Firefox v. IE v. Netscape

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<p>What browser do you all use? Firefox seems to be gaining momentum and the new Netscape 8.0 beta seems popular as well. </p>

<p>Internet Explorer of course is the reigning yet declining champion. It's quite useful for downloading Windows updates, I suppose.
And then there's Opera and the rest of them.</p>

<p>For myself, Firefox has not let me down yet. No popups along with ad-blocking and other extensions make for a great browsing experience. As for Netscape 8.0: I downloaded it and for me, the interface is just too hideous. Some may like it though (it's got tabbed browsing and RSS built in).</p>

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<p>firefox is the way to go!</p>

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<p>At school we have all three and firefox is definitly the most reliable. IE is alright, and netscape is horrible</p>

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<p>I use Firefox, and I'm happy with it. I love tabbed browsing, and the lack of popups rocks.</p>

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<p>Firefox all the way. Plus, extensions rule!</p>

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<p>Firefox hands down. Unfortunately, something went wrong so that I can no longer open up secure websites with Firefox. So now I use a browser called Opera, which also has tabbed browsing, but isn't as good as Firefox.</p>

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<p>firefox. all the way. no debate.</p>

<p>and harri, have you tried uninstalling then reinstalling it?</p>

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<p>Firefox, no contest</p>

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<p>firefox!!!</p>

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<p>when I use Firefox it somehow disables any sort of text formatting thing, so theres no italics, bold, and i cant change the font, size, or color...does anyone know how to change that?</p>

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<p>I use IE because I'm an idiot. Plus I don't like FireFox's bookmark thing - I like the column on the side like in IE rather than the pulldown menus in FireFox. Though FireFox is more reliable and cooler looking and tabbed browsing is really cool. I still use IE though.</p>

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<p>You forgot about Opera. :) Which is nice. Many Opera vs. Firefox arguments out there. </p>

<p>I loved Firefox until it started giving me trouble when I upgraded to 1.01. But it's still much nicer then IE, especially since I configed it to go fasteeeeeeeeeer.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times. I've tried about everything I could think of to fix the problem, but I still can't open up secure websites with Firefox. I get an error message that says: "SSL is disabled"</p>

<p>I checked to make sure that the boxes for all of the security protocols were checked. But I still got the same error message. Oh well. Firefox is still great if you don't have any complications with it.</p>

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<p>Firefox is the best browser ever made</p>

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<p>Firefox over here!! I haven't tried Opera yet, and might just because it sounds interesting. IE is just..well...its Microsoft...so we get what we pay for.</p>

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<p>Firefox without a doubt. I've switched from IE to firefox for only couple of weeks and there's no way i'm going back.</p>

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<p>Firefox baby!</p>

<p>Crypto - open up Firefox, and hit control + b... :D</p>

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<p>Siding with an overwhelming majority, I, too, use Firefox and find it more reliable than IE and Netscape.</p>

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<p>I dislike IE so I used Netscape for a while but when I formatted my computer and then re-installed Netscape it wouldn't work, even after a re-download so I installed Firefox and have been using it and loving it ever since.</p>

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<p>FIREFOX!</p>

<p>I've been using it since it was known as Phoenix... then Firebird... and now finally Firefox. It's great. Plus, the rendering is 100% standards compliant so I use it as a reference browser to test other sites.

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I don't like FireFox's bookmark thing - I like the column on the side like in IE rather than the pulldown menus in FireFox

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Oh you can hit Ctrl+B anytime and get your 'column on the side' in firefox too! :p</p>

<p>btw, firefox supports RSS as well....</p>