Just a poll to see how many use IE and how many use Firefox.

firefox here, with Flashgot, IEview, tabbrowser preferences, adblock and fasterfox, works nicely :)

Used to use everything but Microsoft progs but when XP SP1 came out moved to IE cause it works at last...

Firefox runs like 3 times faster on my computer. :hyper:

Opera always for me!

Opera always for me!

You get the full ad-free version for free nowdays :)

http://www.opera.com/download/

At least there isn't an option for Nutscrape !! FF for me :D

Does anyone have any idea why firefox would be using 71 MB of my RAM just to view this site? Seems a little high to me, only window open and no tabs in this window :confused:

Does anyone have any idea why firefox would be using 71 MB of my RAM just to view this site? Seems a little high to me, only window open and no tabs in this window :confused:

Are you using the newest version? There may be a memory leak...

firefox has always been a memory hog, mine is using 176mb just now with 2 tabs open

firefox has always been a memory hog, mine is using 176mb just now with 2 tabs open

Oh, another reason for me not to use it :)

Oh, another reason for me not to use it :)

 

 

Its very good Ken,much better than IE IMHO;)

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Can't vote but yeah I use Firefox, IE is always a ripped off version of the main core browser software and Firefox although not industry standard recognised would be the more secure browser to use IMO!

Click here for more info about why you should use FF! ;)

I think Firefox is far superior to IE, I like the tab browsing and the download method, however I'm thinking of giving Opera a go as FF has been playing up a little. The process hangs after closing the browser sometimes and I have to manually stop it from the task manager, plus the memory things is a little annoying as I often have many apps running at the same time.

maxthon every time :bow:

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firefox has always been a memory hog, mine is using 176mb just now with 2 tabs open

 

That's very odd. I'm using about 46 MB with 5 tabs open (all 300zx.co.uk pages). I don't think that's normal by any means. I'm using version 1.5 if that makes any difference.

Been using it on Macs & PCs for a long time now, could never go back to the non-removable IE. Just waiting to see how long it'll be before it gets exploited like IE did. :xxx:s

Oh dear i fear I am going to make myself look an even bigger fool But,

What the hell are you on about?

I use FF now and think it is better than IE. It doesn't let half the spy crap that IE does and also blocked some sort of virus, and on that same page IE let it through and Avast has to stop it.

Oh dear i fear I am going to make myself look an even bigger fool But,

What the hell are you on about?

What program you use to browse the internet, internet explorer for those in the dar ages, and firefox for those up to speed, also mozilla is quite good fun, and if you want a totally reliable and trouble free internet experience i suggest nutscrape....sorry netscape navigator :rofl:

Writter by Bruce Schneier

 

Internet Explorer Sucks

 

This study is from August, but I missed it. The researchers tracked

three browsers (MSIE, Firefox, Opera) in 2004 and counted which days

they were "known unsafe." Their definition of "known unsafe": a

remotely exploitable security vulnerability had been publicly announced

and no patch was yet available.

 

MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an

unpatched publicly disclosed security hole.

 

Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly

disclosed security hole. 30 of those days were a Mac hole that only

affected Mac users. Windows Firefox was 7% unsafe.

 

Opera was 17% unsafe: 65 days. That number is accidentally a little

better than it should be, as two of the unpatched periods happened to

overlap.

 

This underestimates the risk, because it doesn't count vulnerabilities

known to the bad guys but not publicly disclosed (and it's foolish to

think that such things don't exist). So the "98% unsafe" figure for

MSIE is generous, and the situation might be even worse.

 

Writter by Bruce Schneier

 

Internet Explorer Sucks

 

This study is from August, but I missed it. The researchers tracked

three browsers (MSIE, Firefox, Opera) in 2004 and counted which days

they were "known unsafe." Their definition of "known unsafe": a

remotely exploitable security vulnerability had been publicly announced

and no patch was yet available.

 

MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an

unpatched publicly disclosed security hole.

 

Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly

disclosed security hole. 30 of those days were a Mac hole that only

affected Mac users. Windows Firefox was 7% unsafe.

 

Opera was 17% unsafe: 65 days. That number is accidentally a little

better than it should be, as two of the unpatched periods happened to

overlap.

 

This underestimates the risk, because it doesn't count vulnerabilities

known to the bad guys but not publicly disclosed (and it's foolish to

think that such things don't exist). So the "98% unsafe" figure for

MSIE is generous, and the situation might be even worse.

 

 

 

That's kind of interesting coming from the security guru's security guru. Mind you, it does also mean that Firefox is also more than 15% unsafe too. But come on guys, in so many other ways (tabs etc) FF is way better than IE. I know you can get plug-ins for this in IE, but the tabbing never seems to work as well as in Firefox. I will however admit that for some inexplicable reason FF sometimes seems to use an awful lot of memory when you've only got a few pages open.

That's kind of interesting coming from the security guru's security guru. Mind you, it does also mean that Firefox is also more than 15% unsafe too. But come on guys, in so many other ways (tabs etc) FF is way better than IE. I know you can get plug-ins for this in IE, but the tabbing never seems to work as well as in Firefox. I will however admit that for some inexplicable reason FF sometimes seems to use an awful lot of memory when you've only got a few pages open.

 

Windows FF was 7%, it was the Macintrash version which was not so good.

Anyway, if you think FF uses some memory, have you checked IE with tabbed pages, can be a few hundred Mb sometimes !! :eek: