Which replacement for Internet Explorer?

I really like Firefox for the complete browser experience, there is nothing it cannot handle really.

However... Its very slow and full of memory leaks, leave it running for a day or so and you wont have much memory left.

Chrome is simple and very fast and is currently my chosen browser but i do have to go back to FF for certain content.

Opera is too in your face for me, too much going on.
 
Opera is the best out there IMO. Firefox is (as already said) just what the masses choose because it isn't IE. Opera does better on the acid3 test than firefox, so the argument that firefox is more standards compliant is utter tosh.

Webkit based browsers are more standards compliant (chrome, safari, iron), but Chrome I don't like the ethics of, neither do I like its problems in rendering some pages, especially those with javascript menus, safari I find foul, and Iron (whilst better than Chrome, due to the company ethics of google), still has the same rendering issues.

Opera on the other hand, works with everything I've tried (bar quakelive :(), and has enough usable features/widgets to make it as customised as you want it (or don't want it) to be.
 
Wiggis said:
However... Its very slow and full of memory leaks, leave it running for a day or so and you wont have much memory left.
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Fine for me. If it's gobbling that much memory then there's something broken somewhere.

Opera does better on the acid3 test than firefox, so the argument that firefox is more standards compliant is utter tosh.
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That argument's utter tosh more like - Acid3 isn't the be-all of standards (Ian Hixie even said the features on there were deliberately picked to break Webkit/Opera/Mozilla, and do you really need SMIL or the picky features Acid3 tests?), especially so long as IE7 gets 12/100...
 
I gave up on IE about a year ago, decided to switch to Firefox. It's faster and, from what I've been told, more secure. Their Add-Ons page makes customising your browser really simple. Plenty of useful stuff there, my personal favourite being ABP (AdBlock Plus) which catches some of those nasty little popups and banners that FF misses.

I've been using Safari for about a week now. It's OK. Definitely better than IE but I still prefer FF for the add ons and the predictive text in the search and address bars.
 
It will certainly be funny to watch what happens to all these nice graphs and statistics when Microsoft redesigns their JS engine to run on the .NET CLR for IE9... :D
 
If IE wants to join the competition (late or not), it's all good. Forcing all the browser makers to keep improving and adding standards-based features can only be good for the web as a whole.
 
Missed this the first time round:

paradigm said:
Firefox is (as already said) just what the masses choose because it isn't IE.
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I've seen you peddle this viewpoint a few times and it confuses me. You seem to have a vendetta against Firefox purely because more people choose to use it than any other browser. How about giving some actual reasons why Firefox is deserving of such criticism? Acid3 is not a good argument - for one thing, it's not relevant to 99% of what people do on the internet, and for another thing, the release versions of Opera and Firefox are both far behind the latest code which will be released shortly.

So how about it? Do you have any reason why I should avoid Firefox other than to be elitist?
 
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