How is Firefox better than IE?

[Jesus Saves]

I'm downloading it now.

www.firefox.com

[LiberalVoice]

1. IE is a spyware magnet. nt

[hatrack]

2. No pop-up ads.

Zero. Nada. Zilch.

That's good enough for me.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. I love it

That's why I like it too. No ads. Plus you can choose to have the tabs open up on the same page as the orginial instead of having different explorer's open. That's definietly nice to have.

[Goldmund]

3. The main advantage:

Spyware and adware makers overwhelmingly tailor their shit to hitch onto IE.

[Neoma]

4. Well for one thing..

IE is just like being a blind 3 legged dog on the internet...

[Atman]

16. A computer without IE is like a dog without a brick tied to its head.

The best think about Firefox is that its name doesn't start with Microsoft.

IE is the ONLY major browser on the market which is not web standards compliant. MS makes up their own rules, and then even breaks half of them. This makes lots of pages appear screwed up in IE, but people blame the site developers for not writing to MS's convoluted code instead of blaming MS for simply not adopting the standards of the WWW Conference board, or whatever their called.

[yowzayowzayowza]

5. Tabbed browsing rox!!!

YULL NEVER GO BACK.

[rodeodance]

9. smaller program. much faster than IE for us dial-uppers.

[patricia92243]

20. I didn't know anything could make dial-ups faster. Any other tips? I am

going to download foxfire as soon as I get through posting this, and would love any other suggestions on ways to get my dial up to be quicker.

[high density]

28. Tabs are great

I prefer the Mozilla browser, but I think Firefox is decent enough for IE converts.

[indy_azcat]

7. faster, safer, more customizable, no money to bill,

you can feel like a linux geek, easier to see what's plugged in, cleaner, yadda yadda yadda
:)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

8. In every way

Check out the Extensions - there are things I could not live without, like BugMeNot, TinyURL Creator, Dictionary - wonderful stuff.

You'll wonder why you didn't get Firefox sooner.

[xxqqqzme]

10. don't know -

person I share this computer w/ downloaded it yesterday - suddenly, this AM, I had 40 spams this morning. I was not happy.

[Lex]

18. Spams to your email coming from Firefox?

How would a Firefox download cause spams to your email?

Anyway, didn't happen with me.

[Atman]

19. You got SPAM from an internet browser?

What did that have to do with Firefox? Even if what you're saying is true, I have a hard time imagining your e-mail addy propagated to that many lists since this morning. Something ain't right with that post.

[AntiCoup2K4]

26. Looks like you need to get Thunderbird as well.

Great spam filter built in.

[noiretextatique]

11. it seems a lot faster

and it has some neat options, like the ability to open tabs within a window. that allows you browse differet sites with only one firefox window open.

[SouthernDem2004]

12. It has nothing to do with MicroSoft. /eom

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Their email program Thunderbird

is great too.

[realisticphish]

14. by not sucking

that's it, in a nutshell :D

[Spiffarino]

15. Plus the extensions are awesome

There are a bunch of add-ons you can get - for free, of course - to enhance your browsing enjoyment.

I was going to say, "In every possible way" but was beaten. :(

[Jesus Saves]

17. HOW DO I GET IT?

I just tried to download it - free - and it came as excel text - just reams of code.

[noiretextatique]

21. mozilla.org

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[patricia92243]

22. I started to download it and my computer is saying it is an unknown publis

publisher, etc. Are your absolutely sure it is ok to downoad it. I'm afraid of getting some kind of virus or something.

[OneMoreDemocrat]

24. I just downloaded and installed it and it went smoothly............

So far so good.

[yowzayowzayowza]

27. That jus sounds like...

Windoze XP (SP2 Firewall) being anal retentive. You should be fine to go thru that.

[K-W]

29. It is one of the most respected programs on the internet, go for it.

[lateo]

23. It stops spyware dead...

I haven't had one spyware infection since I began using FF.

[Abelman]

25. It's glorious

I'll never go back.

[tammywammy]

30. No pop-ups

and the tabbed browsing is great. We have IE at work, and I hate using it.