IE please take me back
It’s been well over two years since I switched from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. I swapped over because I was growing tired of all the spyware that IE was letting through. IE wasn’t the fastest browser back then either. Now after using IE 7 for a couple of weeks on my laptop, I’m seriously considering using it full time again.
There are a few reasons why I want to swap back, the first reason is the browser display. When I check out a site with Firefox the text has a rough look to it. When I check out sites in IE, the text is very very crisp. When searching for sites or reviewing sites for the gallery I will always use IE as it has the best display.
The image below shows you my view from IE and Firefox
As you can see for yourself IE definitely looks better. Because of IE’s better visuals, all the screen shots that I take for the gallery are taken with SnagIt inside IE. To me, the screen shots do look a little bit better. Another reason why I’m thinking of dumping Firefox is Memory usage. Over the last 6 months I’ve noticed that Firefox is really starting to eat up my Memory. I do have a couple of add-ons installed but surely they can’t be the be cause of my p.c lagging up? I often find myself hitting ”Ctrl, Alt, Delete” so I can shut down the lagged out Firefox. Let’s see whats using what at the moment.
* Photoshop: 36,024 K
* IE: 20,040 K
* Firefox: 61,040 K
Just as I thought, Firefox, greedy as usual.
I’m not saying Firefox is a bad browser, far from it. It’s been an excellent tool for surfing the internet and some of the plugins are fantastic too. Flashblock is probaly my favorite. But at this moment in time, Firefox isn’t working for me. Hopefully they will have sorted out the issues I brought up here in the eagerly awaited Firefox 3?
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I know exactly what you mean its the same way for me to. before IE7 came out i was a die hard ff and opera user. i hates IE for the most part because ie6 lacked tabbed browsing. but when ie7 came out i changed back to IE and haven’t even thought about going back. you can download a plug in pack called ie7pro that makes it a little bit better to and ads some cool things to it. it takes a bit to get it configured like you want it but well worth it.