Mozilla's Firefox

[Martlet]

Originally posted by Angus
Try the Opera browser and Mailwasher for pre filtering of mail.
Keeps my machine running, now on the 5th year without reinstalling windows!!!

I use mailwasher pro, too.

[quig]

Originally posted by phookat

Metallica blows after AJFA.

Yep.

They do got a lot of the old stuff on there or I wouldn't waste my time with it.

Anyhow. I can get the site to show up with Firefox. Just can't play any videos. Also have that problem with a lot of other sites that have videos on them. I tried telling Firefox to use Media Player to run .wmv files, but still have the same problem.

What plug-ins are you guys using to get around this?

[Reschke]

Been using Firefox and Thunderbird (email client) now for about 24 hours and have found it extremely easy to use on both ends. In some ways it fits exactly to what I wish IE and Outlook would have been right at the beginning. I am also using them with a fresh install of XP Pro so I didn't have any favorites to pull over from IE. In fact I have IE and OE hidden so far down in the file system my wife will never be able to locate them. If I could get away with pulling IE out of XP I would do it in a heart beat.

BTW I don't care how my BBS writing appears while I am doing it and to see the main screen it looks just like it did with IE.

[Pei]

Originally posted by scout
And some pages didn't work and I had to revert to IE.

Usually that's because people build web-pages that will only work in IE rather than sticking to better standards.

[SunKing]

Opera is the better browser handsdown.

[flakbait]

Originally posted by Pei
Usually that's because people build web-pages that will only work in IE rather than sticking to better standards.

Exactly. This is the only reason FireFox won't work on a given site; bad code. IE will display a site written in Yiddish with no problem, but any other browser will display garbage. That's because IE was built by M$ to be idiot proof. Now we've got a bunch of sites that don't hold to any standard, and some that require a very obscure IE-only script or they won't work. If the site is actually written to W3C standards, it'll run in FireFox. Hotmail is the only site I visit on a regular basis that requires IE (well, that and Winblows Update). The rest work great in FireFox.

Importing bookmarks is as simple as going into the bookmark manager and using the "Import" function. It's right there, plain as day in the Bookmarks menu.

I've been using FireFox 0.7 (latest is 0.9) for well over a year and it's crashed only once. Java and Flash are two programs it doesn't get along with, but it'll work fine with any others. You can auto-block pop-ups, have ten sites open in the same window (tabbed browsing), even raid sites that contain cookies from hell without worry. True, it's a bit of a pain to get used to if you've been using IE. And true the BBS text boxes are a bit small, but it's twice as fast and ten times safer than IE. Put up with a little inconvenience now and then (BBS text box visuals) and you'll have the best browser out there. Then again, if you're anal enough to require everything to look exactly as it did in IE, you won't like it. FireFox doesn't work like IE, it doesn't look like IE, and it doesn't need daily patching like IE.

If you're a person who inisits on doing everything in a browser (inline RealPlayer/Quicktime viewing, playing Flash games till dawn, writing Java programs, etc...) you probably won't like FireFox. It and Java don't exactly get along most of the time, and there's a glitch with the Flash plug-in installer (Flash's fault). RP and QT won't run in the browser window either. As a browser it's great: secure, fast, does what you tell it to, built-in Google search bar, F9-activated side window, pop-up killer built-in, and so on. But as a "do-it-all wunder" it scores low points, and for a reason. It wasn't built to be one. It's a 9 meg download, 15 meg install, blistering fast web browser. Not a multi-media "stuper center."

Scout, huh? If you want a blank page, go into Tools/Options/General and set the Home Page to "about:blank" to get a blank page every time FireFox opens. If you want a non-cached home page to load, reset your cache options. That'll bring up a new copy of your home page every time. As for the site-don't-work problem, see above.


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