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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #15 on: November 25, 2004, 08:13:43 PM »
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there about equal...

the one or two things that it does better is  counterballanced by the sheer difficulty of getting plugins to actually work...


My opinion is Firefox is the gratest thing since sliced bread.

Has IE beat hands down. It isnt even close

What plugin problems are you having?
I havent had a problem with a single one
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« Reply #16 on: November 25, 2004, 08:17:40 PM »
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Ive done the same as you actually. Phoneix was great and all variarions since then has also been great.

Ive tried to install the flash player alot of times over the last few months but it just doesnt work. it tells me that it works when i install it, but it doesnt.


Just installed flash last night on another system for a game my daugher wanted to play on NickJr.com

All I had to do was to remember to close all browser windows when I ran the install,reboot then go back to the site and everything worked fine
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« Reply #17 on: November 25, 2004, 11:18:03 PM »
Tab browser windows blows Ie away...  all the other stuff is nice too.
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« Reply #18 on: November 26, 2004, 01:03:07 AM »
firefox here :)
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« Reply #19 on: November 26, 2004, 01:31:03 AM »
Migration from IE to firefox is easy. For me it required zero adjustment time. I've had a slight problem with plugins, but that's because I think some other program has stolen the .xfi extension; anyway, download to desktop and run off of there (no need to reboot).  Plus, IE plugins usually end up being spyware anyway.  Flash on IE is a PITA because it's an ActiveX control, and if you automatically allow those, you're stupid.
Tabbed browsing I didn't understand or particularly deem useful. But after a few months, I wouldn't have it any other way.

the executable also loads faster, and pages load faster with firefox.
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« Reply #20 on: November 26, 2004, 02:19:43 AM »
It's easy enough to try out, so you can download it and see if you like it.  The most difficult thing that I found was setting up Java, and even that was easy.  Just have to locate the installer (that was the hard part, but I was looking in the wrong place), then install it.  For all Macromedia (Flash & Shockwave), you can just go to their web sites and download the installers.  Two things that make Firefox my choice.  First is tabbed browsing, I love it.  Second is the third-party plug-ins...there's a bunch of them, and the browser can automatically check for updates to itself AND your plug-ins and install the updates at your request.  So far, I'm using plug-ins for mouse gestures (certain actions of the mouse control functions of the browser, and is infinitely configurable), Linkification (makes any text url a hyperlink), and Image Zoom.

I think it's definitely an improvement over IE.
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« Reply #21 on: November 26, 2004, 02:58:24 AM »
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Just installed flash last night on another system for a game my daugher wanted to play on NickJr.com

All I had to do was to remember to close all browser windows when I ran the install,reboot then go back to the site and everything worked fine


Yeah I know that most others get it to work but I havent for some wierd reason. I even degraded myself to reading FAQ's and following instructions to see if i did something wrong, but no.

My puter is jinxed.  Oh... winxp pro with SP2
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« Reply #22 on: November 26, 2004, 05:36:01 PM »
Firefox


Once you get used to tabbed browsing you can't go back.


I can't imagine using a bbs without tabbed browsing now.
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« Reply #23 on: November 26, 2004, 06:28:20 PM »
What killed FireFox for me (last time I tried) was the lack of inheritance for a copied Window.

In IE you can do CTRL-N and get an exact copy including inheritance of visited pages.

Is that fixed now or is that a functionality included in 'tabbed' browsing (which I never explored) ?

That and that some pages work in IE but not in FireFox (makes no difference if the non-working pages doesn't follow standard, they still don't work).
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« Reply #24 on: November 26, 2004, 06:31:25 PM »
And the swedish article talks about email.

"Sårbarheten öppnar version 6.0 av Explorer för virusormen Bofra som sprids med e-post."

"The vulnerability opens version 6.0 of Explorer for the 'virus-worm' Bofra spread by e-mail."
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« Reply #25 on: November 27, 2004, 01:16:50 AM »
actually, I found the tme spent reloading the same page something of a nuisance.  Of course, your style of browsing is your own business.
In IE, I would use Ctrl-N to open a new instance, reload the page, and follow some other thread.
In Firefox, I just click with the mousewheel on a link and it starts loading in another tab.  By the time I finish reading hte main page I often hafve several other tabs waiting to be read.  So Ctrl-N copying the location ends up being a waste of time when there's a better way.

again YMMV, de gustibus, etc.
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« Reply #26 on: November 27, 2004, 05:02:32 AM »
I use an IE based browser called Maxthon,formerly it was MYIE. It works great has built in security.
Pick the one you like. I doesnt matter to me:)
They all have their problems.
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« Reply #27 on: November 27, 2004, 03:54:44 PM »
Firefox is a great browser, thanks for whom ever listed a link to them on here a couple weeks back. I still have to use IE for my work website but everything else I go through Firefox. :aok
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« Reply #29 on: December 01, 2004, 08:55:57 AM »
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Tab browser windows blows Ie away...  all the other stuff is nice too.


I agree... love the tabs features.

Seems to run a little faster too....

Firefox 4tw
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