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Like hijackers?

Easier to hit End key anyway.

since day one on the net ten years ago, and never been hijacked and only received four viruses (two in downloads from author's sites and two via email...all were caught and discarded by Etrust (formerly free Inoculate IT) immediately.

Common sense is the key no matter what browser or mail program you use.

I've seen more people with hotmail, yahoo, and aol accounts over the years until just recently get hit with everything under the sun, so throw-away email addresses mean nothing to me.

I have Netscape and Firefox installed but only to check my website with. They are never used otherwise.

TONI

I avoid using IE like the plague. Slow, clunky and insecure. What's it got that Firefox doesn't?

What's Firefox got that IE doesn't offer already or more? I've seen a number of pages that Firefox doesn't render correctly....not a problem with IE ever.

TONI

IE doesn't feature tabbed browsing, which for me is a huge advantage. (I think it does on Mac but I use FF there too).

IE does not display PNG correctly, though they claim it will in ver.7 and you can get some kind of plugin to force it to display them. Seems to me in this day and age the most popular browser should handle PNG and when it does internet graphics will take a big step forward.

My daughter uses IE and I am forever cleaning out the browser highjackers and other malware from her computer. Of course that may have more to do with the browsing habits of teenagers but still, there have been so many security problems with Explorer that I just can't trust it.

As far as speed, maybe they're even but Firefox just seems faster to me at displaying pictures and since I'm a graphics guy this is important to me.

Oh yeah, as far as I know there is nothing like AdBlock for IE and I find it indispensable. In general I think Firefox has better add-ons.

I've heard there are pages that FF can't handle but I haven't seen one yet.

This program has been around for years.....and was always reliable for IE. Now includes a spamblocker for email, too.

http://www.adsubtract.com/products.html

I don't remember positively but I think the original version was free like ZoneAlarm has two versions...with the Pro having more features. I don't see the free version on their site anymore though.

As for the PNG graphics.....some of the graphics on my site are PNG types and they render just fine in IE6. If there are issues with PNG types and IE, perhaps the upgrade of IE7 has fixed it since it's due out soon.

TONI

That's the issue with IE.

I just don't see any advantage to using IE, specially in view of the many security issues.

so I guess I'm not understanding what you mean....I only have a few transparent background type pictures where the graphic blends into the background rather than show up as a black block over the background color.....such as what comes up on this error404 page I created (at the bottom are two graphics but they are .gif or .jpg types with transparent backgrounds). Most of the rest of my graphics are solid pics....(I don't have the pages up that have .png graphics published to the site yet, but they will be up by this afternoon....however, previewing them in various browsers such as Firefox and Netscape render them correctly)

http://www.pcwarfare.com/av.html (this is not a correct/legitimate page so you will get the error404 page instead)

TONI

Look at my mini-tutorial. PNG can display transparency much better than GIF, including translucence which GIF doesn't support at all. But IE does not display the transparency in PNG.

http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/lucyinthesky.html

with IE. Like Toni said, it is more a common sense issue than anything. I take very good care of my machines, and I spend half my work time fixing other people's machines. I have gotten pretty good at it

I began using Firefox on occasion just a few short months ago. I like it, but IE is still my main browser.

As you said, to each his/her own

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