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Why I Recommend Firefox…

I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on the Firefox versus Internet Explorer subject in my newsletter. For a while last year, I beat it to death…

But, recently, in responding to a reader’s question, I mentioned that I recommended Firefox over IE for web browsing. His response was “You Do?

The reason that I recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer boils down to security while web surfing.

First, there’s the ActiveX issue.

ActiveX is a proprietary Microsoft technology that allows a web site to download a program to your computer via Internet Explorer — and to automatically run that program.

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  1. TC
    Comment by TC | 2007/06/13 at 14:46:16

    What is the best browser for my Imac, I enjoy playing yahoo games, and I find fire fox to slow, safari often unexpectly quits, and opera is slower than slow


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