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Published Feb 16 2005, 10:23 PM by breichelt

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Patrik said:

I have also switched to Firefox for now, but when MS releases IE7, I will look into that, and if they added tabbed browsing, a better search function and all those neat security enhancements then I probably will switch back. I have had no performance problem with IE6 so the main reson for switching was tabbed browsing and the search utility in Firefox.

I think MS will deliver what we are asking for, its just pity that the development are taking so long...

I agree that I also think that most people that are using Firefox are developers and other people that are working with computers in some way. But if MS wait to long for the release of IE7 it can happen that the critical mass has begun the move to Firefox and then it will be hard to get them back to IE again. Developers and other computer people are easier to move...

# February 16, 2005 11:48 PM

Helen said:

I think firefox just works better in a hundred subtle ways. I love the extension I downloaded that syncs my bookmarks from a file on my ftp server. I love that the search is so easy and configurable. I love that I can download a taskbar just for web developers. I love that the favicons actually work! The tabbed browsing interface is absolutely wonderful. The bookmark manager remembers the last folders you used. The interface on the download manager leaves IE's download interface for dead. The autocomplete is useful and unobtrusive... I could probably go on like this for another ten minutes.

Microsoft would have to do something pretty spectacular to make me change my browser back to IE.

# February 17, 2005 6:36 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

I agree. Firefox does indeed seem faster. Have you see this speed comparison here?

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html

This says that FF is not faster, but I don't believe it. There's something very big left out of their study.

I may go back to IE, just for the convienence. It's been a challenge for me to completely switch over.. so I may just give in and rent my soul back to the man for a while.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/brendan.tompkins/archive/2005/02/10/50794.aspx

# February 17, 2005 6:43 AM

Patrik said:

I totally agree with what Helen says about the download manager, its just great. The best thing is that it will resume and try again and you just dont have to worry about it. :)

But there is one problem with Firefox that I really do not like.

If I create a folder with non english chars.. for example c:\folderÅ\ and then try to access the files in that folder it will give me an error, and files will not show. I hope this will be fixed in a later version though.

# February 18, 2005 12:02 AM

yiyip said:

Firefox will probably always be nicer to use than IE because the focus of the UI design is the user experience, rather than ramming advertising and machine code (er.. ActiveX) down the user's throat.

For instance, why in God's name does IE disable the "view source" option on SSL sites? 99% of the time I want to use it, it's *my* SSL site! And the script debugger is useless, and will probably never be fixed.

That said, there are some huge annoyances about Firefox(the UI has gotten a bit too stultified over time, no sessions, etc.), but most of them are easily rectified with extensions.

# February 21, 2005 12:30 PM