I downloaded it to check it out because it got a lot of hype, but I am wondering what are your guys reasons for liking it OVER internet explorer.
I mean it is a nice browser and everything, but does it do something that IE does not, or is it just the fact that it does less? or does it use less ram? what are your reasons for using it?
Popup blocking
Tabbed browsing
Standards compliance (if it's written well, it renders well)
Does not support ActiveX anything
Smaller, lighter, quicker, extentions, themes.
Originally posted by kleinma I do like the tabbed browsing...
Using IE on a non xp system I use google toolbar as a popup blocker
but IE doesn't automatically install activex controls.. so I am not sure where you got that from?
Well at least I am some times getting odd toolbars in IE after browsing a while and installing apps that contains spyware, like MSN Plus!...and it is hard to get rid of it.
My reasons for FF over IE:
- Faster
- Tabed browser
- All the neeth extensions
- Quick search
- Form controlls are faster
- More secure
Originally posted by Acidic It doesn't force you to install it. If you do a custom install, then you can untick the appropriate box.
I just installed it at home and it acted as you said allowing it to be selected or not selected... but when I installed it at my office today, it was grayed out and wouldn't let me uncheck the option to install the agent.. I wonder why..
I did have the last beta release before the final 1.0 installed on that machine.. i wonder if that had something to do with it
Install the theme Noia 2.0 (Extreme)
It completely skins the browser rather than just bits of it that other themes do
Install the extensions IEView and FireFoxView so that you can easily switch back and forth.
Right click in IE and it says Open Link in FireFox
Right Click in FireFox and it says Open Link in IE
The Adblock extension means that you dont have to look at the VBWire Adverts in the headers here
UserContent.css...
Don't want to see that, change that, brilliant.
Two questions:
1.
Does anyone know how to stop animated gifs from looping
2.
Stop urlbar autocomplete. I've tried setting browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled, false and similiar values but no joy.
Originally posted by kleinma I downloaded it to check it out because it got a lot of hype, but I am wondering what are your guys reasons for liking it OVER internet explorer.
I mean it is a nice browser and everything, but does it do something that IE does not, or is it just the fact that it does less? or does it use less ram? what are your reasons for using it?
Few main reasons :
Does not attract thousands of Parasite like IE
AdBlock, its a revulution I tell you! (No,not popup blocking!)
Tabbed Browsing
Dowloads files in part, easy to resume if connection drops.
Intregrated RSS Feed support.
Things I dont like :
Rendering issues with some DHTML site, specially MSDN.
(Most because of non standard HTML)
Ive neved had any problems viewing spreadfirefox or any other webpage, but MSDN and Windowsupdate on the other hand.... Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) is by far the best theme, it really gives FF a new look and feel.
I guess he more meant with that, that he doesn't want to depend on Microsoft on every single program on the computer. I'm fine with Windows and VB6 and maybe some program that doesn't come into my mind right away, but I think it is good to keep up competition in various ways. Office can be replaced for example, I'm not too fond of the programs, so it is easy to use an alternative solution. Firefox does the same, and is a great program too.
Originally posted by kleinma always the popular answer on a forum dedicated to a Microsoft technology huh??
but you have to admit, you see the humor in that.
Originally posted by Merri I guess he more meant with that, that he doesn't want to depend on Microsoft on every single program on the computer. I'm fine with Windows and VB6 and maybe some program that doesn't come into my mind right away, but I think it is good to keep up competition in various ways. Office can be replaced for example, I'm not too fond of the programs, so it is easy to use an alternative solution. Firefox does the same, and is a great program too.
techgnome can correct me if I guessed him wrong
Nope, that pretty much sums it up. I've never been a big fan of IE, it's always felt klunky and then you had to do funky coding to get it to look right. And it seems to crash on me a lot more than FF does.
Yes, sometimes FF takes a little longer to laod than IE, but I think kleinma is right: IE is always there, so it's going to load faster, but for me, it's the page rendering that FF does better and faster. And doing a lot of websurfing, that's the importaint part to me.
One big thing I hate about IE's page loading is that it blinks a whole lot. Its like a VB game without a backbuffering
As for loading times, I see no difference. In the other hand... I have an AMD Sempron 2800+ processor running here.
More on the topic, IE6 was somewhat great when it came: it was, at the time, the best you could get. No other browser supported CSS as well as it did, even though it still had its flaws. I even had to fix my code at the time as I had some errors, so the page displayed correctly. Weren't a great one with HTML at the time... nowadays I know too much of it.
Originally posted by kleinma I downloaded it to check it out because it got a lot of hype, but I am wondering what are your guys reasons for liking it OVER internet explorer.
I mean it is a nice browser and everything, but does it do something that IE does not, or is it just the fact that it does less? or does it use less ram? what are your reasons for using it?
my main reason is just the way it looks and how its customizable
I created about 10 custom controls in .NET for use in my ASP.NET applications and none of the javascript works when I view the applications in FireFox.
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. Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) is by far the best theme, it really gives FF a new look and feel. 
