[quote name='P0ldy']Twatever. People who say this are people who don't do web development and/or don't have any real clue about function of the Internet. Firefox isn't the only browser that thinks standards are important, and utilises them appropriately. Konqueror, Safari, Opera, Mozilla Seamonkey, Netscape -- all use rendering engines superior to IE's Trident. Ever heard of XML? What do you think it is? It's a web standard, written by the W3C, that writes that standards for everything else.
Most people aren't "smart enough" to update. They buy a computer and that's that. IE
is as bad as it's made out to be. Go tell it to Secunia, or the hundreds of spyware companies that wouldn't exist if IE wasn't a mess.
I use Firefox because it's a F/OSS browser and has a philosophy I agree with, because I can make it do anything I can imagine, because most of what I can imagine has already been done for me in the way of extensions, because it's appreciative of web standards and their importance which keep the web open and not controlled by
X group, because it is
more secure and doesn't treat security exploits like "features", because it has rapid development and releases often, because it's crossplatform, because because because because because, because of the wonderful things it does.
Most of these things also apply to Opera, Konqueror, Seamonkey, and Safari as well.[/QUOTE]
Bravo and then someone. What a wonderfully thought out post. I'm starting to get extremely tired of capatilist_mao and who his nonstop ignorant pushing of IE.
[quote name='Vinny']I opened up both an IE and FF window and visited this exact page. IE used 27MB of RAM while FF used 21MB. I opened up few tabs on FF and went to IGN and CNET and it hit 31K. But starangely, it kept going up as the pages refreshed with new content (like those Flash based preview windows). And after a few minues, FF went down to 11MB while IE stayed at 27MB.
With that out of the way, FF may be safer and have tabbed browsing, but it's still not as compatible as IE is. FF's scroll bars won't even recognize my laptops scroll pad or arrows which makes it rather annoying to view pages. I love tabbed browsing (first found it with Opera) so FF is still used a lot by me.[/QUOTE]
I have to agree with your take on Ram consumption. I have done multiple comparisons between Firefox and IE, and every time no matter what FF beat's IE.
I have no clue about your Scroll pad or arrows. That is indeed very strange. Maybe you have to go into your computers mouse settings and enable it, since on my laptop, both the scroll pad and arrows work fine through FF.
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Thank you