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Completely agreed. In fact, Microsoft took a step backwards when they introduced IE 7. It's slower than IE 6 (at least for me), and the screen display is of lower quality.

Firefox has a great benefit that IE doesn't. It loads a few things at a time, quickly, rather than trying to load everything at once and then displaying it (which is what IE does, and which makes it seem slower than it already is).

I've done the Firefox vs IE test on my desktop and my laptop (which have a decent gap in processing speed), and Firefox wins both times.

By the way, Rikeen, this was a great versus idea.

I would encourage the use of Safari, Opera, Basic Mozailla, pretty much anything over IE.
SMV, I TOTALLY get what you're saying.
When we design our website for TSA competitions (www.cyberspacepursuit.org), we have to do rigorous testing in different browsers. And IE always gives us a b***h of a time in programming compliance. Like you said, it load EVERYTHING at once, and you have to mod it to not do so.

Many people contend that IE 7 is equivalent to, or better than Firefox, due to tabbed browsing.
I want some solid stuff to throw at them.

That is what I use FIre Fox for the win.

IE.
Because Firefox blows at loading.
Yeah it can load images faster, if you don't mind refreshing 5 or 6 times.

@ Nekotalim: I've done the Firefox vs IE comparason on five computers: My desktop, my dad's desktop, my step-dad's laptop, my laptop, and my dad's laptop.

The order I've listed those in reflects the overall processing speed and ability from worst to best. Firefox wins all five times, and has never frozen on me on any of those computers.

Internet Explorer (especially the dreaded IE 7) tries to load everything at once, causing more of a chance for freezing, which has happened to me several times.

I also believe that you can download more things at one time with Firefox, however, I may be wrong here.

Think of Firefox and IE like highways. Firefox is a large highway with several lanes, allowing several sets of cars to drive along. IE is a large highway (the same size, for comparason sake), with only one lane, still allowing the same number of cars to drive along . . .

. . . Then an accident happens on both highways. The IE Expressway is blocked off as a whole, because it only has one lane, and causes every other car on the one large road to be backed up because they are all driving on the same lane. Now, the Firefox Freeway runs into an accident as well, however, all other cars in the separate lanes can still drive. Reason: the accident is isolated to only one lane, allowing the rest of the highway to function normally. Once the IE Expressway screws up, the whole thing screws up.

The moral of the story: Firefox has a lower chance for error, which I've seen proven by how it never crashes on me, as opposed to IE. This is also why the illusion of Firefox loading slower is created. With Firefox, you'll see a few things appear at a time (namely images). Soon enough, everything will be loaded. IE will show you a blank screen for a while, and then all of a sudden everything will appear. This is why many tend to believe that IE is faster; because everything shows up at once. They forget that long waiting period they experienced before.

I've also noticed differences in the "stop loading" button between Firefox and IE. With Firefox, the page will stop loading, and you'll still be left on the page you were just looking at. With IE, if you stop loading, you'll be left with a blank page instead, and you'll have to go back to your last page.

One last thing that caught my eye with IE 7 is that the quality of text display took a drop. IE 6 was actually better in this sense.

Sure thing, I'd be happy to lend those points.

Firefox was always Tempremental with me. I never did a Trial and Error Test, but it's horrible a lot of the time, Loading Images halfway for example, and for a Webcomic fan like me that's utter torture, So I had to Refresh..a LOT.

To be Fair I AM using School Computers for FireFox, though IE seems entirely unusable on those stupid Emacs.

and I have yet to really Crash at Anything on IE at home, and the periods of time never seem all that Long to me, not lately anyway.

Vegeta: I assume it's not a Possibility that all 5 Computers are lousy models then?