firefox more succesful

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hi all

just wondering how much mileage everyone's getting with ie7 on vista 5472

seems like every page that chokes with ie7 works perfectly with firefox

hmm.........
 
IE 7 & 5472 works ok most of the time...but I get flashing on ie 7 and it
works perfectly on firefox and flock...
 
I get the flashing and wondered if it was something on the site - it's quite
annoying and can give a headache.
Good to know firefox works as I miss FF in Vista was trying to give IE7 a
fair chance but sometimes things just don't go according to plan :(
I have to put a site in the trusted zone to allow me to play Real files on
the BBC with the RelaPlayer plugin otherwise they don't work at all.

I may break my resolve soon to keep with IE7 as flashing is just one of the
glitches I don't have the same build still on 5384 guessing this may be even
worse with IE.
 
hi all

just wondering how much mileage everyone's getting with ie7 on vista 5472

seems like every page that chokes with ie7 works perfectly with firefox

hmm.........
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Prefer the security of Opera, Firefox has too many security exploits for
me. Working pretty well on 5472.


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Mark Gillespie said:
Prefer the security of Opera, Firefox has too many security exploits for
me. Working pretty well on 5472.
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I've been a dedicated Opera user since Opera 5, and from what security
bulletins I have read lately (can't put my fingers on them, possibly
April/May/June of PC World Magazine) both Opera and Fire fox had about equal
the number of issues. But, I'll still stay with Opera, as I can't live
without mouse gestures and voice browsing!
 
I've been a dedicated Opera user since Opera 5, and from what security
bulletins I have read lately (can't put my fingers on them, possibly
April/May/June of PC World Magazine) both Opera and Fire fox had about
equal
the number of issues. But, I'll still stay with Opera, as I can't live
without mouse gestures and voice browsing!
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Opera is considerably more secure than Firefox and IE. It currently has0
unpatched vunrabilities (the only one of the main 4 to be so), and it's
vunrability history is also very low. The stats:

Internet Explorer:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=11
FireFox:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=4227
Opera:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=4932
Apple Safari:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=5289


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sihaz said:
hi all

just wondering how much mileage everyone's getting with ie7 on vista 5472

seems like every page that chokes with ie7 works perfectly with firefox

hmm.........
Click to expand...


Firefox doesn't support the protected mode so it's not good.
 
just wondering how much mileage everyone's getting with ie7 on vista 5472

seems like every page that chokes with ie7 works perfectly with firefox

hmm.........
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Wow...What an overly obvious attempt by one of the children to try to
convince everyone that firefox is better than ie...too bad he's about as
intelligent as a mule in the darkroom.

Firefox is the ONE browser that seems to have MORE holes than IE does. Oh,
and if I wanted a browser that got my mail, read my news, cooked my eggs and
offered widgets, I'd use Opera. Oh wait...I already use Opera.
 
I have Opera 8.54 installed on my normal computers. I didn't upgrade to v9 as
I wasn't sure about the addition of support for Bittorrent as defualt plus
read the other issues with the browser which is why I swapped to Firefox.
Opera also had problems with browser refresh on forums although I did like
Opera plus it was faster for me on my laptop (firefox is very slow there)

I was going to install Firefox with Vista as IE7 really is not helping me at
the moment but now I have read the posts perhaps I should go back and use
Opera again. Is this version 9.01 final which works with Vista? (the one I
haven't installed on my normal computers)

Mark Gillespie said:
I've been a dedicated Opera user since Opera 5, and from what security
bulletins I have read lately (can't put my fingers on them, possibly
April/May/June of PC World Magazine) both Opera and Fire fox had about
equal
the number of issues. But, I'll still stay with Opera, as I can't live
without mouse gestures and voice browsing!
Click to expand...

Opera is considerably more secure than Firefox and IE. It currently has 0
unpatched vunrabilities (the only one of the main 4 to be so), and it's
vunrability history is also very low. The stats:

Internet Explorer:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=11
FireFox:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=4227
Opera:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=4932
Apple Safari:
http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=5289


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I have 9.01 working fine with Vista 5384 x64. I have not tried the
Bittorrent interface (have never had a need) but everything else functions
flawlessly.
 
wow raven you are soooo agressive. just read some of your other posts - bad
mood today?

not too sure how you know i'm a child from my post, or my iq, but good luck
to you if you're that psychic!

i expect you'll come back with some rant, but really i was just asking a
simple question about why ie has come up a blank on quite a few pages in my
first day of browsing with it. i'm not some firefox pusher, i just installed
it to see if it worked, and it seems to.....

si
 
Opera is considerably more secure than Firefox and IE. It currently has 0
unpatched vunrabilities
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Not knowing you have vulnerabilities doesn't imply something is secure.
 
I would appreciate more on the Firefox issue as I need a alt browser for Vista.
Just been to Opera's forum & noted quite a few stabilty issues with v9
I was going to install Firefox but don't know enough about the issues with
its security with Vista (I know it is vulnerable in XP if not patched)

I have both downloaded but unsure which is best especially after being to
Opera's forum. I had hoped Firefox with no script would have been OK with
Vista.
 
Actually, yesterday was a rather weird day, but...

I consider ANYONE who comes onto the MS newsgroups only to say "IE sucks and
Firefox is great" one of the linux/OSx/firefox/"whatever the latest fad is"
children. (Nuthing to do with age, just a matter of the average age of
those people are, so yes, ya git stereotyped...
 
pippin said:
I would appreciate more on the Firefox issue as I need a alt browser for Vista.
Just been to Opera's forum & noted quite a few stabilty issues with v9
I was going to install Firefox but don't know enough about the issues with
its security with Vista (I know it is vulnerable in XP if not patched)

I have both downloaded but unsure which is best especially after being to
Opera's forum. I had hoped Firefox with no script would have been OK with
Vista.
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Opera, Firefox, Netscape, and a dozen others will all run on Vista. I've
run most of the current crop on XP and/or Vista in the last few months
without any problems of any kind.

All the fuss made about security holes is quite amusing to me. I've
never had any security problem as a result of not having the most recent
patches for a few weeks or even months after they come out. If you have
a good firewall and don't do stupid things like open attachments from
people you don't know it is very hard to get infected with anything.
Even an anti virus program is something you can do without and live to
tell the tale. What do you think might happen to you if you run Opera?
 
Don't need to worry about me opening attachments, even I do know who they are
from and am in fact expecting one to arrive. I always save to a folder on
another partition and scan again - would even do this if it was from Bill
Gates :) doesn't matter who sends me anything I double check with my scanners
before looking.

I am a 'safe surfer' to the point where anything is within my control plus
do not file share or anything like that - this was the bit with Opera
incorporating BitTorrent - I know there are legitimate things but I didn't
like that aspect with the new version which I why I didn't upgrade. I was
going to try v9.0.1 on my beta system to let me see if it is faster than
Firefox despite all the additional widgets they have with this version.

Firefox is good with No script for per site basis - I don't use a mega
amount of extensions just no script & one to contol the configs for me.
Spent ages last night trying to decide between Opera or FF for Vista. I
would like one of them and may try Opera today - it was the added things with
the new release which worried me but going back to v8.54 there is a security
hole with this version.

Security aware without doubt and not careless with downloads/sites visited
but would love a better browser as IE7 is not just as refined as I think it
will be on the final release. The version I have is very tempromental :(

Thanks for your reply about the browser working this helps - I don't like to
have too mnay installs but at least one alternative woould be better than the
setup I have just now.
 
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