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Power Up Internet Explorer with Three Shells | |
| Subject: | why bother | |
| Date: | 2004-03-24 13:18:06 | |
| From: | 23hiy | |
| why bother downloading IE plugins when mozilla firefox has most of the functionality build in already? | ||
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Perhaps
2004-03-24 15:14:12 threedaysdwn [Reply | View]
Perhaps because Firefox doesn't support real-world web standards, has a laughable (and headache-inducing, with the default config file) rendering engine, and thus fails to render a great many web pages correctly?
Sure, Firefox is slowly copying many of the features long offered by Avant (as is everyone else... including Safari and Konqueror)... things like tabbing, pop-up and ad blocking, etc.
But Firefox doesn't even do those things well. It's pop-up blocker is worthless.
Unless Mozilla/Firefox cleans up its act, most users will continue to use the best browsers for their platform... IE (or a variant like Avant) on Windows, Safari on the Mac, and Konqueror on most anything else.
And still, using IE almost guaranties you that you won't experience lot's of stupid problems that happen with other browsers (even if they are faster and lighter).
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