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Firefox for Mac

Nov 4, 2006 10:16AM PST

I went to eBay and they recommend I upgrade my Safari to Foxfire. Is this a good idea? I'm on a 2000 iBook with Mac OS X.

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Safari is fine. FireFox is fine.
Nov 4, 2006 10:23AM PST

ANYTHING but Internet Explorer.

Why did eBay say to upgrade? I go there irregularly and have never been told to upgrade...

When you are in the Finder, Under the Apple, go to "Software Update" and update your Apple software, please...

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I don't know why eBay would
Nov 4, 2006 9:35PM PST

recommend Firefox unless they've struck a business deal. Prior to yesterday they recommended an upgrade on Safari. So I don't know. I'm on my way to check for software updates and thanks for the reminder.

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why not?
Nov 4, 2006 6:47PM PST

You can always delete it if you prefer safari

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Firefox and eBay
Nov 4, 2006 9:44PM PST

I don't think he has a problem with using Firefox but the rest of us were a little surprised to hear that eBay had recommended that he change to it.
I've been using eBay for a long time and, for the past 5 years I have been using Safari on it. They have never suggested that I change.

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What about IE?
Nov 4, 2006 10:15PM PST

Think I should dump Explorer since I never use it? Or is there any advantage to keeping it?

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IE for Mac
Nov 5, 2006 12:37AM PST

Unsupported, outdated and not very good.

However, it does not take up a lot of space, so leave it where it is.
Remove the icon from the dock, just so you don't accidently launch it.

I did find, last year sometime, that a router would not accept input from Safari but would from IE.
There are also some sites, becoming fewer though, that will not work correctly without IE. This is due to the poor coding of the site, using proprietary MS HTML, and the coders themselves

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Thanks for the IE advice.
Nov 5, 2006 6:19AM PST

Your help was beyond my expectations!

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(NT) (NT) Thank you!
Nov 5, 2006 8:55AM PST