So, I've been having trouble connecting to the internet from home the last couple of days. IE would work with my firewall off and wouldn't work with my firewall on. Plus, every other program would work with my firewall on. I figured it had to be my firewall, right? I mess around with every setting on the firewall that I could and even sent the company that makes the firewall a really nasty email saying how crappy their product is. I could get it to work every once in a while, but overall, I couldn't connect to the internet to save my life. As a last ditch effort, I thought it MIGHT be my browser, so I download Firefox. As Emeril would say, BAM! It works perfectly, and I still can't get IE to work with my firewall. Is there anything I should know about Firefox? Is there anything that it does poorly that IE doesn't do poorly? Patches? Plug ins? Next up, Linux.
There's a firefox extension called IE Tab that loads pages in the IE engine if necessary but I've never had to actually use it. Otherwise, just find some good firefox extensions. I started a thread on this a while ago. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=117376&highlight=firefox+extensions
If you can't fix it, it refuses to fix itself, and prompts you to use Firefox? Maybe that's a feature of IE.
I suggest you stop using the internet. If IE is not working, you are outta options pal. Back to watching tv and reading books for you.
I love Firefox and have been using it for years. Once in a great while you will find a site that does not work and you will have to resort to IE. One of the cool things about Firefox is the extensions that you can add on. Here are a couple that I can't live without: Adblock Plus Googlebar
I use IE to browse regular internet, and Firefox for unscrupulous sites due to security. I find IE to be 'snappier' than Firefox. I can't imagine what your problem was though, A-Train. I've never seen that. Weird.
IE is snappier?!? I've heard several things about IE but snappier is not one of those. Surely you jest..
IE tab is a good extension, as mentioned above There are a lot of sites that work with firefox, but the site looks totally different (and more robust,etc.) with IE. Firefox does actually take longer to start up for me than IE... but once it has started, I think it runs faster. So I just don't close it very often.. And yeah, Windows Update always needs IE..
firefox is awesome...i havent used ie in years... the new version of firefox saves your pages in case you close it accidently
