Firefox or MS Explorer

My school district has been having a lot of trouble with bandwidth and someone mentioned it might be MS Explorer. If we switched from MS Explorer to FireFox that some of the slowness will go away. Any thoughts on that?

Tags: Firefox, bandwidth, explorer

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Permalink Reply by Chris on March 24, 2010 at 11:03am

One great thing about FireFox is that you can run AdBlock, a program that stops most ads from being displayed. Not only is that great in itself, but pages should also load a little faster with less needed bandwidth.

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Permalink Reply by Katy Scott on March 24, 2010 at 12:04pm

I'm a Web designer and, therefore, hate Explorer. I'm not sure if it will resolve your speed problem, but a lot of Web sites don't run properly on Explorer. Also, Firefox offers a ton of plug-ins that allow you to do things like download YouTube videos to your computer easily.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Stafford on March 24, 2010 at 2:54pm

Why anyone would use IE is beyond me. Firefox, Chrome, Safari (yes for Windows) are your best bets but your mileage may vary.

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Permalink Reply by Zach Vander Veen on March 30, 2010 at 9:01am

While I always encourage folks to use anything but IE (although, IE 8 is decent), using a different browser won't affect bandwidth.

You will get some speed improvements based on what browser you're using. Chrome seems to be the fastest for me. But browser updates seem to come fast and furious, so one month it may be firefox is the fastest, the next chrome, etc.

It's good that we're getting a ramped up Browser war. Good competition means better all around browsers. Not to mention it's forcing Microsoft to get better at actually following standards!