Browser Review: IE, FireFox and Opera who's better?

FrostiE · **Joined:** 19 Dec 2006, 02:00 **Posts:** 67

Ron2K wrote:

Are you referring to transparent PNGs? There is a Javascript workaround for IE6 that you can use that will get them to display properly.

Yeah, uhm... That's great and all but there are a couple situations where JS and CSS hacks will not work. Period. I spent a couple days in one of my more recent bouts of masochism and managed to get it all to work, but it wasn't exactly pretty. IE would freeze for a couple seconds because apparently DXImageTransform isn't exactly fast, and when its accompanied by a fair amount of JS and all... yeah. All in all, I scrapped it and just got into the habbit of not having tiling alpha transparent pngs in sites, or having them only display in web standards compliant browsers. ie. not IE.

Ron2K · Posted: 31 Jul 2010, 09:13

Digging our old "browser wars" thread out, because this news article pretty much doesn't belong anywhere else...

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The UK government has responded to a petition encouraging government departments to move away from IE6 that had over 6,000 signatories. Their response seems to be that a fully patched IE6 is perfectly safe as long as firewalls and malware scanning tools are in place, and that mandating an upgrade away from IE6 will be too expensive. The second part is fair enough in this age of austerity (I'd rather have my taxes spent on schools and hospitals than software upgrade testing at the moment), but the whole reaction will be a disappointment to the petitioners.

Source

So, when did our Department of Communications emigrate over there?

Synthesis · Posted: 01 Aug 2010, 22:56

Hopefully they stay with IE. The more people stay with IE, especially government and such, the more IE gets targeted for vulnerabilities and that keeps the normal person not using IE safer for that much longer. So government, take one for the citizens using Firefox and stick to IE.

KALSTER · Posted: 02 Aug 2010, 01:21

I stick with Opera all the way. Just have to load Yahoo mail in IE on some machines for some reason. Why are so many people still on IE 6? Does it come standard with XP? I can't recall.

I had to update my aunt's Win 95 system to IE 6 with all sorts of extra patches and stuff to get online banking to work a while back. I also installed an old Opera to help out. Getting people to buy newer computers and upgrade software is difficult. How much does an XP capable machine cost these days? Virtually nothing. I sadly know quite a few people that use their computers for nothing other than internet banking, email and decade old games, while connecting to the internet through their cellphones without data bundles (i.e. R2 a MB). My ex-boss spent over R500 in one weekend on browsing before I helped him out.

Stuart · Posted: 02 Aug 2010, 08:00

Yep, it ships with XP.

jerumark · **Joined:** 27 Aug 2010, 04:04 **Posts:** 1

I've tried already those 3 browsers and based of my experienced working them the best for me is the Firefox. Your computer is secure from viruses and scams when you use Firefox. It is faster and more reliable. If you have no flash player, Firefox is the one that pop up menu that stating you need to install flash player to view and watch videos. And if you download application on the net through Firefox it will scan first if it has virus then download it.

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Ron2K · Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 08:53

Sheesh - who keeps on approving the spambot posts?

Tribble · Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 09:02

Maybe you have a bot approving them? I would say Jerith has a lot to answer for :twisted:

Stuart · Posted: 27 Aug 2010, 10:04

Ron2K wrote:

Sheesh - who keeps on approving the spambot posts?

Wuzn't me this time.

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