What's so bad about Firefox?

[thethethe]

Ok, so some websites are saying something like below:



why can't we use Firefox to go on that site?

It works perfectly on Internet Explorer:


(The Error Message in the front meant "Please wait..." and the button means cancel)
Anyone know why?

[thethethe]

You know what, I need to resize these images.

[Quillz]

Because Firefox supports web standards, but some web sites don't. Those that don't usually require IE5 or better.

[thethethe]

Yeah, but why?

[BlueFlame]

Firefox leaks memory when tabs are open

[Quillz]

Yeah, but why?

Because some web developers don't want to have to recode their entire site just for a small minority of FF users. Despite what you may think, IE still has more than 89% of all web traffic.

[Scott MacVicar]

Most of these sites were designed in the past 5 years, IE supports the exact same standards that Firefox also supports. These sites which chose not to is through laziness.

[ManagerJosh]

Actually not really Scott. Wiznet recently updated their site on mapleglobal.com and they blocked FireFox after the update.

[Scott MacVicar]

In that case it was a choice to use something incompatible and I personally think its deplorable. Apple machines, PDA's, mobile phones and alternative browsers locked out because someone decides IE only. This may even be illegal in the UK now due to an accesibility law passed last year regarding screen readers.

This is the basis of my university paper and most of the reasons have been lack of updates to main stream books, education courses and authoring software.

[Guest]

Just install this, and switch the user agent to IE. That will by-pass the block.

The site might not render correctly, but more often then not it's still useable in firefox.

[Creepshow]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Internet Explorer OWNS Firefox.

[NTFU2]

the only cool thing with Firefox is tabbed browsing. Lets wait till firefox hits version 6.0 or whatever and see how many bugs, security holes that is found in it.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Internet Explorer OWNS Firefox.

[Cole2026]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Internet Explorer OWNS Firefox.

The probable reason that the "Non-IE" Browser message appears is because Firefox does not support Active-x controllers.

I don't really like Firefox anymore because of it's memory-leak bug, and I hate IE for reasons which I don't feel like listing. Honestly I like Opera the best.

[MRGTB]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Internet Explorer OWNS Firefox.

I totally agree, I think Firefox has got worse in there new releases for viewing more errors on sites. Even my own site worked perfectly fine before in there previous version when viewed. Now I have a few issues that messes up big time when viewed in the latest version which are all linked to the WSY post box,.

Give me IE everyday of the week. FF is too buggy when viewing lots of sites if you ask me in there latest version. It's a fast browser yeah. But whats the point when lots of sites don't seem to look right and mess up in FF unlike IE.

I quite honestly don't see what all the fuss is about FF. IN fact Opera is a faster browser than FF and uses TABS just the same without the memory leak. And it shows less site errors than FF.

[tgillespie]

Lets wait till firefox hits version 6.0 or whatever and see how many bugs, security holes that is found in it.

Version numbers mean nothing. Firefox 1.5 does the same exact thing as Internet Explorer 6. The Gecko engine has been around just as long as Internet Explorer. Firefox is simply a distrobution of it.