What are the advantages of IE?

Published on November 5, 2005 By Cyberworld In WinCustomize Talk

Hey..just got Mozilla Firefox and i think i'll switch to it after i get my DSL connection...it has lots and lots of goodies and helpful plug-ins,tabbed view of webpages,supports Java and Macromedia...it's totally free! What more could i ask...kinda makes me wonder...what are the advantages of Internet Explorer? What is it that Mozilla doesn't support that IE does? Any of you know?

Comments (Page 2)

Cyberworld

on Nov 07, 2005

IE can be hardened

I'll agree with that. Browsers are meant to be light-weight programs,not some kind of heavy armor tank!

Out of curiosity how much sys resources does IE use and how much does FF?

Chris TH

on Nov 07, 2005

Firefox has trouble rendering web pages that are not written to the strictest of rules,

My impression was that certain sites use non-standard IE-specific coding that other browsers (not just Firefox) have trouble rendering because they adhere the the standard... ?

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Lantec

on Nov 07, 2005

You can have the best (well almost) of both worlds with Maxthon. Maxthon uses the IE engine but has all the extras already included like tabbed browsing. Over the years I've used Netcsape, IE, Maxthon, Firefox and Opera. I'm still using Opera 8.02 and I have no intentions of changing anytime soon.

Gregory2001

on Nov 07, 2005

If you use Opera, you will have none of the problems of IE or Firefox.

Corky_O

on Nov 07, 2005

If I'm not mistaken one of the requirements of the MS Monopoly settlement was that they would not be able to bundle the browser (IE7) with their next Windows release

Not sure on that one, I have heard both now - Vista will include IE7, Vista will not include IE7.

For my part, it would seem that the OS is incomplete without an internet browser - sort of like creating a car without including the ability to drive at highway speeds.

Sapiendk

on Nov 07, 2005

Have IE7 b1, had FF, have Opera....
In reality I prefer Opera over the others.
Will likely stick with Opera and play with IE7 some more. Besides, Opera work on my smartphone too!

scorpio-logic

on Nov 07, 2005

Out of curiosity how much sys resources does IE use

(IE6) 31,250k with msn toolbar and all the goodies it comes with: popup blocker, email, anti-phishing plugin, search, tabbed, and deskbar.

Corky_O

on Nov 07, 2005

Vista info still lists Internet Explorer as part of the system http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/organization.mspx#QuickTabs - bottom paragraph.

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