firefox 3 or IE7

[rcracer]

currently using IE7 but was thinking of using firefox 3, whats yours veiws

[xjr14]

firefox 3 all the way for me. better tabbed browsing, bookmark and download managing....in my opinion. give it a shot and test for a week or so...

[sparrow.2]

Firefox is quicker and safer. Doesn't really have any problems with sites anymore and I like some of the addons alot.

[Southwell]

Yes Firefox is safer but that primarily because the coders haven't written all their nasties for it. They had a big shock when the first release came out, then all the coders found loads of back doors. For the moment at least Firefox will be your best bet, you will need IE7 for some stuff though, not everything loads correctly in Firefox.

[burgie]

Firefox 3.0 has a rathe "Big" security flaw.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1304

It may be safer than IE7 on some aspects, but IE7 bugs generally don't lead to "PC Takeovers"....

[glypo]

The mentioned bug above is rubbish. Just typical scaremongering that gets done on the release of anything new.

Also Firefox isn't safer because no coders have written nasties for it yet. Firefox is typically the most popular browser on the net contrary to common belief. Add up the people using various versions of IE (IE7, IE6 and IE5), then sure I.E. is bigger. But on most typical servers you will find more FF users then IE6 or IE7 on their own....... making Firefox the most attractive for attack. However Firefox is open-source. Anyone can view the code and make changes, and it's developed by thousands of people, not a tiny team. This means plenty of people fixing bugs and making regular updates available. I.E. you are luck to see an update over several months. So don't be fooled, security wise nothing comes close to FF.

Firefox is also much better with web standards. As in, web pages look like what the web designer intended. Microsoft still think they can ignore these. Not only does it give web designers a headache, but often people don't check and you will have web pages displaying incorrectly in IE.

Firefox is much faster as well, as stated. In fact it's the fastest browser available at rendering and loading. Beating IE, Opera, Safari etc etc.

And finally it's features. There is no doubt Firefox is always on the cutting edge. Things like tabbed browsing are now the norm, thanks for Firefox. The major new feature in FF3, that no doubt Microsoft are hard at work copying, is the smart location bar. And it is dead cool, makes browsing so much easier. If you have ever been on a website and forgotten the URL. Well in the location bar you can now just type key words to find your way back, almost like a smart history search. I even use it for eBay stuff, say I was looking engines on eBay, I can just type "Novarossi" in my bar, and it will automatically search and show all related links below as you type.

After using for a little while, I don't know if I could ever go back to old system. One click bookmarking is great too.