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Originally posted by islandmanpa
Ok, you got my attention. Tell me the virtues of firefox vs. iE.
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IE suffers from a multitude of security flaws, which coupled with how tightly it's integrated into the OS, makes for a double-whammy when someone finds a new hole.
IE refuses to comply fully with W3 standards, so web developers have to code to IE's rendering engine, since they have such a huge market share by default (almost every PC built gets windoze, which in turn automatically has IE)
FireFox is developed under a completely different mindset, and this doesn't suffer from having holes poked in it in order to support the OS.
There are zillions of cool add-ons for FireFox. My faves are the flash and javascript blockers, and AdBlockPlus.