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View Poll Results: Which browser are you currently using? | |||
Mozilla Firefox | 28 | 65.12% | |
Internet Explorer | 10 | 23.26% | |
Opera | 0 | 0% | |
Netscape's Browser | 0 | 0% | |
Safari | 2 | 4.65% | |
Other | 3 | 6.98% | |
Voters: 43. You may not vote on this poll |
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0, best Fx to date!
This came up earlier and thought I may as well make a thread about it. For those of you unaware, Firefox, is a web browser like Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Netscape's Navigator.
So what makes Fx (abbreviation for Firefox) any different? One word; Security. Last year, Internet Explorer was considered in an "insecure" state 284 days out of 365. Firefox, about 9 days, and then a patch was released to fix the problem. You can read more on that at Wikipedia's Firefox Page. Firefox also is widely supported by the community with add-ons and themes you can apply to the browser to change the way it looks, feels, and functions. I also think it has a very clean and easy to use interface, haven't found anyone who cant say the same yet. One extra thing it does for you, that is something new I've seen in browsers, is its own built in spell checker, which is VERY useful on forums like this or anything else you may need to type something out in. It's just like working in a word processor, when a word is misspelled, it will be underlined in red and you can right click it, which gives you a list of suggestions, or, you can add it to the dictionary so it doesn't come up misspelled again! So for those of you willing to make the switch, check out Firefox's Page and download and install it, I'm sure you'll love it. btw, if you worried about losing all your IE favorites, upon installation, Fx gives you the option to import settings from IE including home page and your favorites. Update: While we're here talking about security, I think I'll make a note on how to keep your windows installation up to date (for those of you running windows of course). This should be relevant for all of you running Windows 98 and up, with IE version 5.5 and higher I think it is, any lower and windows update will not work properly. The easiest way to keep windows up to date, is running what's called "Windows Update" (Wikipedia's explanation of it) , a service provided to all legit copies of Windows from Microsoft and will download all the latest patches and fixes for Windows and/or other Microsoft applications (including Office). In order to do this, simply open up IE, yes will ONLY work using IE and only thing I personally use IE for, and go to http://www.windowsupdate.com/ . From there, you can select either Express or Custom. Express will go ahead and get all the "High Priority" fixes and allow you to install those, while Custom will give you choice of which updates to install and also access to get driver/software/hardware updates. Automatic Updates (accessible through your computer's Control Panel) automates this process if you're running Windows XP and will download and/or install these updates for you at any time you like.
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Firefox all the way. A satisfied user for the past year and a half. I'll also mention its companion mail client, Mozilla Thunderbird. Outlook hasn't worked worth a ---- for a long time. It's amazing how many inconveniences computer users have become accustomed to because of unreliable applications. Imagine how rich Bill Gates would be if his stuff worked consistently...
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On Thunderbird, I do hear a lot of great things about it, when I decide to stray away from webmail services I will definitely be using Thunderbird , but I like the idea of bringing my mail box with me everywhere I go.
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Wow, I didn't even know Firefox 2.0 was out. I just upgraded and like the new features. Spell check is great for boards like this!
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From what I hear it's mostly internal (code) improvements, but the layouts the same, not sure exactly though, haven't tried it out myself!
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I use firefox-based Flock for posting to webforums because its integrated with Photobucket, so I can manage my images conveniently. Flock is on V2.0 as well and you can use most of the Fx extensions.
The only issue I had with it was the lack of browsing history but they've put a limited list under the Go menu now. http://www.flock.com |
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flock IS the browser Its a customised version of firefox.
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oh.. i thought flock was just an add-on/extension..
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install it and have a play with it maybe?
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I'll think about it
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Why does it say 'All cookies cleared!' when I log out? Do we all get different 'farewell' messages? Down Here (NZ) cookies are generally called 'biscuits'.
Is it possible to change the farewell to 'All biscuits cleared!'? |
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Biscuits?
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In New York it's probably something like 'all junk cleared'... |
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'All gluten, flour, milk, peanuts and butter cleared, after 45 minutes in an oven!' |
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iMacros!
I just discovered this extension by the name of iMacros for Firefox. This add-on lets you record repetitious actions and save them so you can just simply run the macro, and let it run lightning fast without you having to do anything
I find this useful when checking email, because there are a few different providers I check, so now, I simply open up a new window, run the macro, and a few seconds later, I can view all my emails, without having to enter in any info at all I had to play around with it at first to figure out how to work it, but now, seems fairly simple Same thing goes for checking various forums, simply open up a new window and then begin running the macro, a few seconds later I'm all logged in and good to go. Only issue I see with it is that if your macro requires multiple tabs, you must open the correct number of tabs first and be sure the first tab is focused before running the macro, other than that, I love this extension
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Firefox deleting itself
hey Mike (or any other tech-savy person) -
Do you have any idea why Firefox would delete itself? I'm running OSX 10.4 on my wife's MacBook, and we've installed Firefox four times now. It keeps deleting itself on shutdown. Not interested in browsing tech sites (spent too much time doing it in the 90's) - Stan |
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Hmmm....
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Stan, do you have Spyware software installed and scheduled to run routinely? If so, it is possible that Firefox (among other "considered" threats) is Quarantined until you re-boot. Upon that time, anything Quarantined is most-likely deleted.
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I'm not really sure as I'm not familiar with Mac systems really... I don't think it would hurt though to try a Google search somewhere along the lines of 'Firefox uninstallation on reboot of Mac OS X.' I also wasn't really aware that Macs got spyware/viruses too often either..
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firefox
It's nice to have the weather but is it just me or is firefox slower and has hiccups ...
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Not for me - I used Firefox for general webbrowsing and Flock for forums.
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