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4.5 stars
"Yea its great but IE is not dead as some of you claim"
Pros: Stable, secure, extentions, cool, fast
Cons: Doesnt work right with my online banking, doesnt work right with many other web sites
Summary: Lets get something straight shall we? If we all are being honest, IE is not dead as some of you claim. I run several high traffic web sites and Firefox makes up less than 10% of the traffic and that's the way its been for over a year so Firefox is not this sweeping force that's going to kill IE as much as some of you anti Microsoft people want it to be. Personally for me, firefox does not work right with my online banking bill pay page nor does it work with a growing list of other sites that i use on a regular basis, not to mention it doesn't display pages correctly on an entire different and growing list of sites. So that's that. Now, on the positive side, Firefox is very stable and fast, is very secure and is very customizable with its many available extensions and themes. I do like firefox and use it every day mainly because of a tab extension that allows you to have multiple rows of tabs. But, when I have to do certain things like bank online, I have to start Internet Explorer. Firefox is awesome this is true. But saying that Internet Explorer is dead because of firefox is like saying I'm going to stop the next train by parking my Pinto on the tracks. Firefox is a great alternative to IE but they have a long way to go as IE has a VERY long way to go in the security department. To sum this up, I use firefox a lot during my days but still have to occasionally use IE because of Firefox`s shortcomings.
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Whn you find a page that loads in IE but not in Firefox, you should report it to Mozilla. Firefox 1.5 comes with a handy menu item in the Help menu called "Report broken web site", which includes "Browser not supported" as one of the potential causes. Try it and see if the Mozila folks can figure out and fix the problem.
