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I am planning on downloading firefox but now run internet explorer, what should I be looking out for in terms of any problems?

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I am planning to download firefox but use internet explorer now as my browser, what problems may I encounter and how do I avoid/fix them?

This happened

Not sure how often

hasn't started yet

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Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.4; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I am planning to download firefox but use internet explorer now as my browser, what problems may I encounter and how do I avoid/fix them? == This happened == Not sure how often == hasn't started yet == == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.4; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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Shawn
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You should set one browser as the default - https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How+to+make+Firefox+the+default+browser

Since Firefox is so great, you can Import Bookmarks and other data from Microsoft Edge