Stupidest reason ever not to switch to Firefox from IE..

[SirFozzie]

I love the paid MicroSoft Shills try to attack FireFox. Here was a particularly funny bon mot from one such "Technology Analyst"

Out of the ashes of Netscape, Mozilla has built a solid browser that supports features such as tabbed views, Google for native searches and direct support for RSS feeds. But business users need to think twice about making the switch from Internet Explorer, since Firefox lacks the ability to run Microsoft ActiveX code.

(Jaw drop)

You mean, the reason why we shouldn't switch from Internut Exploder to FireFox is.. Mozilla is smarter then to arbitrarily execute non-standard code that it doesn't know the origin of, just because a web page told it so?????

95% or more of the exploits out there use ActiveX to infect a machine. But yet, we shouldn't switch to FireFox, lest we miss out on this wonderful thing?

I'm sorry, if you're that stupid... you deserve to get kicked in the jimmies. Repeatedly. If not a paid shill, then this "analyst" (who got picked up in a couple trade mags.. wonder if MS paid to spread the word? ) is too stupid to live

[Galaril]

I am a100% behind competion against Microsoft's monoply of browsres especially related to business.However, I would throw this out today explorer is the most used browser and Windows OS's are run on about 85-90 of business information systems.So, that is what attackers(ie.hackers) are looking to exploit. If as I beleive in the next 4-6 years open-source takes a much large portion of the OS area and mozillagrabs agreater part of the browser industry then we will see more exploits created for these inevitably.But, on a related note I just loaded Firefox and very pleased with what I have seen.

[SirFozzie]

BTW lighthousekeeper: If you absolutely MUST have ActiveX for work.. there's an ActiveX plug in for FireFox I believe

[chinaski]

NOT having ActiveX is one of the greatest reasons to use Firefox. Any idiot knows ActiveX is the sole reason why IE is so insecure.

[sovereignstar]

Originally Posted by chinaski

Any idiot knows ActiveX is the sole reason why IE is so insecure.

What if that's something I just learned. So you're an idiot, but what am I?

[chinaski]

Originally Posted by sovereignstar

What if that's something I just learned. So you're an idiot, but what am I?

you were a complete idiot up until the moment you learned the shocking truth about ActiveX!

[Joe]

what the fuck is ActiveX?

[Mac Howard]

IE does not have to be vulnerable to ActiveX exploits. Select tools, options, security and custom and you have a choice of running ActiveX controls transparently, banning them or having a prompt come up with a yes/no choice. I use this last one and respond to the prompt according to my confidence in the site I'm on.

I use Firefox as my default browser but there are still too many web pages that dislike Firefox (it makes a complete shambles of my bank statements for example - as if the figures themselves are not shambles enough ) and Firefox still reports some sites as unavailable which IE loads up instantly.

Firefox is good but it still has problems.

[Buccaneer]

Just installed Firefox. Seems like a high school project or a user mod that went big time. Will take a while to get use to how different it does things (like the Bookmarks and Favorites). The Walnut theme looks cool though.

[VPI97]

Originally Posted by Mac Howard

IE does not have to be vulnerable to ActiveX exploits. Select tools, options, security and custom and you have a choice of running ActiveX controls transparently, banning them or having a prompt come up with a yes/no choice. I use this last one and respond to the prompt according to my confidence in the site I'm on.

Same here.

I use Firefox occassionally, but there's too many sites that it can't handle for me to use it all of the time.

[ice4277]

I just installed it the other day, and keep meaning to use it more, but by force of habit I seem to keep opening IE. Oh well, give it time I guess.

[Deattribution]

I made the switch to Firefox but I had to hide my IE icon on the desktop, and replace it on the quickbar with Firefox... otherwise everytime I wanted to surf, I'd subconsciously open up IE.

[Buccaneer]

Is there anyway to get the URL list box to display the site's in chronological order with the latest URL being at the top?

Also, I am noticing as I type this that the cursor is sitting nearly on top of the letter it is typing. Very annoying. Anyway to change that?