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roger andre

roger andre
Technical Support, Glastonbury UK
Member since: June 2008

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Sunday 22 June 2008, 6:01 PM

fire fox 3 vs IE8 beta 1


First things first.

I would describe my self as fairly new to the world of looking under the windows bonnet, and finding it fascinating and enjoyable.

Firefox 3 seems to take its time allowing the ticks to show from mcAfee site adviser, and a little slow downloading podcasts from the BBC website for some reason. In comparison I am also running IE8 beta1 and will download them faster. At the moment there is not much between these two browsers for me, sometimes i will have a browser window open in each, with no complaints from my test rig (a six year old XP advent 7011 laptop).

Overall fire fox 3 is working very well for me. Trouble is IE8 beta1 has been running flawlessly (I hope they don t mess this up with later releases)!

I think it s a good thing to have competition between these two browsers now..you know, that thing about being on tip toes.

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Firefox 3

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Rating: 8.0
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If only for its speed, lightness of being and security, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for the best internet browser.

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