Firefox or not?

[ayabrea38]

I am seeing a bit about Firefox and as a learning computer user,I am wondering if I should change to this.I am using IE8 but I was hoping someone could tell me the advantages of Firefox over IE as I am only a basic user,but learning.Are there things such as accelerators and add ons?
If I dont like it,is it easy to go back to IE8?
People mention importing stuff from one to the other.I am not 100%what this means(sorry)but gather I can take my favourites with me.Is this right?
Thanks for your patience.

[dizmouk2009]

I will start from the bottom and work my way up.

Importing - This means to copy all of your favourites, bookmarks and history (I think the history is moved too, but it doesn't matter) to another browser. So if you did wish to use firefox you could have all your favourites and bookmarks that are currently on IE.

Firefox, I believe (I use firefox) is alot fast and less buggier than Internet Explorer, but, people may say different. Theres no harm in trying it!

It is simple to go back on internet explorer, you just re-install it (internet explorer can never actually be deleted as it is a part of the Microsoft operating system so getting it back isn't too hard to do).

I hope that has answered your questions.
Diz,

[dizmouk2009]

If you're using XP then when you go to 'start > settings > control panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add / Remove Windows Components (tab on the left had side)' and untick 'Internet Explorer' and click 'next' you can still use Internet Explorer by doing the following:

Just open up a documents folder (any folder) and type the website in the address bar at the top. If there is no address bar just right click with the mouse on the bar that has 'file, edit, etc etc' in (making sure not to actually click on any of the 'words') and click on 'address bar'

Then just type in the address in there. Simmpless.

Diz,
P.S Msn Messenger uses Internet Explorer as apposed to firefox so your computer will still use it.

[ayabrea38]

Thanks for that,I think I will give it a go.I am using windows 7(but wish it was XP sometimes)so is all that control panel stuff the same cos if my brain can handle it I would like to use both.Hope it is faster,I am beginning to get bored sometimes waiting for stuff to open.
Thanks again,Aya

[dizmouk2009]

I wish I could give an answer to that question but unfortuanatly I don't use windows 7, sorry! Good luck with it though :)

[Craftypig]

I find IE8 slow, google chrome is a bit better, but i find apple safari the quickest of the ones i use regularly....

[Prescott]

Hi - I'm using Windows 7 with Firefox. No problems and very quick.

[Prescott]

BTW You can import your bookmarks, favourites etc from IE 7 or 8 by clicking on the import menu under file.

[Jumbuck]

Just download and try it - you can have however many internet browsers on your machine that you want e.g. I have 11 that I play around with, using Firefox 99% of the time.