Internet Explorer 8 vs Firefox 3

See Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 in action side-by-side. Topics include how the Awesome Bar works, getting Plug-ins, Firefox's better security record.
IE 6 users are reminded of the need to update to a more modern browser.
Versions - IE 8 beta 1, Firefox 3.0.1

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• firefox
• intenet
• explorer
• browsers
• awesome
• bar

[megalodan1]

hey this video is biased. the guy in here is just talking about the downsides of the ie and not the good sides. you don't hear him talking abotu the bad sides of firefox..... totally biased. and if you remove this comment, that just proves that this video was biased. i want an equal fight.

[IanProCastsCoUk]

yep, I'm biased - I rather laid that out at the start of the video. I'm a firefox fan and I'm not a fan of IE, I've lost too many years to pain with IE since 5.5.

in fairness - the video was (pretty much) accurate for the ie8beta but when ie8final was released, MS had fixed some of the omissions. that makes this video rather dated.

btw the only comments I delete are those that tend to use naughty words or say nasty things about other people. thick skinned, me.

[kinr03340]

Best part I didn't know before I watched this video 6:04. Thank you for creating this video.

[IanProCastsCoUk]

You're very welcome - the Keyword Search in Firefox is super-useful, I use it for wikipedia, imdb and amazon all the time!

[crbnated]

the only reason to use IE is to download firefox

[alexm54]

I used IE only to download Firefox. Afterwards I never used IE again.

[duncan33984]

fire fox is good but ie is way better

[tristenenn]

Nice video, but buggar being diplomatic about whether IE sucks or not. It's sucked forever and the sooner it's dead and buried the better.

Buggar also the features IE offers, they're more than offset by the innumerable security holes that regularly leave MS red-faced and, by the beards of the Internet Gods, the countless development hours lost because it doesn't conform to the w3 standards (Acid3 test anyone?)

IE's got marketshare because it's installed by default. Kill it today people.

[BiGcRaPz]

Meh, both the same innit.

[jonusrnme]

been usg FF but now it keeps hangin and if i open IE7 and FF3.6 to say tvcathup IE seems alot faster.it is easy to move bkmrks arnd to folders outside the IE brwsr which i want to do bcause I have so many. and somtimes use Toolbar on the taskbar. Could u help me,I want to make IE my default again but even though I have gone to IE internet optns/prgrms/make IE default clicked y and when first opens. gone to Start/Com defaults and clicked no to default in FFox it is like there is code in FF to st

[arafetkanso]

Firefox dont recognize my servers with its flat name on the network while IE7.x and IE8.x can fastly open my intranet pages , dont know why and i dont care much , viva IE8 !!

[internet8help]

firefox is retarted ie8 and chrome are the best

[BrendoNintendo]

Did this guy really just reference wikipedia four times as an accurate source??

[DeidraDistress]

This video is bull lol. They both have ups and downs. I personally like both. Firefox doesn't show myspace layouts and stuff the way that they actually are supposed to look. My layout and some other peoples layouts don't show up right and neither does the music players but Firefox is quicker. But with IE EVERYTHING works right just a tiny bit slower.