Top 5 Reasons To Switch From Internet Explorer

5. Security
Internet Explorer's integration of ActiveX and Active Scripting allows websites to install programs and control your browser, and while there are security measures in place, Microsoft has proven over and over that there are holes in its software that can exploited.

[Breakfast]

Because your on n4g, and anything Microsoft is bad.
j/k

Firefox FTW

lol at pic, could it be more focused on her boobs?

[illizit]

Actually, any software has holes. MAC OS X, Windows, FireFox, etc. all have holes. Whether or not hackers choose to exploit them is a different story. More people use Internet Explorer, that is a FACT so obviously as a hacker what software are you going to exploit to affect the most users possible??

[Time Lord]

wow wounder how many actually clicked on the headline because of the picture.lol, next time am going to post news in here I should post pic of hot chick that way i'll be sure it'll hit 1500 easily.

[chaosatom333]

that picture is reason enough for me to switch.

[decapitator]

dude, I was just thinking that too.

[Lord Anubis]

i was about to say that. You beat me to it.

have you seen the new firefox logo?

[decapitator]

yeah, that would have probably gotten changed by the admins. Good thing you did not use that.

[Homicide]

ROFL @ Anubis in the report.

Kinda funny how the picture zoomed in to her boobs.

[craymoogy]

I switched because I thought I could hold on to that firefox.

[TheWickedOne]

wish i was a kitten

[Charlie2688]

If I switch do they send me the girl on the picture?

XD

[shine1396]

hmm...I can see where your coming from...

[Ashira]

Bunch of crap, I say.
IE is not that integrated after XP SP2. IE7 does not crash at the said page. ActiveX controls don't run without your permission (again, after XP SP2).
No, IE is not good, but the site is overdoing it.
(Not to mention the pictures has nothing to do with the contents of the actual site.)

[Lord Anubis]

obviously you are not up to date on technology nor IE7 holes.

[Breakfast]

my internet explorer crashed all the time...thats why i switched to firefox...i run vista by the way

[LinuxGuru]

The chick is wearing a shirt with the firefox logo on it.

It's clearly there, you just have to not look at her tits for a few seconds to see it.

[Ashira]

Lord Anubis, you obviously missed my point. Yes, IE7 is full of holes, but the site is making too much fuss of it. The link didn't crash. ActiveX controls does not install by default.
The site's contents is clearly not 100% correct. But they are right that it's better to switch to Firefox and that IE is targeted often and is full of holes.

[IzKyD1331]

firefox also has a better interface than IE

[Bubble Buddy]

Firefox has a cooler name :D lol joke.
-faster
-skins
etc etc.

[Tarmgar]

Only 5....oh, wait. This is just the TOP 5! I love Firefox.

[DarKnight1]

If so......

Ill take 10 lol.

[craymoogy]

I think she does. Let's download firefox 3.

[heyheyhey]

IE is glitchy and slow

once you switch to the fox, you'll never go back cause you think that it rox (lame i know)

[Deathbringer]

does anyone KNow the name of that hot babe?

[Deathbringer]

lol

[Vip3r]

<3 @ the pic.

:D

[cmrbe]

For the last 3 years if i recall correctly.I find Firefox much more stable and easy to use compare to IE.

[ReBurn]

I use IE and Firefox (and sometimes Flock because I like the RSS integration) and in my line of work I can't get completely away from IE. Mozilla doesn't fully support ASP.NET and themes. Unless the new version of Firefox is better at it I'm sort of 50% IE, 50% Mozilla.

[Rice]

Ha IE didnt crash for that link on the website...

[zonetrooper5]

You guys do know that FF 2.0 is actually slower than IE7 and has more memory leaks than IE7. Again, IE7 supports less standards which was pretty stupid but atm I'm using IE8 Beta and I personally think its great, I have FF Beta 3 or 4 installed but I rarely use it.

[GutZ31]

Is there a reason to have 5 reasons?

There should just be one, Just Do It.

[PMR_21]

tits

[Kulupoo]

lol...
ya i was like why does a hot chick have anything to do with IE/firefox/ and internet browsers

[Lanontscuz]

that chick on that pictire is good enough you get her when you dl firefox lol

[Tyrael]

You don't need 5 reasons to switch from internet explorer, you only need one. And the girl in the pic is ok too

[craymoogy]

the girl is the reason.

I will now support Firefox because it's so nice!

[Bladestar]

ActiveX? Active Scripting? LOL... another article writen for those that know crap about anything... do many of you know what ActiveX is? Did any of you ever wrote an ActiveX control? I have... ActiveX weakness is due to it's strength... the ability to give developers the power to create components that are impossible to create using plain HTML and Javascript.... ActiveX are like Java applets... and they are as dangerous... and powerful... developers can create, games, advance UIs... I wrote once an activeX control for a web base POS(Point of Sell) ActiveX(OCX) control ... the activex control allowed users, to work have a local database and allowed them to work offline and them submit data to the main server in batches... also, to open the cash register, interact with Barcode devices, credit card readers and receipe printers.... Is that possible using firefox? NOPE!

ohh wow! firefox can run HTML, Javascript and CSS! wow! Why do you think IE is still the most used browser as far as Intranet application development?... yeah true... who cares... all you want to see is some formatted text with some pictures... which any browser can do...

This article is telling people that ActiveX is the main reason why they should not use IE... but ActiveX also may be the only reason why IE is the only option...

Obvious Microsoft moved away from ActiveX controls... and though supported by the browser is disabled by default... and people must allow any activeX to run... also, unless you are an admin in your computer you can't install one of these.

"IE's security holes make it a perfect target for spyware and malware, as well as viruses. " now that makes me laungh...
Poor ignorants... do you know why IE is so targetted... because is the most used browser.... ohh by the way.. I use firefox, is my default browser... I need it to develop websites... since what works on firefox works on IE... but what works on IE many not work on firefox... but come on let's be honest now that firefox is so popular the browser get more security updates the IE does... every 2-3 days...

Some ignorants would actually believe firefox is hacker proof... here is a link of Known Vulnerabilities...

http://www.mozilla.org/proj...

how about bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.or...

those are the bugs reported today...

As I said before, I use firefox more than I use IE... I prefer firefox over IE... but this reasons are so bias and dumb.. I feel guilty to let the easy to convince ignorants microsoft any haters believe this crap... There are a million reasons to use Firefox instead of IE... but these are just interesting ones... specially the ActiveX one... specially when people don't even know what it is.

[Bolts]

Shut up already, the boobs said you are wrong!

[shine1396]

bubbles for both of you...one for sounding like he was being knowlegeable, the other for being real..
@fanboi:Shut up already, the boobs said you are wrong!

I could spend the rest of the day trying to top that...but what the hell that's one hell of a way to zip people up...shame that I can't give two bubbles..

[gunnerforlife]

heres a bubble for u bro, that made me laugh quite a lot;), those r some heavenly boobs, and yea i use firefox simple reason is it dosent always crash on me and its a lot faster. and since i installed IE7 it frezes on me all the time

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

A shame you have to bring breasts into the conversation to sell the thing.

...especially when the girl isn't really cute...and she doesn't really have breasts.

Makes me proud to be a gamer...and a human being.

Grow up, you freakin' perverts!

[OpiZA]

Been using the nightly builds of the FF3 beta's for awhile now and i'm very impressed.

Bugzilla really is a really professional community and you can see the improvements from every build

[IntelligentAj]

1)it sucks
2)it sucks
3)it sucks
4)it sucks
5)it sucks

Get where i'm going with this?

[Pain]

M$=No Thanks.

[RioGrande]

I thought I just put this out there.

http://florchakh.com/2007/0...