I use IE, mainly because my internet access is at work and it's the only browser we've got here. At home when I used to have the internet, I used to use Opera, which is not too bad. Comparitively at least.
Yeah I use IE at work, and I really miss things like tabbed browsing. I don't suppose they'd get a different browser though when you're not really supposed to be looking at the internet at work.
Ever notice on IE that the progress bar at the bottom bears absolutely no relevance to any kind of actual progress? It just goes up every second or so, and jumps to the end whenever it actually downloads the page. Opera and most other browsers got it right with their bars, but it doesn't really matter anymore to people with broadband
You could download Firefox without casuing any kind of permanent change to your system, IE would still be fully functional. You should at least try Firefox (www.mozilla.com), and you should see how much faster and easier it is. And if for some reason you don't like it, uninstall it. No harm, no foul.
It's hard to stress convincingly how IE isn't letting you browse to your computer's full potential. Just believe it everyone.
The ONLY times I ever use IE is for FTP and DLX, otherwise I'll either use netscape, mozilla, firefox, or opera Gotta love mouse gestures I think IE and...Not IE download at the same speed, but Non-IE browsers build the page while it is being downloaded so it LOOKS faster. Besides, Gecko layout engine is just better. Now that I think about it, mozilla is open source, right? Gecko object
As a boy, I wanted to be a train. I didn’t realize this was unusual—that other kids played with trains, not as them.
I use IE, tried out FireFox thought it was good but if any of the two is faster, IE is for sure. I Navigated to yahoo in firefox, total of 9 seconds to load. I Navigated to yahoo in IE 6 seconds to load. i repeated the test about 5 times and the result hasnt changed, soo poo on you who say its "faster" coz it aint
and Firefox looks shit when its loading up pages, the images have the little borders with the picture icon, dont know why but it annoys me.
Overall Firefox is a great browser has many cool features such as tabbed browsing and plugins, but i prefer my IE .
well, it sometimes comes down to your internet service, sometimes IE works faster, but for earthlink, it is abpproximately 3x10^8 times faster...give or take 299999999
As a boy, I wanted to be a train. I didn’t realize this was unusual—that other kids played with trains, not as them.
ive had no problems with IE at all so i see no need in getting anything different. i have a few firewalls and Net Nanny (little bro is a psycho) and everything is supersafe and works
Yeah, but TABS! How can you live without tabs?! Tabbed browsing just rules so much. If there's a page full of interesting links, middle click any you want to see to open them in tabs, then you can look at your tabs one by one later. Much more convenient than opening new windows every time, and less demanding on your PC (imagine 15 IE's open compared to 1 Firefox).
And firefox has a lot of nice extras. It has an amazing Web Developer toolbar and stuff which is incredibly useful if you're designing web sites. It renders pages faster and sooner - IE waits till it has the whole page before displaying anything, meaning you are sitting looking at a blank background for ages, but FireFox will start showing the page immediately, so you can actually read stuff straight away.
Plus loads and loads of other things. IE users are missing out so bad. I haven't seen a page which looks borked in Firefox for ages - Firefox is more standards compliant anyway.
I do believe Jon is talking out his ass. There's very little that works in IE that doesn't in Firefox, and that's usually because Firefox really only supports pages that comply with the standards. So apart from the seizure-inducing js-loaded webpages of thirteen-year-olds it'd take hours to find something that didn't work properly.
Crystal Clear (H.E.S): by 'faster' we mean the program behaves better. The speed at which pages load is entirely independent of the browser (although you can specify in firefox the number of milliseconds a page waits before it begins to display downloaded content).
To be perfectly honest, do you really want those annoying JavaScript webclocks and moving background images so badly you'll use an inferior browser? IE's not been properly updated for years, anyway.
Last time they updated Internet Explorer they broke the V-cade. In fact, they broke every single Vitalize game in existance - IE disabled Vitalize-style plugins.
Shows how good IE is. I wonder if Microsofy have some more "clever" moves like that planned for their users in the future?
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Gotta love mouse gestures I think IE and...Not IE download at the same speed, but Non-IE browsers build the page while it is being downloaded so it LOOKS faster. Besides, Gecko layout engine is just better. Now that I think about it, mozilla is open source, right? Gecko object 
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