IE runs almost everything better then Firefox. Theres an advantage.

Fx LAGS, IS CLUTTERED, HAS A LAME UI, TAKES TOO MUCH SPACE ON TOP, CONSUMES MORE RESOURCES AND I JUST CAN KEEP GOING.

I use IE, It's clean, suits my needs since I basically use it only for internet exploring, duh, I don't need to be like "OMG FIREFOX SUPPORTS TONS OF ADD ONS SO YOU CAN IMPROVE IT". I don't need all those plug ins that I don't even have any idea what could you possibly improve on the action of internet exploring and eventually they will just make fx lag more. I have all, Safari, Opera, Firefox, IE and Chrome and I just use IE. The few times I go on Fx are because of testing code and those few times I go it auto installs some fixes or whatever, I hate when things just install crap without asking, it probably can be disabled but it should be disabled by default or at least ask you if you want to upgrade.



Note how I have 3 tabs opened on IE and just one on fx and how fx consumes more resources

I prefer Firefox, but the only drawback is that it does consume a lot more than IE.

Such biased opionion in here. YOu might hate Microsoft but you can still use IE, you might hate apple but you can still use iTunes. Jeez.

I use Opera because I like to be different, and speed dial, and hotkeys I like. It also has the fastest load time of all browsers and fuctions the best on my computer for flashs located on the web. Also I like its skinnable features.

Kinda why I like Windows Live...oh the things you can do with the right program...

Chrome is still incomplete, hence why its second place on that chart.

Also, did anyone else laugh when IE loaded Mozilla's site faster then their own browser?

So declutter it. Get rid of the stuff you don't want and move the toolbars on top around. My IE and Firefox take up the same amount of room on top. (give or take 3 or 4 pixels at most)

Can you?

I go into the tools menu in IE... whoa! What's this? Manage Add-ons! But I thought that was a Firefox thing!

As if Windows Update were disabled by default.

Also, I have trouble believing that IE would be where it is today without the competitive pressure caused by Firefox.

I do not care. All web browsers have always been the same to me. I don't use or hardly use add-ons so every browser I have ever tried I like the same.

Maybe I just don't care enough to care if you know what i mean.

I use FireFox because my dad and brother told me it was best but I don't see why.

My setup takes less space than IE's default setup. And I can customize it to my needs. Can you do with IE what you see in Heinermann's screeny?
Also get another skin if you're about the looks of the UI. There's a lot of kickass skins for Fx.
I'm not sure how much IE has caught up in terms of usability (e.g. tabs) and customizability (have only icons/bars you need and where you want them) since I stopped using IE since v5.5 but I'm pretty sure Fx is still leading.

I agree. That is one of things I change whenever I install Fx. I've grown the habit to always change settings of any program I install before I start using it, because standard settings most of the time don't suit my needs.
Btw. in Fx 1 or 2 it was set to "ask" by default but they changed it because of the increasing number of users that have no idea how to properly use computers/internet and thus become insecure when a program bugs them with such "difficult decisions" (it's sad but true!). So they decided to go the safe way and set auto update by default because one can assume if someone changes it in the settings he knows what he's doing and can handle the permission for update dialog or knows the risks of not updating if a security leak has become known.
However it doesn't happen very often that I install Fx and you only have to set it once so that's no big deal and also I never noticed any bad side effects when I did the upgrade. That's a thing I can't say about Microsoft products.

Note how your claim isn't even true because Explorer != IExplore

Then IE is for you. IE is aimed at average users and fits everyone's needs fairly.
Fx is for power users that use internet a lot and in many different ways. And it's also nice to be able to change skins to your current mood. Also plug-ins are definitely useful. One I can't live without is "Download them All" which can (amongst other things) download embedded videos.

And last but not least, it's not from Microsoft!

EDIT:
qft

I can't believe I missed this. You made me actually LOL.

AHAHA ME TOO Corbo just owned himself

I use Fx for good add-ons like adblock+, but IE does have 1 MAJOR advantage over Fx, and that's first startup time.

IE loads instantly on its first load because it makes use of the already loaded windows components. Fx has to do everything from scratch and it takes 8x longer to start up.
But after that first startup Fx > IE.

Also, I notice the add-on that slows down Fx the most is StumbleUpon. If you disable that, it is much faster.

Not really, IE is on that list and only uses 6k more for 2 additional tabs, still sounds like a good idea to me.

Nope, because a new tab doesn't really add much. Try it yourself.

Also it's 6MB not kB.

FOR! Ran better on my PC, and runs better on my Mac.

And I believe you mean "Vader" not 'Vador"

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 12 2009, 9:19 pm by Hug A Zergling.

I said 6k not kb, k being 1000

6k kB? yeah, way to confuse ppl

Previous FF vs IE topics had some... impolite moments. I wonder did SEN's population change enough not to turn such a topic into a load of crap.

I'm a FF user, btw. The only reason why I changed to FF is IE not being able to read transparent images which made forums look ugly. Maybe they changed it in the newer versions, but I don't care.

Well there is much more browsers as i tought there was.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 12 2009, 9:05 pm by Dungeon-Master.

I've grown to distrust IE. It seems as if my computers and laptops always explode while using it, even when I don't download anything.

Experience:
Bought a new laptop. Worked great, fine, was Vista, whatever, awesome, Hell. Anyway, I decided to give IE a chance, so I updated it and all that crap before anybody else in my family could break it with munster viruses and not so fun things like that. The problem is that my laptop exploded anyway, and eventually, porn site shortcuts started appearing on the desktop. After getting rid of them, Hijacking it all, and switching to FF, everything calmed down.
If it's not IE, what else could it be? I strictly monitored the laptop even when using IE, so how'd it explode like that? Eh, whatever.

IE is all right because of initial start-up speed and because it could utilize the fingerprint reader that's on my laptop. FF wins otherwise, though.

So, basically, your PC sucks?