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4 years ago
in Don’t trust Firefox — Elliott C. Back on Elliott Back's Blog
No piece of software perfect, true, but Firefox is still far superior to Internet Explorer.
4 years ago
in Spread IE Buttons on Elliott Back's Blog
IE still has SO many security faults, though. Most people don't know what to do if they get infected or hacked. Firefox has MANY more features than IE and both interfaces are easy to use. In terms of speed, it's about equal.
4 years ago
in Spread IE Buttons on Elliott Back's Blog
That's exactly the type of attitude that is bad. Microsoft has pretty much done that. They're like IE is good enough, why should we change it? Progress cannot move move with that. Firefox actuals supports innovation. Firefox actually supports web standards, unlike IE, which allows web developers to do great new things and be assured that they will work cross platform. In terms of speed, both are about equal in my experience. In response to how robust the two are, I've found Firefox to be very robust, especially when you factor in the extensions that can be added. User friendliness I would give to IE by a bit.
Firefox is pretty solid, considering it's finally gotten to its first release. Also, the bugs are not the super critical ones that can damage your computer like the ones you find in IE. I don't like the fact that Microsoft integrated the browser into Windows. It opens up IE to too many exploits. Whatever you may think, IE is NOT standalone on Windows. Also, ActiveX is bad. First of all, it is proprietary, and second of all, it is insecure EVEN in SP2. Speaking of SP2, yes, it does increase security. It also is a huge download file. People that are on dial up usually don't download patches, especially not services packs, because they take forever. These users stay unprotected and get wormed, trojaned, or otherwise. Also, SP2 has messed up quite a number of computers, not as many as SP1 did, but still quite a number. After SP1, I thought Microsoft would have learned its lesson, but, nope, that's Microsoft.
Oh, and if you don't think IE is still insecure, try this link: http://sylvana.net/test/AP4.jpg. (It crashes IE) Also, even some Microsoft executives use Firefox. In some of Microsoft's demo screenshots you can even see that they used Firefox. US CERT also recommends not to use IE. I'm wondering why you think IE is SO great and why we should spread the plague that is IE.
Firefox is pretty solid, considering it's finally gotten to its first release. Also, the bugs are not the super critical ones that can damage your computer like the ones you find in IE. I don't like the fact that Microsoft integrated the browser into Windows. It opens up IE to too many exploits. Whatever you may think, IE is NOT standalone on Windows. Also, ActiveX is bad. First of all, it is proprietary, and second of all, it is insecure EVEN in SP2. Speaking of SP2, yes, it does increase security. It also is a huge download file. People that are on dial up usually don't download patches, especially not services packs, because they take forever. These users stay unprotected and get wormed, trojaned, or otherwise. Also, SP2 has messed up quite a number of computers, not as many as SP1 did, but still quite a number. After SP1, I thought Microsoft would have learned its lesson, but, nope, that's Microsoft.
Oh, and if you don't think IE is still insecure, try this link: http://sylvana.net/test/AP4.jpg. (It crashes IE) Also, even some Microsoft executives use Firefox. In some of Microsoft's demo screenshots you can even see that they used Firefox. US CERT also recommends not to use IE. I'm wondering why you think IE is SO great and why we should spread the plague that is IE.
