Thanks for the reply. It really isn’t much of a problem because I can always open the page with IE. Normally I just use Moz and I have to say the “IE has encountered an error and needs to close” have disappeared.
I can open IE (7) without add ons also and that also seems to solve the problem. Other then this one error message i really don’t see all the fuss about Mozilla being so much better then IE.
Do you think it is?
Do I think it is [Firefox is much better than IE]?
Yes - for these reasons:
- I run mostly Linux, and IE doesn't run on Linux. Given that I have been a professional Unix and Linux system programmer for 30 years now, since the early days of Unix inside Bell Labs, it is not surprising that I prefer Linux. I have personally run Unix and Linux on tiny systems barely able to run DOS, all the way up to systems with over a thousand processors and a terabyte of main memory. I have had my personal Linux servers stay up solidly, with no reboots, for years at a time. Windows just can't touch that ... not even close.
- I am a heavy use of browser tabs, frequently having 50 or 100 tabs open at once. Firefox support for tabs has been tops.
- I am a serious user of other Firefox add-ons, such as Tab Mix Plus (tabs for power users), PasswordMaker, and Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
I am also a serious advocate of Open Source development. The community of programmers world wide working on Open Source is one of the great delights of my working life, and produces some of the finest software, with the most rapid development cycles, of any development method I've seen.
Firefox is a good example of what Open Source can produce, as is the Linux kernel that I get paid to work on. Windows and IE are examples not of technological success, but rather of the advantages of obtaining near monopolistic control of multiple interconnected markets.
I make no claim that the above reasons apply to most normal people. I have setup and maintain computers for several relatives, and have guided them to selecting, in various cases, Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
My father-in-law, who just wanted email, web, simple documents and digital camera images runs Linux, because it cost him less, and is much easier to keep running stably, with essentially zero concerns for malware. My artistic cousin runs Mac, for its high end graphics art support. My son runs Windows, for its gaming support. Different strokes for different folks, just as some folks drive sedans, some pickup trucks, some sports cars and some motorcycles, bicycles, skateboards, and eighteen wheelers.