Re: Firefox vs IE (restricted sites)

From: Lance (lltbhill_at_link_earth.net)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:27:01 -0700

I use both. WinXP SP2

Right now I started Firefox and IE with blank startup pages. Firefox is
using 16,776 KB, IE is using 10,540 KB. At Yahoo!, FF uses 19,396 KB and
IE uses 16,540 KB.

To tell you the truth, with the new IE integrated popup stopper that
came with SP2, I prefer IE now.

Lance
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Udoo thought carefully and wrote on 8/26/2004 5:52 PM:

> I'm contemplating the switch from IE to Firefox. I like
> Firefox's pop-up blocking, low memory usage compared to
> IE, etc. One thing that is stopping me is the fact that
> Firefox doesn't have something like a Restricted Sites
> zone like IE does.
>
> I like the Restricted Sites zone in IE because it's a long
> list of sites I've compiled so that these sites will not
> be able to use cookies, ActiveX controls, Java applets,
> scripting, unwanted pop-ups, auto-installing of unwanted
> programs like spyware, etc.
>
> I'm apprehensive to use Firefox because of this, although
> I know I can disable certain things in Firefox (like Java,
> and ActiveX isn't even supported).
>
> Am I being too paranoid here or is there something Firefox
> gives in return for the loss of my cherished list of
> restricted sites?

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