Negative Sun Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 Fair enough, I suppose it doesn't really matter, at least the banners are gone... 10MB+ Really? How DO you switch those updates off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Devon Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 After hearing all the Firefox praise here, I decided to download it and see how good it is. There's a couple extra features I like, but so far I've not seen anything that makes it so wonderful. Does anyone have any reasons for why it's so much better than IE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Uh.. more security? Remember when the forums had a bad case of the evil trojan popups? If you browsed the forums without any special downloads for IE, you'd have gotten some nice trojan popups. If you used FireFox without any special downloads, you'd get no such popups. That's about the time when I switched. I also like the more options for cookies and the other internet options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Devon Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Remember when the forums had a bad case of the evil trojan popups? I've had various popup blockers on my computer for a while now, so I can't say I do. I've been looking at more of the features. Being able to switch to other windows with Firefox pwns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted September 24, 2006 Author Share Posted September 24, 2006 Yeah that has convinced me as well, tabbed browsing rules... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arátoeldar Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Don't know if it's possible to eliminate the margin, it could be part of the page layout with a fixed size space reserved for banner ads. Even if you remove the banners the page layout would still have the space defined for them. As for tutorials, sorry, can't help with that. I'm more of a trial & error person than a tutorial person. Or: 3.) They have automatic updates in Windows turned off (to avoid having a 10Mb+ background service running all the time that only serves a purpose once per week at most) and have to use Windows Update manually, which only works with Internet Explorer. With the IE Tab extension you can update your system. After hearing all the Firefox praise here, I decided to download it and see how good it is. There's a couple extra features I like, but so far I've not seen anything that makes it so wonderful. Does anyone have any reasons for why it's so much better than IE? Customization https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaelastraz Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Or: 3.) They have automatic updates in Windows turned off (to avoid having a 10Mb+ background service running all the time that only serves a purpose once per week at most) and have to use Windows Update manually, which only works with Internet Explorer. Since when is it necessary to update Windows? Get a good non microsoft made firewall, be smart inthe web and there are no security problems...^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Since when is it necessary to update Windows? Get a good non microsoft made firewall, be smart inthe web and there are no security problems...^^ They are not mutually exclusive, one security measure does not invalidate the need for others. A firewall or non-IE browser is no 100% guarantee that you'll have no problems; nothing is. I do have a NAT Router, a software firewall and antivirus software, and I have never have any virus or malware on my computer (that I know of anyway). Getting bugs fixed and new versions of applications is more or less always a good idea in my opinion, in particular when it doesn't require more work than that. Why take the extra risk when it's that easy to avoid? * * * I'm not quite sure I buy the argument that Firefox is that much safer at its core (before applying adblockers etc) than Internet Explorer other than by virtue of having a much smaller user base. Security by Obscurity is never a good idea in the long run. Looking at the bug log for Firefox there has been a fair number of critical security vulnerabilities in the browser allowing others to execute code through it. The Mozilla/Firefox team are usually fairly quick to fix those problems when reported, but the problems have existed long before being "officially" discovered after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Skywalker Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Yep, got a virus on my PC by simply ENTERING IE. So, yup, Firefox rules and Pwns IE and all, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevanA4 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 in intrest of being fair. I already have a similar thread here I point it out mainly because IE and firefox aren't the only ones people use. I use Firefox all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playloud Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 IE7 got tabs now. its pretty hard to choose, but i use Firefox right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Another serious Firefox Security Hole discovered. Hopefully they will fix it soon, then there will only be 29 more to go on that particular list... Anyone know more about this, what to watch out for? Perhaps it's best to block Javascripts in the meanwhile on untrusted sites, or trusted sites with banner ads (since web advertisement providers seems to be shady by default)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourdad Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 I use Firefox. A little analysis of the situation could bring a security solution. First, before the rise of Firefox, IE dominated the market by a huge margin. IE was the target for every hacker because if he wanted to affect anyone, well, he knew what had to do. Aim for the biggest guy. Firefox comes into the picture. The market is now starting to divide in two for the big dogs. The new player is starting to attract hackers with its vaunted greater security and growing userbase. Firefox is now a target on almost the same level as IE. So, what's the solution I bring forward? Fragment the market into a bunch of key players. As such, hackers won't all concentrate on IE and Firefox, but will have to spread out, giving each and every browser some care, thus reducing the potential threat. Basically, you get smaller amounts of threats, dispersed more or less equally among all browsers who themselves, control smaller market shares, but are more numerous. It's just a simple calculation of number of hackers per browser. I realize that it's theoretical and considering every other factor, utterly impossible that such a thing would happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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