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Firefox, IE, etc.
Anonymous
Memo to all IE bashers: While Firefox is a decent browser, when you make statements like "Firefox is better than IE", you have to qualify what you mean when you say that. Granted, Firefox's CSS support is (slightly) better than IE, but Firefox is not without it's problems, when compared to IE: a) Security. There are security-related bugs in Firefox that are years old and still not fixed yet. Check Bugzilla if you don't believe me. b) Firefox is slow, sometimes painfully so. c) Firefox is an enormous memory-hog. d) Bookmarks added in Firefox don't appear in the Start menu. (Just a symptom of the fact that Firefox doesn't work together with other programs well.) I could go on, but I'd just bore you. Instead I'll stop here and give you some good advice. If you like Firefox, that's fine. Use it, be happy with it, I'll even make sure my webpages work in it. But don't give it undeserved praise - rather than making Firefox look good, it makes you look silly. It also rubs off on the browser itself, which is a pity, because it *is* a decent browser. But if you want the best browser out there, in the sense of a browser that trumps IE on almost all points, the best advice is switch to Opera. Or better yet, switch to Linux and use Konqueror.
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