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MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE
brightertimes writes "That's right folks, Slate (Microsoft's on-line magazine) recently printed an article enitled "Are the Browser Wars Back?
How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer.""
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I found this really nifty application called Comparator made by Vansath Dharmaraj -- it's basically a test browser with a split view: the top one is the page rendered in IE, the bottom one is the page rendered using Mozilla (which comes back to say Mozilla-powered browsers such as Firefox).
That, along with Firefox extensions IE View and Web Developer makes coding websites compatible in both IE and Mozilla browsers a hell of a lot easier.
A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
Yes, Firefox is safe. Or, rather, as safe as it can be reasonably expected to get. Plugins and skins can only be installed by whitelisted servers, and must prompt the user before installation.
This has already been done. The html renderer is available as a dropin replacement for MSHTML. Infact it is possible to make Outlook use gecko instead of MSHTML which I think is pretty funny.
Sorry my bullshit sensor overloaded.
Erm, Safari's based on the same open-source KHTML engine as Konqueror, is it not?
The renderer is, not the whole browser...
Thats fair enough but its beside the point.
Konquerer, Opera, Firebird (now Firefox), Mozilla, and many other Mozilla based browsers suffer the burden you speak of yet really are better than IE. All I was trying to say was that the website link referred to in the master blog is deceptive. It tries to make you 'click here to see how Firefox is better than IE' and actually turns out to be a refute of IE's security problem on the basis that hacking IE is a more lucrative business. I was merely trying point this out. I do all this just to try and make people aware of the shortcommings of IE. We are on the same side here. You may remember the laughable security bug a few months back where web hosts could use a simple button to redirect clients a bogie site masquerading as a legitimate one. This was the begininning of the end for me. I demonstratedthis to our Admin using a little php server in work. I showed how with one click it could be possible to gather credit cards with the bug. But more than that I was surprised that such a fundamental bud existed, and is no doubt already responsible for mass credit card fraud.. I really dont know how Ms are getting away with this. Almost Everyone (all though it is changing slowly) still uses IE. We use it in work, against my wishes...
I guess thats where your ActiveX controls comes in. I actually got forced to use Active X control today too, as it was required to participate in closed beta testing..ActiveX has its uses, but it could EASILY be substituted with something better...
No one seems to realise that a very fast and nice concoction of Gecko (Mozilla/Firefox's rendering engine) with a simplistic Win32 UI called K-Meleon is available and provides a very fast and snappy browser in Windows. Since it uses quicklaunch, you don't need to wait for ages to start it, as oppossed to FireFox. I like it anyway :)