Author Topic: Firefox browser (Read 823 times)

LePaul · « **Reply #30 on:** May 16, 2006, 07:38:47 PM »

I had a lot of problems with Firefox logging into sites that need some of the ASP and ActiveX components (banking, 401k stuff, etc)

Until the companies I visit change over support for other browsers, I have to keep using IE

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 16, 2006, 07:51:46 PM »

I just downloaded opera to give it a try. Gona be hard to swing me from firefox.

EDIT: 3 minutes into using it Im impressed.

EDIT AGAIN: Im in love. Firefox is now my #2 browser.

Elfie · « **Reply #32 on:** May 16, 2006, 08:50:42 PM »

So which extensions should I go get?

Chairboy · « **Reply #33 on:** May 16, 2006, 09:32:36 PM »

I also like Flashblock. All flash anims are replaced by a Play button, cuts down on pretty much all of the other annoying ads. If you have Ad Block, get the Ad Block updater, it automatically updates the ad block definitions.

Gmail Manager is great too, my wife and I both have Gmail accounts and it makes it easy to switch back and forth. Also, it shows how many new messages I have in the bottom right of my browser, and I'm just one click away from reading 'em.

MrBill · « **Reply #34 on:** May 16, 2006, 09:41:09 PM »

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we could have a good stable OS years before Win2000 and w/o M$ "bells and whistles"

Actually we did, and we still do.

A couple million copy's still exist on client machines.

Drawback 1 is OS/2 is for work ... not many today, or then, would put up with a OS that you could not waste time playing games on. OTOH a OS/2 game won game of the year two years in a row ... any windos game ever do that?

But outside of games there was nothing in the apple/windos world that had better software than OS/2.

drawback 2 is OS/2 required you to know something, and or be able to read and follow instructions. It gave you the best lumber, hammer and nails ... but you had to know how to use them ... this required learning, something most were not about to attempt.

This has not changed any today ... Linux offers great promise ... but is a work in progress.
As long as Joe 6 pack continues to worship at the throne of the great god gates, and tilth mightily, they will reap the rewards of the dark ages forever.

Remember ... if you have ever flown on an airplane or used a ATM ... whatever your experience, it WAS NOT brought to you by Mickysoft.

I find it amazing that we fly spacecraft beyond the solar system with a 5 meg dasdy and good code ... windos can't even balance your checkbook in under 300 meg ... what was that about stupid lazy people in large numbers?

:D:D

dmf · « **Reply #35 on:** May 16, 2006, 11:53:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
Firefox is the brower's that the closest of all to matching W3C standards, so yes... as a webdev, I'll beg y'all to use Firefox! Opera being the 2nd... I'm not sure about IE7, but if they do it like they have done previous versions...

Elfie: Extentions are like plugins. Most are user made (Make sure you only get certified ones from the mozilla website).

Theres so many security holes in IE7 that even I can find them.

flakbait · « **Reply #36 on:** May 17, 2006, 12:35:39 AM »

IE has something like 1,200+ known problems, which is why M$ releases a security "update" every three days. When IE 5 was due for release, M$ had to delay it by six months because of 100,000 known bugs!

Firefox has 24 or so, most of which will be slaughtered in the next release. Some daily builds have removed them all. That's right, a bulletproof browser.

As for extensions... AdBlock and Network Tweak are the only two I've got or ever use. With Adblock you can hit the little "adblock" text in the lower right and manually prevent anything from showing. I block doubleclick and akamai by default; simply stick "http://*.doubleclick.net/*" in the Block box. No more ads from the biggest propaganda site on the 'net. Flash can be selectively turned off, blocked completely, or you can only turn off one or two flash objects.

I've kept IE around only for the non-Firefox sites. When I first hit the 'net in '96 the first browser I downloaded was NS 4. Kept away from M$ crap ever since.

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Nilsen · « **Reply #37 on:** May 17, 2006, 01:15:05 AM »

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Originally posted by BlueJ1
I just downloaded opera to give it a try. Gona be hard to swing me from firefox.

EDIT: 3 minutes into using it Im impressed.

EDIT AGAIN: Im in love. Firefox is now my #2 browser.

8.5 or 9b?

Dinger · « **Reply #38 on:** May 17, 2006, 02:11:23 AM »

I didn't get Opera at some point because they were charging for it.

Been using Firefox for a couple years now. The only extensions I use are Adblock and a little hack that adds "open this link in IE" to the right-mouse click.

In the last year, the relative number of Firefox-incompatible/IE-only sites has seriously diminished.

And Adblock is awesome. Since I don't have that IE ActiveX BS, I don't have to go through those security popups every time a site has ads. But when activeX gets used for evil, I get to wield the sitewide ban. Take that floating text blocker!

Vulcan · « **Reply #39 on:** May 17, 2006, 03:21:49 AM »

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Originally posted by flakbait
IE has something like 1,200+ known problems

And therein lies your false sense of security. How many unknown problems there are in Firefox is the bigger question. The recent cleanup of opensource code by the US Govt they discovered a lot of bugs, many critical. Oh and Firefox has a far more than 24 entries on the Cert vunerability knowledgebase, many of them still current vunerabilities.

Sure I think Microsoft are the evil empire too, but firefox is no bulletproof browser and those who tout as one are swimming in the big kids pool at the deep end.