IE7,and firefox

smudger1964

I have just had the same experience of IE7 tried it and hated it it slowed up my browsing back to the days of dial up.I have now got rid of it and IE6 has come back,/i have a question about Firefox is it any good what are the advantages of it versus IE6 and can I run firefox but keep IE6 just in case

sandroad

Hiya

Yes, you can install firefox and it will not affect your IE6 setup. I prefer firefox to IE as there are many benfits, such as security, tabbed browsing, tabbed browsing, tabbed browsing, themes, add-ons, etc.

smudger1964

So when installed does it just give you an icon on your desktop so you can choose to browse with firefox or IE6 and does windows media player work with it?

pchelpman

I prefer FF over IE for many reasons but, having tried both IE7 and FF v2, I'm not keen on either at the moment. Too slow.

Maybe it's just me but I've gone back to FF v1.5.0.7 for the time being. I intend to wait and see what happens to FF v2.

Few more thoughts from someone else ...

http://ask-leo.com/ie_7_firefox_2.html


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pchelpman

smudger1964 wrote:

So when installed does it just give you an icon on your desktop so you can choose to browse with firefox or IE6

Yes (I have both icons in my quick launch area).

smudger1964 wrote:

and does windows media player work with it?

Yes. FF works with WMP. No problem.


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smudger1964

ok cheers ill give firefox a go then

spacker_2

smudger1964 wrote:

ok cheers ill give firefox a go then

Try Opera its better than both. http://www.opera.com/

skiddy2k

I've been using IE7 and FF2 for a while now on both, my PC and Laptop... havent expreienced any problems or crashes?!

magyar

I'm mostly a Firefox user. Every now and again I get a site which doesn't work so I have IE6 on standby just in case.

I quite like Opera too, but for me Firefox 2.0 has combined the best of all the browsers.

pchelpman

magyar wrote:

I'm mostly a Firefox user. Every now and again I get a site which doesn't work so I have IE6 on standby just in case.

Hi magyar .... don't you use the FF "IE Tab" add-on for situations like this or is it that it doesn't work for you?

Get IE Tab here .....

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/


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A_Clock

pchelpman wrote:

I prefer FF over IE for many reasons but, having tried both IE7 and FF v2, I'm not keen on either at the moment. Too slow.

Maybe it's just me but I've gone back to FF v1.5.0.7 for the time being. I intend to wait and see what happens to FF v2.

I think FF2 was rushed out, because IE7 had just come out! Im going back to FF1.5 as well, i lost all my bookmarks and the spellchecker dont work anymore in FF2 :mad: