Hello guys! I am thinking about switching from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox but I am unsure.
I have some questions for Firefox users if I may be so bold!

1: Does Firefox show all of the pages the way they are intended, I mean is it as compatible as IE with the web in general?

2: I know they update Firefox often; does it have an auto-update feature? If not, is it easy to update? ( uninstall/reboot/install/reboot? )

3: Does it support quicktime, flash, shockwave, etc..

4: Can it auto save passwords and are those passwords secure?

5: In general , what does it do better/worse than IE?

6: Is it less hackable than IE? I heard it is more secure but is it really?

7: Does it handle downloads as easily or better than IE?

Ok I think I covered it all.. oh wait one more if I wanted can I still use IE while Firefox is installed if I do not like it/ still getting used to it?

Ok if someone or several people can help me answer the above questions I would be very thankful! I know it's alot of questions but your trying to convert a hardcore IE user who has known nothing else in his lifetime but IE ( IE a microsoft drone user ) lol

Firefox is nothing but garbage coded by a bunch of microsoft haters. Its bloated with sooo much crap no one needs. Its utter garbage. Stick with IE :thumb:
(/me waits for someone to think hes totally serious)

 

well... I'll answer to all your questions....

1. yeah, it is actually more standards compilant than IE... and having the gecko engine and being based on Mozilla, it allows you to see the true transparency of png files (unlike IE

2. you don't even have to reboot to installnit.... it runs on the fly ... and yes, it is easy to update

3. it supports flash, and you can use any plugins made for netscape or mozilla to see quicktime movies, etc...

4. it saves them, you can even block popups

5.Well, it is less resource hogging, it is not vulnerable to spyware and renders pages faster

6. yes it is.... it has the advantage that it is coded in a different way from IE, that way, it avoids things like viruses and spyware because it manages things differently (I can't explain, but I am sure there is people here that can )

7. it does not have a powerful download manager (for example like flashget), but it is a lot better than IE's

I hope that helped

 

My favorite feature is being able to type ANYTHING into the address bar and it taking you to the best site for it.. for example, typing "Vantec AeroFlow VP4" took me to a great review of it.

 

1: Does Firefox show all of the pages the way they are intended, I mean is it as compatible as IE with the web in general?

Yes.

2: I know they update Firefox often; does it have an auto-update feature? If not, is it easy to update? ( uninstall/reboot/install/reboot? )

No auto-update feature. Just Uninstall/Reinstall, no reboot required.

3: Does it support quicktime, flash, shockwave, etc..

Yes.

4: Can it auto save passwords and are those passwords secure?

Yes.

5: In general , what does it do better/worse than IE?

It's faster and is more standards compliant.

6: Is it less hackable than IE? I heard it is more secure but is it really?

Much more secure.

7: Does it handle downloads as easily or better than IE?

Better. It has a built-in download manager plus the option of using your own.

Ok I think I covered it all.. oh wait one more if I wanted can I still use IE while Firefox is installed if I do not like it/ still getting used to it?

Yes.

 

IE's only plus is the use of Windows Update, that's why I still have it on my computer.

 

Unless they drastically improved it in 9.2, the one thing I hate about firefox is it's terrible dl manager. It can never resume downloads, not even if you use it's pause option (which makes the pause option pointless), it'll always start the dl over from the beginning.

 

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My favourite feature is the tabbed browsing

 

The bad thing with firefox is that it starts slower than IE (might have something to do with the way Windows was built oO) and it shows cached pages slower, observable when opening big pages.

 

Well I downloaded it and it's pretty basic. I don't know if I feel safer though yet lol

I need to get used to it really . :nod:

 

Ngemu doesn't work too well with Firefox though and firefox can't show the bookmarks in multiple columns

 

occasionally i run into troubles with firefox, like the ngemu window being too large and the way it deals with my posts on livejournal, and the way it cant interact with windows favorites...but overall i'm enjoying it more than Maxthon. it seems like it has a different way of loading pages than maxthon does..so my pages load up much faster even when my internet is being raped by eMule/ABC

 

1. yeah, it is actually more standards compilant than IE.

Most web developers dont care about standards anymore. They design their sites to run properly in IE. That is their "standard."

you can even block popups

The people making popups can get around this. ngemu.com will happily do this if you try going to the forums when you aren't logged in. It generates them through flash or something.

5.Well, it is less resource hogging, it is not vulnerable to spyware and renders pages faster

It can certainly get spyware. It needs to be written for Mozilla, but it can certainly get them. I've seen rogue plugins try to install on more than one occasion.

 

It can certainly get spyware. It needs to be written for Mozilla, but it can certainly get them. I've seen rogue plugins try to install on more than one occasion.

I have seen what appeared to be spyware, myself. Of course, I don't know what it did since I never installed it.

 

Firefox works fine with ngemu for me.
Mozilla has more features out of the box than firefox does, but both have MANY features that can be added through the use of extensions.

 

As far as security is concerned, I don't know if Firefox is so much more secure as it is less popular than IE. If 90% of the world uses IE, it makes more sense to have a virus target IE than it does anything else. The best benefit of using Firefox is running into virtually no popup windows (especially when you leave Firefox with lots of features disabled like I do ). I use IE only for forum posting. I use Firefox for pretty much everything else. I do admit it takes getting used to, but I think you'll find the transition is pretty easy and rewarding in the long run.

 

A post just begging for me to reply.

Hello guys! I am thinking about switching from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox but I am unsure.
I have some questions for Firefox users if I may be so bold!

1: Does Firefox show all of the pages the way they are intended, I mean is it as compatible as IE with the web in general?

Moreso. Actually, the web tends to not be compatible with the specs, and it is a miracle IE displays some pages at all. Firefox does work for everything I've tried that doesn't require ActiveX, but there are some things that a few web pages use that are MS-proprietary extensions to the specs, and are not supported.

2: I know they update Firefox often; does it have an auto-update feature? If not, is it easy to update? ( uninstall/reboot/install/reboot? )

Not yet, (well, there is, but it doesn't work properly) but there will be one in 1.0.

3: Does it support quicktime, flash, shockwave, etc..

Yep. http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/

4: Can it auto save passwords and are those passwords secure?

It works about like IE. I believe passwords are encrypted, but I'm not sure.

5: In general , what does it do better/worse than IE?

Good: It displays pages faster than IE. Tabbed browsing. It doesn't have tons of display bugs, and actually supports web standards, letting me write web pages without worrying that the browser will horribly screw up some simple thing. It doesn't have near as many security exploits as IE. Best popup blocker, ever. Extensions, Extensions, Extensions, especially Adblock. Small download size, 4.6MB.

Bad: Doesn't support proprietary IE extension to the standards (not necessarily a bad thing, but some find it a negative). DHTML is slow, so pages with animated elements may be slower than in IE. The defualt download manager feels like it was just thrown together to something that could be called a download manager. Loads slower than IE, due to the fact that most of IE is loaded into memory when Windows starts.

6: Is it less hackable than IE? I heard it is more secure but is it really?

It isn't perfect, and is in fact quite good. How much of that can be attributed to a smaller install base is unknown, but since IE is probably the most insecure program ever written, it is almost certainly better.

7: Does it handle downloads as easily or better than IE?

About the same. The download manager is decent, but can be turned off to act almost like IE.

Ok I think I covered it all.. oh wait one more if I wanted can I still use IE while Firefox is installed if I do not like it/ still getting used to it?

Yep. You'll need it for Windows Update, and it can't be removed, anyway.

Ok if someone or several people can help me answer the above questions I would be very thankful! I know it's alot of questions but your trying to convert a hardcore IE user who has known nothing else in his lifetime but IE ( IE a microsoft drone user ) lol

Most web developers dont care about standards anymore. They design their sites to run properly in IE. That is their "standard."

I think you'll find that's slowly but surely changing, although most web pages aren't.

The people making popups can get around this. ngemu.com will happily do this if you try going to the forums when you aren't logged in. It generates them through flash or something.

Adblock works like a charm. It takes some setting up (check out their forum for tips) but I haven't seen an ad period on NGEmu since. Most other sites, also. And Firefox does have the best popup blocker I have ever seen.

It can certainly get spyware. It needs to be written for Mozilla, but it can certainly get them. I've seen rogue plugins try to install on more than one occasion.

At least their aren't myriad ways to install it without asking, and it makes you wait 5 seconds before clicking yes. v1.0 should have a whitelist to help this issue.

I use IE only for forum posting.

What doesn't work in Firefox? I'm interested to know. I'm using the WYSIWYG editor, and it appears to function perfectly well.

 

Yep. You'll need it for Windows Update, and it can't be removed, anyway.

not entirely true. one of my friends completely removed IE from his entire system. he goes to windows update by manually inputting the windows update URL into MyIE2.

bout the same. The download manager is decent, but can be turned off to act almost like IE.

wait what?? how?? i hate firefox's download manager...it's crap.

 

not entirely true. one of my friends completely removed IE from his entire system. he goes to windows update by manually inputting the windows update URL into MyIE2.

If MyIE2 works, then IE is not fully removed from the system.

There is nLite and XPLite, but they don't always work properly.

wait what?? how?? i hate firefox's download manager...it's crap.

Tsk, you could at least look around. Tools --> Options --> Downloads --> Show Download Manager window when a download begins.

 

What doesn't work in Firefox? I'm interested to know. I'm using the WYSIWYG editor, and it appears to function perfectly well.

the WYSIWYG editor works, it just takes 30-60 seconds to load. At least on my system. I never found out why.

 

If MyIE2 works, then IE is not fully removed from the system.

There is nLite and XPLite, but they don't always work properly.


Tsk, you could at least look around. Tools --> Options --> Downloads --> Show Download Manager window when a download begins.

is Maxthon just a frontend for IE....?

:heh: i kinda figured that it was "show download manager" , you know...if you unchecked that it would just hide it

 

is Maxthon just a frontend for IE....?

Yep.

:heh: i kinda figured that it was "show download manager" , you know...if you unchecked that it would just hide it

Whoa... you're right. In older versions, turning off the download manager would make it work mostly like IE. But in 0.9, it just... hides the download manager. No individual download windows.

Bummer.

 

the WYSIWYG editor works, it just takes 30-60 seconds to load. At least on my system. I never found out why.

I recommend that you turn that off in UserCP. It's greatly annoying anyway.

 

As I've stated numerous times on this subject, maxthon, myie2, avant, crazy browser, inettabs, and the vast majority of other "browsers" for windows systems available on the web are just frontends for IE.
The only browsers for windows systems that aren't IE frontends are mozilla, netscape, firefox, k-meleon, opera, and a few "school project" level browsers.

 

Thanks for all the input guys! I have been surfing around with firefox and it's ok to me. I like the tabs and I like the pop up blocker, but I do not like the download manager so far. I will keep reporting on it as I go as hopefully it will entertain you to see how a newbie sees firefox. :idea: