I'm just saying; dump Firefox and IE.. Get Opera 9... Opera is far better than IE, and developers says that it's easier to code correctly to Opera compared to IE.. Only problem is that most websites uses this old and crappy HTML that only IE allowes.

I agree the ads need to go.

I am getting sick of these ads google is putting in areas of their search that never had them before...

First it was the ad to try Google Desktop Search, now its this. Time to make another addition to my Ad Muncher filter target list.

I got a couple of these invitations by Google to drop IE and to go for FF instead.

I didn't drop IE, but Google instead because I have no need for an intriguer on my PC.

IE7 together with MSN search are doing a perfect job for me.

Tried Firefox,slimbrowser,avant,Opera. they worked great for a while recently i noticed browsers other then IE seem to be hanging more and more.Hummmmmmmm

Roj to Google:

"Did so. Dumped it."

Next...

One good reason why I don't use IE...Adblock. I am so spoiled by not seeing ads anymore that I don't want to go back. IE has not opened up their code enough to allow for the third party addons that Firefox has. I am sure that there are reasons for this, but I can't think of any good ones.

Same here... I love adblock. I don't dislike Internet Explorer, I just love the simplicity of a freshly installed instance of Firefox. Granted, in bare-bones form it doesn't offer as much as IE, but that's fine. Firefox lets me choose what functionality I want to install, and do so through the use of extensions. Now, with the IETab extension, I rarely need to open IE at all.

If you want no ads in IE check out Ad Muncher, it solves the problem in all browsers without any problems at all. I rarely ever see any ads.

Not a free solution, but by far the best in my opinion.

Why would anyone pay for something when it's free and you can get thousands of other extensions for free too? That is like burning money to stay warm when you live next door to a store that gives firewood away for free.

Well like he said, if you use IE... or any non-firefox browser then AdMunch holds a distinct advantage over AdBlock - it's not browser dependant.

And Adblock, though very nice, just isn't in the same league as AdMunch. Just download the trial and go through AdMunch's options. But to each their own.

try privoxy or proxymintron, both of then are free and work very well... privoxy is extremly configurable, it can also change pages on-the-fly, like greasymonkey

I have no need for it. I have no ads on my computer and I don't use ad supported apps. I didn't pay a dime for FF or any one the great extensions and the AdBlock is all I need.

"The promotion" - and all other adverts, popups, banners and other non-relevant content - is currently not visible to matt2971.

On +any+ page on the internet.

In Proxomitron we trust. :-)

Damn it!!! What the hell is happening to the world of web browsers. Just as an example of email sites:
-Windows Live Mail is not compatible with FF & Opera
-Gmail still doesnt render properly with Opera
-Yahoo Mail Beta doesnt work with Opera and also IE7!!! (It says it supports IE5.5 & higher but it doesnt work with IE7. Liar!!!)

I use all three email services. Does that mean I should have all three browsers in order to get full compatibility???

I thought this browser wars would make the web more standards based. But I see the exact opposite.

Earlier when I used to surf I used to have 3 - 4 browser windows open. Now, even after the advent of tabbed browsing, I still need to have 3 - 4 browser windows open - of different browsers!!!

You know I see where your going, but thank MS for this. IE is the most out of standard browser there is, when you see a site not rendering properly in firefox or opera that is why, IE corrects for sloppy programming and well then you have your rendering problems. IF we see firefox's share increase to 30-50 percent you will see all the issues you describe go away, but that is what you get when you have one crappy browser controlling 90 percent of the market.

The common user just doesn't care about all that all they want is something that works, and when you have a company as lazy as microsoft having control, well it most likely won't end any time soon but until then firefox and opera need to keep fighting. A good example of progress if the following; yahoo released a picture upload tool for firefox that was only available in IE previously. Google toolbar that is on par with the IE version. Majority of all pages that did have issues with ff in the past have now been fixed. I run it as my primary browser and have IE tab extention for any other problems.

I believe gamil and Yahoo work correctly in the latest Opera 9 Beta.

Yahoo Mail probably does work with IE6, but IE7 breaks stuff that worked fine in IE6, so I hear. Mostly because of all the hacks that had to be used to make it work in IE6 in the first place.

I was referring to Yahoo Mail Beta, which requires IE or FF. It reverts to the default Yahoo Mail if I use either Opera or IE7Beta.

Gmail too has certain rendering issues with Opera. Quick Contacts (GTalk) is not available and also the Reply and Forward actions do not function properly until the contents of the entire mail message has been downloaded.

humm... complaining about a test beta service not working with a test and unfinished beta browser...

but only if IE6 didnt had soooo many problems, more time would go to tune up other browsers... IE6 still is about 70% of the browsers...

I am a Firefox lover but most people don't understand that just by having alternative browsers like mozilla, firefox, opera, netscape, internet explorer you are creating a safer internet for all users. If IE has 100% of the users then its not hard to tell hackers what browser to look for bugs and security flaws in, therefore making it very unsecure. but if its split between many browsers they have to spend all this time looking for flaws in sperate browsers making everyone safer.

Stop acting like one year olds with no manners. Agree to disagree and stop being a fool.

"currently visible only to Internet Explorer users"

Maybe I'm blind but I don't see it.

Me too.

It's not visible in IE Tab? O_o

sigh ... i hate the internet.

And it hates you.

Firefox is the best browser I've ever used. I was a huge IE fan when them and Netscape were battling it out, now I've switched to firefox.

The themes and extensions are awesome.

I scratch your back and you scratch mine. I use both browsers IE7 and Firefox. I say use whatever your comfortable with. Easy enough.

DACWILSOL and AndreiX and u other noobs... try using firefox a time before giving up on it.. and try to explore whats it all about.. open source, better security, a fight for developement.. IE havn't evolved since 1994 .. and its only because they have been alowed to steal code from firefox they begin to work on the project again .. but damn its ugly IE 7 but atleast activex is disabled by default.. But must have been hard for Microsoft to realise that IE had a bad security@activex and remove their own code.. But shame on you ppl who comment without spending a few days on learning what your talking about..!

Congrats! You win the "I'm the biggest fanboy" award for the day!

Ahem! Gettin' a little loose with my award there!

it's gone now...

IE7 Beta 2 is a breath of fresh air. I've tried Netscape, Seamonkey, and Firefox. I kept going back to IE, because of the ease of use and the campatability with sites. It's a preference people, use what you like. As far as security goes, there are things such as anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewalls.

haha, your funny. I would run those utilities anyway just to be safe. The only reason I use IE is for places that truly just do not play nice with ff which is very rare. Stuff that requires active x namely which his why MS needs that browser so damn bad still. I am sure they sell programming kits for active x apps, which is also the main reason ie is so insecure as is. But things are switching now to more standards based, you will begin to see active x going away and soon there will be no reason to have ie at all. Not that it will matter much, MS will still cram it down your throat and tell you that you need it. The only reason MS wasn't told to remove it from the OS is because they lied to the courts and said it will destroy the os, make it not function properly or something along those lines, must be nice to be billionaires and use it to your advantage to make more billions and buy the courts which I have no dobt they did, how else can you explain no punishment in the least?

Soooo true!

Firefox sucks !!!
Try Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2.

oh let me post this twice, "You're an I-d-i-o-t"

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

I have them both installed on my laptop and IE 7 B2 eats.

I hope Firefox puts IE in the toilet for good.

It is a copy of firefox. Firefox still operates smoother with less effort.

I have. Still not seeing the advantage though. Where's the Adblock plugin in IE7? :P

Firefox sucks !!!
Try Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2.

oh let me post this twice, "You're an I-d-i-o-t"

Hmmm...will it make me as dumb as you?

REMEMBER IT'S NOT THE COMPUTER THAT CAUSES THE PROBLEMS, ITS THE USER BEHIND IT.

Yup, there's even an acronym for it: PEBCAK

Does this happen to anyone else:

@ Gmail, within IE-- links don't work. Only happens at that one site, forces switching browser....

Anything with gmail in the header is automatically blocked by my firewall. All I ever see from that domain is spam. You are probably seeing your browser hang because there is something bad at the site - be glad it did not succeed in whatever it was attempting.

something bad at google gmail site? I don't think so...I was thinking more like a conspiracy vs IE...

Whatever you say. More for the rest of us anyway.

*enjoys his 2.5GB gmail account*

Me to Google Execs: Kiss my backside and stop censoring search in China. Firefox is dead because it's become all that it once railed against.

What did it once rail against and now become? Just curious...

Z, don't all searchers obligatorily censor over there?

Greed. They formed a corporation to bring in the corporate sponsor cash, and yet they still want to straddle the OS fence. I don't care, just stop pretending. I worked with Firefox up until this past week. But its insecurities make it no better than IE6. If someone wants to use it, fine. But don't pull that xanity religious in-your-face righteous act is all. Finally, Mozilla has refused to denounce these guys:
http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/

meh pansy, or should i say commie? go make me a better browser and to hell with paying you for it, mush puppy!

Wait...

You're saying because they intend to fund further development (beyond 2.0 perhaps?) that they're just as Evil as MS?

As far as security goes... What, exactly were you expecting? It's software. It's written by humans. What matters most are the policies. A program cannot installin Firefox without explicit permission. Even then, granting that most users would allow just about anything nowadays, Firefox is not integrated into the OS. Damagae caused to Firefox from a rouge extension is much less likely to damage your system.

And as far as "explorer destroyer" goes. It's amusing. Why denounce entertainment?

Umm.. Gee, anyone with a few bucks would push for their product, this isn't news. So what? Maybe google is in favor of Firefox, again, so what?

Its not like its a Federal Law that everyone MUST use Firefox, its preference, big deal...

In other news, Dell machines come pre-installed with WINDOWS featuring Google. Is that a conflict of interest? One side their are products, like messengers (MSN), that install Google, and Google is promoting Firefox..

It's great google is pushing firefox, although if they were that aggressive with promoting it in the past it would be at 25 percent of browsing instead of around 10. I hope firefox continues to gain share and continue to innovate as time goes on. If google has hired most developers from firefox then well who is left to keep working on it?

Don't take stats at face value. Everyone will slant their market share to get a competitive edge. Who is doing the studies? I have yet to see any survey, or anyone I work with, or hell anyone at my company for that matter asking their opinion on any of this crap.

I am not going to believe any of this.. Its propaganda...

I could simply state that Seagate outsells Western Digital 2 to 1 in hard drive sales, and you would believe me.

If its written, it must be true! I saw it on a webpost! Yee haw.

Firefox wasn't ready for any aggressive pushing back then; they've handled things just right. I've been using it since .5 and it was a PITA back then. I still prefered it over IE for the tabbed browsing and extensions, but there's no way the average person would have tolerated all of the crashing and troubleshooting and hunting for obscure extension fixes you had to do to keep it running.

why not opera ?

There's no Google Toolbar for Opera. :p

There are no *ANY* toolbars for Opera, who are you kidding?

lol

It's about time...

I don't see it in IE7. But I swear I saw them doing this some time ago (bundling Firefox with the Google Toolbar somewhere).

I just looked with IE 6 and it's not there.

In the Google Pack.

I'm not seeing this in IE6, latest version. Does it know I already use FF?

I'm not seeing it with IE6 on a Win2K box or IE7b2.

Yah, im not seeing it either with my fabulous IE6. =P

No show here either.

nada, nuthin. Using IE6 SP1 on pc at work, no show--tried IE6 SP2 at home on one pc, no go. Also no show on IE7 beta 2. So...will it show up if I use IE 3.02 on Windows 95? :grin:

"currently visible only to Internet Explorer users"

well duuuuh, firefox users "might" already have it installed, any others such as Opera and Netscape are not worthy of this offer ....

And you're not worthy of breathing. But you do it anyway.

just like you're not worthy of my time, yet im still here replying to your smart-a-s-s comment

It must be love!