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To: ZULU
What is a good alternate to Mozilla?

Internet Explorer 11 (who knew?) and Chrome are good. Chrome is the fastest.

12 posted on 04/07/2014 9:45:17 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"Internet Explorer 11 (who knew?) and Chrome are good. Chrome is the fastest."

Just my opinion: Internet Explorer has historically been my least favorite for several reasons, none of which happen to reflect any perceived anti-Microsoft bias on my part.

First, earlier versions of IE 'marched to a different drummer' by insisting on varying from attempts to (loosely) standardize emerging browser technologies proposed by the other major software companies. This often caused rendering differences, which required alternate coding for a page to display in IE the same as it appeared in other browsers. As a webmaster, it's a pain in the ass to keep up with its eccentricities.

Earlier versions were also notoriously insecure, with versions 6 & 8 being absolute security nightmares. (And IE 8 is the last version supported in XP, which means that those clinging to Windows XP and IE 8 are going to be a risk with the imminent demist of XP support.)

I know Google is somewhat of a bad word in these parts, but I will switch my allegiance to Chrome, which I can set up to be virtually identical in features & appearance to my Firefox configuration. One big advantage Chrome leverages is built-in support for Flash, whereas Firefox and IE relied upon external plugins that were frequent attack vectors, requiring regular updates. Chrome will take care of Flash updates on its own, without requiring user intervention.

19 posted on 04/07/2014 10:04:30 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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