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I am relatively new to computers, so I,m not as savvy as most, about anything computer, will someone give some input about firefox ? I have always used yahoo but on this site I'm finding a lot of you favor firefox,TIA

Bigeme

You use yahoo?

Firefox is a web browser like Internet Explorer. If you don't know much about computers just stick with IE. The only real advantage in firefox is the use of extension which probably is not something you would be interest in. That might change with the new version of firefox, but you'll have to wait for that.

butthead006

Firefox is more stable and offers more flexibility than anything Microsoft. Also, Internet Explorer Eats first-born children.
As an added bonus, Billy Bob Gates gets zero dollars with each firefox dl.
Food for thought.

CWB

about the only good thing about IE over FF involves the windows updater ... but they are working on that !

money issues asides (i didn't know that uncle bill charged for IE , news to me) , FF is much more flexible when it comes to add ons and plug ins . take a look here for more information : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi...ication=firefox

the ability and extent of customization of what you deem important to have in your browser is far superior with FF . IE is limited in this capacity and looks like it was designed by the rejects from mrs. bensons' third grade special needs class .

personally , i avoid all toolbars like the plague . google , yascrew ... the whole lot are nothing more than fluff and eye candy that are of dubious value and intent (aka : gleaning information about the user) . cutesy , yes ... functionality , about as worthless as a screen door on a submarine .
if i am so busy that i don't have the time to open a tab or window to do a google search then i can afford to have a second comp with google pulled up on it 24/7 .
on/in any browser real estate is at a premium ... why would i want to eat up valuable space with clutter and junk ? there is also the issue of "crap running in the background" eating up cpu time and ram ... slows a machine down .
vulnerability of toolbars to hacking/attacks is a consideration as well .

heh , there is a third option ... i am writing this using "seamonkey" , it basically took the place of the mozilla browser .
i use three browsers ... each one does a certain set of tasks better than the others . granted , the only thing i use IE for is the windows validation/updates .