Why you should not be using Internet Explorer.

**Shard92** · July 15th, 2004, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by Major Kong

I'm an Opera man myself. Been using it for years. Right now it's Opera 7.51 it's awesome I tell ya.

I have used opera as well and it's pretty cool. Right now I'm using mozilla ( with all the virus exploits thought it was a good time to try it. ) and I actually like it. Lot of similarities between Opera and mozilla. I guess the big thing I like is mozilla is very plain and functional. Oh and Major I think they are actually up to 7.52 !!!

**edball** · July 15th, 2004, 01:54 PM

Strike one for Mozilla - it only opens one start page, my Avant browser lets me open as many as I want (4).

**TechZ** · July 15th, 2004, 02:57 PM

i use IE, and happily downloaded Mozilla Firefox, I've even been recommending it to ppl, more sercure and all. But I just cant get myself to stop using IE, I've never had any probs and with my trusty ZAP and AVG working, why should I? Also the Links Toolbar in Firefox have ugly icons for the shortcuts and Google Toolbar dont look nice

**BlueShadowDemon** · July 15th, 2004, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by edball

Strike one for Mozilla - it only opens one start page, my Avant browser lets me open as many as I want (4).

I believe you can open more than one start page in Mozilla. First, make sure you have what pages you want opened at start already open, and then go to Edit - Preferences - Navigator and then under the home page part click use current group

Just to add my opinion, I've been using Mozilla for a few months now, and I really like it. The tab features are probably one of my favorites, and it does seem to be overall a little bit quicker than IE, but IE is still more compatible with all websites. Using Mozilla you will run into a few websites that do not work exactly like they are suppose to, but thats why I like being able to have both Mozilla and IE

**imaeditedbysowulo** · July 15th, 2004, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by edball

Strike one for Mozilla - it only opens one start page, my Avant browser lets me open as many as I want (4).

So when you click the icon you have four seperate windows open every time or am I misunderstanding you?

**BlueShadowDemon** · July 15th, 2004, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by imaeditedbysowulo

So when you click the icon you have four seperate windows open every time or am I misunderstanding you?

I think he means four seperate tabs, otherwise disregard my post.

**edball** · July 15th, 2004, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by imaeditedbysowulo

So when you click the icon you have four seperate windows open every time or am I misunderstanding you?

I mean when I open Avant browser, 4 web pages open up at once, start pages.

**Stalemate** · July 15th, 2004, 04:06 PM

4 seperate windows in the same Avant session opening up on 4 different home pages, correct?

**edball** · July 15th, 2004, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by a d e p t

4 seperate windows in the same Avant session opening up on 4 different home pages, correct?

Precisely.

**imaeditedbysowulo** · July 15th, 2004, 04:26 PM

Interesting....maybe I'll check out Avant just to see what all the fuss is about. I can't see a reason that I'd want four different pages every time I launch it, but who knows til you try.

Mozilla does have tabs tho I'm not really sure how exactly they work. I turned them off cuz it was too fancy for my tastes.

**TechZ** · July 16th, 2004, 05:58 AM

I wish IE had tabs, i used MyIE for a while and I loved the whole tabs idea, its so much better to use.

**GrandDad** · July 24th, 2004, 01:37 PM

Well I decided to try Firefox ,
so far I'm not impressed ,
mostly because the way this cable's been working the pages take as long to load ,
its not that its slow , like you click a link a few bytes go back and forth then nothing for a few seconds to a minute or 2 .
At least I know its not IE now anyway .

**imaeditedbysowulo** · July 25th, 2004, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by GrandDad

Well I decided to try Firefox ,
so far I'm not impressed ,
mostly because the way this cable's been working the pages take as long to load ,
its not that its slow , like you click a link a few bytes go back and forth then nothing for a few seconds to a minute or 2 .
At least I know its not IE now anyway .

That's mildly irritating....have you tried going to bandwidthplace.com to see what kind of speed you're getting?

Give Firefox an entire week or two before you switch back and you will be hooked. Why just last night I forgot to turn off the bathroom light and when I woke up this morning Firefox had done it for me. Now that's a browser!

**Titchski** · July 25th, 2004, 12:37 PM

Hey Ima, how's the .css file working out for you? Got rid of the banner ads at all?

Cheers

**Outcoded** · July 25th, 2004, 12:42 PM

I started using FireFox the other day. Up until now, I've stuck with IE due to having no compelling reason to change, but I figured it was worth a shot since I've been getting IE crashes.

As yet, I'm reserving comment.