Posted by Becca_FL on 2/13/06 9:10am
Msg #96608

Mozilla (Firefox) vs. IE

I recently changed my default browser to Mozilla and must say, I am quite happy with the Firefox browser. Today, when I went to download from Chase Secure Net with Firefox, I was unable to install the neccesary plug-ins. When I opened the site with IE, I had no problem.

Can someone out there explain this to me?

Reply by Mitch_MD on 2/13/06 9:28am
Msg #96612

Not everything is 100 percent compatible with Firefox and may not ever be. The best solution is to try using Firefox first, then switch back to IE for that specific web site if Firefox cannot display what you need. I find Firefox works for me about 98 percent of the time and use IE for the remainder.

Reply by kkdmiddleton on 2/13/06 9:40am
Msg #96614

I agree with Mitch. I started using Firefox then my husband switched to Netcapter. I like firefox SSSOOO much better. I find that the downloads are much easier with firefox. If I have problems I just switch to IE.

Reply by Calnotary on 2/13/06 9:49am
Msg #96616

For some reason I love firefox, but when I cant do something in firefox, I have to go back
and do it with IE

Reply by BrendaTx on 2/13/06 10:38am
Msg #96632

Re: Mozilla (Firefox) vs. IE - Mitch...

It's good to hear from you. I took a gentle bashing from a CA Mitch a few days back and wondered if it was you. Now I remember you are from MD. Whew...you can see why that would bother me since we had conversed via email.

Reply by Mitch_MD on 2/13/06 12:22pm
Msg #96687

Yup - Mitch from MD

Brenda, there's no way I would take you publicly to task after having benefited from your wise advice. Were I to disagree, I would do so via private email. :-)

Reply by BrendaTx on 2/13/06 12:24pm
Msg #96690

Re: Yup - Mitch from MD - thanks Mitch. (:>) n/m

Reply by MichiganAl on 2/13/06 10:08am
Msg #96621

That's why I stopped using it, many plug-ins don't work. So I went back to the evil empire of Microsoft.

Reply by Carol_in_MI on 2/13/06 10:22am
Msg #96625

Here's a handy extension

I use Firefox, too, and have found that the IEView extension is very handy. You can get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox

That will give you an option in your right click menu to open that page in IE. Also lets you set certain pages to always open with IE. I have found that very useful for the FedEx site for making shipping labels.

Reply by PAW on 2/13/06 11:52am
Msg #96664

Depending on which version of Java the site uses and whether or not the site employs Active-X, will determine if the necessary plug-in for Firefox are (1) available and (2) work. With Active-X, you must use Microsoft's Internet Exploder. Also, some sites specifically look to see if you are using Internet Exploder and which version. Then fails to do anything if you're not using what they are checking for.

As Carol noted, there is an extension for Firefox that allows you to easily switch to IE for any page. Also, you can tell Firefox to open a website in IE rather than a with Firefox.

Reply by SanDiegoCA on 2/13/06 12:58pm
Msg #96718

Re: the sad truth behind why Firefoxdoesn't universally work

Let's face the sad truth here.

There were internet web page standards built by an international group of very smart, but very non competitive folks who thought it would be all together better to have a STANDARD language to build internet pages with.

Then, along comes Microshaft, who publishes a web page building tool (Frontpage), and alters a significant part of that language standard, so that the pages built by that program work BEST (and sometimes ONLY) with it's own web browser software.

So ......... like ........ what ELSE is new?!??!??!?!??!?