Time to Find an IE Alternative?

[danno]

Glad to be of help :)

BTW if anyone needs to run Firefox in Kiosk Mode
I found this information. I haven't done it myself.

Simply go in the Mozilla Firefox directory open the chrome folder locate the browser.jar file and extract the browser.xul file. Edit the browser.xul file with an editor of your choice. If you know how XML works just remark the tags for the GUI components you don't want.

Dan

[bloodwrath]

Well I have been using Firefox for few months
but now with Windows XP SP2
im back to IE
WOW

Pop-up Blocker

No Explanations here. and WOW its works good, beats the msn and google toolbrars
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...upblocker.mspx

The Internet Explorer Information Bar

When you try to download potentially harmful files from the Internet, or when Web sites try to run software on your computer without your permission, you will see warning messages.
Shows active X installs/install attempts & popups and can give u more detailed info.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...2_infobar.mspx

Internet Explorer Add-ons with Add-on Manage

Manages Active X & Browser Helpers plugins
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...onmanager.mspx

For a more reading and more detailed explanations
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/features.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx

Im back to IE

[hal]

Hi, all,

Well, I for one will not give up my IE. I need to keep it around for three big reasons...

1) Every now and then I need something to remind me of why I am so much happier now with Firefox.

2) I need something to remind me of "New Coke." Check your Marketing history books ... replace "Pepsi" with "Firefox" and watch the story play out the same!

3) I never kept a bottle of New Coke. Rabbifratz! I hear they sell well as collector's items. Maybe I can do the same thing with IE...

Hal

[synergytheory]

I switched to FireFox a little while ago, and I have successfully managed to get everyone in the office to switch aswell and they all love it :) and most have switched their home PCs to FF aswell.

I love FF tabs, I use the Tabbrowser Extension...only ONE browser window opens, everything else opens into new tabs, even if I click on the FF button in my quick launch it'll open a new tab, I LOVE THAT!. With IE I couldn't tell what was what in the taskbar, I have to have at least 8 windows open in the taskbar at all times, you can image the mess with all the IE windows and 8 apps open.

Microsoft won't be making any major updates to IE until Longhorn comes out [apparently], I really hope they come up with something sooner, not coz I would ever use IE again, but cause it might get the average users to update their browser, which would be great. I have my fingers crossed that the next IE will follow web standards.

[DrTandem1]

Yes, I have always liked Netscape (Mozilla) better than IE. However, I strongly recommend to keep your IE browsers and download the security patches. Why? Because over 90% of your clients' visitors use IE. So, you should make sure that it looks and performs the way you want on IE as well as other popular browsers.

Not only that, but most of your clients probably use IE. When they ask you about a feature or some other rendering question, you will be in a better position to answer their questions and walk them through tasks.

The good news is, IE will accept almost any HTML tossed at it. Missing tags, extra tags, etc. won't bother it much of the time. The same can't be said of Mozilla. This is good news, because, if it looks good using a Mozilla browser, it probably will look good on IE. However, you should still check.

[cooper]

...I finally switched to Firefox and am SOOOOOOOO glad I did!

I love this grass roots movement to switch to Mozilla, or at least something other than Microsoft Internet Exploder. It really opens the doors for developers that want to use all the great new technologies like CSS2, and the DOM. MSIE hasn't been improved in three years. It's still the same feature set from the first release of version 6. The only thing Microsoft keeps doing is plugging the security holes. The effect is like plugging the holes in a cheese grader with chewing gum, one hole at a time. Not very pretty.

I have been using Mozilla since it became a browser and I have been using it exclusively for the last ten months. It's the best browser around and I hope more and more people switch to it. The trend is positive from the stats I have found. Compare the numbers from January of this year to July.
It shows a gain in market share for Mozilla browsers, especially if you add up the Netscape versions 6 and up, which are based on the Mozilla browser. Also encouraging is the increase in Safari browsers.

I love to see IE's deathgrip on the browser market slip as it just means a more level playing field and an overall better experience for developers and users alike.

GO MOZILLA!!!!

[clambam]

I too got scared about the security issues and installed Firefox too. Like everyone else here who uses it, I love it! I do have one beef with it though.

I burn CDs as marketing tools and mail them out. I've set it up so that a Flash file which has been converted to an executable autoruns when the CD is played. The executable contains links to various MPG animations. When you click a link your default media player should open and play the animation. That worked fine when I had IE as my default browser. Now, with Firefox installed, clicking a link causes Firefox to run and open a tab for the animation -- but it comes up with an error message and no animation! I know it works right on IE computers. Anybody hazard a clue as to what I should change?

[DrTandem1]

I think everyone should slow down before jumping on the bandwagon. Mozilla has security flaws, too. They just haven't been exploited. I wouldn't start getting that warm and fuzzy feeling just yet:

http://www.internetnews.com/security...le.php/3389941

[Keimos]

I agree with most of the above but I do find the graphics rendering of Firefox slow. The tools and stuff are also great. I think it is better than Opera but have any of you tried AvantBrowser?

It is IE with bells and whistles and is currently still free. (You might be persuaded to download RoboForm)

Personally I use all of the above, especially when testing the look of my sites.

It was mentioned aboved that CSS did look different, but that is down tho the Web Designer, as all of the browsers support CSS and if you code right then you will get the same appearance in all of them.

[DrTandem1]

Clambam,

Firefox does not come with all the bells and whistles installed. You need to add the plug-ins you want, regardless of what you had/have working on IE.