All Animes: Re: [animeontv] Fwd: Firefox crashes query?

Once upon a time Chris Hyche shaped the electrons to say...
> I find it a little funny that when someone a couple of weeks ago had a
> problem with IE there was a flood of e-mails saying to switch to
> Firefox but when someone has a issue with Firefox you don't hear calls
> to switch to IE or Chrome or something like that...

That's because IE tends to have more issues, plus it is the #1 target
for hackers. Simply not using IE is a big improvement to your system
security. Not being a member of the primary target group is an
instant benefit.

I wouldn't recommend Chrome, not yet anyway. I have it installed and
use it at times, but it is still just not as polished as Firefox. It
is only just out of beta, and it still lacks a lot of the advanced
features, support from extensions, etc, you get with the others.

Safari and Opera are options. Personally I've never really cared for
the design choices in Opera, but it is a solid browser. Safari has a
great engine, and is a pretty good browser, but suffers some of the
same issues as Chrome - not as much add-on support.

> I just find it unhelpful that when IE or anything else MS is involved
> the only response is to switch to something else.

I couldn't recommend strong enough that people use ANYTHING other than
IE6. IE6 was just such a festering dung heap that it had *nothing* to
recommend it. I have trouble rationally discussing IE6 because it
caused me so much pain for so many years and I just want to rip it
into itty bitty pieces and bury it alive. (Points if you get the
ref.)

IE7 was better. They fixed the most glaring issues and it wasn't
quite the security fiasco IE6 was. They managed to make it play
mostly OK with web standards, unlike IE6, though it still had enough
quirks to make it a curse for web developers trying to do the right
thing.

IE8 I have to give them credit for. They've done a lot of work and it
is a *major* change from IE7. Standards support is very solid.
Security is much improved. Lots of design changes bringing IE8 more
in line with what other browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome) have
been doing for a while. MS has finally pretty much caught up to the
other players. So if you must run IE, I strongly recommend installing
IE8.

Still, IE8 has hooks deep into Windows, and it is still IE and
therefore the primary target for hackers the world over as an
infection vector into Windows. So when the inevitable bugs do arise,
you'll be at more risk runnign IE8 than a 3rd party browser.

Don't get me wrong, all the third party browsers have bugs, sometimes
even security bugs, but they aren't targeted as often as IE by
hackers. Plus they aren't as deeply integrated into Windows, and so
haven't had as many major exploits. And the 3rd party browsers have a
history of being patched faster than MS patches IE when bugs are
found, often due to being open source and the community creating a
patch on zero day.

So while the very thought of someone using IE doesn't make me want to
scream aat them until they stop, like it did with IE6, I still think
there are some good reasons to use a 3rd party browser instead. And
Firefox just has more features available than IE with all the
extensions.

-MZ
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