Um... turn off active X controls? There is an option ya know. If you are so damn paranoid about viruses and etc, just turn your browser's security settings to extremely high so all cookies are blocked (meaning you can't use this site and many others) and you get a pop up or ten every page because it wants special permissions.
Seriously.
Omg... I just read sheemps post... and I've been saying that all along.
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Firefox does have some features IE doesn't have. I tried download a few things and instead of playing it it downloaded it to my HD. IE will do that and play it in the browser.
Noooo see, firefox users seem to like that. They like starting with no options and having to install plugins for every single extra thing they want opposed to IE having all the *common* stuff already there for you.
Ah... plugins... as if installing stuff like that can't POSSIBLY have spyware/etc modded right into it.
"BUT... firefox has TABS!!!!1111"
If you are so keen on installing all the plugins for firefox, then what trouble would a simple shell replacement be for you?
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I'd still trust them more than a third party company.
True that... I said this multiple times. IE has a real staff working on it.
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Also, the more popular browser is targeted more often. FIrefox gets popular, BAM! People who use it start getting raped with viruses and hackers.
See... firefox is also OPEN SOURCE. Yeah, you think that might be such a positive thing... but anyone who wants to find ways to exploit firefox users already has the code laid out for them.
Now, I'd admit some pages load faster than IE... however, I tried doing my godly admin stuff with firefox yesterday and omg, it sucks for phpmyadmin. One, it just loads it extremely slow, IE is faster. Two, because I usually have a seperate sql query window affecting the main window, I get errors like "document contains no data".... which is just bs. Don't like popups? Well... what if the browser itself was creating the stupid popups. Next thing that pissed me off was it's weak searching ability. I love how you can push a button to go to the next occurance, but it can't search between two frames and obviously can't search within input boxxes like the one I'm writting in. Uber gay.
Yeah... you get the page faster with firefox, but most of the time, it isn't done loading it when you first see it. When IE is done loading, it's truely done loading. Firefox seems to hate sen topics that are full of images like creative works.
I like integration. See, in a IE window, if I type in C:, I get my normal folder view. If I type it in firefox, I get it as if I was looking at another server's hosted directory. It's just all too nice when programs can play with each other. If EVERYONE used windows and IE and etc... I'd have to wonder what kind of super OS could be made...
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It's probably because you never download security patches and let them through.
Yeah... they'll need to start doing that with firefox otherwise they'll end up getting a virus and get emotionally hurt. Firewalls, anti viruses, everything can't help you if you don't download security patches.
I've never got a virus from simply being on IE either... and when you search for crackz/serialz on the web, you are doomed to get like 15 porn pop ups and have to go through tons of pages with porn images all over them. It's not like I never got a virus because I'm living in some super shelled environment that couldn't possibly pose a risk.