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| dbminter (Member) 10 November 2004 8:08 |
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Been playing with FireFox for a day now. I've decided it makes a good replacement for Netscape 7.2... but not for Opera. :) Just my opinion, of course, but, FireFox needs two small things from Opera to make me want to switch over to it. First, the ability to reopen pages that were opened when the program is closed. I like that feature in Opera a lot. Second, when using tabbed browsing, Opera resizes the tabs so they all fit on the screen. Netscape and FireFox have adopted tabbed browsing, BUT they don't resize the tabs. Sometimes, you will need many pages open at a time. If the tabs go off the side of the screen, it becomes more difficult to navigate through them. Otherwise, FireFox is a lot like Netscape and Opera. My main beef with Opera at the moment is a lot of times, it just closes itself off when trying to open and if pages were open when it was closed, it can take, well, too long to open them. |
| vietorisz (Junior Member) 10 November 2004 8:23 |
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I also tried opera and FireFox as well and both of them lack a lot of things, like someone said before, java, flash, strange appearences on letters and forms, etc. My IE together with installed google bar and pop-up blocker works perfect, tired of trying always something unnecesarily new. |
| Ghostdog (Senior Member) 11 November 2004 7:18 |
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Been playing with FireFox for a day now. I've decided it makes a good replacement for Netscape 7.2... but not for Opera. :)
Agreed. I tried out FireFox a bit yesterday. It has some cool features (allthough nothing new) and it sure is fast.
The user interface isn´t anything special and the browser has kind of an overall amateur feel to it. I guess it depends on what you are used to using, and for me that´s Opera.
I´m sure a lot of stuff could be fixed by writing a new theme for FireFox (themes improve the features, something I noticed yesterday). And of course I haven´t even touched Mozilla yet. Opera just seems to do more and in a better way. I´m used to browsing in a certain way using a certain combination of keyboard and mouse. That was interrupted when using FireFox. |
| Spoilage (Newbie) 12 November 2004 16:47 |
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Why do some software developers have a problem developing software for more than one Operating System.
Linux and open-source are the future, embrace it.
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| spooky2k (Member) 13 November 2004 4:44 |
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Just wanted to say:
Ignore all my above comments about FireFox, i just downloaded the 1.0 release, everything i disliked has been sorted, and more importantly, i've found a use for the tabbed browsing. Not indispensable, but certainly makes things easier.
It's certainly faster too...with IE, when i was uploading at max the browser wouldnt even respond. With FireFox, it runs as normal..which is great!
I now officially recommend switching to FireFox 1.0!
Spooky2k/Dan |
| dbminter (Member) 13 November 2004 10:29 |
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I've discovered a few minor oddities. Like with mouse clicks. It seems to handle standard links and images, but, depending on the type, some content like Flash, etc. if you right click on, it treats it as a left click and opens the link. So far, though, I've only seen it on Flash, etc. content that opens a window if clicked. If it just displays animation, then, right click brings up the associated context menu.
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| sedgly (Inactive) 15 November 2004 3:44 |
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I think FireFox is so much better than IE, a lot quicker and safer. |
| Nephilim (Moderator) 15 November 2004 7:24 |
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Strange. I've never had that problem with flash.
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| SGSeries2 (Junior Member) 15 November 2004 8:09 |
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Spooky: Comments ignored. ;)
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| daemonzx6 (Senior Member) 21 November 2004 18:46 |
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man, this new version crashes a lot. finally a use for the qualty feedback agent, i guess. i love FireFox, but this version seems the most unstable yet. i don't want to go back to an older version though, so Mozilla should get things right. |
| geestar20 (AfterDawn Addict) 21 November 2004 22:21 |
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I recently had issues with it earlier. I was getting this error code saying " Error launching browser window : no XBL binding for browser"
And it was pissing me off >:S and the only way i was able to load the browser was in safe mode. I later found out that one of the themes was not compatible with the new version of FF and so I deleted all the themes I had and BAM!! it worked.
If I remember correctly the older version of FF told you that certain themes would not work and you could not download them....maybe this is a bug in the new version...dunnno *shrugging shoulders*
Only bad guys lie...So ask me no more qustions and I'll tell you no more lies. |
| daemonzx6 (Senior Member) 22 November 2004 14:37 |
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yeah, the thing is, i dont have any themes other than default installed. it would just crash whilst sitting there doing nothing sometimes. i never experienced a crash ever in the entire time using .6.0-1.0PR.
i just dont know...
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| Auslander (AfterDawn Addict) 22 November 2004 15:00 |
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just to throw in my two cents: firefox is great. i've been using it for about 3 months now, and it's something i've come to love. at first, it took a little getting used to, but that's because the only browser i had used beforehand was (i'm shuddering as i am about to type this) AOL. i still use the AOL dialer (stupid sister) but i never start the software. Firefox needs far fewer system resoures, has no crap to come with it, and uses more universal formats for backing up, say, a favorites list. i still have IE (getting dusty in that corner of my desktop), but at this point i'm even using FF to play flash movies offline that i have saved. my compliments to the chef, or in this case, the programmers.
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| daemonzx6 (Senior Member) 22 November 2004 15:13 |
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wow, Auslander, I had a very similar experience. Used AOL my whole life, because the only other browser I knew of was IE. Then I discovered FireFox, and it was like everything started working as it should and the world was in the right place. I also used Firfox to play flash movies! But then I got Swiff Player, I use it because it handles the way the movie is displayed with borders and stuff a lot better. The only thing I use IE for anymore, is on the rare occasion that FireFox doesn't like a certain web page's coding. |
| ashroy01 (Senior Member) 11 February 2005 13:08 |
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I wanted FireFox because I thought it would be faster than IE, but I was wrong? Am I missing something? I thought that was one of their selling points? |
| malcdogg (Senior Member) 11 February 2005 13:30 |
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it is faster.
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| Auslander (AfterDawn Addict) 11 February 2005 13:47 |
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it uses few system resources and is very efficient; with a side-by-side comparision, most people will see a definite difference between FF and IE.
If only I was half wolf...
Ich bin ein Ausländer.
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| daemonzx6 (Senior Member) 12 February 2005 22:13 |
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IE has some sort of dumb limit on the amount of connections you can have at once also; something like 4 max.
FireFox should be much faster and is much more innovative than IE, seeing as how the only thing Microshit has changed in years is they added that popup blocker, that really bad one. there is a Mozilla Team IRC channel you can ask questions in if you are having speed problems.
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| flamin3 (Inactive) 13 June 2005 7:19 |
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i really really love FireFox but i have one major gripe is that it does not open all the pages ie could do. i believe that there is an addon for FireFox which makes the site see FireFox as ie. anybody know where we can find it |
| geestar20 (AfterDawn Addict) 13 June 2005 12:57 |
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What do you mean by "it does not open all the pages ie could do" ?
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| flamin3 (Inactive) 13 June 2005 16:40 |
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hi what i mean is that certain sites do not allow you to log on such as our lottery site when you want to make a payment you have to change to ie. thwe same goes for purchasing from some shops you can surf but it wont allow you to buy so off you go to ie again. i have had the same problem downloading as well. its not all sites just some. bit of a recognition problem really.
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| dbminter (Member) 13 June 2005 17:39 |
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I know of one that FireFox won't open. The Java real time tech support chat client for Adelphia Powerlink. |
| geestar20 (AfterDawn Addict) 13 June 2005 19:05 |
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reason for this is, these sites codes are only writen for IE.
Since IE was the main web browser back in the day these sites were writen for IE.
Soon enough web sites will become universal.
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| dbminter (Member) 13 June 2005 19:55 |
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Netscape 8 had a pretty good idea to include the IE engine along with the FireFox one. Still crashes a lot, though ;) but it's a fairly good starting point. |
| flamin3 (Inactive) 13 June 2005 22:34 |
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still doesnt help me for the hunt for that elusive software that makes sites think FireFox is ie. i know it exists and is not on the official site , i read about it in the micro mart a few months back. |
| flamin3 (Inactive) 14 June 2005 5:39 |
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