Firefox - The fightingist, tootenist, shootenist, little browser that was.

[Nifft]

Firefox Rules! The web has become so clean since I started using Firefox + Adblock.

A 'web clean enough to eat off of.

-- N

 

[Truth Seeker]

*a shameless plug*, Anyone care to try Avant Browser?

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

*a shameless plug*, Anyone care to try Avant Browser?

I've never heard of it. Extoll its virtues to me.

 

[reveal]

*a shameless plug*, Anyone care to try Avant Browser?

I downloaded and installed it. First impression? Meh.

It was quick to load but it looks like it's simply using IE technology, kind of like the "thin client" browsers that just piggy-back on IE. Also, it's a small thing, but I don't like the default option to just minimize to your system tray when you click the corner X. I want it to close, not minimize.

I'm sure if I tried it longer I'd find better things about it, but I like Firefox so I'm not that interested in trying a new browser.

Edit: Plus I don't like that it does not remember paswords but, instead, you have to install a plug-in called RoboForm which remembers all passwords for in every browser.

 

[Jhamin]

why?

or rather, to not be too understated ...

WHY?

I tried Firefox for six months. I wasn't impressed. I went back to what worked for me without constant fighting. Sure, I'm not part of the internet fad de jour, but I can browse without nursing my browser.

1) While Microsoft isn't my friend, I've never felt kewl cause I hated it. Just because it's a MS product is not enough for me to dislike something on it's own.

2) I never saw all this blazing speed everyone keeps talking about. In fact, it doesn't exist.
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#winspeed

3) I keep my OS patched, my firewall up, and my adware scanners running on automatic. Browsers notwithstanding, any PC on the internet needs to do this. Thing of it is, my machine stays pretty clean no matter what browser I use. So the "security by obscurity" you get from Firefox wasn't much of a motivation.

4) There were enough annoying incompatability issues that after a while I didn't care about what was technically clean and started to care more about what would display the pages I went to the way they are supposed to look.
I'm aware that if everyone wrote their webpages according to specs Firefox is better. Thing of it is I'm more interested in what works with what people do rather than what they ought to do.

5) Lots of plugins exist for Firefox. Lots of plugins do not. I got sick of fighting with every plugin & active X control that I actually wanted to install.

6) At the end of the day, I was more concerned with what I was browsing to than by what I was browsing with. Given that 95% of the internet assumed you have IE, and I never say any tangible benifit to doing something else, I just went with what worked.

 

[Mercule]

*a shameless plug*, Anyone care to try Avant Browser?

As I said above, I use it. I like it, too. I have a few minor gripes, but only one major one: Everytime I use the dbl-right-click to go back, the blasted thing drops my Dvorak keyboard and puts me back to qwerty. I cannot tell you how many times that has burned me on a password later on.

 

[Agamon]

It was quick to load but it looks like it's simply using IE technology, kind of like the "thin client" browsers that just piggy-back on IE.

As I recall, that's true. Avant's not so much a new browser as it is 'IE in disguise'. However, if you want a browser with new functions that works with everything that IE does, then Avant mught be what you're looking for. Firefox with IE as backup works fine and dandy for me though.

 

[pjrake]

Maybe on a side note, but the Quicktime plug-in cannot be installed And I just downloaded the new iTunes (which comes w/ Quicktime). And in the site where it list all your plug-ins it has Quicktime listed.

I was going to uninstall and install Quicktime but for some reason when you install Quicktime it also install iTunes and they still have the older version (w/o Podcast).

Any suggestions?

PJ

 

[Agamon]

Well, if it's a new iTunes, then it'll take some time for the FireFox extentions to catch up. I don't expect it'll take too long though. You'll probably get a better answer than that here.

 

[fanboy2000]

I use Safari. Spell check anywhere.

thats a neat feature.

I just upgraded to Safari 2.0, and now it's intergreted with the new dictionary application. I can look-up any word on a webpage by double clicking, then right clicking, on it. I just did this with "excoriated" on another thread.