What you think of people saying IE>FF

i think they're either
1. stupid
2. never really tried FF

discuss

I haven't heard any people saying that IE is better than FF. In my experience, people who are still using IE are only doing so because they aren't aware of the risks they are taking using IE, or aren't aware of alternatives, or don't know how to go about getting an alternative. And if they don't then I'm quite happy to let them get on with it, since I can then charge them for an hour and half's work, minimum, to get rid of all their spyware.

i have heard people saying Maxthon, Avant Browser, and Crazy Browser are better than FF... of course, most of those people don't realize that those "browsers" are just IE wrappers...

I really couldn't care what browser is ">" what browser. I used IE for a while because it was a lot better than netscape, and I had no reason to use anything else. Later, I came upon 4chan, and found use for the adblock extention for firefox, started using FF more, and just got to using firefox more.
Despite using firefox, seeing people going "LOL U R STUPID CUZ U US IE LOL US FRFOX FUKN NOOB HOMOFAG" is just retarded. Leave people alone and let them fuck their computers over themselves. (Despite how easy it is to run a completely clean system with IE)

Ya well. When I go to www.toontown.com with firefox, it says that it is only supported with IE. What's THAT all about? Is there a way to play toontown with firefox?

If you believe it's "easy" to run a completely clean system with IE then you are deluding yourself. Sure, you can disable ActiveX and so on, and run AdAware or Spybot regularly, and install a decent firewall, and install all the critical updates Microsoft issue, but you're still running a browser with security problems that go unfixed for months, and that virus and spyware writers specifically target. Why go to all the effort of patching over the holes in a faulty browser when it's far quicker to just dispense with it altogether? You're just making work for yourself.

>>5
you can't play toontown with properly configured IE, either.

Never heard anyone say that.

I'm being serious. Is there a way to play toon town on Firefox or not? Also, how do I make it so that when I add a "Bookmark" on Firefox, it goes to my "favorites" list?

>>9

No. Toontown is yet another site that refuses to acknowledge there are any other computer users in the world besides IE/Windows users. To update your favorites list as you add bookmarks in Firefox, Google for the Syncmarks extension.

>>6
I ran on just IE for over a year, just running weekly scans and the one-two ad-aware spybot run. No firewall or anything else other than that. Ended up with very very little spyware. I didn't disable activeX either. Less than  3 per month, none of which were hard to remove. Running Ad-watch helps a lot, lets you keep track of your registry changes, which makes knowing when you've been infected very easy, and running the google toolbar gets rid of many ads. Frankly, I find the only times I ended up with spyware was when my mother came on my machine, and started checking her email.
Regardless, I prefer firefox, but running a clean system on IE is far from difficult.

lol toontown i used to work where they do tech support for that.  the game was kinda crack for how lame it is.

now seriously, if you happen to know anyone saying IE>FF
what do you think of them

I'd think they were misinformed.

or maybe rebelling against the idea that its cool to use firefox or whatever.

It's a matter of personal preference, I suppose, but I use Opera and Mozilla for my Web browsing--mainly Opera, with Java, JavaScript, and image loading turned off, and Mozilla only for those few Web pages I need to visit that require JavaScript.  I flatly refuse to run IE, and if I knew how to uninstall it completely from a Win2K Pro box, I'd remove it, along with all of Outlook (which I also flatly refuse to use).

This is only one person's anecdotal experience, but I've been using the Internet since 1990, and quit using IE as soon as Netscape 2.0 became available, back around 1996.  I've never gotten a virus or a trojan.  Ever.  Not even one, in fifteen years online.  I suppose it also probably helps a lot that I don't download warez or cracks.

A friend of mine is fairly technically savvy.  She doesn't have my level of expertise, but she built her own gaming PC.  And she is apparently addicted to Flash games on certain sites that are b0rked if you don't use IE, so she refuses to even try to install another browser.

She runs Symantec Personal Firewall and Norton AntiVirus with regular updates, and she runs Spybot S&D frequently.  And she still gets viruses two and three times a month.

I'm thinking that IE may be the problem.

Firefox is pretty good, it only crashed twice since I installed it, months ago. But everytime it crashed it killed my entire bookmarks (about a hundred sites) in the process without any chance of recovering them.

On the other hand, IE crashed every 20 minutes, but never touched my bookmarks.

And the winner is: Opera for not crashing once and leaving my bookmarks where they belong.

Opera definitely doesn't eat bookmarks, that's for sure.

Every version of Opera I ported my bookmarks over. I now have links in there that are from 1997. It's amusing how many of those still work too.

They need to release another IEView that works with 1.0. It made it easier when you stumbled upon an ie only page.