I do not think Firefox is faster than IE. There are more viruses to IE just because it's more popular and Firefox is pretty new. If FireFox occupies 80% of the market, who knows what will happen. It's nothing about ActiveX technology. There is nothing that is bulletproof. " [8 \1 y6 A# [0 @8 b- Z& E4 d% y( A& y6 D. d
So just choose based on your own needs.
For whatever reason, Firefox should be safer, I am not saying faster though. But spyware/adware can make your computor very slow. Check you folder:6 D( c1 y. H2 r3 z+ N, a: f
+ u. D- Y$ Z' v9 [# E* aDocuments and Setting\(your user name)\cookie or folder system32 to see what kind of adware\sypware already in your system # L* w& Y0 F4 E" U1 g/ t }: l1 o2 {' q+ F; u8 t6 L5 u( {
or folder for you flashget if you are using1 o3 U( I x6 O* k! C# Q
Why you call all stuff under ***\***\cookie spyware/adware? ' r: a4 K6 [) i% Z% l' o( x3 h& m( `- f$ }) w' n" J$ O5 ]
All of them are just cookies. If you do not like the activeX, in XP, you can just disable it in the IE configuration. 4 ?9 d% H" m: W0 F9 o ( Y% A/ h8 a# [- U' U5 ~I am using Mozilla in my Linux and IE in my XP. Besides the muti-tab feature, they are almost the same.
Originally posted by SW12345 at 2005-2-23 09:02 AM: 2 t# `" H' l1 ~) J5 n3 `I do not think Firefox is faster than IE. There are more viruses to IE just because it's more popular and Firefox is pretty new. If FireFox occupies 80% of the market, who knows what will happen. I ...