Does installing Firefox browser remove or erase IE browser ?

Question

Can you have both browsers and use either at whim?

Answer 1

No, it doesn't erase IE. You can launch either - or both - when you want.

Answer 2

In fact, rightclicking a page in Firefox brings up a panel, at the bottom of which is the option "View this page in IE." I love Firefox for 10,000 reasons, and use that function when I wan't to check to be sure that the page malfunctions [on the rare occasion when it does] because the site does not support Firefox [some don't]. Almost always, it doesn't work in IE either.

Firefox is hugely, hugely customizable, and I like that fact that you can easily change the skin [theme]. IE is outta here, although the new one is available, but there is no skinning with the new one either.

Answer 3

This is for the uneducated person above me "oddball"

You can look at oddball's source and then look at this
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic44405.html
to see how oddball's source copied and pasted to make Firefox look bad.

Then you can go straight to the untouched legitimate source and compare each browsers patched and unpatched holes, make sure you also compare how "critical" these holes are to each browser. The conclusion is that no browser is perfect, but Insecure Exploder is the least secure browser you can be using.
http://secunia.com/product/4227/?task=statistics
http://secunia.com/product/11/?task=statistics

United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team:
"There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies related to the IE domain/zone security model,...ActiveX (etc)...It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser"
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878

PcWorld Magazine:
"...a virtual engraved invitation to hackers and other digital delinquents, Internet Explorer 6.x might be the least secure software on the planet"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125772-page,3/article.html

One thought for the road:
Incontinent Exploder supports web standards very poorly. This means that because of over 80% of users use IE, then web developers have to downgrade their websites to work properly in IE. So when superior browsers such as Firefox or Opera browsers view a website, it sometimes does not show up correctly because the website was "broken" to show up properly in IE. Try the test yourself using IE, Firefox and then Opera.
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

Insecure Explosion consistently rates less secure than Firefox and Opera
http://www.webdevout.net/security_summary.php

Answer 4

Use some logic. With Firefox on your computer you need to still use IE for some things because Firefox doesn't allow the use of Active X controls. So, for any site that requires you to use Active X you need to use IE. Seems nutty to me to have a limited Browser like Firefox. Most of the claims that Firefox makes are lies (or as the politically correct call it "Myths"). Read here:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

Answer 5

You can use both at the same time, even keep different bookmarks if you wish, which is useful because a few websites require Explorer and will not work with Firefox so it is nice to be able to use Explorer in those cases.

Answer 6

no, you can have still both, unless you totally remove the other one!! I use both! If I have a new website I don't know, I use firefox...for the trusted websites I use the other browser!

Answer 7

No way , this can't happend, but Firefox is the best browser for me.

Answer 8

No, the I.E. browser will still be there. Firefox will just be your default browser.

Answer 9

You can have them both and even run them both in the same time with no probs.

Answer 10

NO

You can use them both at the same time if you want