Firefox's massive overhaul moves to beta

Actually, IE has been a pretty decent browser starting with IE10. I am using IE11 (along with an old version of Opera) and IE can really hold its own with the competition as far as speed and use of resources. If you don't need a lot of gadgets but just want a solid browser, IE10 or IE11 is a good choice today.

Thai, more than a year ago, I got fed up with some changes that Firefox made that wiped out some of my settings. A number of people recommended that I give the Pale Moon browser a try. I did, and it's been my primary browser ever since. I love it! It's based on Firefox, but it doesn't follow Firefox mindlessly; I know it's NOT planning to move in the direction of Firefox 29 (Australis). However, Pale Moon does accept almost all Firefox add-ons, and you can even use your Firefox profile with Pale Moon if you want.

One other thing that I really like about Pale Moon is the Pale Moon Forum. The people there are helpful, and many of them are quite knowledgeable. And the Pale Moon developer participates very actively on the forum.

I now have four browsers on my computer: Pale Moon, Firefox, Opera 12.16, and IE 11. But Pale Moon is definitely my primary browser. I highly recommend it.

I think there was a time not all that long go when most users were stuck with a clunky, out of date, and inherently unsafe Internet Explorer. Then entered alternatives such as Opera and Firefox that offered more speed, and more features such as tabbed browsing. Then came extensions and add-ons which turned the browser into something more resembling an old AOL homepage with apps for music, news, games, and on and on. With that, over the years browsers such as Firefox (in my opinion) suffered from the weight and sometimes bad behavior of all of these extensions and were no longer the fast, lean, and clean browsers for which we initially searched. In fact, in some ways they became clunky and buggy just as those early versions of IE. So now people are once again searching for a browser that is clean, simple, light on resources, relatively safe, and will search the Internet without crashing every ten minutes like Firefox. Thus my suggestion to Thai. We have, it seems to me, come full circle with IE (Internet Explorer) having developed into that which we originally wanted. So, again as I said to Thai, if you are looking only for a clean, relatively safe, fast, stable browser to search the Internet. IE10 or IE11 will be hard to beat.

In the event you want to move back to IE, moving your bookmark/favorites is easy. See below:

www.wikihow.com/Import-Favorites-Into-Internet-Explorer

No problem marck...this girl is a tad old to be doing the techie learning curve which is why I am reluctant to switch BUT I am having increasing issues with FF and must do something, or at least I think I do. Tried to download IE 11 and it appears it is not compatible with Windows 7 so uninstalled that and all the other unrelated stuff it came with.
Maybe tomorrow I will try IE 10 or Pale Moon?

From what I've heard, Firefox's next major version, "Australis," will be a major departure from what many FF users have come to expect. I think that's why some people are looking for alternatives to Firefox. That wasn't my motivation, however. I became increasingly unhappy with Firefox updates causing problems for some of my add-ons, but what finally pushed me to move was one version (I don't remember which) that wiped out a number of my settings. I moved to Pale Moon and have been very pleased. As far as I can tell (since I still keep Firefox on my computer), FF updates no longer create problems for my add-ons, but I see no reason to go back since Pale Moon is an excellent browser with much better tech support. I don't make much use of Internet Explorer, but I have a lot of respect for Dr. Mark's judgment, so IE is probably also a good choice.