Internet Explorer or Firefox? Lets have a constructive argument.

**Woad-Warrier** · July 31, 2007, 08:08 AM

Firefox!

**Shaun** · July 31, 2007, 08:09 AM

Firefox!

**dan101** · July 31, 2007, 08:12 AM

Firefox

**Aristocrat** · July 31, 2007, 08:14 AM

I'm going to report you all to PETA.

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**Freddie** · July 31, 2007, 08:25 AM

I like IE 7's new look but I'm too use to using Firefox now to change back. Even thought I use Firefox day in and day out I find Firefox to be resource hungry, to slow to start up from cold and isn't as safe as it was first made out to be.

Either way my favourite is Opera.

**Legio XX** · July 31, 2007, 09:08 AM

Still Firefox is much safer than IE. Downside to Firefox is that you still have to spend space on your drives for IE (If you are a Windows user that is) and that some webprogrammers don't optimize pages for Firefox. Im going to stick with Firefox anyway...

**iudas** · July 31, 2007, 09:20 AM

Firefox. I got used to it, but it's actually faster and simpler than IE. Safer, too. And with better features.

**Freddie** · July 31, 2007, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by SirPaladin

Firefox. I got used to it, but it's actually faster and simpler than IE. Safer, too. And with better features.

I would agree with most of that apart from faster. When I started using Firefox I kept on using it not for any one reason but several i.e. highlight > Right Click and Search, Google Search bar in the top right, tab browsing etc. Also I have some plug-ins which have reduced virtually all pop ups and banner ads, but I have disabled it for TWC as I want to keep the site running.

Click those damm ads’s people!

**iudas** · August 01, 2007, 06:18 AM

Originally Posted by Freddie

I would agree with most of that apart from faster. When I started using Firefox I kept on using it not for any one reason but several i.e. highlight > Right Click and Search, Google Search bar in the top right, tab browsing etc. Also I have some plug-ins which have reduced virtually all pop ups and banner ads, but I have disabled it for TWC as I want to keep the site running.

Click those damm ads’s people!

I was referring to the speed pages load at. It's much faster from this point of view than IE, at least for me.

**King Edward I** · August 02, 2007, 01:34 AM

Originally Posted by Freddie

I would agree with most of that apart from faster. When I started using Firefox I kept on using it not for any one reason but several i.e. highlight > Right Click and Search, Google Search bar in the top right, tab browsing etc. Also I have some plug-ins which have reduced virtually all pop ups and banner ads, but I have disabled it for TWC as I want to keep the site running.

Click those damm ads’s people!

thats in violation of adwords TOS...

**Scorch** · July 31, 2007, 06:19 PM

I can have the weather appear in the the top right hand corner of my screen in Firefox. Can Internet Explorer tell me it's now Sunny and 16 degrees?

**Juno** · July 31, 2007, 06:40 PM

Weatherbug can. ;p

Anyways, I think this issue should be cleared up. Opera>*

**Pnutmaster** · July 31, 2007, 10:14 PM

Firefox.

The addons (AdBlock Plus, No Script, PDF Downloader, Video Downloader) really make it shine.

**Simetrical** · July 31, 2007, 11:27 PM

Firefox. I especially hate IE as a Web developer: their lack of standards support is holding back Web page design by five years or more. Likewise I love Firefox as a Web developer: extensions like Firebug and Tamper Data are utterly indispensable.

Firefox isn't much faster than IE, though, alas, if it's faster at all. If you want fast, go for Opera, or possibly Safari (I don't know if their Windows version is as fast as their Mac version is reputed to be). Firefox probably has the biggest feature base by far if you count all the extensions, Opera's the fastest for PC and has a better built-in feature base. Anything is more secure than IE6, but I'm not specifically aware of major glaring deficiencies in IE7's security (though they may exist).

**Justinian** · August 01, 2007, 02:51 AM

Neither, Opera.

**spartan_phalanx** · August 01, 2007, 04:13 AM

Firefox for everday and IE7 only when I run into a troublesome site. I have opera for web dev testing and it's the fastest of the three. Firefox can be tweaked easily from default settings to be faster if you have a broadband connection or use the Fasterfox extention. It does create extra load on web-servers though.

**westy159** · August 01, 2007, 06:05 AM

I am also an Opera man.
Its used by more people that I thought it seems.

**SirLoinalot** · August 01, 2007, 06:12 AM

Internet explorer is a pile of junk. It doesn't comply to W3C standards so you don't get an accurate representation of the web designers page and it has a broken box model (page elements are sometimes incorrectly situated).

AAAAaaaaaaarrrrrgh, I hate Internet explorer.

Is it too much to ask that IE8 will be standards compliant?