Browser Wars II

does the "IE tab" from firefox work well for some sites that support only IE? cos i'd seen people responded to other threads that IE tab works well in firefox

Hi, hawick, I'm not sure what the "IE tab" from firefox is; if you can elaborate on it a bit, perhaps I can better answer your question.

Same here, it's been 2 years and I haven't missed IE at all. I only installed the new IE7 to see the new version. Microsoft is good at taking ideas from good products and adding them to their own. How do you like the way MS moves menu items around, changing the user interface, causing users to hunt and search for functionality they're used to having?

Yes, the download manager is great; and I love how extensible Firefox is. There are tons of add-ons and themes to customize it.

Absolutely. That comes with the territory, though, since FF is an open source endeavor. Many of the add-ons are by third parties. Quality assurance is pretty much up to the public to make sure add-ons work as they should. Feedback to the add-on creators are key to better add-ons.

some time firefox crash for bad addon.

well hopefully myLot is able to support browsers like firefox and Opera. and yeah, i agree with you that at times when the site's traffic is heavy, the site is slow and chances are my post will not get posted into myLot.

As far as I can tell, Firefox is working fine for me. I have encountered problems a few times when I submit responses. The browser just seems to spin and never completes. myLot might be having some issues with handling too many requests; I notice that certain times of the day the entire site seems slower--like around late afternoon, early evenings (4-8pm Pacific) I also notice that myLot URLs have filenames with .aspx extensions. This leads me to believe that they use Microsoft's Asp technology; so, their site might be optimized for IE. Not certain about this here, just a hunch.

Will do. I'll give Opera a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

Hey, I just installed Opera 9.02 on my computer and am writing this using it. So far, the browser seems pretty nice. I like the preview popups on the tab mouseovers. Seems like it's faster than Firefox for some sites (like myLot), but slower for others (like Yahoo! Mail Beta). Anyway, I'll continue to evaluate for a while longer; will give another update in a few days.

Agreed, MS added tabs, moved some menus around, added some more security stuff; but overall, seems like copying things that FF already had for a couple years now. So, I'm sticking with FF as well.

MS certainly added some level of security to the IE7 browser. Most notably, they added the anti-phishing filter. But I found that it slowed down the surfing experience quite a bit. Sometimes it even keeps the browser spinning for a good 10-30 seconds b/4 a page loads. It's a nice feature; but I could live without it. I just have to be more careful about visiting suspicious sites.

ah, great point. i've heard lots of great things about opera and tried it out briefly; but it never really caught on with me. perhaps it was b/c the opera browser wasn't free at the time. anyway, i should give it a try again. thanks for reminding me about this one.

I totally agree with you. I did run into a little problem with the 2.0 version, though. I've been trying to install the Yahoo toolbar, but keep getting this error: Firefox could not install the file at http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.toolbar.yahoo.com/dl/toolbar/us/yahootoolbar-1.3.0_us.xpi because: Download error -228 Any ideas?

Yes, FF 2.0 is even better than the 1.5 version. How about the new spell checker that's built in to the browser? I love it. It's the perfect tool for use on sites like myLot where you have a lot of typing to do.