IE vs. Firefox

[bucknut11]

I have no idea where you are getting this. I have been all over the net with IE, and everything works perfectly. While using Firefox, I ran into many sites, including my own, that wouldnt display correctly in it. Java screwed up in it all the time...

There's a difference between working perfectly and working the right way (if that makes sense). As for making it up...

Web developers have heaped scorn on IE6 over the years, and with good reason. Building a Web site that works well with modern browsers and IE6 requires memorizing an encyclopedia of hacks and workarounds. IE7 promises to fix many of the most critical bugs and do a better job at following Web standards. Although it won't pass the Acid2 Test (bucknut11's NOTE: neither did Firefox... thus, it's certainly not perfect), the preview version of IE7 Beta 2 has received favorable early reviews from some influential Web designers.

Informationweek.com

 

[Swimmer]

I liked using firefox until I try to open links from my email account. I have a pretty fast computer, and it would nearly freeze every time I tried to open an email link. I have since scrapped firefox and am back to using IE.

Off topic, but has anyone tried the new beta version of vista?

 

[BrutusMaximus]

Off topic, but has anyone tried the new beta version of vista?

I gave up on vista until the RC's start coming out. Ran every beta up until the last one........they all ran like absolute ass. Seems like they have a loooong way to go if you ask me.

 

[bucks4me]

I used IE up until the past year or so. Once I tried Firefox I was hooked. Tabbed browsing is by far my favorite thing. I also enjoy being able to put my favorites right on the toolbar.

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

anyone try this?

LINK

Download This: Add IE Tabs to Firefox Laura Blackwell, PC World
Wed May 3, 3:00 AM ET

Sometimes just a little fix makes it that much easier to surf the Web, navigate your PC's desktop, or even use your keyboard. This month, we look at a Firefox extension that works like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a freebie that lets you rename the standard Windows Desktop icons, and a low-cost goodie that makes Caps Lock dance to your tune.

Putting the "IE" in "Firefox"

Even die-hard Firefox fans often surf with an Internet Explorer window open, just for those holdout sites that require IE to function. IE Tab is a Firefox extension that makes it a little easier to reduce your IE dependency: It lets you open a Firefox browser tab that runs sites intended for IE.


To download IE Tab, you must visit the Mozdev.org page and install the extension directly into the Firefox browser. After restarting Firefox, you'll see a new entry for IE Tab Options in the Tools menu. It opens a dialog box that lets you list the Web pages to open with an IE rendering engine--but in a Firefox tab. When you next open those pages in Firefox, in most cases they'll behave as if you'd opened them with IE. It's not perfect--for instance, I had trouble making some forms work properly--but IE Tab does obviate the need for an always-open Internet Explorer window.


If this extension looks familiar, that's probably because it's based on IE View, which opens a separate IE window from Firefox. The main difference is that IE Tab does so entirely within Firefox, instead of opening a separate window.


IE Tab is free of charge. Its Taiwanese developers, who go by the names PCMan and yuoo2K, don't provide a method for accepting direct donations. If you'd like to encourage this project by sending money to someone involved, consider donating to the Mozdev Community Organization.

 

[TheMile]

Well I am not particularly arguing with you, as I do web design myself. I am just saying that I have designed quite a few sites, as well as worked for companies that had web design teams. Never heard a single one of them say that they had a problem coding for IE........but they can never get sites to display correctly in Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, etc. Same with myself, I have never had a site not display perfectly in IE.

Are you being deliberately obtuse here? As a web programmer, you must know that they aren't referring to programming ease, one of Microsoft's historical strengths, but the fact that Firefox conforms to W3C standards better than IE does. IE works better much of the time because most companies code specifically for it (which, I freely admit, is a perfectly valid reason to use and prefer it to Firefox). Luckily, the biggest (Google, Yahoo, etc) code with both in mind.

In any case, I prefer Firefox due to its extensions, most prominently Forecastfox, Adblock, Google Suggest, Mouse Gestures, Permit Cookies, BugMeNot, Greasemonkey, Reveal, and (ironically, I suppose) IE View.

 

[BrutusMaximus]

IE works better much of the time because most companies code specifically for it

No that is the point I was making. In fact I am not even defending IE, because Microsoft deserves no love at all. Just saying that it works better in general.

 

[Buck94]

anyone try this?

LINK

I use an extension that allows you to open any site in IE by simply right clicking on a link or within a page. Very simple, yet elegant. It is called IE View Lite.