it It's nice not having those flash crap ads on every single site, taking up space that should be used for content.

 

I use IE7. I told myself over a year ago that I would switch over to FF. I've been to lazy. Oh well.

 

I use mainly Firefox, bias against M$, i guess...

 

And I use a hammer to pound in nails instead of a rock, because I'm biased against rocks Using a good, correct, secure tool for a job isn't always about hating the other options.

 

3 reasons the everyday user will like FF over IE

1. even without the ad block plug in it stops over 90% of ads you get in IE
2. built in spell check with 2.0
3. session restore with 2.0

 

While I like and use Firefox much of the time...

(1) I think not too many power users would honestly say that it works "right out of the box". It works for getting to websites, but it certainly does not work right away for video and sounds feeds. You have to download and install the right things, and maybe pray a little that it ends up working. You also often have to work on getting your mouse's and/or touchpad's scroll features to work with Firefox. Again, not always easy.

(2) FF is very slow to start, can be sluggish at times, and while it prides itself on slavish adherence to "web standards", in the real world, it doesn't display many websites as they were intended. Now, the FF community tends to put the blame on the affected websites for "not following standards" and suggests you complain to those websites about it, but I kind of think a modern browser should be able to cope with what is really out there, not only some evangelistic, theoretical ideal.

(3) FF is a bit like Linux. When everything works well, it works well. But it seems a little fragile in actual use over time. Things like your profile can inexplicably corrupt over time, bookmarks can disappear, and things can just generally stop working after the most innocent update.

So, it's not perfect. Most of all, the FF people really need to make it startup faster in Windows rather than dismissing us speed freaks with statements to the effect that "we can't just wait a few seconds more?". Well, no, not when I multiply the wait by many times per day. When I decide to go to the browser in order to open a link from somewhere else, I expect the browser to open almost instantly, as it does with IE.

 

I use both IE7 and Firefox 2.0. When I want to surf securely, it's FireFox all the way, but I use IE7 primarily to watch videos. Firefox is probably my favorite since there are so many add-ins and customizations for it.

 

I was going to vote IE7, because i have never tried ff2. Well i thought it is not fair not to give FF2 a try. So now i am trying it and will hold my vote for 1 or 2 days.
From my first impressions i like FF a lot. Hell, you can customize this thing to your heart's desire. It takes longer to load than IE, old news! I haven't noticed a difference in browsing speed. I love AdBlock and CoolIris.

What i don't like so much:
NoScript. My flashplayer doesn't run unless i click the NoScript icon on the bottom right of the page andd allow scripts. IE is no hassle here. Plus, it asks me to allow or deny webpages that i never visited like: google-anayltics.com!!!
Flashgot didn't download files automatically as adverstised. I coupled it to Flashget and Flashget kept crashing (Maybe windows Vista fault). But even when it worked, if i click a link to download, it shows me this window where i have to click OK twice to start downloading!! I mean it is supposed to make downloading easier not harder. I guess i am missing something. Suggestions are always welcome.

I also have Norton Internet Security 2007, which has a phishing guard that integrates nicely with IE7 to protect against fraud. Unfortunately it doesn't integrate with FF. I am not sure how important is this, but it rises concern if you do business online

 

My IE7 crashes randomly. It does that close window by itself thing a lot.

 

FF has always had some browser plugin issues. Just gotta be sure to have the right ones, as websites won't tell you a lot of the times---they just throw a 404 Not Found or some unrelated error.

 

I've never had that problem... what sites are you going to? If it's something that depends on a non-standard IE quirk or issue, it's the fault of a lazy web "programmer" (I use that term lightly), not Firefox. I'm gonna get on my high horse and say that if we want to be able to use the Internet, we need to adhere to standards, and Microsoft proprietary, undocumented, non-standard behaviors aren't something that should be tolerated.