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  • R Rocky Moore

    Sorry to make you sick, but... ;) Security is number one reason! You do not get attacked every time some web site redirects you to some spyware installer. My wife nor my self has had one spyware application installed since switching to FireFox and she would get them weekly with IE. Number two has to be the extentions. There are some nice ones! As a web developer, I love some of the tools they provide that just do not exist on IE (unless it is some add-on I do not know about). For my old tied eyes, I also love the FoxyVoice extention that allows me to highlight text and have it read the text to me :) Every now and then I will find a site that does not render properly and FireFox still has many bugs, but it is getting better and at least I am not worrying about viruses as I did with IE. Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com - RSS Enabled www.JokesTricksAndStuff.com www.MyQuickPoll.com Me Blogs: wdevs - MSN Spaces (new)

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    Giles
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    Yep, try Avant. http://www.avantbrowser.com/[^] And it does render the pages correctly.

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    • G Giles

      Try Avant. http://www.avantbrowser.com/[^] Its better than IE and Firefox.

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      Jorgen Sigvardsson
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      Giles wrote: Its better than IE and Firefox. IIRC, Avant is IE with sugar on top. ;) -- Weiter, weiter, ins verderben. Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben. I blog too now[^]

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      • G Giles

        Yep, try Avant. http://www.avantbrowser.com/[^] And it does render the pages correctly.

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        Why, it is built on the same buggy, security trouble making IE ;) Rocky <>< www.HintsAndTips.com - RSS Enabled www.JokesTricksAndStuff.com www.MyQuickPoll.com Me Blogs: wdevs - MSN Spaces (new)

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        • realJSOPR realJSOP

          Explorer doesn't block pop-ups. You have to install someone else's software if you want to do that with explorer. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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          Yes it does, xp sp2 added it.

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          • B Bruce Duncan

            :) I was mainly referring to the fact that a download of IE at one time was 40-80mb (thumbsucked values). Where FF 1.0 was only 4-5mb, which still seems rather big for 'something that renders web pages'.

            Searching the web without Google is like straining sewage with your teeth.
            Userfriendly, 2003/06/07

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            Yes but remember that was about 80% operating system updates. They used to use the I.E. setup as the main vehicle to distribute underlying operating system updates. I'm pretty sure it's all broken out now. Honestly, most of the criticism IE gets is unfair or biased just because it's Microsoft.

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            • P Paul Watson

              >What the hell do you think a standard is people? It's the one that everyone is using. You are not a web-developer, are you? regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project

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              Nope. But what I'm saying is that if I.E. is the predominant web browser (and I know it is at least from our own website logs) then why should the standard not be what IE supports? Answer: because the standards people are unhappy with someone else setting the standard. You guys are barking up the wrong tree. If the other browsers implemented as I.E. implements there would be no need for you to pull your hair out trying to support arcane w3c recommendations for those other browsers.

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              • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                John Cardinal wrote: I'm going to barf Do you have a webcam? :rolleyes: -- Weiter, weiter, ins verderben. Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben. I blog too now[^]

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                David Wulff
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                That is sick. *ducks*


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                  That is sick. *ducks*


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                  :rolleyes: -- Weiter, weiter, ins verderben. Wir müssen leben bis wir sterben. I blog too now[^]

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                  • T Ted Ferenc

                    Click the middle button instead


                    "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Neils Bohr

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                    Sick! Sometime's I forget you can actually click the scroll wheel and not just zing it at fast as possible. Thanks for the tip!

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                    • Steve EcholsS Steve Echols

                      Sick! Sometime's I forget you can actually click the scroll wheel and not just zing it at fast as possible. Thanks for the tip!

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                      Ted Ferenc
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                      I only found out myself a short time ago!:-O


                      "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Neils Bohr

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