Comments on: New MSN Toolbar Beta Tells Users to Use IE

By: mike 'frost'

mike 'frost' — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:44:25 +0000

i love firefox, i never get pop ups, its faster,or to me it seems faster,i like having the tabs at the top of the page to g ack and fourth instead of taking up space at bottom lile ie. i think firefox is way better. im just trying to go through and pick up my msn toolbar, an aim toolbar and yahoo toolbar(which i have but isnt the same as my ie yahoo toolbar…)
anyways firefox slaps internet explorer across the face with a clean well pressed glove

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:09:00 +0000

Haha! What is that claim that “IE is not slower” based on? Wanting it to be so doesn’t make it so. Here’s just one example from a reputable source:
http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23397

By: sdfkjdsf

sdfkjdsf — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:01:54 +0000

IE is not slower

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:16:48 +0000

Yah, I realize that. But the warning is disingenuous. Most users would not realize that they can use the toolbar while still using Firefox as their default brower. See the first comment here.

Of course, that’s the least of the MSN Toolbar’s problems at this point. It’s a passable beta, but not worthy of keeping on a machine in the face of stronger competition from Copernic and even Google (not to mention X1, although that’s not free).

By: Tom Laird-McConnell

Tom Laird-McConnell — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:35:19 +0000

The requirement for IE is just for the IE toolbar. You do NOT need IE to use desktop search. (You can still search via the Outlook Bar, the DeskBar and the Windows Explorer Bar) and firefox works fine.

You can have your cake and eat it too.

-Tom

By: Devin C Reams

Devin C Reams — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:53:44 +0000

I admit I switched back to IE as my primary browser becuase of it…