Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I keep hearing people raving about Firefox, and I decided to do a little research from the users themselves. What, in your opinion, are the advantages of Firefox over IE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertlee Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I am currently using Firefox... And the reason in my case is that every time I open my hotmail in IE, it apears error on page all the time on right bottom of the window......cant fix this problem, then I use Firefox... In my opinion, Firefox is very good, nice and simple to use, having fewer buttons on the window more over, Firefox is mostly compatible with IE, you can also get My Favourite from IE directly to Firefox... Albert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I would think the main advantage is that Firefox is very secure (as opposed to MS's 'come and get my data' approach). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSX Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 lol Have you used Netscape Navigator? It's like that but much faster. With FireFox, you can download & install more plug-ins as you wish, built-in pop-up blocker, tabbing windows, and I just like the overall operation of FireFox. IE seems so...bulky. Even MyIE2 [which I use to see IE-only pages] doesn't have the same functionality as FireFox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulderMan Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 i like firefox as it uses tabbed browsing, and i like the gui better. the thing is some pages will appear wrong as people code to microsoft products NOT web standards by the w3c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'Dona Posted June 22, 2004 Share Posted June 22, 2004 I started using Firefox after I reinstalled XP on my computer, and my sister showed it to me. Since then I haven't gotten a single pop-up that I can remember, and certainly no adware. It was slower at first, but it doesn't seem to be anymore (not because I've gotten used to it being slower or anything, it's faster now). And it's more minimal than IE in terms of interface, and it's got the google search bar built in, and the icon is much nicer. When you've got multiple windows for a certain site open you can switch between then via a tab bar that apears, instead of having to sort through the IE windows that appear on the taskbar, and frequenty stack. I much prefer Firefox to IE, and this is after using IE for about 5 years. If I might also say this, for anyone who's looking for a good mp3 player as well, I'd recommend STP. It's a quickbar mp3 player that only takes up about 4 MB of RAM, and you can bind hotkeys to the different functions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegir Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Tabbed browsing and integrated pop up blocker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 23, 2004 Author Share Posted June 23, 2004 For those of you that use it, have you had any bugs/problems with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Nope. Only utter joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 Here it is for free:http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 25, 2004 Author Share Posted June 25, 2004 Thanks.. I switched. Whoopee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Make sure to get some of the plugins; some are very useful. I recommend the one for proper smooth scrolling of webpages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 25, 2004 Author Share Posted June 25, 2004 What's that? I could use that one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Just click on the "Get Plugins" link on mozilla.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 25, 2004 Author Share Posted June 25, 2004 Got it... thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 While we're on the topic of Mozilla and whatnot, I've just gone and got myself a copy of 1.7. However, there is a rather large problem (for me) with the themes. I'll select a very nice theme, and it'll be all hunkydory until I restart Mozilla. At this point it defaults back to the Classic theme - which, needless to say, is rather annoying. Does anyone have a solution for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Install Firefox, lol. J/k Check out the mozilla support forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossoi Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 I've got exactly the same problem with Firefox on one of my machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 Apparently it's something to do with the fact that I forgot to delete my extensions and didn't perform a clean install, but I've tried that and it still doesn't want to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 25, 2004 Share Posted June 25, 2004 If you upgraded to 0.9 from a previous build, there is a thread on mozilla's support forum that tells you how to do it without any hitches. Although having said that some of the themes are a bit buggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 I just downloaded it myself. It seems to work very nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossoi Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 This was a clean install on a brand new XP machine. I've not tried removing and reinstalling yet. I'll update if that fixes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skye Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Here's one reason. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6746-2004Jun25.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossoi Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Groan - registration required just to read that site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Aha! Not with Firefox's Bugmenot plugin! (Or you could just go to http://www.bugmenot.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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