Is IE really not that safe?

[Gryph]

Yeah, it's mainly how the general public uses it. IE's design isn't very secure and since most people it they get spyware and crap like that.

 

You can keep it and use it if you use safe browsing techniques such as going to trusted sites, not clicking anythign that looks like spyware, scanning regularly for spyware, etc.

 

I use Firefox because it's secure and customizable. Oh yeah, and tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsings OWNS all.

Edited October 11, 2004 by GryphonKlaw

[ken_cinder]

Internet Explorer is riddled with vulnerabilities, ActiveX (as stated previously) is on by default and shouldn't even be part of a web browser, and the browser has hooks directly into the OS, which no browser should have, it should be a seperate entity.

 

IE flaws:

#1 - Security, this thing has more holes than swiss cheese

#2 - PNG support is broken, and has been since v3, and MS refuses to fix it

#3 - It doesn't even follow standards, furthermore Microsoft seems to feel they can create standards of their own. This breaks compatibility and too many people write code only IE can use = BAD! (W3C doesn't even view IE as a "Browser", but merely an "HTML renderer"

 

The moral = Ditch Internet Explorer and use a more secure and standards compliant browser.

Edited October 11, 2004 by IJTF_Cinder

[alexis]

Opera is the best browsere i ever used by far

only few times had problems and even on those times with the continue from last time option that was solved

security issues? heh no, at least no that i can notice, not to mention it is very comfortable

[Agozer]

Opera and Mozilla are really the ones that people use nowadays. sadly, there are stiill people who use IE and are oblivious to it's fauits.

[PLasticSlug]

well, i made the change.... on the surface i feels the same, but ill have to check out the other features.

 

is there any thing i should download, set up or install like a service pack or somthing or im am i good to go.?

 

thanks for all the help.

 

 

 

EDIT*** lovin' the tabs

Edited October 12, 2004 by PLasticSlug

[Gryph]

You should check out http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/ and http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/ and get some of those plugins.

 

You should definitely get these:

Adblock

IE View (for those select few that don't work in Firefox)

Nuke Anything

Popup ALT Attribute

Cookie Culler

Tabbrowser Preferences or Tabbrowswer Extensions

Download Manager Tweak

 

You should go through the entire list and see if you fancy any others, Firefox can do a lot.

[random guy]

You should check out http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/ and http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/ and get some of those plugins.

 

You should definitely get these:

Adblock

IE View (for those select few that don't work in Firefox)

Nuke Anything

Popup ALT Attribute

Cookie Culler

Tabbrowser Preferences or Tabbrowswer Extensions

Download Manager Tweak

 

You should go through the entire list and see if you fancy any others, Firefox can do a lot.

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Yeah and if you often download lots of pictures or videos from websites you should get an extension called "DownThemAll", because it makes downloading large amounts of files from a site a breeze.

[Agozer]

Great extensions. I've been waiting for a list like this.