matt-- Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 @Samuel Dravis- Actually IE is a Windows component and can be removed IE cannot be removed. In part of the anti-trust proceedings against Microsoft, one of the chief arguments for MS's case was that IE was an integral part of the operating system. After it having been "removed" by the prosecution's experts, a tech from Microsoft (I think he was on the IE dev team) took everyone through a set of procedure's that ended in a fully functional IE back on the system. The fact is its a shell for Windows Explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 IE cannot be removed. In part of the anti-trust proceedings against Microsoft, one of the chief arguments for MS's case was that IE was an integral part of the operating system. After it having been "removed" by the prosecution's experts, a tech from Microsoft (I think he was on the IE dev team) took everyone through a set of procedure's that ended in a fully functional IE back on the system. The fact is its a shell for Windows Explorer. Oh sure and MS goes around calling other companies "Communists", their the ones being totalitarian. Found a great FF extension called Stumbleupon, basicly you click a button on the toolbar and it takes you to random pages people found interesting, also gives you ability to submit intersting pages to the Stumbleupon community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yangyan Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 firefox ftw!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHawke Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Yup Firefox here too... Though I also use Maxthion on my laptop it isn't too bad either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobQel-Droma Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Safari. Never used FF, the only other I have was Explorer. Safari is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 The only problem I have with FF is that it eats up memory if it's left up too long. A lot of memory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnLocke Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Hmmm...let's see... "grew" up on IE, cause that's all there was at the beginning. On AOL (would rather dig my own eyes out than go back to them..(on dial-up go Earthlink)) learned that using Netscape outside AOL gave me better connection and download speeds than IE on AOL. (33k and 1k...vs...50k and 6k). Switched to cable, learned that Netscape was bought by AOL, and converted to FF after that with no reason to look back. I only keep IE for those sites that "can't" load without it. Firefox hands down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Death Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 This may only happen to me but one falt firefox has is that it wont let you use or see some internet features. one example happens on yahoo music. Whenever i try to view a music video it wont let me see it because "the browser doesn't support it". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I finally got FireFox! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnesiasoft Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Opera. Has all the features I use. Like mouse gestures, sure I can get them in Firefox, but why take the time to download FF and look for the mouse gestures plugin when I can just use Opera (which is a smaller download by the way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnLocke Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 This may only happen to me but one falt firefox has is that it wont let you use or see some internet features. one example happens on yahoo music. Whenever i try to view a music video it wont let me see it because "the browser doesn't support it". No it's not you. FF doesn't support it. But if you have the IE plug-in, you can open Yahoo Music in an IE tab. Then you should be able to see it. There are a few sites that are IE "only." But.....stick with FF, it has the best of both worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnLocke Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I finally got FireFox! Good for you! You like it? You've tried the extentions and/or themes yet? Edmonton > Detroit finally!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niner_777 Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 I've got Internet Explorer. I haven't had any experience with the others. I've had Internet Explorer almost as long as I can remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Edmonton > Detroit finally!!! lol, you watch it? Where you from? Edmonton > San Jose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerted Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 IE cannot be removed...The fact is its a shell for Windows Explorer.IE can be removed. It takes some effort to do it but it can be done. If it is only a shell for Windows Explorer, you could easily remove it. Its not. Its integerated into Windows, but its not an explorer shell. Shells are easily changed. I don't have the latest version of Maxthon so I can't say how good this feature is, but they added an encrypted remote file access to it. go give Maxthon a try http://www.maxthon.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 IE. I hate IE, but I have to use it in order to post threads on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 you can use Firefox to do that too. i do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Doctor Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I use Firefox, but I really don't see how it's better than IE. I don't know what people are talking about with Spyware and ****. I never got any. I only switched to Firefox because of the tabbed browsing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 actually, the tabbed browsing was the reason 90% of the people switched. then they came up with several bashes on IE to make everyone else shift as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I use Firefox, but I really don't see how it's better than IE. I don't know what people are talking about with Spyware and ****. I never got any. I only switched to Firefox because of the tabbed browsing. Same, i never had a problem with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabish Bini Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 I also never had a problem with IE. And I use it. Never had adware, spyware or anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnpp Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 >>>>>>Opera User<<<<<<<< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Mozilla Firefox of course. <3 Those who use IE are usually just uninformed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Dando Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I use Firefox now, although I kept IE installed, otherwise I couldnt use Windows Update, which annoyed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blh765 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I voted for Internet Explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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