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Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Denise — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:08:49 -0000

I downloaded IE7 and can no longer get into my Internet Options. This is a bunch of bull__! Can't even delete it!!! This makes me really mad!!!!!

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Denise — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:08:49 -0000

I downloaded IE7 and can no longer get into my Internet Options. This is a bunch of bull__! Can't even delete it!!! This makes me really mad!!!!!

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Rob — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:04:54 -0000

I beg to differ - "shrink to fit" is a nightmare. Instead of one-click printing now, our clients have to use the menu and go into the dialog box to select 100% size. Our pages are properly styled (via CSS) to wrap print w/o cut off at 100%. IE7 does shrink to fit and you need a magnifying glass to read. You cannot right click and print an iframe without selecting everything in it. Then you still need to go into preview and choose your scale. You cannot set the scaling to 100% in javascript (only a registry hack) before calling window.print(). I have frustrated customers and wasted thousands of dollars researching a work around (none found yet). Microsoft calls this a feature? If this is how Microsoft thinks they are improving usablity they are seriously mistaken.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Ariel — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:41:43 -0000

I completely disagree. And I don't want to! But the fact of the matter is that FireFox is NOT faster than Internet Explorer, and as I said, I really wish it were, becuase I'd love more than anything to stop using any Microsoft/Windows products, so I'm always on the lookout.
I've got IE6, and have now had Firefox 2.0.0.12 for about two weeks. IE6 continues to load pages faster for me than does Firefox, though I've noticed that Firefox has improved steadily over time, so I think the day will come. People can hem and haw and all of that, claiming I must be doing something wrong, but this is simply my experience.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Dan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:33:13 -0000

Try this script in IE and Firefox and see the difference between them.
Firefox takes about 1 sec to finish it, while IE takes over a minute.

function testing(){
}
function buttonClick(){
var longString = "";
for (var i = 0; i < 100000; i++){
if (i%100 == 0){
longString += "\n";
}
longString += i;
}
alert(longString);
}

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

ReliancePC — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:37:15 -0000

Here's a collection of tuning tips for IE7:

http://reliancepc.com/Relia...

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Jeremiah — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:36:59 -0000

I used IE 6 for a long time and it worked fine. Then I heard everyone tell me that IE 7 is much better, so I decided to try it out. Once I had it installed, it works fine on most sites, except for the one site that I visit most which is Myspace. Every time I load the Myspace homepage, it works fine, but when I put in my password and click "Log In", IE 7 crashes every time. No idea why. Any help or suggestions? Thanks

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Jingshao Chen — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:57:29 -0000

FireFox has a problem in rendering. IE can easily beat it on this testcase:
http://www.teekoo.com/freeb...

Firefox will hang with 300-500 bars, Opera, which claims to be the fastest, drag with 1500 bars,

IE, can do 5000 bars with no problem!

Try it!

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Pradees — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:01:33 -0000

Firefox not support Unicode like IE.
i don't know the reason for this.
do u no?

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Rob — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:08:56 -0000

I am constantly having problems with FF 2 and Gmail, of all sites. I will always get the "taking longer than normal to load" message with the option of basic view. This works, but then there are a lot less usable options.
No problems at all with IE7.
This may be caused by Ad Muncher, rather than the browser though.
Interesting, considering the affiliation between Google and Firefox.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Vinnie — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:09:36 -0000

What about cpu utilization...
I use firefox and sometimes open many tabs while browsing, which makes it slow, and that is understandable. After ie7 was update from beta thru microsoft update I thought of giving it a try and it to my surprise it seemed faster. To compare properly I opened firefox and ie side by side. Opened same sites and browsed to same pages on both and this time firefox was faster. Puzzeled, I opened up task manager to see what's going on. Firefox seems to take lot more cpu cycles. I disabled all the add ons in both browsers and restarted to do an accurate test. Firefox does take about 70% more cpu cycles than ie7 when browsing the same sites/pages. And that is why firefox seemingly runs faster side-by-side with ie7 but when running separately ie7 is faster. E.g. if something takes 11 secs in firefox and 10 in ie, the same thing takes 12 secs in firefox when both browsers are running and 13 in ie, apparently because firefox tries to consume more resources and leaves rest for other apps including ie.
As I said before I am a firefox user and still am after this test (for pop-ups and security). Please do the test yourself and let everybody know.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Kesava — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:56:08 -0000

I have been using IE7 and FF2 simultaneously for a month now... I have to admit FF2 is faster but IE7 is better at all the other things. The interface is great. The RSS reader is excellent. It takes some time to learn but it is useful nontheless.

I also used FF 1.x and IE6 once upon a time. Back then FF 1.x was better.

My opinion, for the present try out IE7, bother with FF2 after you get tired of IE7. [Which I guess, is not happening anytime soon.]

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Jonathan — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:01:22 -0000

IE 7 Sucks. ANYTIME i try to open attachments or work with contacts in GMAIL IE 7 crashes. If anyone has any ideas about this let me know soon.

Thank you.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Garth C. — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:17:53 -0000

FireFox is better probably for the simple fact that Microsoft didn't develop it. Microsoft code is just so sloppy to start with. It is like they intentionally try to see how many lines of code they can execute to do some of the most mundane tasks. They know they have the majority of the world by the balls, and they don't care if they use every cycle your computer has to add 1+1 . They are Nazi's.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

YO — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:01:50 -0000

In XP, I like Firefox.

But IE7 is very nice in Vista. It's my main browser in Vista.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

snt — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:30:17 -0000

Well, personal experience differs. I sure respect your views. But,in this case, you can't say FireFox is a better browser, just because its better with AJAX sites. By the way, I myself use FireFox also and I like it. But I like technology more than any single technology tool and won't appreciate it when someone shows personal hatred towards any technology. I care more about technology I use, not the companies that create them, because they don't mean anything to me.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Robert Scoble — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:22:55 -0000

SNT: huh? Firefox works a lot better on AJAX sites that I've tested IE7 on. Faster, by a mile. So, I can't say it's a better browser?

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

snt — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:14:49 -0000

Saying FireFox is better than IE7 is just a immature comment. Learn to understand and use all the better technology out there. FireFox is a good browser with its strengths and weaknesses and FireFox is not really better than IE7, but as good as IE7. If you like one better than the other, use it, but don't tell everyone to use it, because you like. That is very immature.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

KL — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:33:43 -0000

What a load of BS that IE7 renders slowly, on any site i've tried it on firefox renders much slower.

Also, like pointed out the default is to check the site against phishing.

And, what are people saying ? Tabs not intuitive, they way more intuitive in IE7 than in Firefox.

Stop talking bs.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Rado — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:40:27 -0000

I prefer Firefox 2.0.
And I have to say the integrated spell check is awesome.
Only bad thing is: there are still websites not working properly with FF :(

If you are a Firefox fan you might want to integrate it into your Windows installation CD.

Integrate Firefox into your Windows installation CD:
http://addons.wordpress.com...

The ultimate dream of every Firefox fan:
have Firefox installed since the first boot of Windows :)

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

vulpy — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:39:15 -0000

Mees really don't like Gate's folly of late I've been
using Opera 9 as it more user friendly.....

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

kmiuc — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:39:35 -0000

Can someone elaborate on what is meant by adjective "very slow"? Doesn't make any sense to me at least. This should be supported with data. I mean on a blah-blah configuration machine loading blah-blah page takes m1 sec in IE and m2 sec in FF. This kind of data is going to help rather than saying "very slow". "Very slow" for me is 100 times slower, for someone else it might be .3 times slower. Can we get some quick data here?

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Fionn — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:06:46 -0000

On my 2nd use of IE7 , I showed it to a friend who would be using it in work. Opened Gmail & BBC in tabs. All seemed fine.
after 10 minutes of looking through email, I logged out and attempted to close IE7 down.
I was asked if I wanted to close tabs. Clicked yes.
I then got told, IE 7 has encountered a problem and must be shut down and I was then asked if I I'd like to submit info to MS.
In order words IE7 crashed! On my second use. Pretty Poor.
Otherwise its grand and a huge improvement.
I always hated how opening up a new (blank) window would cause IE6 to open with the same content you were viewing.
So you had to windows showingthe same thing. This made no sense to me.
Verdict:
I am sticking with Firefox.

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Tim — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:33:59 -0000

My blog entry on IE7's xmlhttprequest object:

http://www.techtoolblog.com...

Re: Firefox vs. IE 7 (IE7 having trouble with Google sites?)

Tim — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:43:49 -0000

Have you tried turning the "Enable Native XmlHttpRequest" to off? It looks like the IE team didn't code this to spec or they have some slowness in their javascript object. Turn this off and IE is forced to use the orginial 'Microsoft.XMLHTTP' object which seems much much faster...