IE V Firefox

gillywibble · 1 Nov 2007 at 14:03

There's a couple of other things I really like about FF - you can download without clicking on that stupid yellow flashing bar and you can insert pictures into forums without a warning message popping up.

Uhtred · 1 Nov 2007 at 14:08

I like firefox but the memory leaking is just terrible, i don't know why that is. IE is very good but lacks add ons. Opera looks very nice but i've not spent the time needed to set it up how i want it.

gjrc · 1 Nov 2007 at 14:41

can someone explain what memory leaking is?

Uhtred · 1 Nov 2007 at 14:53

taking memory and not giving it back. for example i'm sitting ona 1gig machine with firefox and outlook open and i only have 300mb left. If i were to close firefox that would shoot up to about 600mb and i only have 5 tabs open. When you first open firefox it probably takes up half that with the same number of tabs open

Bes · 9 Nov 2007 at 21:25

Firefox is slow and crashes too much (and uses way too much memory). Opera ***.

C64 · 10 Nov 2007 at 06:42

I use firefox and i get IE 7 giving me pop ups whilst using FF what on earth is going on there bizzare !

MarcLister · 10 Nov 2007 at 10:46

Zip said:
Opera is Awsome

This man speaketh the truth.

Zip said:
Its got the Ultra lazy mouse control comands

I've not actually used them before. I've only ever used mouse shortcuts with Firefox which didn't work well with me or the other way around perhaps?

Doohickey · 10 Nov 2007 at 12:17

Firefox currently using 260 megs, but I have a whole heap of tabs open. I occasionally use IE7 + IE7 Pro which is a wonderful add-on for it and it makes it really very good, little to choose between the two for me, but I just prefer the FF UI

Energize · 10 Nov 2007 at 12:27

gjrc said:
hi guys,

i use and have always used IE (now on using IE 7). i like it, think its easy to use and dont have problems with it.

i see on here and in other places people slating IE and telling me to get FF. is this just becuase FF is much better, or is it because people hate MS.

i will happily try FF and use it if its better, can you tell me why its better and what addons make it so?

ta

I find firefox much faster than IE7 espically with pipelining enabled, adblock plus blocks all ads, jpg, gif, flash etc. Noscript stops crap being run in the browser. Plus it only uses 32MB of ram, even with 20+ tabs open.