Firefox or internet explorer

ste-sim2x9

ste-sim2x9

ste-sim2x9

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What do people most use to use the web, i have always used internet explorer but i see a lot of people useing firefox. Is firefox better than ie are not, and on firefox how do i get my home page to open on another tab instad of opening another single page. I can do it on ie but can't see how to do it on firefox.
 
Firefox is very popular and rightly so. It's more secure and has loads of handy extensions.

As for your bit about the homepage I'm not really sure what you're after. Could you be a little clearer?
 
Ya sorry m8, what i mean is when i open the internet explorer web page my homepage opens then if i want to open another page i click on the tab and another page opens with my homepage again so i don't need to open multiple pages.

Like the pic below.
Snap1-1.jpg
 
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Ctrl + T opens a new tab (if this is what you mean)

to click a link to open a new tab just click the mouse wheel down instead of the left button.
 
If you're running vista, IE + Protected mode is safer and more secure than firefox, especially if you don't want to start disabling functionality (eg turning scripting off etc). Even on XP it's largely debatable which is more secure, firefox has less direct exploits, but security testing shows it's frequently been more exploitable (more critical vunerabilities), but it's much smaller market share means it's not targetted as often.

If you choose to go with IE, download IE7 pro as it provides much improvement.

I've never got on with firefox, so the choice for me comes down to IE vs Opera, and normally I browse using the latter, with IE in reserve for certain things.
 
Neither, Opera and Google chrome are better than both. FireFox is good, but the UI isn't much of a step forward IMO.
 
ste-sim2x9 said:
Ya sorry m8, what i mean is when i open the internet explorer web page my homepage opens then if i want to open another page i click on the tab and another page opens with my homepage again so i don't need to open multiple pages.

Like the pic below.
http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u349/VOYAGER2X8/Snap1-1.jpg
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Sounds like you're describing tabbed browsing then. As was said above, Ctrl-T will do the job, or just click new tab under file.
 
reflux said:
Neither, Opera and Google chrome are better than both. FireFox is good, but the UI isn't much of a step forward IMO.
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UI is balls compared to security where ff wins hands down with noscript and adblock added.
 
Firefox 3 for me - still using Fx as my master browser, I didnt use IE7.. it safe to use Fx also you can choose your theme to make look nice.

Fx 3.1 and 3.2 coming this year and Fx 4.0 due next year that would be good one.
 
I never said you could not... they don't have the same level of ease of use as Noscript and Adblock.
 
Firefox is a lot quicker on my pc for some reason. (Opens up quicker and loads pages more quickly). Don't know why though.
Also, if you click the middle button on a link in firefox, that will open it up in a new tab.
 
mrk said:
I never said you could not... they don't have the same level of ease of use as Noscript and Adblock.
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And firefox doesn't have protected mode and has more critical vunerabilities historically than other browsers...

FF does not have a security advantage, and it's rather misleading to imply that it does. If security by obscurity counts as an advantage, then opera thrashes firefox in that area ;)

The reality of that matter is that all browsers have vunerabilities, all of those can be mitigated to a point, either by disabling functionality, putting it in a secure wrapper, or by user awareness. Some browsers are more likely to have their vunerabilities exploited, but the browser most subject to that risk also (on Vista at least) provides a very strong means to mitigate it. Touting firefox as an intrinscially safer browsing experience (especially when comparing a functionality crippled FF to a standard install of other browsers) has no factual basis.
 
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SI understand that but by the sounds of it you're saying that A person installs FF3, installs adblock and noscript and configures them correctly.

That person is then still more likely to be a victim of an attack as opposed to a stock Opera or IE install?
 
the extra security from adblock & noscript are not what attracts me to firefox

it's simply the 'cleaner looking pages' from all the crap that they block
 
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