Microsoft is crappy, Use firefox!

y the need to use plugins to make it look n act like firefox when u have firefox handy n free?

Pa pu al gagne en tas popups ar sa??

No popups, but it isn't that reliable either... i uninstalled it after one day. :P

@yashvin
That's bcoz 60% of people still use IE & don't want to switch to Firefox(dunno y?).
I use both but i prefer Firefox for its CSS handling & 3rd party scripts.

I've notriced that i get less problems with popups, viruses and spywares with firefox

also, firefox loads webpages faster than IE!

I never get spywares, viruses thanks to KIS7! Although some popups sometimes go through Firefox & Google Toolbar Blocker...

The only problem i get with Firefox is that it's a massive memmory & CPU hog!

Firefox loads webpages faster becauses it has better cache control than IE... & you can even speed it further...

Here's a very well-know trick for speeding up Firefox:
Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!


This is what FasterFox tweaks to make Firefox go faster!

HOWEVER DO NOT USE FASTERFOX!
Fasterfox, in essence, is a prefetcher. It reads the page you are currently browsing and attempts to download all of the other pages being linked to. When you do decide to click on a link on the page, the browser can the load that page from disk rather than fetch it from the Internet. It then starts the whole process again - downloading links from the new page into the cache ready for the next page to be clicked on, etc…
Means that Fasterfox will download all links available on a page you are viewing... & this will eat up your bandwidth more than you will "speed" it up. :P

No popups, but it isn't that reliable either... i uninstalled it after one day. :P

B kifer tne fer n post lor sa :S:S:S LOL. Mo sire zot ine paye twa sa.

That's bcoz 60% of people still use IE & don't want to switch to Firefox(dunno y?).

I think its because this 60% of people are either using dial-up or visit the web rarely, therefore using only IE.

Hmmm ena ossi ban computer lab etc ki servi IE acoz zot pa pu al bother pu install Firefox lor 50 lapareil. On top of that ban lab users need admin rights to install (enfin most of them need admin rights pu install something si to p compren ki mo p rod dir lol).

B kifer tne fer n post lor sa :S:S:S LOL. Mo sire zot ine paye twa sa.

No, at first i thought it was a great add-on until my IE started crashing... :P
Anyway, IE7pro is freeware, y would anyone want to pay me??

I think its because this 60% of people are either using dial-up or visit the web rarely, therefore using only IE.

Hmmm ena ossi ban computer lab etc ki servi IE acoz zot pa pu al bother pu install Firefox lor 50 lapareil. On top of that ban lab users need admin rights to install (enfin most of them need admin rights pu install something si to p compren ki mo p rod dir lol).

Maybe, but the main reason is that half of PC users are noobs - they've never heard of Firefox! :D

I know those admin rights problem very well, so that's why i use portable apps to download at UOM!! (firefox & FDM)