whatever, i dont care. when i used IE i always got pop ups and viruses and my pc crashed all the time. i dont th8ikn ill go back
^hardly anymore. All sites I visit look fine. Some look better. Whoever started this topic has no-one to back him up. Only the idiots and microsoft and kids who dont know a thing about computers, Even my school had firefox. There is no way you could win this argument and all you will get is flamed ask any IT industry professional (except for those at MS) and you will get an answer back plain and simple that Microsoft products are not secure. Linux is better than windows. Its just that companies cant be bothered to make software compatable. Office has its macro vulnerabilities, windows has its never ending updates that come out 6 months too late and more bugs just pop up, IE has activeX. The only good microsoft products in the pc industry are anti spyware, msn and its games. If it wasnt for compatibility I would be on a mac or a linux system before you culd M$ Sux. *there are probably gramatical errors in that cause I typed it in a minute or too lol. Typed fast out of anger.
Ya, never believe what microsoft says. The claim that the XBOX 360 has better graphics than a computer and it has beter parts in it ... smells kinda like B.S. ... since the XBOX 360 SUCKS! ... so ya ... I would also like to say that Defuzion is right ... oh, ya ... TechTv recommends FireFox ... and if your smart ... you'll listen to what they say on TechTv
Actually, 360 parts are really damn nice..idk bout cpu although I heard it was really good.. the gfx card is awesome. I forget what its called tho..it supposedly had 48 pipelines as I read at some site, idk if thats possible..! then again that would be like two 7800's..
almost everything is better than MS shyt, except the ones DeFuZioN said above... Linux/unix > Windows OpenOffice > MS Office Fx/Opera > IE I could go on... always check facts before you coming here ranting about it. Merged Post: umm, diablo, i think you're typing in the wrong thread, :lol:
The xbox 360 has good hardware in it. Notice in my post I said pcs. Not game consoles. 360s power wont be utilised for about a year and a half.
I just use it for the nice bookmarking system(with the icons) and for transparent PNG's. Please tell me if there is a version of IE that does any of those two, and I will happily switch over.
Nice little thing I found off a dig article. And more people dont use IE becuase its superior, its because all the people using dont know any better, or dont have enough computer knowledge to figure out that IE sucks. And go .defuzion
Alright so one of me resources compares 1.0 to 1.5 and do you know the difference in the software revision scheme. Well let me inlighten you. In software usually if you go from version 1 to version 2 this is a major update in software. If you go from version 1 to version 1.5 this is considered a minor software update. Considering that FF was only on version 1, 1.5 probably seemed like a major update to you. Oh and I did check my source. If there was a big difference in the update it would have been 2.0. Regardless 1.5 is more stable then 1.0. Oh just like I said before your browser has nothing to do with being hacked you can be hacked no matter if you have IE, FF, Opera. Obviously M$ firewall work for me if it dosent work for you there is plenty of software that will be more than happy to take your money, but you probably dont pay for the software any ways. And you say hackers have some sort of ethic, if you hacking to gain access to a machine either through the browser or various ports and are not contracted out by the indivdual or company that is unethical no matter how you look at it. That is what is spyware viruses all these nice little things that you say diferintiate between the two browsers. A professional hacker is considered a security consultant or analys and does not attempt to hack personel computers that he is not paid to do. A true unethical hacker will hack any thing for the right price. Oh and I used the heading that I did because of the response I would receive. Marketing tactic, and by all means 1.5 is still really buggy in many of the user interface areas along. And of course they went to 1.5 to fix stability, security and bug fixes. These updates are going to be most likely put on a 6 week rotation cycle. So you will be looking at the same thing that M$ does with security updats and that is directly from their website. Oh and you still have the major problem with the memory leak in 1.5 which is not going to be taken care of till 2.0. Oh by the way FF took the tabs from Opera and IE7 Tabs are a whole lot better then FF 1.5. So M$ took them from FF 1.5 and improved them the same way FF took them from Opera. Firefox is not the faster of the browser Opera is and IE 6 is a faster browser then FF here is my source oh and Mozilla is faster then FF and FF is suppose to be the streamed line verson of the 2. Speed Source "Quote" "There's a story at http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5630529.html where Mitchell Baker, president and chief lizard wrangler of the Mozilla Foundation is quoted as saying Mozilla is and always will be more secure than IE. That's an argument we can spend a great deal of time on and still not prove one way or the other. I also know from experience that the online press likes to play up stories about the browser so it's quite possible the statements in the article are taken out of context as such a claim invites something to happen to prove you wrong. It's a little like saying you've never had your car stolen only to leave work and find it is missing from the parking lot. There was one part of the piece that I wanted to comment on though: Part of Firefox's better security profile comes from how it is developed, compared with Internet Explorer, she said. "Not being in the operating system is a phenomenal advantage for us," Baker said. Now I'm pretty confident that Mitchell doesn't actually know the details of how IE is developed so I don't fully understand the basis of the statement. As we develop IE we go through very thorough and stringent security reviews to ensure that every change is secure and does not expose the user to attack. The issue of not being part of the Operating System is an interesting one though that is frequently the subject of misunderstanding. IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present. IE in turn relies on Operating System functionality to do it's job. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows. The security of any browser is irrelevant to if it is part of the operating system. If we are to debate security of browsers then let's bring in relevant arguments and accurate details about different possible attacks rather than rely on the irrational fear that because IE is part of the operating system it must be exposing OS functionality to the web. This is not the case as any software has access to the same set of OS APIs and can therefore expose the same set of OS functionality as IE." Source I guess thats all for now I imagine that I will have a lot of reading on this post tonight or tomarrow after this.
Wow, FF is not 10x better than IE, it is 4765809q47590843503796504379657435693746504372652347564756302743670567435637402657436534753478524749086758 times better.
wow your an it proffessional and you have been in the industry for 6 years yet you fail to see issues surrounding IE6? I am bambozalled. (lol don't know how to spell the word)
Provide me with proof thats all I ask....... Like I said Linux is free yet business that rely on creating a profit and providing stream lined business modules use the windows Operating systems. Believe me if they know that they can save hundreds of thousands of dollars dont you think that they would. I still need proof
I think the reason Linux is not very popular with the main steam is that it lacks the compatibily and ease of use of Windows at to the average user setting up Linux would bogle the mind, though Linux is very popular in the server sector because of its reliability, flexibility and lack of vulnerabilities ^_^
I do agree with you Spectre257 I will not dispute that fact. And linux is a very capable server in just about all areas. I have used it in several areas of grid computing and parellel computing and also incorporating it as a webserver into a windows enviorment. I do think as a server it is well worth its money. The desktop is a different situation and I will leave it with what you said. I dont want this thread to go off in a direction on linux. I want to keep it on the browser subject. But thanks for your response