Spread the word! Firefox.

http://www.mozilla.fi/ - on this page, IE doesn't support position : fixed; (without using a hack that limits what you can do). Fixed position is actually a pretty good feature and it is a real shame IE doesn't support it without using bugs of IE to get around it.

Also on this page: http://www.mozilla.fi/wiki/Firefox - IE doesn't support the dropdown menu in the top bar (which is done in CSS). This is yet another feature IE should support. I don't want to use JavaScript just to display a simple drop down menu.


Other than that I managed to make IE work fine without using any hacks. Even IE 5.5 works fine. I'm getting pretty good in this stuff.



Penagate: it is now a native Firefox feature.

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Originally Posted by Merri

Penagate: it is now a native Firefox feature.

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Wow, so it is! Sweet! :D

I never use it.

Nice to have though. Come one guys vote for Fx!! We can't let IE win the vote!?!

Just upgraded to 1.5.
Looks good. I must say I removed the 1.5 beta, because it screwed up when I installed a theme (that was compatible with 1.5 beta :( )

Join the flames!
http://www.frappr.com/firefoxusers

Before anyone else mentions it in this thread...

Flock sucks. It is a pointless, bloated, pathetic, misguided attempt at software development. And unlike many other people that bash Flock, I have tried it.

It is a cheap rip off of Firefox, with a glossy theme (oh, yay), the ability to "star" and "tag" webpages, which we all know is the revolution of the internet, and integrated support for various "web services" with an apparent hate for the letter "e". Oh, and integration of said integration with other integrated online services.

We can now, gasp, BLOG, using, wait for it, our browsers! Of course that's nothing remotely like what we were doing before, is it. The principle behind Flock and the rest of the "Web 2.0 services" revolves around enabling us to share every last minute detail of our lives with thousands of other "Web 2.0" fanatics who are sharing every last minute detail of their lives. The fact that spending all your time sharing every last minute detail of your life with the rest of the world means that you won't actually have a life is, of course, irrelevant.

Oh and it appears huge fonts, kindergarten colour schemes primarily composed of bright pink and blue randomly applied to various parts of webpages, and an inability to explain concepts correctly are the new fad. Yay, let's be happy.

I think this quote sums it up:

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Send love and postcards to <address> Send email to <address> and tag your posts with flock!

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Please, spare us.


</bash> :D

P.S. Google is taking over our lives.


- there now I feel much better :D

The best way to ignore something and keep it less known is to not talk about it.

what are we talking about again?

Me ranting about nothing :)

ahh.. i gotcha. Ya know, Foamy the squirrel does that quite well...

I havn't really converted anyone yet, but that is because many people I know already use Firefox.

Also, here's some awesome news, Google Adsense is now letting you put Firefox buttons on your site, and everytime someone downloads Firefox using that button you'll get a dollar! So now you can make money while converting people.

I've put my referral button for Fx on my blog, historium.motime.com

it has been 2 years since i moved over to firefox and i never looked back .i must have installed firefox in every system i use to browse the net right from my dads pc to the net cafe pcs till my college systems ,i have no count how many !!
i s it not great that a single browser runs on so many different OSes without any problem and so small in size(3~4mb) .just look at ie6(more than 30 mb in size) and still got a ****load of bugs in it!! :D

:thumb: :thumb: live long firefox!! :thumb: :thumb:
:thumb: :thumb: live long free software foundation :thumb: :thumb:
:thumb: :thumb: live long linux :thumb: :thumb:

tux_newbie, where are you getting 3~4MB? Right on http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ it says the installer is 5.0MB, my one installation is about 17.6MB and the other is about 15.1MB. Are you refering to the installer for a past version?

I love Firefox! I like its small size, allowing me to use it anywhere, still leaving plenty of room on my little 64MB USB key.

Does anyone know how to block off some of its features, specifically access to the Connections Settings? I ask because I think one of the impediments stopping my school from switching is that the Connection Settings can be used to get around their web filtering.

(Yay! 0th post!)

With 4 tabs open, Fx is using 65K of memory. It takes a little longer to open than IE, but I suspect that it is because IE always has some parts open (like explorer). Fx can get quite big with extensions and themes, though.

yeah it can. With one tab, I'm at 31k.

Memory usage = Efficiency

Less memory usage = More paging = Less efficiency

:)

Setup for the en-us version of Firefox 1.5 is about 5 MiB. Other localised builds may vary, but not by very much I'd think.

either way, Fx rules the world.

Opera's optimized speed has its downsides: I've found many annoying rendering bugs in it, which are probably there due to optimization tricks. They've optimized it too much from the wrong places so that it affects the result. Just two-three days ago did a pretty cool CSS-thing that worked fine on Firefox 1.5, good enough in IE6, but Opera, oh Opera... it made itself an opera. I had to figure out a separate workaround to its problem, and yet it resulted in that I'd have to use a browser detection to make the thing work as originally meant in Firefox, Konqueror and Safari (which are the browsers that appear to work).

As a btw, I didn't try to use any Firefox-only supported CSS, but CSS that should work in a modern browser. The biggest problem was position : fixed; that appeared to work correctly only in Firefox. Opera seems to place element using it... uh... where-ever it wishes. I haven't found a logic behind it.

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I have converted 2 users from FF to IE :lol:

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good job RobDog888!!!
if there's any1 here with the same thinking, this forum doesnt worth me 2 enter :mad:

hav u ever tried tabbed browsing???
or are you gatting lost in minimizez windows and windows with location 124432,112432542????
im sure that by the time u read this post, u got a flood of IE windows above...
10+

keep up the good job RobDog888!!!!! :mad:

-no-offence-

I think you just hanged yourself

and also, before martinliss or some mod tells you, your signature is way to big. You might want to cut down the size of that thing.

^^What he said^^


I converted my school to Fx.

The Administrator is a Fx LoVer.

He took the source home and. Fixed it up for "school security" standards.


IE. To many bugs.
Fx. Havent fet had a problem with it.
Opera. Its far better then IE.But the XML parsing is "nowhere to be found".

Although Opera Has many features that are closely resembling Fx.
Id use Fx Hands down.

Ohh and i converted my IE luvin Friend to Fx after hitting him in the head a few times.

does a mb more here and there make a difference so what if its 5 mb atleast you dont have to apply those long unending list of updates.just the other day found that windows update had downloaded 20+ security updates in a single day.i wonder what these guys at microsoft do ! .think they deliberately make security lapses .so that they can force users to depend on their updates .today while i was surfing a few security sites stumbled upon this site "secunia.com" which has a long list of security vulnerabilities .check out the ie6 ie6 and firefox fx 1.5 pages one can hardly see a patched tick in ie6!!

The service pack for Visual Studio 2005 was in planning before VS itself was released. I think that sums up Microsoft's attitude to patching bugs.

thats funny

just found another reason to use firefox...

if you use GMail in firefox, you can send messages with RichTextFormatting (rtf).

cool :D

mozilla is paradise!

more and more people at work, uses fx!!!

I did try flock for a while, but I think firefox is way cooler than that. Also firefox was here first.

I still keep wondering why they didn't build an extension to firefox in the first place.

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mozilla is paradise!

more and more people at work, uses fx!!!

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Unfortunately at work, I am only allowed to use IE.

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Originally Posted by abhijit

Unfortunately at work, I am only allowed to use IE.

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get a new job :afrog:

Kill all IE!

IE ruins penagates code and that makes him unhappy - you won't like him when hes unhappy ;)

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

Hehe, converted a college tutor to it today. He wondered why i wasn't using Internet Explorer.
Then i pointed to my friend Rob... And he started asking qustions.

directed him to getfirefox website :)

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Hehe, converted a college tutor to it today. He wondered why i wasn't using Internet Explorer.
Then i pointed to my friend Rob... And he started asking qustions.

directed him to getfirefox website :)

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Nice work :thumb:

It's a shame so many people don't know about anything except IE.

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Nice work :thumb:

It's a shame so many people don't know about anything except IE.

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I suspect he will have portable Firefox on his thumb drive soon enough, tis what all the cool kids are using, lol :)

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Originally Posted by penagate

get a new job :afrog:

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Where do I sign up?

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...id=44724&stc=1

I just bought a firefox shirt.