Firefox pulling down Internet Explorer

[burythehatchet]

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/1331.html

....If you are one of the 90% Internet users who depend on Internet Explorer, then most probably you are annoyed by spyware and viruses and are considering an alternative to the IE. 19 million people have already downloaded the Firefox browser from Mozilla and are enjoying the pop-up free environment.....

GO ABM (anything but microsoft)!!

download firefox

[roenyc]

1. I use both, mozilla though not firefox

i still use IE cause mozilla doesn't have spell check!! and i cant spell.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I just started using Firefox

So far I really like it and it's much faster then Netscape. It even imports all your bookmarks, which was a major plus for me.

[LoneDriver]

6. Spell checking is available

Get the spellbound extension for firefox,

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

As a matter of fact many great extentions are available to customize your browser into whatever you like.

[Hokie]

8. Thanks LoneDriver

I have been using Mozilla for over a year and I have tried Firefox too. They are much better than IE. The one sticking point has been the lack of a good spell checker like IEspell. I will give this a try. The only time I use IE is on the Intranet at work where I have to use IE.

[roenyc]

10. i am having trouble with the link! nt

[roenyc]

11. duh! no im not. nt

[roenyc]

12. ok, it only works with firefox or thunderbird?

i use mozilla big full size cause i like the email program.

[Berserker]

14. Use this site for spell check

http://www.spellcheck.net/

[bunkerbuster1]

2. Firefox does 99% of what I want to do with a web browser

There's an occasional hiccup (notably, the MLB.com site, where I go for audio feeds of my beloved Mets, just will not run in firefox), and I'll switch to IE is that's the only alternative (after trying Nutscrape).

But firefox is da schizz. While I'm glad that more people are switching from IE, the security issue isn't the only good reason. Firefox is just plain better. Why IE still doesn't have tabbed browsing, Lord only knows.

[burythehatchet]

9. I keep IE in the junk drawer and dust it off when some

content provider insists on IE.

Go Mets. What are the odds on Delgado?

[sellitman]

4. Firefox Rocks!

Explorer is old tired software. Firefox has so many features that I cannot believe anyone is still using it.

[Massacure]

5. im laughing at how MS wants to release another version of IE in 2006.

It'll be too late for them by then.

[roenyc]

19. they also want to out browse google yeah ok

If they would just stick to one thing maybe they could do it right. instead of wanting to run the entire world. he is the neo-con of the WWW.

[MeDeMax]

7. addons & plugins link for Firefox

you can add a whole bunch of stuff, including special tools that aid blogging (couldn't find spell check though) here:


https://addons.update.mozilla.org/?application=firefox


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[OneTwentyoNine]

13. Used FireFox for about two months....its great but....

I think they should go ahead and merge the Thunderbird mail client into FireFox. Its not big deal for me to use Thunderbird as a stand alone but it might be turning off some of the less technical users who want everything under one roof so to speak.

My days of IE'n are longgggg gone....

[roenyc]

15. thats just it

i like that when i click my mail links it opens a tab in mozilla and then i have a bunch of tabs i usually never get to read! lol but its a pain other wise it will link to horrors of all horrors IE.

[Berserker]

16. Spellbound

for Firefox http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

[roenyc]

17. found it for Mozilla regular

http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/installation.html

[mogster]

18. There's also Opera

New Opera 7 is very good.
http://www.opera.com/

Luckily, for the people working with web design, all three major Win browsers treat the pages equally (more or less), and you can depend on your design to keep..er.. designed in all browsers.
Even Safari for Mac and Konqueror for *nix appears to be more or less foreseeable when it comes to delivering pages as you meant them to be delivered, with DOM-support 'an all :-)

I'm using IE as my standard browser now (has been doing so since 1998, when Netscape stopped developing on their code), but are in the process of changing to either Opera or Firefox. Have all three installed, so it is a matter of habit.

And features, of course. In addition to the mentioned security probs, the FF and Opera support tabbed browsing--always a good feature for us who have at least 16 browser-windows open at any given time :D

[roenyc]

20. i used opera for awhile and

it went nuts for some reason. one of their builds was really bad. must have been 5 or 6. i loved the taps. someone told me about mozilla and i got hooked on it.

And yes i used to use netscape too! i have always hated anything associated with MSN.

and outlook express, jeez that has to be the worst. oh well, he makes a lot of computer repair people wealthy.

[mogster]

21. Yeah, Netscape was really good

But that was prior and up to 4.xx.

It is one of the great mysteries of our time why NS stopped developing new code, and just patched the 4.xx. Not very good patching either, if I remember correctly ;-)
Anyway, it gave MS the edge with IE and NS dropped from 95% to somewhere in the vicinity of 15% or something.

Good to see Moz and Opera taking back the market :-)