Do you use Firefox or Internet Explorer?

Question

Do you use Firefox or Internet Explorer?

Answer 1

Firefox :)

Answer 2

Firefox, because its safer

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& uses less memory

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Answer 3

FireFox since v1.5

I wouldn't touch Internet Exploder if you threatened to kill me.

Answer 4

I use Firefox, i like it a lot better than Internet explorer

Answer 5

firefox. only use ie at school where for some reason they dont like firefox... i dont get it. ie is slow and crashes alot. firefox only crashes a little but thats probably b/c i have loads of addons and lots of tabs open.

Answer 6

Firefox.

I do not support Microsoft in anyway, anything I have that is made by Microsoft is dl'd.

Answer 7

sometimes Firefox and sometimes Internet Explorer

and also sometimes Apple Safari

but on my mobile and pocket pc i'm using Opera mobile and Opera mini only

and thanks

Answer 8

firefox 3.0.1 its nice

Answer 9

Firefox for browsing.  It's only slightly less compliant than Opera, but it has a much better feature set (mostly through add-ons.)

IE for checking my web designs, to make sure that the sites look the same in IE as they do in a real browser.  (Losing 75% of your audience isn't a good idea.)

Answer 10

It really depends on what you are looking for in a browser. Internet Explorer has been around for ages, and has the full support of Microsoft behind it. It is sleek and powerful, but on old(ish) computers that may slow you down a bit. Still, as the standard browser, you won't find many other negatives with it.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/product...

Mozilla FireFox is a highly customizable browser. New themes and gadgets are released every week, and this gives a personal feel to it when viewing websites. Although it slows the computer down, it isn't as bad as IE, though on a fast computer, you won't notice much of a difference between the two.

FireFox 3.0.1: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all...

Other options available are Opera Browser. This browser offers very limited customization features (only a colour change in fact), but because of this gives very fast browsing. it doesn't require as many resources as IE or FF, but it isn't very fun to browse in something that looks as out-of-date as it does.

Opera 9.52: http://www.opera.com/download/

The final major browser is Apple Safari. In my opinion it is the fastest of the 4 browser and my personal favourite. Its style is based on the iTunes layout and it doesn't offer any customizability, but if you like iTunes, you'll love this browser. Its major downfall is the fact that it doesn't render (load) webpages very well. This can become very irritating while browsing so most people don't give it a second thought. It does run very fast (even on slow computers) and has the fastest startup time of all browsers. If you find that the pages you usually visit work fine on Safari, you won't have anything bad to say about it.

Safari 3.1.2: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/s...

So it really depends on what kind of person you are and what type of computer you have. You can't go wrong with IE or FF, but under stress, they perform slowly, Opera is a boring looking browser but can run where the other two can't, and Safari has problems with many webpages, but is much the fastest of them all. If Apple ever get the rendering process sorted, it would be my number 1 choice.

Hope that helps.