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15 out of 28 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2
Pros: This is a very good browser, and offers great security. Tabbed browsing is an advantage, and extensions are far greater then in IE
Cons: The change may not be worth it unless IE is REALLY bugging you.
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8 out of 12 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2
Pros: I was an IE junkie for many years until I was finally persuaded to try firefox. Best decsion I ever made. Besides the fact that Firefox is just a better browser then IE because of its speed, tabbed browsing, and style. The fact that you can add literally hundreds of extentions (add-ons) makes it hands down the best browser out there.
Cons: There are still a select few websites that do not run well in Firefox, but dont let that stop you from downloading it, you can put an extentions in called "IE tab" and "IE View" which will open any webpage using the Internet Explorer engine from Firefox.
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2
"A very steady and stable browser....."
Pros: I've had this and other "open source" browsers and I've liked a few. However I've found Firefox to be the consident performer, year in and year out, along side Mozilla, Opera, and the new K-meleon with the Mozilla 1.75 build. Many have tried to berate this browser but even after faltering Firefox has recovered with a browser that's hard for hackers to crack, and is practically immune from most common spyware and cookies.
Cons: Some sites and ISP providers still don't get it so sometimes Firefox won't display certain pages of a home page because of active x restrictions. I don't mind myself since the weakness's of active x make me more than a little nervous. Other than this one quirk with may not even be their fault I don't really have any complaints.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2
"Has Become My Main Browser (For The Most Part)"
Pros: The biggest thing, in my eyes, about the whole project is the availbility of plugins and safeguards such as SiteAdvisor and NoScript that help protect you from malicious codes being unleashed on your machine. Since I have pretty much used this full time with two exceptions (see cons) the amount of issues AdAware & Spybot S&D have had to deal with have DRASTICALLY reduced, and I don't even surf to sites where those type of things are generally a problem. I love the customability you have in terms of search engines, page emailing (you can even email a full page that you need a password to get into to someone else and they will get EXACTLY what you get without having to belong to that site.) and the tabbed browsing which I first fell in love with back when I was using Avant.
Cons: The only issues I have are that Yahoo! Mail seems to continually crash the browser, at least in my case, which I have given Mozilla this information so that they can get a bug fix installed and that the IE plugin is needed to use sites such as Hotmail, therefore, I still need a little bit of Internet Explorer.
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5 out of 10 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2
Pros: Till I found out how to use the firefix extensions.
I like there are extensions that help protect your privacy that you can download and use them for free on firefox's site such as blocking the referrer feild.
Cons: None that I can think of.
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