so what does IE or any of the IE shells have over firefox ? (any anti firefox ppl bother looking at

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1) The "click" sound.
2) Toolbar Mail Button>>Send Page

 

Firefox has "Send Link" and the suite has "Send Link" and "Send Page".

The lack of "Send Page" in the Firefox/TB combo is keeping me from
switching her to FF/TB from the suite.

Seriously, she uses it so heavily that it's a show stopper issue.

 

Firefox has "Send Link" and the suite has "Send Link" and "Send Page".

The lack of "Send Page" in the Firefox/TB combo is keeping me from
switching her to FF/TB from the suite.

Seriously, she uses it so heavily that it's a show stopper issue.

 

Ability to render sites designed by incompetent web designers.

-scratch

 

More security problems

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Ability to run sites coded to IE and only IE.

Just converted one more person today. It is amazing people's reaction
when they see tab browsing for the first time. And bookmarks, and the
extesions, etc, etc,etc.

 

And don't forget the pop-up blocker. I've had a few conversions just
for that.

Andreas


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You forgot the main reason most people use IE or other MS products. It
came with the machine. It was there so they used it. Its only when they
find out there are other products (and better! products) that they switch.

When most people start up their computer for the first time, its
configured to use IE as the web browser, not Firefox or Mozilla or
another product. Its what users see first, and thats about the only
thing it has 'over' Firefox

 

When I first started out, I didn't know anything. I first used Telenet
to login into my Vancouver Community Network account and browsed the web
that way -- using their Pine and something else. I can't remember.
Then, when I upgraded to full dial-up access, my ISP asked me if I had a
browser to access the net. I was using Win98 at the time and said no.
So they gave me a disk with Netscape 4 point something on it. Today,
when I have troubles with my connections, and I call my ISP, they ask me
what am I using. I say Mozilla, and they ask which one -- the Suite,
FireFox, or even Thunderbird. So, atleast my ISP knows whats going on
and they have a response cause they DO support Net and Moz, compared to
others that only support IE or OE.

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Well, you are the exception to the rule. By and large, over 60% of users
on the internet today have never known anything but Windows with IE
built in.

They didnt have to worry about Telnet, or FTP, or Anarchy, or other
search engines, or things like Fetch, or Pine or anyone of the hundreds
of other products that once were popular. They turned their machine on,
and IE was there (and O or OE as well usually).

'Do not support' is simply saying that they are unable to assist users
with those products. At least they are honest <g>. Being a machead
(yea, one of those) I've run into that more often than not, yet have
never really been stymied at doing anything.

 

As I recall, Firefox tab management (when you get a new tab and when you
don't) isn't very impressive. Also, I don't recall it having cleanup on
close in which cookies, cache, history would be cleaned automatically (I
could be wrong as it has been while since I have used it). Interfacing
to alternate download managers like WinGet or Download Express is
another feature I don't recall it having.

Personally, I like GreenBrowser as it has all of these features and is
slightly more refined than MyIE2 which is based off the same code base
(the original MyIE).

Toad

 

I have been trying Maxthon, the 'new' IE2, and it seems quite impressive.