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Erik Aston said:
I prefer IE.

I said it.

Multiple home pages, superior tabbing, superior bookmarking. Seriously.

I have my firefox loading my gmail and yahoo mail accounts on startup (or home button, if you prefer). So multiple home pages is possible on firefox, even if it is a tad tricky to get to work.

 

As for superior tabbing / bookmarking, how so? im curious.

 



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It took me about a week or two to get used to Firefox, it's worth the pain of switching over. I still have IE for certain program that will only work on it (such as Netflix)



Firefox is the way to go.



I haven't used IE for years.

And then I switched from Firefox to Opera.

Next, I'll buy a Mac!



Dragonos said:
Erik Aston said:
I prefer IE.

I said it.

Multiple home pages, superior tabbing, superior bookmarking. Seriously.

I have my firefox loading my gmail and yahoo mail accounts on startup (or home button, if you prefer). So multiple home pages is possible on firefox, even if it is a tad tricky to get to work.

 

As for superior tabbing / bookmarking, how so? im curious.

 

 

First of all there's a tab stub to open a new tab instead of command-T. And IE opens a new tab directly after the current one, instead of at the end of the line, so pages from the same website stay in line together.

Favorites, feeds and history are all in one click-open panel so that I can open a bunch of pages without renavigating a drop-down menu. It can also be reorganized more easily.

I'm sure some of that can be set up in Firefox, but I haven't been convinced to switch for a bit of speed and better standards compliance. IE is more of a standard than the actual standards anyways.

I have IE, Firefox and Safari all on my desktop though. And I have to admit that IE's content warnings are a pain. When I'm opening something from my desktop or that I just FTP'ed, I'm not worried about it being malicious, IE.



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Squilliam said:
I switched back from Firefox because I wanted to be a total immersion Microsoft fanboy. Now that I support Sony I guess I can switch back.

 

Good choise.

Of course, you do realise that now that you support Sony, you will have to use your PS3/PSP browser exclusively until such time as Sony release it for PC.

Sadly, it's just one of those things.



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FireFox FTW.



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NintendoMan said:

The better people of this world use Firefox. It's filled with raw power like the man below.

 

That does it.

FF 4 me 4 eva now!



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Garamond said:
I haven't used IE for years.

And then I switched from Firefox to Opera.

Next, I'll buy a Mac!

Will you switch to Safari? I'm pretty much a Firefox only guy (been using it for a few years now) and even when I happen to use my sister's iBook, I still use Firefox on there instead of Safari, hehe. I'm planning to buy a Mac when I get my next laptop, though I'll still probably use Firefox.




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