I do not think Firefox is faster than IE. There are more viruses to IE just because it's more popular and Firefox is pretty new. If FireFox occupies 80% of the market, who knows what will happen. It's nothing about ActiveX technology. There is nothing that is bulletproof. / H" ]+ Z0 u9 o2 r, c V6 ^% i! M. g
So just choose based on your own needs.
For whatever reason, Firefox should be safer, I am not saying faster though. But spyware/adware can make your computor very slow. Check you folder: N) }$ v6 h: M # b8 Z. `. p: U% I. |Documents and Setting\(your user name)\cookie or folder system32 to see what kind of adware\sypware already in your system . }: v# O: l. {, I5 v% R5 {/ a
or folder for you flashget if you are using " G7 G" f4 H3 C* I$ C- j) c 4 J. N4 ^- E/ r4 d( Y" P***: |! P* J O/ e0 }6 ~+ Q0 r
Drunk ! x6 i9 h* G; ]. ? 8 V7 _, v7 j* C. q! A- ~. ^% ?[ Last edited by 醉酒当歌 on 2005-2-23 at 09:27 AM ]
Why you call all stuff under ***\***\cookie spyware/adware?! V# L' s/ o' S' v& x
6 o) v3 F2 C7 g- jAll of them are just cookies. If you do not like the activeX, in XP, you can just disable it in the IE configuration.3 u; m: g' B! b! z* k2 ^
) Y- z ?7 M" XI am using Mozilla in my Linux and IE in my XP. Besides the muti-tab feature, they are almost the same.
Originally posted by SW12345 at 2005-2-23 09:02 AM: # K3 I2 _* V- G, y( KI do not think Firefox is faster than IE. There are more viruses to IE just because it's more popular and Firefox is pretty new. If FireFox occupies 80% of the market, who knows what will happen. I ...