I'm just wondering to this question for a long time, why do you guys prefer Firefox over Internet Explorer, is there anything wrong with IE? Well, I've seen that IE is sometimes annoying that made me had to use Firefox instead, but it's not often, and I see that Internet Explorer launched much faster than Firefox

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I use firefox because when i use sites with java applets which i often use then it is miles faster than with IE, Firefox had the tabs first and made there navigation good, IE have tried to copy that and totally messed up there navigation in my opinion.

Main two reasons for Firefox over IE is that Firefox has a design which is so much better and the other is that Firefox is so much faster than IE.

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On my experience, IE is usually tend to be faster than Firefox in the term of rendering a web page.. But sometimes IE just sucks and that it doubles up on the memory so I had to end their processes (which mean I have to turned off all of them) and I lost the page that I was viewing.. kind of annoying...

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For me, IE... Crashes too much, Navigation is awful, The pages load so slow, Java applets will not load or take up to 5-10mins when in firefox it takes 20secs top for the same applet.

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I like Firefox because it allows me to view things the same way on both Windows and Linux. I do use IE7 on Windows XP sometimes, but I'm normally enjoying my browsing experience in Firefox. I've recently been thinking about switching to Flock since I have yet to try it. It looks nice and is based on Firefox, I think.

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FF used to be the beuty with the tabs, but now IE has that... I still prefer Firefox because it renders xHTML/HTML and CSS "more" correctly than the others. As in no "css" box model is a plus It is just a smarter browser.

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don't they just interprets them differently?

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In the simplest of terms, yes they interpret them differently. However, there are a couple of points to note:

• CSS rendering has many flaws in IE. CSS rendering is still somewhat incomplete in Firefox (Opera is the most complete from what I've read lately), but it is still better than IE.
• Even IE7 doesn't support XHTML or the application/xhtml+xml media type at all, which means that IE is no good for a standard that was last revised in the middle of the year 2002, nearly 5 years ago.

Rather than list a bunch of comparisons, you can do the research on that if you want. Simply put, the points above are what prevents developers from moving ahead, beyond HTML 4.01 to an XML-based language like XHTML 1.0. Also, XHTML 1.1 (still a Working Draft as of February 2007) is modular, which means that things can be added or not to create custom DTDs (Document Type Definitions).

XHTML 2.0 seems to have the aim of completely changing the way developers code. Instead of legacy HTML forms, it includes XForms (XML Forms) in its place, for example. Some other new things include an XML Events module and a Ruby module, not to mention changes from XHTML 1.1.

I hope IE8 has support for XHTML 1.0 Strict at least... And some more CSS 2.1 support would be great too. That's probably asking too much though considering how difficult CSS is to implement.

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I never heard that's going to be released any time soon...

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IE8? Yeah... In a few years. Hopefully by then MS can figure something out. Developers seem to be looking forward to that hope. That way, the Web can continue moving forward.

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