I love Firefox!
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Explorer
In the final days of my Dell, I was using Firefox and I loved it! On my iBook I use Apple's own browser, Safari, however. While Firefox is great, Safari has integration with Address Book, my .mac account, and I like the way it looks better than Firefox. It also seems slightly faster than Firefox as well.
As a law student, however, I have to use Westlaw--a site that allows you to look up any judicial opinion, for a fee; free for law students--fairly often as one of my classes doesn't have a textbook, it's all links to cases. For some reason Westlaw doesn't always play nicely with Safari, so I use IE for Mac for that site.
As a law student, however, I have to use Westlaw--a site that allows you to look up any judicial opinion, for a fee; free for law students--fairly often as one of my classes doesn't have a textbook, it's all links to cases. For some reason Westlaw doesn't always play nicely with Safari, so I use IE for Mac for that site.
Breakdaddy
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On my PC's I use firefox exclusively. It is faster than IE with better popup blocking and less likely to get slapped with spyware. I use safari or firefox on my macs, they are pretty close with firefox having a slight speed edge.
Raloc
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I've used Firefox for a while now. It's vastly superior to IE, and from my experience the extensions top it off to make it better than Opera. I've used many many browsers for extended amounts of time, IE 3, 4, 5, 6, Netscape 3, 4, 7, Opera 6, 7, Konquerer (can't recall versions), Safari etc. Firefox definitely tops them all. The only time I use IE is when sites block non-IE browsers, in which case I merely bring up my context menu and "View in IE".
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
I use firefox for all personal browsing now, and only use IE for testing purposes (since hey, I'm a web developer).
I use two extensions:
The web developer toolbar is absolutely fantastic, and a major help when designing sites - especially the ability to edit CSS and see the changes happening in real time.
The second is called "popup alt attribute" and that gives a multiline tooltip popup when I hover over titles in ENworld, instead of the single line which straight Firefox gives. that was the only thing I'd missed from IE days. Available from here
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_popupalt.html.en
Cheers
I use two extensions:
The web developer toolbar is absolutely fantastic, and a major help when designing sites - especially the ability to edit CSS and see the changes happening in real time.
The second is called "popup alt attribute" and that gives a multiline tooltip popup when I hover over titles in ENworld, instead of the single line which straight Firefox gives. that was the only thing I'd missed from IE days. Available from here
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_popupalt.html.en
Cheers
Zulithe
Explorer
Hey Eric,
If it's your ad blocker or spyware blocker, then that's definitely a problem, since Firefox doesn't contain anything like that.
Besides, if you switched to using Firefox 100% of the time, you wouldn't need an ad blocker (just use the Adblock extension with a good filterset) OR a spyware blocker, because virtually all spyware you encounter on websites is designed to infect your PC through Internet Explorer, thus, Firefox is safer (it also makes you whitelist sites you trust, so spyware wouldn't be able to install unless you enabled it to do so)
I hope you can get it figured out and enjoy the fruits of Firefox soon. ^_^ The people at MozillaZine can help if you have no success fixing it.
As for me, John, I'm an avid Firefox user and promote it when I can. I only use IE for Windows Update, since there is no choice in that matter. I don't hate IE, I'm just tired of the problems that come along with it. Firefox is highly customizable, constantly evolving (not stagnating like IE), extensible, oh and has a high coolness/geek factor.
The only weak part of Firefox for me is actually not a part of Firefox itself, but the update.mozilla.org website, which is where you can get new extensions. It still isn't working properly and the Mozilla team has been pretty slow about getting it functioning as it should. In the meantime, new extension news can be found at the mozillazine forums and The Extensions Mirror.
PS Plane Sailing, yes the Popup ALT Attribute Extension is a must-have if you read vBulletin forums like Enworld.
I respect Firefox's minimalistic philosophy but I wish little things like that would be added into the browser itself, since IE can do it out-of-the-box
If it's your ad blocker or spyware blocker, then that's definitely a problem, since Firefox doesn't contain anything like that.
Besides, if you switched to using Firefox 100% of the time, you wouldn't need an ad blocker (just use the Adblock extension with a good filterset) OR a spyware blocker, because virtually all spyware you encounter on websites is designed to infect your PC through Internet Explorer, thus, Firefox is safer (it also makes you whitelist sites you trust, so spyware wouldn't be able to install unless you enabled it to do so)
I hope you can get it figured out and enjoy the fruits of Firefox soon. ^_^ The people at MozillaZine can help if you have no success fixing it.
As for me, John, I'm an avid Firefox user and promote it when I can. I only use IE for Windows Update, since there is no choice in that matter. I don't hate IE, I'm just tired of the problems that come along with it. Firefox is highly customizable, constantly evolving (not stagnating like IE), extensible, oh and has a high coolness/geek factor.
The only weak part of Firefox for me is actually not a part of Firefox itself, but the update.mozilla.org website, which is where you can get new extensions. It still isn't working properly and the Mozilla team has been pretty slow about getting it functioning as it should. In the meantime, new extension news can be found at the mozillazine forums and The Extensions Mirror.
PS Plane Sailing, yes the Popup ALT Attribute Extension is a must-have if you read vBulletin forums like Enworld.
I respect Firefox's minimalistic philosophy but I wish little things like that would be added into the browser itself, since IE can do it out-of-the-box
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Mystery Man
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The amount of spyware I've found in my machine since using Firefox has dropped dramatically.
TheAuldGrump
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Firefox, I only use IE on a few sites that do not love Firefox, not at all, at all...
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John Crichton
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Ooooo. Didn't know about this one.Plane Sailing said:
Installing.....
Also - I do some site design, are there any more extensions that I don't know of that may be helpful?
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