Interesting Firefox myths website - It isnt so good?

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just been browsing and found this website, im a big fan of FF and i use it all the time, but after reading up on the below site, its making me think twice now!

what you guys thinks?

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Firefox is a hell of a lot faster than IE6, half of those things are made up. IE7 is also supposed to be more secure than opera.
 
Indeed whoever wrote it just seems like some anti-firefox zealot, which is why he seems to know so much about fanboys. And his sources are hilarious, for the ie6 specs he used microsoft.com a little biased perhaps? :D
 
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Regarding this:

Reality - Internet Explorer 6 supports Tabbed Browsing when used with the MSN Toolbar extension in Windows XP.
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In that case, Firefox blocks ads, has a fully-featured download manager, Gmail notifier, weather reporter etc etc etc.
They can't start using add-ons or toolbars to sway the argument towards IE.
 
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They can't start using add-ons or toolbars to sway the argument towards IE.
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I think the point there is that it's an add-on made by the same company as the original software. It's a bit like responding to someone who is claiming Mozilla Thunderbird isn't as good as Microsoft Outlook because it doesn't have a calendar, by saying it does if you add Sunbird.

Back to the main subject matter, I could have sworn last time I visited that website it was pure, unadultered Opera propaganda. It's the same as that "Loose Change" video everyone is raving about; the person who wrote that page quotes people who don't know what they're talking, breeds off misquotations and facts which are, at the end of the day, totally useless. Some of those "myths" are just downright daft, and if you had the faintest idea how web browsers work they would have little or no effect on your opinion towards Firefox.

Take this random example: "Firefox was the first Web Browser to include Tabbed Browsing". Who said it was; did the people at Mozilla ever claim that themselves? Even if they did, how would that affect Firefox as a web browser? Another random selection: "Firefox fully supports W3C Standards" - again, the sort of thing you'd hear from someone promoting Firefox who doesn't know what they're talking about. Everyone knows Firefox doesn't support W3C standards in their entirety - not even the W3C themselves can achieve that with their own browser.

av. :rolleyes:
 
I had to laugh at the bit where he goes on about some bloke's anti-IE warning pages. Pots and kettles spring to mind.
 
LOL - he disagree's with all of the Firefox Fanboys so suddenly he himself is a fanboy....

I love all this over the net at the moment.
Everybody calling everyone else a fanboy just because they happen to like a product.

"I rather like Windows XP"
"Oh my god, M$ Fanboy - everything he says will be rubbish"

Why can people who use one product not possible accept that other people like other products just as much?
I'm an IE user - have been since the release of IE4 (when it finally took over the Internet as it was the best browser available, second to none).
Although towards the end of IE6's life it started getting old (it is looking tired now) MS have bounced back and IE7 is tops.
Once again I've certainly got no reason to move away from IE.

This doesn't make me a fanboy - it simply means I looked at Firefox, decided I really didn't like it and stuck with what I do.
 
This is kind of different, its someone devoting a whole page to tell everyone how bad firefox is with stupid quotes that no one even uses not even fanboys while trying to make it seem like he is everyones saviour busting myths when there aren't any and delivering everyone from the evil of firefox, everyone knows for example that it isn't the most secure browser but ie6 is less secure and opera isn't the most secure either (even though he wrongly thinks it is) but he doesn't mention anything about that, same goes for the speed test, the source isn't testing page load times for the same website with different browsers, its timing how long it takes for the program to start up when the pc is first turned on, which isn't what anyone means when they say firefox is faster than ie6 and isn't something' that a user would care about when choosing a web browser. He doesn't even write about opera's or ie's myths, I wonder why that is? Hmmm....

These aren't even myths, for example the market share in ONE article he saw was exaggerated by 1% and he says that its a myth, I suspect that 99% of the people using it dont care or even know what the market share is and hes making it sound like theres some huge lie by mozzilla and wants everyone in the world to know that they only has a 8.9% market share I mean wow big deal, does anyone care, can the article get anymore pathetic? :confused:
 
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Personally I would prefer a browser with a lower market share, less risk for being targeted by spyware etc :p . But personally I'm a HUGE Firefox fan. Moved from IE6 to using Firefox every now and again, now I'm using it 24/7. The features are perfect and the layout and speed are great. I also like all the 3rd party plug ins (Fasterfox, Downloademall, Forcastfox and Adblock Plus)

I don't like IE7 at all! There are some features I like (The good phising filter) but some it's lacking which I couldn't live without (Bookmark toolbar). I hope IE7 is good though as it will make many people on the internet much more safe which can only be a good thing :) Maybe when it's finally released I will give it a go :)
 
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Until Firefox adresses it's resource hogging (it doesn't release cached memory correctly amongst other problems) I wont use it and stick with Opera instead. However its the only problem I have with FF and would rather use it over Opera TBH. (The plugins are very useful)

I only ever use IE on MSN/Hotmail, it's quarantened from everywhere else as can be so vunerable.

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