........Phil Holland
Read the article if you have time to waste.
Quicker option -- Use IE 8 for 20 minutes and convince yourself that it
is shite.
Looks like the choice is clear.
Doesn't #2 in the argument for IE contradict #4 for
the argument against IE?
--
Jordon
Wouldn't an open mind be more useful? You still might find it to be
shite, but at least you'd have arrived at that conclusion honestly.
Really doesn't answer the question posed, now does it. Much of which is
'better' depends on what one needs to do, and how much trouble one wants
to go to in order to get it done. Many of Firefox's best features are
ignored.
Ron, the original post was about 'Is Firefox better than Internet
Explorer?' and NOT
"Is IE8 an improvement over all previous versions of IEx, and should it
My reply addressed the wisdom, or lack thereof, of using a browser for
20 minutes and rendering an opinion on its usefulness, or quality.
The short answer is there's no answer. It's all subjective. The best
browser is the one YOU like best.
........Phil Holland
> There are objective aspects to the choice, but mostly it is what you are
> used to, and what accommodates your needs best.
Does that mean that IE8 is no longer plagued with the security holes
that earlier IEs had?
My guess is, security holes will continue to pop up from time to time,
and be fixed, just like with Firefox.
but isn't it a fact that historically IE has been much slower than
Mozilla at plugging security holes?
Miles
I have no idea. My memory is that IE is updated more often, through
Windows Update. You can argue that's because IE is more buggy, or you
could argue that it's more attacked because of its popularity. Either
way, I don't think there's a significant difference, as far as either
one plugging holes as they develop.
IE has actually been pretty safe for quite a long time, provided you
adjusted the default security settings. The problem has been most
people don't bother. MS over time has tightened up those defaults, in
no small part because of competition from the likes of Firefox.
Thanks.
This is support for Firefox. IE is off topic.
It seems that comparisons between the two would be on topic.
--- Original Message ---
This entire thread is OFF TOPIC according to the subject. :-) But
seriously, of course it is on-topic to discuss the comparisons regarding
the competition's features/functions, etc.
--
Jay Garcia - Netscape/Flock Champion
www.ufaq.org
Netscape - Flock - Firefox - Thunderbird - Seamonkey Support
--- Original Message ---
Follow up to .general
You mean there aren't any Catholics that are German?
German is a religion?
And to stay on topic (lest some ass tries to play moderator without the
credentials), does anyone know if the Vatican uses Firefox?
--- Original Message ---
Anyone can mark a subject as OT as well as set a followup.
Yes, the Vatican uses Firefox, God uses it and set the rules. :-D
> And to stay on topic (lest some ass tries to play moderator without
> the credentials), does anyone know if the Vatican uses Firefox?
Yeah, they do. Mozilla gathered a lot of download stats on the day
Fx 3 was released, and .va had the second-highest per capita download
rate, after Lithuania.
--
»Q« /"\
ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ /
against html e-mail X
<http://asciiribbon.org/> / \
pfft, God uses Lynx!
Thank you �Q�. (That is the sort of gem that puts the fizz in my day! )
He did neither.
> Yes, the Vatican uses Firefox, God uses it and set the rules. :-D
That's good to know.
Yeah, and the massive bloating we are seeing in FF
is coming from a !!!!SINFUL!!! world, especially
the clowns at FF for producing so much barely
usable crap. It's time for a purge!
Much of the reported huge downloads will probably
end up in the trash can where disappointed
downloaders will put them.
How about an efficient slimmed down FF for a change?
I'm neither a Catholic nor a German. He was a member of the Hitler Youth
(you didn't get much choice in the matter), but to his credit he went AWOL
rapidly.
"Tarkus" <karn...@atlantabraves.net> wrote in message
news:zLCdnb87rNRRTdrX...@mozilla.org...
So, now we have 3 facts:
1.- He's German.
2.- He was a mini-Nazi.
3.- He's smart (they use FF on the Vatican).
And the question is still open: is the Pope Catholic ??????
Does anybody know what his religion is ????
Lutheran, Jew, Agnostic ..... ????
> Hi,
>
> I'm neither a Catholic nor a German. He was a member of the Hitler Youth
> (you didn't get much choice in the matter), but to his credit he went AWOL
> rapidly.
> "Tarkus"<karn...@atlantabraves.net> wrote in message
> news:zLCdnb87rNRRTdrX...@mozilla.org...
>
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