IE or Mozilla?

blakey81 · #1 June 26th, 2004, 06:54 PM

Hi,

I was going to download Mozilla and get rid of Internet explorer, is Mozilla any good? and can I uninstall IE and use Mozilla as my main web browser?

also which one is better?

cheers

Vox Fini · #2 June 26th, 2004, 07:29 PM

I have mozilla is ok except you need to download plugins for it. You can't remove IE for it is internal part of windows but you can set you default browser to Mozilla

JoJo Gunn · #3 June 26th, 2004, 10:09 PM

After a couple of months of messing with it, (Firefox 0.8 and 0.9), I'm now a Mozilla man. Haven't seen a pop-up in weeks, and that alone is worth checking it out.

Is it perfect? No. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, however.

lufbra · #4 June 27th, 2004, 12:36 AM

I'm being asked this by a friend, in Firefox, how do you get radio bars on web sites to work, rather than showing a white rectangle with a little green (?) icon in the middle? These are what are normally midi files

Rainbow32 · #5 June 27th, 2004, 02:29 AM

I've been using Mozilla Firefox for about a week now and will only use I.E. to get my critical updates. I like the extensions that you can get with it customizing Firefox to your needs. But here's the main reason I got Firefox or should I say the last straw with I.E.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalert...html#revisions
MS still hasn't come up with a fix yet and there's reports that hackers are using this venerability to extract password and credit card numbers from your computer. Spammers are also using it to collect your e-mail addy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3840101.stm
Here's a link to MS about this and how to tell if your computer is infected.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/in...load_ject.mspx

Steven.Bentley · #6 June 27th, 2004, 12:25 PM

I've been using Firefox on my Mac since IE development is so lacking and the current version is poor. Installed it on my PC this morning as a precaution with those issues you mention - finding it quite good

nibby · #7 June 27th, 2004, 06:13 PM

I'd keep with IE, but there are a few downsides: Pop up hell, makes errors often, and is not as secure as other browsers. Netscape is a good browser.

Lozil · #8 June 27th, 2004, 07:58 PM

I Prefer Netscape And Opera Than IE which will Start poping up everything now and then

Rainbow32 · #9 June 28th, 2004, 01:50 AM

A little trivia here. Netscape was the major contributer of money to the Mozilla Foundation to get it started. If it wasn't for Netscape there wouldn't be a Mozilla browser or Firefox alternative. Now why do you think Netscape did that?

JoJo Gunn · #10 June 28th, 2004, 03:29 AM

Lufbra - Maybe they need a plugin?

lufbra · #11 June 28th, 2004, 04:52 AM

Thanks JoJo, it looks like it needs Quicktime to allow the midi's to show as the radio bar.

JoJo Gunn · #12 June 28th, 2004, 06:24 AM

I have to admit I'm pretty new to Mozilla. The only experience I've had with a plugin was with Java, because NOAA radar sites demand it.

It crashed almost every time I used it. IE is still good for something.

Here's likely the best place to start:

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html