Re: Re: Why firefox?
Its just like the Camry, its the most stolen car in the US, atleast it was, so I guess that make the Corolla more safe to but just because theifs like to steal Camry's....
This seems to be a fallacy of false analogy. At least without further development it is.
Things that are more visible are more of a target than things which are less visible--this is evident. The superficial analogy with cars, however, does not present a strong case for the relative strength of IE vs. FF.
Example: People break into banks because they are more visible (just like Camrys). Norad is not as public. If more people knew about Norad, they would break into it.
Sorry, but this false analogy (like that comparing IE to a Camry ::chuckle:
doesn't begin to consider the myriad levels of military security built into Norad, the difference in purpose as to why someone would break into a bank vs. Norad, among other factors.
Don't get me wrong. It may very well be that FF's security is no better than IE and would fail as miserably as IE under the same conditions. But there needs to be a stronger case.
As for me, I stopped using IE in favor of Opera more than 5 years ago and haven't had problems since. Now I've shifted to FF, but I'm only interested in what works the best with what's out there on the net.
FF blocks popups nearly as well as opera, but handles CSS and plugins better than both IE and Opera. The extensions are truly cool, and tabbed browsing is adequate (though Opera's always been better there). FF still fails with gestured browsing compared to Opera, though.
FF is forcing IE to adopt some features that have been around for years in Opera and other browsers. PC Magazine reports that the next IE will have tabbed browsing among other features, but, as they said in the same article, "those of us who have started using Opera and FF moved on years ago and have never looked back."
If IE comes out with a truly superior product, I'll switch back and use that, just as I switched from using AOL to just IE and raw ISP. But I don't see this happening. Microsoft takes the philosophy that they are out to change the world and force everyone to conform to their
modus operandi whereas alternative groups like whoever's behind FF and other alternatives (if they truly have a good product) work to find cutting edge improvements that augment usability while retaining compatibility with what's out there already.
Bottom Line: A new user won't notice the present superiority of FF over IE because FF has worked very hard to achieve nearly complete transparency with IE while tucking an impressive number of extensions, features, and security under the hood for slightly advanced users.