Mozilla Firefox- Good or bad??

The IE6/7 popup blocker doesn't work. I've found one site that gets one popup through Firefox, and I suspect it's through a plugin.
 
wait a second.. IE is not the only web browser to have bugs... Opera had a ton of them when I used it (late 90's) and firefox certainly has its fair share of bugs...
 
SFR said:
wait a second.. IE is not the only web browser to have bugs... Opera had a ton of them when I used it (late 90's) and firefox certainly has its fair share of bugs...
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Look at Secunia. IE 6-current has 22, some highly critical. Firefox-current has 2, not critical. It's like comparing your Toyota with an engine tick to a Land Rover with an engine falling out... literally.
 
interesting...

from secunia.com said:
Please Note. The statistics below should not be used for a direct comparison of how secure two different products are. This is partly due to the fact that a Secunia advisory often cover multiple vulnerabilities. Also certain operating systems bundle a very large number of software packages and are therefore affected by many vulnerabilities that would be counted as a vulnerability in stand alone products for other operating systems / platforms. Other factors such as vendor response times and ability to properly fix vulnerabilities is also important.
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:cool:
 
In my opinion Microsoft seems to be doing better every day. Internet Explorer really isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be, it's just the most used and thus the most attacked. Firefox has less vulnerabilities, has tabbed browsing (We're talking about IE 6 aren't we?), and is much, much more customizable.

My preference list would go something like this:
1. Opera
2. Firefox
3. Links (<3 the speed)
 
Firefox is great... never had a problem with viruses/spyware/adware ever since. IE would download that crap even if I had my security settings to the highest level... sometimes it would set them to low by its self. Hated IE ever since.
 
illegalStuff said:
FireFox kinda has a memory leak, so you should try K-Meleon
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v1.5 or later doesn't seem to have memory leak problems. 1.0.7 and later though can be a pain. surprisingly it takes 2-3 pages/tabs open to use as much memory as IE6 on this computer. but it'll be different for everyone.

i use IE as my backdrop browser. if a page wont open i check it in IE, or if something won't work right i might be able to get it to work in IE. I still use it to windows update as well.
 
Firefox is great.

If this is a stupid question sorry but is there a way to open pdf files ? i always used to have to use internet explorer when viewing pdf's and it was annoying. ?
 
The only issue that I've come across with Firefox is the memory leak problem that was mentioned before. But, this only surfaces if the browser program is open for more than 10 or 12 hours... So just shut it down once in awhile. ;) Oh, but if it gets to that point, you have to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and shut down the firefox process because it also hangs (at least it does on my computer...).
 
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