Winterlight,
Just based on this share, I may test Opera. Thank you for not being too
techie in your send. I got it!
I test FF because I got tired of the Collective telling me how/how not to
lock down IE.
OK. I am getting ready to get rid of IE. Well, until my banking/e-commerce
works on FF or whatever!
Thank you for your thoughts.
BTW, I have m/b noise with the P5Q3 also................. :)
Best,
Duncan
At 13:20 01/27/2009 -0800, you wrote:
It may be time for MS to exit the browser arena, seeing as FF and Chrome
seem to be battling for the championship.
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IE still dominates the browser market by big numbers. Most users are not
interested in or even aware of using other browsers unless IT or a tech
head introduces them to it. I personally use three browsers. I use IE7
for anything to do with banking, or financial matters and I have never had
a problem. But if something does go south I don't want the bank, or the
brokerage to tell me that they only support IE. I usually have FF 3
running with TV listings and my GMail account, and to look up a few
things. But my primary browser is Opera.
Firefox is for tech heads who like to tweak every little thing and have
the ability to run addons. Opera is a fast all in one solution for
everybody else. Opera even comes with bit torrent support. Opera invented
Tabs and nobody handles Tabs as well as Opera, plus it has speed dial
feature that is so addictive I wouldn't want to browse without it.
I think the numbers that get put out are misleading because the sources
are usually FF advocates and Opera has the ability to pretend to be IE to
get you past those sites at MS that insist that you are IE. I am not
saying that FF isn't a nice quick browser but after using both for many
years I think Opera is superior in almost every way and doesn't get the
credit it should. Probably, because they went through a period of trying
to sell Opera, which of course didn't work and sent a lot of users to FF.
