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Honestly, it depends. I used IE for many years, and then I found out about Firefox. Firefox, which offered multiple tabs in a single browser instead of the usual multiple windows, a built in Download Manager, and a built in ad-blocker. All of that with the easily designed and added extensions and themes due to the open source nature of the browser all made me change. This was before the IE update with the tabs, but by now I'm just more used to using Firefox and it's saving me a lot of times with some of my extensions(NoScript saves sooo much time with popups and shitty ads).

I do agree with the matter of people refusing to use another browser due to just being stupid(or not knowing how to fix your own browser. I could have that firefox glitch fixed in 10 minutes top), but sometimes it just comes down to what someone's comfortable with.

My IE crahsed on my second pc so I use Firefox on it and IE on the first.

I prefer using Explorer a bit more for some websites and downloading but FireFox is still good with its multiple tabs.

I really have nothing to say otherwise except that I find webrowser hating
really stupid. I mean, they're just there to...browse on the web.

Was it really necessary to suggest a person's an idiot just because they made a dumb offhanded comment about not liking IE? That's really no better than the original dumb comment. She didn't have to suggest that using IE is practically a death sentence, but you didn't have to go off on a rant about her post either.

Firefox serves me well. IE, even tabbed, is just awkward to me now.

crying This was something I pointed out in my second post, I wasn't directly insinuating she herself was an idiot (I've got one more warning on this account before I get b&... in fact I'm actually kind of worried that she may have reported the post as flaming because she misinterpreted my meaning), but your point is well taken.

If you meant that I shouldn't be making a broad statement like that anyways, I'd say you're correct in that two wrongs don't make a right, but I feel that even some a**-backwards "teaching" can at least encourage someone to not make dumb comments like that that are simply flamebait. There's no action that doesn't have a reaction, correct?

Out of curiousity Beramode, is there any specific reason that it feels awkward? I'd also like to ask this to everyone else, as I myself don't feel a significant difference between the two to warrant a preference.

Like Jace, used firefox for the tabs. However, my firefox Glitched up and now I have to use IE when I want to download something. Could be worse, though.

I don't think she was trolling though. whee Just adding static to her complaint that wasn't necessary to what she was saying.

My uses/needs factor into it a lot. Prior to switching Firefox, I'd actually moderate with a ton of IE 6 windows open at once. xd Like opening a lot of reports to work on or post histories that needed to be cleaned up or gathering topics on my own to move... tons of windows. Very awkward. I usually have a fair amount of tabs open regardless of what I'm doing since I'm a huge multitasker. Tons of tabs are much easier for me to manage. And by now it's just familiarity. So it feels odd to try to use IE 6, even more strange to use IE 7.

Yea, I'm aware IE has tabs now too, but I'm just too used to Firefox now.
Don't get me wrong. I'd use IE if I had to without much complaining, but if I've got a choice, I pick Firefox.