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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 04:26 PM
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Firefox - IE compatibility

I've been a big fan of Firefox since its release. Lately I have noticed more and more webpages do not display correctly on Firefox as they do on IE.
Anyone else noticed this??
Thinking of switching back...
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 05:11 PM
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I just added the 'view in i.e.' extension, allows me to left click in any window and reopen it in ie, or right click on a link to open in ie. I don't use it very often, but it is nice to have the option sometimes.
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by dave89144
I've been a big fan of Firefox since its release. Lately I have noticed more and more webpages do not display correctly on Firefox as they do on IE.
Anyone else noticed this??
Thinking of switching back...
Yes.

Firefox will not support active X like IE does. Some malicious sites use Active X to download executable files to your computer.

I use firefox becuase it is more secure on the internet than IE, AND my system is running Linux, so IE will not work anyway.
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Old Oct 10, 2005 | 06:39 PM
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I've been designing a lot of web pages lately and been previewing them in both IE and Firefox. I'm not to the point of anything fancy though. Simple pages even show up diffferently. I try to get them as similar as possible between the two browsers. I use Firefox for the security issue also.
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Old Oct 13, 2005 | 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by dave89144
I've been a big fan of Firefox since its release. Lately I have noticed more and more webpages do not display correctly on Firefox as they do on IE.
Anyone else noticed this??
Thinking of switching back...

dng, i cant remember the columnist for eWeek. a few weeks ago, he wrote why IE-only sites exists: programmers (web developers) are LAZY.

plain and simple...

i have the issue at work. i'll see if i can post a link to it...

edit: here's the link
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1857297,00.asp

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Old Oct 19, 2005 | 07:49 PM
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Anyone using a the popular WYSWYG's to create sites will cause dificulties. Microsoft's Frontpage is horrible for viewing from any browser other than IE. I've always used Firefox. I wish that they would resurrect the cool dragon logo from the pre-fox icon days of Pheonix. I keep IE around for the one sight that doesn't load correctly and for idiots who instictively correlate the "e" with the www.
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