I love Firefox!

[John Crichton]

And just so this isn't a total lovefest...

I do have one big problem with Firefox - How is manages bookmarks. It's terrible. To move things around I am having a hard time. IE does that better. But that's about it. IGN.com looks a little weird on FF and a few sites that are code intensive give errors but other than that...

 

[Raloc]

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

Yeah, I use IE to test my sites too. The Web Developer extension is so incredibly useful, I have no idea how I functioned with out it.

 

[barsoomcore]

Safari on Mac, Firefox on PC. I haven't opened up IE in the past few months and I don't miss it at all.

 

[Psionicist]

I dislike Firefox.

...

"As-is", that is.

You have to tweak and customize Firefox and that's the whole beauty of the browser, it will allow you too change what the designers themselves never thought of. Then you will love it. I do.

 

[Mercule]

v1.0 is better than v0.9 was. Give it a try.


What's the deal with Avant? I've heard just a little about it, and nothing that I heard made me want to try it.

Ah! I downloaded FireFox again and gave it a whirl. Now I remember why I didn't like it so much. It won't run launchcast (the Internet radio I use), which I've got up almost continuously when I'm at my computer. Avant does most of what FireFox does, and it still runs launchcast.

 

[Andre]

I tried Firefox several months ago, but found several older Windows games stopped working on my PC immediately afterwards. It may not be related, but it was too much of a coincidence to make that assumption. After uninstalling, I was able to get one game running again (Might and Magic VII), but the others (Might and Magic VIII, Birth of the Federation) still don't work. My guess is that it overwrote an older .dll file.

Note: this is on a Windows XP-Home system.

 

[gregweller]

I tried Firefox several months ago, but found several older Windows games stopped working on my PC immediately afterwards. It may not be related, but it was too much of a coincidence to make that assumption. After uninstalling, I was able to get one game running again (Might and Magic VII), but the others (Might and Magic VIII, Birth of the Federation) still don't work. My guess is that it overwrote an older .dll file.

Note: this is on a Windows XP-Home system.

I think that that might be an unhappy coincidence. As I understand the Firefox installation process, it installs everything into one directory, doesn't do anything to the registry, etc. In fact you can run Firefox completely off a USB jump drive--carry all your extensions and bookmarks with you to any PC you can plug a USB drive into. Now try that with IE ...

 

[Greylock]

I do have one big problem with Firefox - How is manages bookmarks. It's terrible. To move things around I am having a hard time. IE does that better. But that's about it.

I know that's just a little gripe on your part (being the OP and all), but Firefox's Drag'n Drop system is no more difficult than the whole crap menu MSN# runs me through. Getting the tabs set right in FF is no biggie.

 

[John Crichton]

The system would be great if it actually worked. I try and move things and it doesn't look like anything is happening from the Manage Bookmarks screen. And then when you check the regular bookmarks, things are moved around.

I'm assuming they'll fix this in a future release...

 

[Krieg]

Firefox doesn't suck.