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    What is FireFox
    « on: December 20, 2008, 10:16:48 PM »
    What is FireFox and how is it different from Internet Explorer?
    « Last Edit: December 22, 2008, 03:32:08 PM by DFND-jimjim1 »
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    Re: What is FireFox
    « Reply #1 on: December 20, 2008, 10:47:54 PM »
    heehee firefox has better addons than internet explorer. Seems like firefox is updated more often than IE as far as I see, whether or not that's actually true ....
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    Re: What is FireFox
    « Reply #2 on: December 21, 2008, 02:35:26 AM »
    Internet Explorer is much like your average toilet.

    Why can't you do your homework on your own?
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      Re: What is FireFox
      « Reply #3 on: December 22, 2008, 03:32:26 PM »
      Not homework
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      Re: What is FireFox
      « Reply #4 on: December 22, 2008, 03:33:24 PM »
      Well, for a start, Firefox is free, IE is not.
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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #5 on: December 22, 2008, 03:37:06 PM »
        IE is free

        or at least I got it free  ;D
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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #6 on: December 22, 2008, 03:39:34 PM »
        Maybe you got it free, but it's not free, and never will be.

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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #7 on: December 23, 2008, 03:47:01 AM »
        Quote from: kpac on December 22, 2008, 03:39:34 PM
        Maybe you got it free, but it's not free, and never will be.

        Internet explorer has been offered free since version 3 was released for free to help it compete with netscape. The only requirement now is a windows installation.

        98 integrated IE4, 2000 integrated IE5, XP integrated IE6. I see no costs involves here aside from the OS; and if we say that is the price of IE, then we cannot possibly say that Notepad or wordpad or paint or minesweeper or hearts or etc... are free either, since they impose the same requirement for a windows installation (naturally)



        Unless of course your measuring costs via potential damage due to security vulnerabilities, which are both impossible to predict within a farm's length as well as borderline pedantic.

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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #8 on: December 23, 2008, 04:32:44 AM »
        Okay.... Thanks for that (long pieces of) information... ;D

        That is actually what I meant about it not being free. You can't actually get it for free without a Windows OS.
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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #9 on: December 23, 2008, 05:38:35 AM »
        that makes sense- except it only runs on a windows OS anyway- (old mac versions aside)- firefox runs on almost all popular platforms.

        Since the IE install is part of windows and it only runs on windows, it is essentially free since you would need to buy windows even if it was a separate product.

        As an example, if office was included, would we not call it free simply because of that?

        Or; we could be talking about the WGA cruft they insist on performing when you attempt to download IE7 for example; unfortunately for them, a quick google-search finds many un-WGA required downloads of IE7. (not the latest version sometimes, but it's a workable solution)

        Not that I even touch IE voluntarily anymore.
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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #10 on: December 23, 2008, 08:16:02 AM »
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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #11 on: December 23, 2008, 09:05:16 AM »
        One thing I like better about Firefox is that it manages passwords better than IE.  That's a convenience; it saves a little time.
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        Re: What is FireFox
        « Reply #12 on: December 23, 2008, 09:34:21 AM »
        You can even get IE on OS X so yes, I'd consider it freeware.

        Why you'd want to use either, especially in that combination is beyond me.
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          Re: What is FireFox
          « Reply #13 on: December 23, 2008, 11:12:52 AM »
          Cool
          Thanks

          Keep the debate going
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          Re: What is FireFox
          « Reply #14 on: December 23, 2008, 04:52:19 PM »
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          Keep the debate going
          Why ?
          Are you earning airline miles for posting what's been discussed numerous times ? ?
          I have to admit i feel much better since you have switched fonts instead of using the red highlighter feature...
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