[Closed] What's annoying you currently? (Complaining now banned)

But IE has never crashed on me. No idea about security, but since I'm still alive I assume I've had no problems there either. I might give it a try if it really is faster though.

What about if you don't want to have those dragging your overall pc performance's down? I don't have an antivirus system, nor a firewall and neither does Bregt from what i remember. I use firefox, no problems at all.

The typical refrain. Surprised it took a few hours for that one to be heard.

Well, Microsoft is responsible for the slow progress internet by not expanding IE6 (which blatantly ignores so many web standards) and the web made, until the likes of Firefox, Google, ... started to create useful and rich applications, that put the development of websites in the spotlight again, and made it actually interesting and fascinating again (haha, a geek speaking). Before that, with the Kingdom of IE6, it was just a mess.

Oh yes. Firefox is open source, supported by a whole community (while IE is not). It runs on the Gecko engine, which is also open source. It doesn't ignore standards, and tries to follow them as close as possible (as is Opera, who does that even better!). Both are innovative, full of great/new ideas, which IE "inspired" and gave those features an other name and claim them unique (like they so often do). So it's cruel to say that Firefox is just a subset.

I'm slightly confused that no one has been able to come back with some very clear advantages of Firefox over IE, Southall. I am by no means a champion (whatever works, is fine), but there simply are some serious advantages for me to switch to FF.
Anyway, the main reasons for me for using Firefox are

1) platform independency and adherence to industry standards
I had several occasions where updates to IE had a severe impact on other programs I had installed that made use of Windows items (mainly visual and rendering aspects) that were modified by the browser update.
I'll just repeat that for clarity: OS aspects were modified to suit the browser.
That is just unacceptable. Not on a point of principle, but on a point of continuity and personal productivity.

2) modifiability
Due to Firefox being Open Standard, I was able to get acquainted with the concept of "add-ons": community-created little subprograms for Firefox that change or add certain behaviour, from the sheer aesthetic (coloured tabs...which is more useful than one might think for distinction!) to the useful (like incredibly efficient download managers: I've had literally hundreds of downloads queued up, and didn't ever have to look at that again in the knowledge that everything would be properly downloaded to the proper places) to the absolutely essential (a backup option that backs up your configuration, your profile, your history, and you passwords for secure storage offline).

Two excellent reasons for me to easily prefer Firefox over IE.

Well said Martijn

I'll give your suggestions a try. My computer is approaching 8 years old, which could be part of the issue too

Nice to have maintitle members lookout for my best interest.
thanks
Thomas

What kind of phone?

Well, as you describe such a terrible company purveying such terrible product, they must surely be on the verge of going out of business if they've been doing everything so badly for 30+ years. It's hard indeed to understand how they have survived this long!

Whenever I've tried other companies' products I've found them wanting compared with MS's, so I've returned. I get the impression that serious users (who -unlike me - don't just browse the internet and use Office applications) may well be able to find stuff that's more suitable for them, but surely for the standard user like me, Microsoft needs no defence because they offer the best product. I understand the vitriol against them because lots of people just naturally hate huge companies, but there seem few valid arguments which successfully support the notion that the average user of a PC should avoid their products.

Having said all that, I'll give Firefox another whirl since people say it's quicker!

I'm sure some day you will.

But (again) speaking for the vast majority of people who are standard users, I wonder whether there's any other company that's had such an effect on people's lives during my 31 years on the planet, changing them immeasurably for the better. I suspect not. The only other candidate I can think of is the company that makes Kettle Chips.

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