L.S.D Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 I have been reading around and it seems that some prefer to use Firefox to browse Internet rather than IE. May I know the difference between these two internet browsers and some othe recommendation beside these two? Thanks.
Gryph Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Firefox kicks incomprehensible amounts of ass while IE sucks. Firefox is more secure than IE, its very customizable (looks and functionality through themes and extensions), great pop up blocker built in, and if there is ever a problem, a fix can be made and released within a day. Oh yeah, and its TABBED BROWSING! That's the greatest thing ever. It's just better. The only problem I have with Firefox is that it never remembers any of my favicons and it doesn't have a reload images thing, just View Image which opens the picture in the same tab instead of just reloading it.
Weirdy Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Firefox kicks incomprehensible amounts of ass while IE sucks. Firefox is more secure than IE, its very customizable (looks and functionality through themes and extensions), great pop up blocker built in, and if there is ever a problem, a fix can be made and released within a day. Oh yeah, and its TABBED BROWSING! That's the greatest thing ever. It's just better. The only problem I have with Firefox is that it never remembers any of my favicons and it doesn't have a reload images thing, just View Image which opens the picture in the same tab instead of just reloading it.not to mention with firefox you can look at the page source and stuff like that
L.S.D Posted July 20, 2004 Author Posted July 20, 2004 Firefox kicks incomprehensible amounts of ass while IE sucks. Firefox is more secure than IE, its very customizable (looks and functionality through themes and extensions), great pop up blocker built in, and if there is ever a problem, a fix can be made and released within a day. Oh yeah, and its TABBED BROWSING! That's the greatest thing ever. It's just better. The only problem I have with Firefox is that it never remembers any of my favicons and it doesn't have a reload images thing, just View Image which opens the picture in the same tab instead of just reloading it.not to mention with firefox you can look at the page source and stuff like that Okie....seems interesting enough to warrant a try.So, where to download this?
Gryph Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ You won't regret it.
random guy Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Absolutely - firefox is 9000% better than ie. There are SOME pages that won't load in firefox - for a start it has no activex support, which is actually a good thing, because 97% of all spyware gets transmitted through activex scripts; also some other pages won't load. But that's fine - just get the extention that will give you a "open link in ie" option on the right-click menu, and you've got no problems!
Gryph Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Does anyone know of an extension that will let you reload a picture in the current screen without having to load the picture and then press the back button?
L.S.D Posted July 20, 2004 Author Posted July 20, 2004 Ok, I just download and use Firefox. When I want to access this forum, it told me www.1emulation.com did not exist Oh well, I think I stick to IE for the time being
random guy Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Ok, I just download and use Firefox. When I want to access this forum, it told me www.1emulation.com did not exist Oh well, I think I stick to IE for the time being I don't see why that would happen, seeing as i use these forums every day with firefox. Try again.
Weirdy Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 I'm using firefox right now as I type, maybe you just put a space at the end or something
Agozer Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Firefox kicks incomprehensible amounts of ass while IE sucks. Firefox is more secure than IE, its very customizable (looks and functionality through themes and extensions), great pop up blocker built in, and if there is ever a problem, a fix can be made and released within a day. Oh yeah, and its TABBED BROWSING! That's the greatest thing ever. It's just better. The only problem I have with Firefox is that it never remembers any of my favicons and it doesn't have a reload images thing, just View Image which opens the picture in the same tab instead of just reloading it.not to mention with firefox you can look at the page source and stuff like that IE can look at the page source too, you know.
Jiggs Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Agozer is right. I use MyIE2, because I hate how Firebird/Firefox basically forgets all of the extensions and such that you've added as soon as you upgrade. This is a real pain in the ass when you've got several extensions installed. I've got ActiveX support disabled, because it has no possible good purpose. Between that and some other things I've casually disabled, I think I'm reasonably safe from the basics.
Wizard Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 I've joined the darkside. I'm only using FireFox until Windows SP2 comes out.
OverlordMondo Posted July 20, 2004 Posted July 20, 2004 Omg, I'm on a school computer, and I was "stuck" using IE as my browser. It was slow fraggin' slow and full of virii, popups, adware, and who know what else, every time I tried going somewhere it tried loading badurl grand street interactive or some crap. When I finally DID get to where I was going, 20 some popups...popped up. Theres also about 3 search bars up there, all saying they block popups. (0 Blocked). My progress could be compared to trying to put out a fire in hell. Finally, I dled Firefox, and tripled (or more) my speed. No popups, no adware, no crappy on working search bars...I can now surf the web and screw around in class, in peace.
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