Well I don't care how good somebody says Internet Explorer is. Internet explorer ain't safe because cookies get in and also spyware can also easily get in. Fire fox for me loads the pages quicker and my windows o/s hasn't gotten infected with spyware to what I know

As someone says it is all about tabs!

Firefox is now widely used. It was funny to me when a win32 user told me that i could visit his website with firefox for optimum performance. He also told me where i could download firefox and he added a link on his webpage to firefox downloads.

I suggest some of you not to take too seriously what is said on the web and on tv too . There are lots of politics involved. Sometimes is just about that, it doesn't really matter if it is true or false, or even stupid, as long as there is someone to buy it , that does it.

The sun and microsucks stuff is irritating me. All day every day , microsoft and sun are making progress in ..... what !!! I wanted to try solaris few years ago. I went to the freeware section and packages and all i saw was zip, unzip, ... plz tell me it is JOKE ......

Cookies are entirely harmless

Agreed. Cookies themselves are benign.

It's interesting to see that in a recent article (Nov 15) in Info Week, Firefox has been downloaded over 8 million times in its first month. In that same article, it stated that IE was given a number of security patches in August, but that they're only available to XP users who have installed SP2 "which is about 20% of what's out there. Other Windows users are stuck with an older version of IE that's vulnerable to security breaches." -- J.W.

I AM wise before my years

Haha, poor Micro$oft fellows, always trying to say that their products are the best. I've even heard that Steve Ballmer has said: People are not buying windows because it costs too much, we should lower the computers prices.

It gave me a good laughs.

hey
just check out the nytimes add of the firefox campaign

http://www.mozillastore.com/products...efox/viewlarge

regards

with original IE you can't use tabs, and in FIrefox you can. For firefox were is a lot extension, that can block flash, javascript.

It has been shown time and time again that IE is faulty. It is a security nightmare, plus it is tightly embedded in the Windows OS, which makes security worse.

Microsoft HAS to defend IE because of its integration with their OS. They essentially shot themselves in the foot when they used this integration/bundling tactic to take down Netscape. They bought the Spyglass browser and then rushed it into the marketplace as IE. It was a bad product back then and the only way they could get people to use it was to give it away for free and integrate it into the OS when they released Windows 95.

Firefox is a good example of what software should be. It does its job, and only its job. It doesn't try to be anything but a web browser. Yes, with extentions, it can be more, but only at the user's request. IE is a bloated memory hog that tries to be more than it is. And security...? Please. Tying a web browser into the core of an OS was the biggest mistake in the history of software. It's the computer equivalent of the old "screendoor on a submarine" joke. It just doesn't belong there. The idea is laughable.

And I personally like Firefox's ad-blocking features, or more accurately, Firefox's ad-blocking extentions much better that IE's. With Adblock, I can now surf to pages I've never even been to before and not see the ads. And what little icon do you think is in the top left corner of the ONLY pop-ups I ever get here at work (where I am forced to use Win2K)? I can tell you it's never a little orange fox... If it weren't for the fact that I have to use IE to use our companies web tools (at least this is what I've been told, they seem to work under Firefox just fine, so far...), I wouldn't have any pop-ups and I wouldn't have to run Ad-aware every day. I also have Flashget running, which may be another source of the IE pop-ups. Anybody know a good Firefox alternative? I don't really like Firefox's download manager (something IE doesn't even have).

Okay...so I found ONE thing I don't like in Firefox. :P

I'd like to add a correction to my previous post:

I just got a pop up in Firefox. The tab was labeled "Advertisement" and the actual page was completely blank. I love Adblock.

IE sucks compare to firefox!!!!!!!! firefox rules!!!!!!!
IE has so manny bugs!!!!!! think about it bill!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO PATENT BILL!!!!!!!!!

They have entirely missed the point. Even if IE is as secure as any other browser, they're not doing enough and it's not secure enough. This program is used on millions of computers, it is the most popular browser, and because of this the overwhelming majority of spyware and malicious advertising software will target IE. Not programs like firefox or any other less popular browser, they're going to go for maximum potential, and in the current market IE will be the best target, simply because most computers have it. Microsoft know they have the majority of the market, they also know that because of this any security faults in their software not only have the potential to cause massive damage, but because their products are so widely used they will have their security tested the most extensively as well. They should have seen this problem long before now and corrected it, I know I was talking about it years ago when spyware first started to turn up on my own computer. The security should have been scaled up with the quantity of users, for much the same reasons more expensive cars have better security and larger banks use better allarms. Would you be impressed if the national bank of Luxembourg, for example, was using the same security as a local branch in wales? Or if you bought a Mercedes and it had the same basic security features as a budget car? They can't complacently announce "I think it's as good as any other program." It needs to be better, and there's no excuses, they aren't lacking talented programmers or money, and if they want to keep their position as the most widely used browser they should accept the security responsibility that comes with it. It's rather appalling that they're openly admitting that while their browser is used by millions and developed by the biggest and wealthiest software company in the world, it's still only comparative in their eyes to something used by thousands and developed by a company that's probably rivalled in size/revenue by just *one* of their many departments. Imagine if the owner of an upmarket chain restaurant started arguing in press releases "We're as good as the fast food cart on the corner".