My Two Cents: Why Firefox pwnz IE.

I'm throwing this little porkchop into the pit because I need to voice my opinion on matters. After hearing a few different people whine about LL's decisio nof Firefox over IE.

The Broadstrokes:
- It's more secure overall. - Less popups, no spyware installations, updated constantly.
- It works across all platforms. - Like Macs, you know, the other operating system LL supports.
- It's more Standards Compliant - Prettier pages.
- It won't take the entire machine down if it crashes. - Something dependant on IE (like Yahoo or AIM) will Eff up if IE is having issues.

Firefox has two cheif 'less than shiny' parts. And as a user since it was called Firebird I can go ahead and say this. One: It's a bit of a memory hog, or at least it is when I'm running 18 consecutive multi-megabyte page downloads. Also, on occassion there are security flaws found, but these are openly acknowledge and, get this, FIXED IMMEDIATELY. You might not even get MS to admit IE has a flaw, let alone bother to patch it.

I know alot of you threatened to cancel back when we had to add Quicktime to our computers, did you? Did Quicktime end up sucking your computer into a block hole? No it didn't. So give Firefox a chance, please. Several million users can't be wrong, right? All I know that I'm not wading through a sea of spyware and popups and god knows what when I run firefox instead of IE.

I'm just the guy that has to clean your computer after IE gums up the works, after all.

STFU NUBE!... Oh wait! wrong thread ;0 I think you hit this one on the head.. Firefox is just one of the best browsers around. Except for security, IE is acceptable.. but Secruity should be #1 +++++

That's why Browsers should be ranked this way

#1 You favorite browser except IE
#2 Firefox
#3 Opera
#4 Anything more secure than IE
#5 IE

Well I'm not even going to think of posting in that thread but if I was El Presidente Linden and I was choosing a browser to integrate into the client the first things would be:

1. Does it work under Windows?
   
2. Does it work on Macs?
   
3. Does it work under Linux?
   

As IE farts on 2/3 it's not exactly in the running. Whether it sucks on the one it can do doesn't seem particularly relevant after that.

IE does work on macs FWIW. Me, I'll stick with lynx. It's just leeter

Your post tickled me, made me imagine an SL that decided to integrate lynx over Mozilla. After all, it's small, well tested & open sourced, what's the big difference?

Av#1 Yay! we can use text from the web now!
Av#2 Cool! What else can we use?
Av#1 Umm. . . Text?

But isn't the fact the firefox is opensource the most important part of their disicion to use it.
Because now they will be able to really intergrate the browser into SL. With IE that would never be possible.

Aha! That's also true. I completely forget about the open-source movement, it's almost something I take for granted these days.

There IS a version of IE for mac, and fromwhat I understand it might have a little more to it than the Winders IE. If SL were a Windows only product (I beleive There has integrated IE for it's interfaces but not rendered world?) I could understand them just slapping IE into the system. but they also support Macs. Which is something worth sacrificing a little more hard drive space for.

Also, on that note, it's shy they didn't use Opera, which is good, but not open-source. Thanks for bringing that up.