XP and Firefox,I use Firefox because of adblocker extension.

 

Vista and Chrome - seems better than IE8, quicker to respond and I like it's operation better than IE. Not tried any others yet.

 

Win 7 and FF here

I do find FF sometimes hangs tho .....

Seems common enough problem too

 

XP - IE8

IPad - Safari

 

So if i downloaded Firefox would this mess up all my OE records i.e. all stored messages, address book etc?

And I don't want some complicated transfer/import system as I tried that with W7 on another PC and it was a real dog's dinner.

David

 

W7 and Chrome here.

 

David
Firefox is purely a browser, so it will have absolutely no effect at all on any of your Outlook Express stuff. Mozilla (the makers of Firefox) do also have an email application you could switch to from OE if you wanted to (it's called 'Thunderbird'), but it doesn't come as a bundled package with Firefox.

HTH
Mark

 

Thanks Mark.

So what advantage is there in switching to Firefox? OE seems to be fine, quite quick for my needs and stable. David.

 

vista with chrome

 

More security vunerabilities with IE afaik David

 

W7 64-bit Chrome its fastest and good,i really like Firefox Beta 4.0.1.,Opera its good,but have too many "bugs" .

 

XP and IE6. Don't like change

 

W7 with IE8 & FF on my main machine

Currently on hols using wifes netbook with XP IE8 & FF

 

Might have our wires crossed here slightly. Are you talking about Internet Explorer, or Outlook Express? One is a browser, for looking at websites, the other is an email program, for downloading and reading email.

If you really meant Internet Explorer, as NAF pointed out, more security vulnerabilities. The reason being that virus writers and hackers have always targeted it much more enthusiastically than the alternatives, firstly, just because they know there are a lot more computers out there that use it, and secondly because it used to have (and still does up to a point, but far less so than in days gone by) more 'back doors' into the rest of the system.

If you're happier sticking to what you've got, just make sure you have a good anti-virus and firewall installed, and your Windows updates run regularly.

 

Sorry Mark if that was my fault. I use Internet Explorer for the web and OE for e-mails. I use Kaspersky and Windows Firewalls. I will hardly ever open an attachment or open an unrecognised link. Windows updates are automatic although I had to switch these off on my Toshiba laptop as apparently there is a known problem with Toshiba software and Windows updates and it would keep freezing (W7).

David

 

W7 & Firefox

I changed from IE to Firefox when I was getting 7-10 malicious spyware/malware programs on my machine every week. With firefox I've had maybe 7-10 in total over the last few years. I also find it's much faster than IE.

The only thing that irritates me is that there are some websites that will only display with IE. Unless they have something I really want or can't get somewhere else, I just close these sites and look elsewhere. what kind of cheap-**** webbies do these companies employ that don't do cross browser testing? Or don't the webbies care because their non-compliant plugins look cool and require almost no work on their part?

 

AOL has worked perfectly well for me for years now.

Les

 

How about everyone just goes here http://html5test.com/ and posts their score.

222 out of 300 for me plus 4 bonus points. Webkit OSX

 

My Firefox also gets 139+4.... IE fails dismally at 27+0.

Since HTML5 isn't released yet, I wouldn't guage this as an accurate browser test.

We should rather visit a site that tries to install 10000 different spyware progs and you lose a point for each one that is succesfully installed

 

Chrome will also score highly no doubt and can someone tell the BBC, Google and other's that HTML5 is not out yet.

 

197 on Chrome. To be expected as Google's products are HTML5 heavy already. If you're browser can't support these features I'd consider changing.

 

Beta versions of Firefox will score better as well. I did think the latest version of IE would do OK as Microsoft seem to be shouting about HTML5 as well.

 

IE should score too.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/microsoft-html5/

 

+1

(197+7)

dunx

 

iPhone Safari 185 +7

But check this out http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/b...tition-in-a-g/
Engadget must be reading Scoobynet, they've used the same test and the new Blackberry OS is the winner! Running Webkit.

 

W7 & Chrome for general purpose browsing.

Firefox for viewing Rightmove with the propertybee plug-in.