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BlueCube 2004-07-28 10:44 AM

  • HIGHLY customizable through the UI, and even moreso if you don't mind adding a line or two to a CSS file.
  • Security issues. You won't get your computer taken over because you went to visit a freaking website..
  • You can grab extensions to add little functions to the browser. If you don't use them, you don't add them. I like the All-In-One Mouse Gestures, myself. And if you have Firefox and aren't using AdBlock, then you aren't really using Firefox correctly and you should probably set your computer on fire.
  • Built-in popup blocker, which apparently is the best one out there because it's built into the browser's code.
  • It's actually being developed and bugs are being fixed, unlike IE which is horribly thrown together and is interlaced with the OS (which is a huge security issue). Heck, IE 6 still uses a Content.IE5 folder for some reason, which shows just how much effort they put into it.
  • It's standards-compliant. If a website is coded to proper standards (with all tags closed, etc.) then it should look exactly the same, no matter where it is being displayed. However, with IE, it decides that your coding isn't good enough sometimes and changes the display around. I'm also waiting for IE to catch up to CSS2 and to fix PNG issues, because currently it's too outdated to really handle anything remotely new. Another example of IE not doing what it's told - animated GIFs with a delay set to 0ms will be "fixed" by IE and set to 100ms or so.
  • No ActiveX means no spyware. There is only one known spyware that I know of, but it can't run automatically like it can through IE. And even if you do agree to install XXXToolbar, it still can't hijack Firefox - instead, it runs a script that hijacks Internet Explorer.
  • It's in beta, and it STILL crashes less than Internet Explorer. Good ol' IE.

iceman887 2004-07-28 10:49 AM

i've been using internet explorer forever, i thought most people did, what is mozilla anyways i always thought it was like some ad or something

Medieval Bob 2004-07-28 10:58 AM

www.mozilla.org

Even mozilla.com redirects you to it.

www.mozilla.net has an interesting black screen and a prompt... *weird music from Earthbound*

Hades-Knight 2004-07-28 01:20 PM

Opera > anything


BTW how would you go about hosting a trojan online and putting it on a link without ti showing the .exe? that'd be pwn!

kockblocker1 2004-07-28 01:26 PM

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Wha?? IDK about you guys. I use the AOL browser that came with the AOL CD. I get tons of anouncements for great deals all the time. I don't even have to click on any links it just shows up right in front of my current window. It's great, 2 thumbs up from me.

BlueCube 2004-07-28 01:47 PM

You'd probably use the %01 exploit to hide the exe itself. Don't know why you would do such a thing however..

Check the %01 exploit in action (won't hurt your computer at all):

http://www.zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun1.htm

This will only work on non-patched IE versions. Newer versions refuse to load anything at all.. not sure how recent the patch is, but then again I'm using SP2 RC2 for XP so I don't know if that's what prevents it from affecting me.


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