i use firefox and i always thought its a good browser but now i saw a Site and i dont know what to believe... i always heard "firefox is better than the most browser, its saver and so on" but now...

plz tell me your opinion

as the url says, those are just myths. none of the statements posted there are true. Firefox is by far the best browser.

It's all up to what the user wants. People may want certain things in their browser. I use firefox, but opera is very tempting these days

Others use IE because it supports other Microsft products and syamtics reports it as the most sercure browser.

ok that are good news... i thought i had a shitty browser but now its all clear... =P so i'll have firefox for a very long time =)

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Originally posted by Absorbation

Others use IE because it supports other Microsft products and syamtics reports it as the most sercure browser.

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yeah i know... i got that =) its pretty cool because firefox got some problems with flash an activeX ...

FIREFOX rules!


Get IT

Opera 9 is good, but it doesnt an wont support  Socks.. nore does it i dont think Have an Adblocker in it. . i think it could hyave better Tabbed support in it. an block pop-up support in it, , thats its downfall IMO. Firefox does everything for me even though i find it slow compared to a linux browser i love which is " Epiphany " which is based on the Gecko rendering engine also, Firefox also supports a lot of other things opera doesnt or lacks in, .

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Myth - "Firefox and Mozilla are the same"

Reality - Firefox started as "Phoenix" in 2002, an experimental redesign of the Mozilla Suite browser component. It officially became known as Mozilla Firefox in 2004. The name "Mozilla" in this case refers to the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation which develops Firefox and developed the Mozilla Suite. Official development of the Mozilla Suite ended in 2005 but continues as a community-developed product known as SeaMonkey.

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Myth - "Firefox has lower System Requirements than Internet Explorer"

Reality - Internet Explorer 6.x has much lower minimum System Requirements than Firefox 1.x.

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Myth - "Firefox is the Fastest Web Browser"

Reality - Opera (now 100% Ad free) is the fastest Graphical Web Browser in Windows.

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Myth - "Firefox is Faster than Internet Explorer 6"

Reality - Internet Explorer 6.x is clearly faster than Firefox 1.x in 6 out of 7 measures of performance and is significantly faster from a cold start.
Firefox's part.

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Myth - "Firefox is Faster than Internet Explorer 7"

Reality - Internet Explorer 7 is clearly faster than Firefox 1.x in 5 out of 7 measures of performance.

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Myth - "Firefox is Faster than Mozilla"

Reality - Ironically Mozilla 1.8 is faster than Firefox 1.x in 5 out of 7 measures of performance..

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Myth - "Firefox Achieved 150 million downloads (2-2006)"

Reality - "Oops. We recently introduced a bug into the counter and it's being fixed. We're not quite there yet. Sorry for the confusion. We accidentally counted the 20 million people who updated from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 1.5.0.1 this week."

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Myth - "Firefox Achieved 10% Market Share in 2005"

Reality - "According to WebSideStory, a San Diego-based Web analytics provider, Mozilla's Firefox closed 2005 with 8.9% of the browser market, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer wrapped up the year with 87.6%."

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Myth - "Firefox is Secure"

Reality - Firefox is anything but Secure with multiple unpatched vulnerabilities allowing exposure of sensitive data to local users. You only need one vulnerability to be insecure. Since Firefox v1.x was released, users have been exposed to over 100 security vulnerabilities and counting.

Secunia - lists 97 security vulnerabilities in Firefox, 63 of which are rated as Highly Critical and 1 Extremely Critical.

Mozilla  - lists 100 "known" security vulnerabilities in Firefox, 21 of which are rated as High and 39 Critical.

CVE - lists 142 security vulnerabilities in Firefox.

"In the excitement that surrounded its launch last year, Firefox was unreasonably portrayed by some as having unbreakable security, but the vulnerabilities that have been detected in recent months are injecting a dose of reality into this myth, analysts say."

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• Secunia: 201
  
• CVE: 391

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Myth - "Firefox is the Most Secure Web Browser"

Reality - Opera is actually the most Secure Graphical Web Browser in Windows with 0 unpatched vulnerabilities.

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Originally posted by nvez
Opera & Firefox do use the same rendering system, but Opera has a few modification that makes it run faster which can be changed in Firefox somewhere in about:config

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The real issues are with the random memory leaks and the fact is nothing is totally bullet proof. I'm used to firefox and although my belief is that Opera is just as good/better I'm sticking with ff for the plugins like adblock and the filterset G updater because I'm used to it. It's updated quite regularly to fix the bugs and this is what we should expect.

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Originally posted by -dt-

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Originally posted by nvez
Opera & Firefox do use the same rendering system, but Opera has a few modification that makes it run faster which can be changed in Firefox somewhere in about:config

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WTF no , opera uses its own rendering engine.

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Yes, Firefox is the best browser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers

Very nice page I found.

dunno what I have lol but whats firfox all about then?

Firefox is a web browser, like Internet Explorer, Netscape & Opera.

You can get it from here:

http://mozilla.org/firefox.

Yer but how is it differnet to internet explorer?

For lots of reasons:

• More secure to use
  
• More updates for bug fixes, security issues etc.
  
• Tabbed browsing
  
• Faster browsing
  
• Skinnable
  
• Eats up less RAM =P

It all comes down to personal opinion. Firefox cannot be compared to be more sercure than IE. Both have sercuity flaws. However firefox updates itself much better wheras IE relises on monthly updates

Yet syamtics claims that IE is the more sercure browser and is recommended to use my most companies to prevent attacks. (but who knows the full story behind that, they could of been payed or persuded to do so by Microsoft)

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Originally posted by traxor
Eats up less RAM =P

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Originally posted by Absorbation
It all comes down to personal opinion. Firefox cannot be compared to be more sercure than IE. Both have sercuity flaws. However firefox updates itself much better wheras IE relises on monthly updates

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Everything at Firefox Myths is true. The name Firefox Myths doesn't mean that they make myths, the page states common misconceptions, and dispells them.

Use Firefox if you want, Use Opera if you want, Use Internet Explorer if you want, use Lynx if you want. Just be sensible and keep yourself updates if you're worried about driveby downloads.

I have never heard of opera is that any good?

get the browser you want... every browser has its advantages and its disadvantages...

I use Opera always (when my computer isn't broken). It has tabs for a real MDI (ignore if you don't know what MDI is).

It's extremely fast (the fastest browser on Earth), especially with its intelligent (not like Fx's) memory usage. Mouse gestures lets you hold a certain mouse button and just move the mouse in a direction/pattern to perform an action. With voice support, Opera will read and listen to you (I don't use the voice much). The mother of customisability, you wouldn't recognise my Opera setup, I have it just how I find it easiest (laziest ) to use. It lets you make custom buttons to do whatever you want.

I think that everyone has understood by now that rav0 is an hardcore Opera user. Nothing bad about that! I'm a Firefox hardcore user myself. Acording to that website, Firefox has some flaws (specially in marketing!), but I don't care. I've learned to love Firefox.

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Originally posted by Exo
I think that everyone has understood by now that rav0 is an hardcore Opera user. Nothing bad about that! I'm a Firefox hardcore user myself. Acording to that website, Firefox has some flaws (specially in marketing!), but I don't care. I've learned to love Firefox.

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exo ur right =) i love ftx too =) its great but now im intrested in opera...    rav0 post some screenshot.. id like to see the user interface...

http://www.opera.com/docs/screenshots/

What better place to learn about Opera than the website itself?

I am a hardcore Firefox fan! I even sent in an ad for that competition


Firefox all the way

hum... yeah.. of course

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Originally posted by rav0
I use Opera always (when my computer isn't broken).

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Opera needs better popup blocking of websites than it has right now for me to use it

'K I downloaded Opera Beta 9.00 and I'm using right now, as we type. I like what I see. One thing I like is the tabs. Firefox doesn't "inforce" them like Opera, but I like both ways (OMiGosh I'm bi).

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Originally posted by Exo
I think that everyone has understood by now that rav0 is an hardcore Opera user. Nothing bad about that! I'm a Firefox hardcore user myself. Acording to that website, Firefox has some flaws (specially in marketing!), but I don't care. I've learned to love Firefox.

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Originally posted by linx05

p.s. Firefox fans are the worst liars/people on the net.

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Exactly! I say go with what fits your needs, not what fits other's.

i like Firefox. but then again, i havnt used opera.

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Originally posted by linx05

p.s. Firefox fans are the worst liars/people on the net.

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yeah of course... all other browser are 10000x better than fx

p.s: IN YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!

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Originally posted by linx05

p.s. Firefox fans are the worst liars/people on the net.

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yeah of course... all other browser are 10000x better than fx

p.s: IN YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!

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Exactly my point

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jepp an for fx its normal that it has su much fans =) its the best @ all

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Originally posted by -dt-
every browser has fans like that...

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Originally posted by hardc0re
jepp an for fx its normal that it has su much fans =) its the best @ all

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Originally posted by hardc0re
jepp an for fx its normal that it has su much fans =) its the best @ all

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Thanks for the translation zach

yeah guys... sorry for my very good english

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Originally posted by zach
I say Opera if you are new to browsers and Firefox later on...

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maybe you have seen this already but its still funny

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Originally posted by hardc0re
maybe you have seen this already but its still funny

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Originally posted by rav0

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Originally posted by zach
I say Opera if you are new to browsers and Firefox later on...

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I say the other way around, and maybe not at all.

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