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I used to use safari until mainly ShadowBrood and RexyRex got me to use FireFox in SEN Enlightment.....

every one is talking about firefoxs whats the diffrents between fire fox and ie?

Open-source as opposed to closed-source.

One word.. or two?

FireFox

Go here dude.
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?showtopic=13245&hl
Yoshi killz da IE.

... Here's a short list of advantages FireFox has over Internet Explorer.

• It renders pages and images properly, it complies with W3 standards.
  If people could make a website without having to worry about Internet Explorer's compatability then the page would be a lot easier to manage and would look a helluva lot better.
• It is not integrated with Windows, which helps prevent viruses and hackers from causing damage if they somehow manage to compromise Firefox.
• There is no support for VBScript and ActiveX, two technologies which are the reasons for many IE security holes.
• No spyware/adware software can automatically install in Firefox just by visiting a web site.
• Firefox doesn't use Microsoft's Java VM, which has a history of more flaws than other Java VMs.
• You have complete control over cookies.

Netscape 8 BETA then FF

IE Owns!

I use IE. Firefox is only for the times when I REALLY have to use it. Which is when the page won't work in IE, and some DLs which I recently found haven't worked on IE ever since I got Firefox. FF's fault, I dunno.

*Ed331 prepares for people about to jump on him for liking IE*

I use opera. Its hella fast. But things never show right.

On IE I see a line in my sig. Everyone on FF says it isn't there, then they look on IE and it is.
But I've gotten used to it.

I have only had one problem with IE. The autoinstall. I once went to a website and this thing said "Your installation is complete." But I have found ways on this comp to protect it

Sure your FF is nice and special, but why bother. Plus it doesn't have glowtext if it had glowtext you would probably see the FF icon by my name

Why bother? Every reason I listed and tons more. I refuse to use IE anymore, it's either Gecko or not.

Oh and to tell you why your sig is like that in IE:


'It' being FireFox of course. IE doesn't display pages or images properly.

Glowtext? Annoying and useless? I think so.

I have all my sig images in an HTML file and it works just fine. Its probably the way the sig in SEN is set up.

Glowtext is pwng! Just as long as you don't do like font 4 and strength 50

The fact that FF doesnt support something is GOOD?

Isn't supporting hacks BAD?

right... ActiveX and VB are hacks...

They're not hacks themselves, but they can be used to make hacks... even I can make viruses in VB it's the easiest thing you can imagine.

right and we have an anti-virus for what?

Not all anti-viruses work properly. And there are ways to get around them.

Anti-Virus programs don't stop hacks. They stop viruses.

I didn't see such hacks anyway

what's a hack?

When someone reads information on on computer from another without the premission of the owner of the computer that it's information is being read it's called a hack.

Using hacks, people can steal everything you have saved on your hard drive and save it to their computer, than crack a virus and send it to you to delete your system.
And Anti-Viruses can be easily passed thru if your computer was hacked since than the hacker knows what it can stop and what it can't - so he makes a virus that your anti-virus doesn't detect and put it on your computer.

When you enter a site, someone might be following you - you never know, and if he wants to have some fun - hell knows what gonna be with your computer.

So sure, it doesn't happens everyday, and the chances it'll happen to you are very small - but why take a risk?
FireFox lets you choose if you want to download every plugin or not while IE just downloads it, but IE is not an Anti-Virus - it's not going to stop the download if that plugin is actually an auto-crash crack

A hack is basically a program that reads and rewrites memory locations on your computer. Using them, people can go through backdoors in IE/Windows framework or any other browser that is using things that can be backdoored and completely automate things that search your hard drive for personal information, can upload viruses, can install spyware, various other things.

A firewall helps stop this, and an anti-virus takes care of the viruses. But neither protect you from everything. Mozilla/Firefox works in a way that prevents any backdoor atempt so that no hack can reach you. And Mozilla/Firefox are continually updated to fix any security issues or anything that might be a problem. That's the benefit of an open source solution, developers who know how to fix things can do so almost instantly.

So if I have a hardware firewall, does that help ?

No. Those only monitor programs being installed through conventional methods (an installer).