Firefox vs. SP2's IE?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 22, 2004 @08:40AM from the as-microsoft-slowly-improves-their-products dept.

Anonymous Coward asks: "I was at my grandpa's house today, and I came across a somewhat unsettling issue. He is a user of Internet Explorer. I was talking about Firefox with him, and it turns out that he has had no trouble with popups since SP2 came out, he doesn't multitask enough to benefit from tabbed browsing, and he doesn't care about safety/privacy concerns. On top of that, I ran a test and found no difference in load/download speeds between the two browsers on his computer. This brought me to an interesting point. For someone like him, is there any benefit to be gained from using Firefox? On top of that, are there any people who are actually better off sticking with IE?"

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Re:Security/Privacy issues by LordEd · 2004-12-22 08:49 · Score: 5, Informative

I used to use IE with SP2 up until a few weeks ago. I went to the wrong website and wound up spending a day trying to remove a persistent spyware app off of my system. I had to drop down to a repair CD and physically erase specific DLLs that kept recreating themselves.

You may not have privacy/security concerns, but you start noticing it when your CPU is running 99% on spyware.

I haven't had any problems since switching to firefox.