I third it....i tel everyone to stay the hell away from anything to do with microsoft (sorry Bill)
Apart from the fact that you need updates for the updates for the updates for the updates.
I.E Sux
Mozilla Firefox with Noia Extreme theme all the way...

in the last year i have used flashpeak slim browser, its better than firefox and ie in my opion, i only use ie for msn related things, such as msn live spaces. this is only a 1.8mb download and it has brilliant features and performance, all those firefox lovers out there should give it a go.
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/

Firefox, can't fault it

ok then ...
Wanna talk about security ...
dont use the internet.....
otherwise get used to it.......

dont matter what u use there is always gonna be advantages and drawbacks..

Hey netscape aint bad either ....

But i.e can kiss my red rosey ...keep it clean thingy...
Now post something worth reading for christsake.
Those that like i.e obvouisly taking a bung from mr gates and his crew or something....

Now stop being so gawd dam scientific........and use Firefox with the skin i mentioned ....
where else has a built in pop up stopper for FREE unless your using a hacked copy of xp¬!!!!!!!!


Peroid!

the google toolbar has a built in pop up blocker and its free
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There was I in my first post asking not to turn this in to a debate.

If one his happy with FF then fine, but please don't slate IE off just because you don't like it.

Nah don't stop using the internet if you're worried about security... how silly is that?!

Just get rid of Windows completely and start usinf Linux or something... no virus software, no firewalls.... sweet!

using linux will not make you immune from attack,
But i have computers with firewall and av software turned off most off the time and ive never had problems.
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Bernard, this will always turn into a debate.

In IE's slight defence, Obviously it's going to be more compatible with microsoft websites - such as update and hotmail live. I've also found incredible amounts of websites have absolutely no firefox compatibility at all. Major ones. Usually the applets on them aren't built for FF.

I also think, seeing as i'm just siding with IE to make my opinion as unbiased as possible, that firefox hasn't done anything innovative since it's inception. I appreciate the "don't fix what aint broke" line, but to keep ahead of microsoft, they need to continue to innovate - not just focus on patching security issues.

Saying this, I haven't tried the new beta yet - so I could be entirely wrong.

Well Dan I might just go back with IE7 beta, I did sort the blurry fonts thing, someone in this thread mentioned what to do, but I was advised what to do before that post was posted - does any of that make any sence

let me tell you there is nothing but trouble with 7.0 explorer.It keeps shutting internet explorer down,opening mail more than once at times opens windows at bottom for no reason.So I uninstalled it.

I put it on mum's computer and it looked horrible so I haven't bothered with it on any of the others. We all use Firefox anyway and for those sites that aren't written to render in anything other than IE, there's IETab.