After running IE7 and Fireflop for a few months I think IE7 is better.It loads pages(especially with heavy imagery) faster,works on all websites(not hit and miss like FF) and the tabs system is more intuitive.

I use Firefox because IE is a virus waiting to happen.

That said, I don't think much of Firefox in several respects.

It is slow, the history function which I used all the time in IE is too slow to use, it forces me to use slow, bloated sun Java, it locks up when you navigate a Java pane too much, and as most open source projects it has a name you lose 5 cool points just for saying.

FF is the default browser on all of our PCs out of the box at the school district I work for, some of the customized images for labs even have all IE shorcuts removed cuz Im tired of removing spyware.

Never saw the big whoop with Firefox. If nothing else, I guess it makes the anti-MS kiddies and the "ZOMG all software should be free!!!!111" open source zealots feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Yawn...its just a browser. 90+% of people that use computers just use whatever is there.

I DL'd IE 7 beta 2 and it's borked on my laptop, refuses to uninstall for beta 3, guess it's time to call.

It is decent, but I won't be moving over from FF anytime soon.

I'm curious how many opera browsers are still masked as IE or Mozilla these days. It took a while before they made opera ID -as- opera because of how all the sites that didn't follow the w3c rules and were messin' things up. Luckly that's not the case so much anymore. Firefox was a nice browser, after you spent a few hours searching, downloading & testing a few extensions to add functionality. Out of the box, Opera wins hands down.

YAWN

To be honest browsers arent really that important anymore...iono...in my view anyways. I use a buncha browsers now. Microsoft's non agrresive move agaisnt Firefox is proof. I thought that the only reason IE7 came out was more of pressure from microsoft users and clients, specificly corporate ones.

There are so many browsers out there these days. Firefox should not worry about microsoft, they should worry about some out of the blue open source compeittion that will suddently catch popularity. Just exactly like they did.

browser technology is beginning to flatten out, I mean how much more stuff can you possiblly add to your browser before it becomes a joke. I know of a friend who had 5 toolbars, yahoo, google, msn, aol, etc. Its a joke.

me likes the firefox now. no activex bs = no backdoor trojans and viri when visiting some sites. plus tabs are an advantage. still having problems loading asx files in browser, as i cannot stream, only download.

IE 7 is already at 1% - about the same as Linux.

So MS releases IE7 beta, and FF continues to increase in popularity. I personally havn't used IE7, but it looks like even MS can't slow down the momentum.

What's the stats for TR?

The reason I use Firefox:

Clean, easy to use interface.
Better support of HTML standards - websites display correctly.

That's all. Internet Explorer 7 doesn't impress me.

Interesting place to find FireFox: I went to the Colorado Supreme Court law library recently to access a legal database (the library is open to the public during business hours), and found that FF was the installed//heavily locked browser on the computer I used.

Who knew government could be smart?

A TR persona linked to Tom's :shock: