Browser Battle: Firefox 3 Vs Internet Explorer 8

[PhoneyVirus]

Firefox v3.0.7 is one of the best browsers out there to me and will be along time from now, until something like it can make me say WOW! But for the Ray of Extensions out there how can any one say no and every PowerUser should know about:config, so let us know what is your best browser ?

 

[fenerli]

Firefox solely due to extensions. Safari 4's better in my opinion however there are not many add ins I found when it is installed on Windows.

 

[EL31415]

Opera is the best

 

[VEnZ0ja]

i use ff 3.1.0 b3 nice work/ best/ 4\0

 

[fenerli]

Opera is the best

pfft... only good thing about Opera is standards compliance which is slightly better than FF3 and pretty much on par with FF3.1 and Webkit. And maybe Opera Mini. Try extending Opera with its crappy widget and add on system or write such add ons and you see how bad it is. There is a reason it's market share is so low.

 

[swarfega]

I keep trying opera but never get into it. Its mostly down to how theyve implemented their widgets.

Atm Im using IE8, mainly for windows live toolbar's feature to sync favorites with skydrive. If theres an addon that can do that in firefox then Id switch. Id also dont like how firefox handles rss feeds. I much rather prefer the central feed system that IE uses.

 

[PhoneyVirus]

Me to I don't like the way Firefox 3 handles RSS feeds and for opera what can I say a browser just made for one thing surfing the web, Opera 9.6 Diehard Opera fans might take exception to referring to Opera as an alternative browser, and with the release of 9.6, they have a point. Several speed enhancements made the already fast browser even snappier, but our favorite feature is the new magazine-style RSS feeds.

When it comes to PowerUser there's only one King and that's Firefox 3. My best add-ons are Foxmarks witch is becoming Xmarks, del.icio.us, Adblock+ noscript, Gmail Manager and there's a hell of a lot more where that came from check the Browser Battle at Maximum PC Browser Battle: Nine Browsers of Today and Tomorrow Compared | Maximum PC DL Free PDF Magazines or read them at Maximum PC - Google Book Search

 

[Barman58]

I keep trying opera but never get into it. Its mostly down to how theyve implemented their widgets.

Atm Im using IE8, mainly for windows live toolbar's feature to sync favorites with skydrive. If theres an addon that can do that in firefox then Id switch. Id also dont like how firefox handles rss feeds. I much rather prefer the central feed system that IE uses.

Hi Swarf,

If you want to sync your bookmarks/favorites across FF3 and IE, or across machines, or OS's, and keep online copies for when your not on your own machine, have a look at foxmarks (available on the FF Add-ons site)

 

[Mark]

I keep trying opera but never get into it. Its mostly down to how theyve implemented their widgets.

Atm Im using IE8, mainly for windows live toolbar's feature to sync favorites with skydrive. If theres an addon that can do that in firefox then Id switch. Id also dont like how firefox handles rss feeds. I much rather prefer the central feed system that IE uses.

I love Firefox but it would be nice to have the Live toolbar available and the option to drag and drop file on the sky drive with IE is a very good feature, So basically I like both but Firefox still wins for me with all the great add-ons.

 

[skunksmash]

FF3 all the way......


though i did happen to brush IE the other day & thought i'd give it a go for a while, & i gotta say its far better than it ever has been.....

if i weren't so used to the FF3 layout, i certainly wouldn't sniff my nose up at IE....






SK

 

[PhoneyVirus]

IE8 did the best job of fending off attacks from 492 malware-distributing websites, blocking 69% of attacks

Firefox blocked 30% of malware attacks but I still Love Her and her Add-ons.

 

[YupYup]

IE8 did the best job of fending off attacks from 492 malware-distributing websites, blocking 69% of attacks

Firefox blocked 30% of malware attacks but I still Love Her and her Add-ons.

Best defense against that comes from the user not the browser, I mainly use firefox 3.1 b3 but when i feel like something fancy(and don't mind it sucking up all the memory) i use safari.

 

[swarfega]

Why do you consider using safari as "fancy"?

 

[fenerli]

Why do you consider using safari as "fancy"?

I think he is referring to Safari 4, it is quite a nice layout (Firefox with tiny menu does not even compare) and things like the start page with 12 frequently visited pages, the development tools etc. make it a rather elegant browser.

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With regards to the malware detection, good on IE however I'm with YupYup

 

[YupYup]

Why do you consider using safari as "fancy"?

Topsites

History/boomarks

 

[brummyfan]

I am comfortable with IE8 and use FF3 occasionally.

 

[smarteyeball]

Safari 4 is certainly a lot more attractive than it's predecessor.

 

[swarfega]

IE8 can be "fancy" too: Cooliris | Discover More

 

[jimbo45]

I go for IE8 -- mainly because I like the Web Query functionality built in to EXCEL so I can download things like Stock Quotes etc which update automatically.

AFAIK other "Non Microsoft browsers" don't have this extremely useful function built in to operate seamlessly with excel.

Downloading "Real Time" data into a spreadsheet and updating it immediately is of far more use to me than all the "Zillions of add-ons" (aka "Bloatware") of other applications.

I really don't like things like RSS feeds etc etc. I prefer to "source my own data" and then just use simple things like the web query functionality to update my data.

For example current components of London FTSE 100 ("The Footsie")

Also works in Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2003 if you have those back editions.

cheers

jimbo

 

[YupYup]

IE8 can be "fancy" too: Cooliris | Discover More

not quite the same but nice when you can use it, and it's for most browsers.

This firefox addon is about as close to the safari feature as you can get. Only problem is that it is only for content you allready have open.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8879