I’m sorry to hear you find Firefox so problematic!

This article was first written 18 months ago, which makes it very dated, particularly in tech terms.

IE7 is a vast improvement on older versions. I use both it and Firefox but from a user’s perspective I still prefer the latter.

On the plus side, I reckon alot of FF features made IE buck up their offering, so it could be argued that it’s thanks to FF that IE7 is so much better than older versions.

Ultimately, I guess, it’s horses for courses.Consumers are the ones who have who are ulitmately winners having the freedom to choose which browser to use.

Cheers,

Sam

I’ve been using tabbed browsing on IE 5 and IE6 for around 3 years, through Crazy Browser. Now on IE7 of course, so that’s a bit academic.

As regards the Favourites Bar, it’s been around a while on IE – it’s called Links.

I normally use the Google search bar. Now on IE7 I have 2 integrated search bars!

The issue of security is specious. Take note of bugs and flaws in Firefox (on their several forums) and you’ll see that FF has as many, usually more weaknesses than IE. It’s true, however, that IE is a greater target.

Ctrl-F has been a freature of IE for years – no big deal.

RSS feeds are easily obtained for all versions of IE.

Now for the downsides. FireFox breaks many websites – not that they’ve necessarily been designed specifically for IE, but that FF does not interpret many standard HTML tags properly – the tag in particular, which is a basic page formatting necessity. I have a few hundred website clients, and I find that I have to dumb down many sites just to cater for the 5 – 10% of users (mostly geeks) who use FF.

Another real gripe is that there is no drag feature on FF. In IE you can drag a URL from an email, document or web page straight into IE, and open the target URL. In FF you’re forever using Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V.

FF also mis-interprets font sizes – it can’t tell the difference between points and pixels. As a result many sites become all but illegible in FF on high resolution screens.

Firefox? Hate the damned thing – it’s added 50% to my cost of creating websites.

Ron

I really like the tabbed browsing, if you surf like i do, you have multiple windows open at once, the tabbed browsing is alomost an obvious MISSING feature of IE

As Sam mentioned, some site dont work, my designahat.com.au admin doesnt work with f/fox, but the site does, so i guess that ok

I love the integrated RSS, i was using a free RSS program before, which was good, but i was getting sick of the ads

Bren