IE7 "vs" Firefox

[MOP]

What are the pros and cons between the two? Since the recent upgrade of Firefox I have had a couple FF having to close and re open plus having trouble opening pages. If I open IE6 the pages open quickly and I have no glitches but I miss the tabbed browsing, I am thinking of down loading IE7 with the tabbed browsing.

Phil

[penbroke]

I have heard there are some issues with the latest release of FF. I don't use it because I could never get it to work right. There was always something that was not quite right and I got sick of messing with it. I have been using IE7 on my laptop for a few months now with no issues. It does suck up a lot of horsepower though...


Frank

[Trueser]

Mop,
You sure you dont have a computer business going? I would run both no harm in having them both on your machine.

Good luck

[BUIZILLA]

I have one machine in my office that runs both in tandem, probably the best machine I own right now.... not a glitch so far

[VetteLT193]

IE7 is basically a knock off of Firefox. M$ put all the features in, and it's not well tested.

IE7 can run side by side with FF, but can't run side by side with IE6. As a developer, IE7 poses a ton of problems especially with tabbed browsing. I assure you Firefox is a much more stable and better product, and it won't give nearly as many totally unexpected results using tabbed browsing like IE7 can.

hope that helps

[MOP]

A bunch of thanks for the replies! I love FF and have for a log time, it has been super until the latest update. I will spend some time on their forum to see what pops up.

Phil

[Formula Jr]

Auuuhummm.....

Sorry, just clearing my throat there a bit.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

It's got tab browsing tooooooooo.......
Five different machines, Four operating systems.
Works just fine for me across all of them.
1.1.7 just released and a thumb drive portable is in the works.

[drew0982]

Best to run them side by side and see which works for you... Personally I prefer FF

[McGary911]

I use a FireFox add in that will allow me to run instances of IE within a FireFox tab. That seems to be the best of both worlds. Although not nearly a prevalent as it used to be, some pages still only work properly with IE. That's when I invoke a IE tab......my wireless access point \ router is a good example. It only likes IE.

[cutwater]

What is the name of that add on? I definitely need that for the few applications that will only run in IE.

[McGary911]

What is the name of that add on? I definitely need that for the few applications that will only run in IE.

It's called IE tab, and you can get it right here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

It works great........

Here's an old thread I started a while back about Firefox extensions.

http://www.donzi.net/forums/showthre...hlight=firefox

Good luck.....

[WingWing]

I switched from IE to FF mostly due to the security flaws in IE, especially 6 but even in 7. It is more stable in my experience than IE, but I do admit that I like the tabs and bookmark friendliness of IE 7 just a tad bit better than in FF.