Top 5 Reasons to Use Firefox

5. Originality
In the most recent version of IE 7, you'll find a lot of cool new features - unfortunately, almost all of these features have been in Firefox for years now. With Firefox, you'll have the latest and best features straight out of the box.

[TrevorPhillips]

firefox is the best internet explorer can go to the recycle bin and get emptied

[drewdrakes]

My favourite things about firefox is the random crashes and memory leaks. yay!

[rosebowl23]

Top 5 reasons NOT to use Firefox (including FF3):

1. Still uses the most memory of any browser

2. Still the ugliest and most cluttered of any browser

3. Adding plugins, themes, etc makes it even lower

4. Having to download many seperate plugins when Opera has everything built in (while still being faster) and IE7 only requires the download of one extension (IE7Pro) to get all the features you need (also, while still being much faster)

5. Open Sores

[ianp622]

Have you tried Firefox 3?

If not, you, and everyone else here, should really download Beta 4. It's the best browser I have ever used, and it uses less than half the memory that Firefox 2 used (and tests have shown. Plus my Yahoo Mail loads much faster, and being able to search your history by the page name is great. I'm not sure how you can say it's cluttered, since you can hide everything that you don't use.

Here are results that show Firefox 3 now uses the least memory of any browser:

http://arstechnica.com/news...

[drewdrakes]

I have tried Firefox 3, and it was worse. I had it for 5 minutes and then redownloaded an older version for whenever i use firefox.

[Kakkoii]

rosebowl23: So pretty much what your saying is that Opera has EVERY SINGLE PLUG-IN that Firefox is able to have.. But built in?

Yeah OK there buddy.

The reason Firefox uses plug-in's is so that people can decide what they want. There not forced to use anything. Because Firefox uses plug-in's there is SO MUCH MORE Firefox can do that the other brower's can't.

You should try using Firefox for a few days before yapping your fanboy ass off about it.

[TrevorPhillips]

internet explorer just give up mozilla has overtaken u now

[drewdrakes]

Mozilla, just give up. You cant develop a decent running product. It like to keep the 1GB of ram youre using.

[heyheyhey]

Firefox 3 uses just 120mb of RAM

and still kills IE in terms of features

[ruibing]

Even Mozilla 2 is still better with free add-ons, built in search engine, and a very fast working browser. I have never gotten a single spyware/adware since I've moved to using Firefox.

[Frnicatr]

Am I one of the only people in this world who HATES FireFox?

[Condoleezza Rice]

Because as a long time IE and Firefox user,I can openly admit Firefox is faster and less problematic than IE,though,it does indeed use more Ram than IE...
So if you're stuck with less than a 1GB of ram,I can understand the hate for it.If not,then you need to install it,maybe then you'll realize why it has been technically proven to be superior to IE.

[drewdrakes]

Get opera, it does everything firefox does, except its better. The functionality is amazing, the quick dial is my favourite.

[fermcr]

I don't hate firefox... i just like IE7 more.

Most people hate IE7 because it is from Microsoft. They have no other justification beside that.

[heyheyhey]

@fermcr

wrong, i don't like IE7 because it's slower compare to FF, and it crashes more often (in my case anyway)

plus FF just provides more features than IE7 in general

haven't tried Opera yet though- i think il give it a shot

[Frnicatr]

I use Safari :)

[rosebowl23]

Nope, I hate FailFox too. Although Safari isn't much better.

[yaf]

IE7 or Microsoft

Edit: just so you know, i use Firefox (find it deals better with pop ups)

[Breakfast]

Although people do hate on everything microsoft...I find that Firefox is better. Much better IE7. IE7 always crashed on me and even though i have a good computer.

[gEnKiE]

Easy....its not funded my M$..... Plus its just better in every way.

[wageslave]

Welcome to N4G ^^^^^ this is what this site has become. Sad sad sad.

Do you think writing "M$" is clever? How many times do you see people write "$ony"? You dont, you might want to think about that.

[Kittyna]

i agree with undercover agent Mozilla is way better then internet explorer.

[drewdrakes]

Its hard to take you seriously when you misuse the word 'then'. 'than' is used in a comparison of two things.

[TwissT]

After being a long time IE user, after switching to FireFox I can honestly say that it is way more faster and way more efficient.

[BubblesDAVERAGE]

and Safari are the best...i just got safari and its faster to me at times..but they keep trying to get me to dl itunes

[PR0NE]

I was impressed by their browser but they kept shoving the other add-ons in the update, godammit it is an update and not a setup, yesterday i had enough of it, so i deleted safari. By the way, firefox is my main browser, but I am annoyed because i were using safari as my backup browser instead of the ie.... now getting back to the old combo FF/IE, don't speak of the name Opera, as their latest stable build sucks, i know they have an excellent version of the browser in beta, but they haven't released anything to the public YET, but i'll surely give it ride when they do.... Finally FF ftw...

[IntelligentAj]

Because it's the best. If you have a good amount of ram then the memory usage isn't a problem and I love the customization and the stability. If I can delete IE I would but I need for updates.

[wageslave]

So, N4G has basically become:

"Anything that is anti-Microsoft is good for us"?

bluray, apple, firefox, linux -- anything that advocates against a product the Microsoft sells is good here then?

[Spinner]

And if it were your way, it'd be:

"Anything that is anti-Sony is good for us"?

[Kholinar]

Yep. Loads of Apple fans here. :p

Might wanna check a few recent threads.

[heyheyhey]

yeah seriously- do have some kind of personal attachment to Microsoft?

why do you get offended by any naysaying about them?

they're a tyrranical, corrupt and cheap company who don't give a crap about you