Firefox

Pretty much all of Firefox and most other advanced browsers were descended from Opera. =) Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, snap forward/snap back, etc.

Only in the extensions do things get different, and the overall support of junkier code (a la IE) have Firefox/Gecko really shown its strength.

Tabbed browsing is built into Firefox, but up until the recently released Firefox 1.0RC1, a lot of functionality wasn't present. Now there are a lot more options to be had under the Advanced Options panel.

Firefox 1.0 is out. For all those who are still using Internet Explorer, it's time to switch.

http://www.mozilla.org/

Why?

http://www.google.com/search?q=switch+firefox&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Lots of answers. =)

Here are a few:

1. Safer - less suspectible to worms, trojans, and spyware/adware
2. Customizable - don't have enough features? Use extensions to make your browser work the way you want. Don't like the look? Use themes to make it the way you want it to look.
3. Just better - usually runs faster than Internet Explorer, features a strong pop-up blocker, and renders web pages according to standards.


To clean your computer of spyware and adware that have been built up, install and run these tools:

SpywareBlaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spy Bot S&D http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10289035.html

Finally upgraded to 1.0. Waited til the final release. Good stuff so far. Haven't had any hiccups or any of the bugs I had in 0.9 as of yet.

The only problem I'm having with Firefox right now is that I can't seem to sort my bookmarks correctly. My guess is that it's because my bookmarks were imported from an older version of Firefox (0.6, I believe) and that's when the bug appeared.

Strange, cause the bookmark format is pretty much the same, with the additional exception of there being livemarks now.

Maybe you could try the sort bookmarks extension?

http://januario.home.mindspring.com/vmj/2004/09/firefox-sort-bookmarks.htm


Also, for those who really like the phpbb editing functions, there's a neat little Firefox extension that allows you to have the same functionality with older versions of phpbb.

https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=128&vid=1091

Allows you to highlight then rightclick and there's a new context menu that you can use to bold or italicize whatever...

Also, for those who say that Firefox renders slower than IE, maybe you should try changing these settings as described here:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8007.htm

It takes away the artificial paint delay, as well as open up maxconnects to receive more connects to the website.

eightysix wrote:The only problem I'm having with Firefox right now is that I can't seem to sort my bookmarks correctly. My guess is that it's because my bookmarks were imported from an older version of Firefox (0.6, I believe) and that's when the bug appeared.

Sort as in alphabetize? I have that same problem too. I can move them around fine but putting them in ABC order doesn't always work :sweat:

thetenken wrote:SNIP

Thanks for the Sort Bookmarks extention. I had it on my previous version of Firefox 0.7, but it never worked when I started using 1.0PR. Now those bookmarks don't annoy me anymore. :woot:

Anyone using Firefox right now?

It seems that I'm having problems with J-Dorama loading when I use Firefox....

Bleah. :grumble:

bmwracer wrote:Anyone using Firefox right now?

It seems that I'm having problems with J-Dorama loading when I use Firefox....

Bleah. :grumble:

hmm, what types of problems? i'm using firefox and not getting anything weird on my end

Krim and Boris set me straight on a config modification to Forefox that seems to have helped...

Noticed another Firefox-JDorama bug: when I'm using the editor to make a reply, I can't select a string of text and then use one of the buttons (bold, italic, underline, etc.)... All the fool thing does is append that code to the very end of my message...

Very frustrating.

I thought it was doing the samething with IE. I never use the buttons anymore for this reason. It's faster to type it instead of pressing the button and copy/paste it. :(

Anybody seen errors like this before. I only get them with my PC at home, but I use the same browser with the same extensions... :confused:

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tabana wrote:Anybody seen errors like this before. I only get them with my PC at home, but I use the same browser with the same extensions... :confused:

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wow that is a weird one...sometimes i get an uncompleted load of the start page if i have my upstream bandwith being sucked up seeding too many torrents

I get that too sometimes, even without downloading anything. :pout:


I don't know what's wrong with this PC. It's a fresh install with all the updates and no spywares. Sometimes posts in the middle of a page gets suddently to the far right of my screen and I have to scroll left and right... :headscratch:

tabana wrote:Anybody seen errors like this before. I only get them with my PC at home, but I use the same browser with the same extensions... :confused:

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Sometimes I'm getting that kind of error when my BT is running, however my browser is just the ordinary internet explorer :bonk:

Ok. Must be a bandwitdh problem in my neighborhood then, cause I'm not downloading anything and I'm the only one in front of the PC at home.

tabana wrote:I get that too sometimes, even without downloading anything. :pout:


I don't know what's wrong with this PC. It's a fresh install with all the updates and no spywares. Sometimes posts in the middle of a page gets suddently to the far right of my screen and I have to scroll left and right... :headscratch:

well your knowledge of computers FAR EXCEEDS mine so i couldn't begin to tell you...so i'm sure you're right!

I still don't know how to solve it, besides a refresh though.

Anyway, thank you guys. :thumbsup:

I've been using jdorama with firefox for a while now and never noticed anything wrong

maybe i'm just lucky :victory: