Stop IE
A website with tons of information of why we should all stop using IE. Useful for friends who seem unconvinced that IE is evil. Well… at least they have a reason.. unlike antifirefox.com lol.
The Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software should devote an entire section of their website to help demonstrate how Evil IE really is. Why have they did not come up with the concept yet. They should have done this before to kick start THE second great browsers war.
I personally use Firefox (and love it), but I don’t think there’s a need for this site. IE can be locked down (almost) just as tight as Firefox, and people have personal preferences (although I realize that most only use it because it comes with Windows). Frankly I like having it being so widely used. It makes it more appealing to exploit, thus keeping me safer. If the internet switched to Firefox, Firefox will get targetted by attacks, and I’d rather not have that.
I would very seriously doubt that anyone will care about this after IE7 is released. The only thing that the end user would care about here is tabbed browsing, which IE7 should be much better at after Beta 2 (there is very little in there right now, the really compelling features vs. Firefox will not be there until Beta 2).
What is IE good for? Windows updates.. Wow.. Impressive! Look, firefox has patched up alot of what IE isn’t patched up with already. That’s why you don’t see IE exploits working on firefox as well. It’s not that IE is exploited because its popular, but because its extremely vulnerable. Try finding an exploit on IE, you’ll find hundreds.
Look at each and every one of those exploits and tell me if it can be modified to work with firefox.. You won’t find any. If your thinking that IE7 will be more safe, yea it will be a bit more safe, but not as safe as firefox, plus IE7 is just a copycat of alot of features from firefox and other web browsers(For example, tabbed browsing). Not only all of this, but firefox has hundreds of great extensions. The more people that switch to firefox, the more great extensions there will be to come.