Firefox taking share off IE

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www.internetweek.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47212347

[scruffy]

So which do you use?

I can't believe Microshaft IE6 is still riddles with crap - ah well, monkeys and typewriters...

[docevi1]

firefox will have similar amount of bugs I reckon, the difference is not as many people use it so they are not been exploited thats all.

Aren't all the flaws with I.E to do with ActiveX?

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docevi1 said:

Aren't all the flaws with I.E to do with ActiveX?

Not really, its got a lot of bugs throughout its various components.

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I've been using firefox for ages now, but then again at work I use Linux, so don't have IE

[docevi1]

Plotloss said:

docevi1 said: Aren't all the flaws with I.E to do with ActiveX? Not really, its got a lot of bugs throughout its various components.

Ah. The old idea of Linux isn't going to hit Firefox personally (where the core was sound, but the programs/extensions were badly written).

[Plotloss]

Its just another case of technical purity versus protecting your IP.

If you wanted to write a Word Processor that was all pervasive and market dominant you would write Word. If you wanted the best possible word processor, you wouldnt.

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docevi1 said:

firefox will have similar amount of bugs I reckon, the difference is not as many people use it so they are not been exploited thats all.

Err, no. Firefox is not an integral part of the O/S and hence is fundamentally more secure.

docevi1 said:

Aren't all the flaws with I.E to do with ActiveX?

No.

[docevi1]

Well there you go, I'm noticing all amount of programs that call back to I.E. now that I use FF all the more.

[Bodo]

I've just read the news that there have been 1 million downloads of FireFox 1.0PR in the first 100 hours since release.

http://spreadfirefox.com/community/