Does Firefox Rock or What!

[Danimal16]

Just switched over and what a diff from Safari. Anyone else use this browser? Thoughts?

[Hugh R]

Not tech savy, but it seems to work OK. Won't work with Netflix online though.

[UconnTim97]

I switched to Firefox years ago, never looked back. So much better than IE.

[450knotOffice]

It's all I use. Every time I use IE, it does something that reminds me why I like Firefox so much more.

[exitwound]

I tried it a while ago but didn't have nearly as many features as Opera does out of the box. I don't want to set up & configure multiple extensions to do the same job. Opera 10 alpha is blazingly fast.

[Spede]

As a developer, I cannot live without the Firebug add-on.

[JonT]

Whats so great about Firefox?

[legion]

IE and Firefox both have their problems.

IE's problems are widely publicized, but it does handle Flash content MUCH better than Firefox. Firefox consumes many times the memory of IE when running flash content, and will often crash (or bring your system to its knees) on Flash-heavy sites. I got an add-on that disables Flash unless I specifically enable it, one control at a time.

[porsche4life]

I prefer chrome.

[masraum]

I use Firefox 99% of the time. 1% of the time only IE will work correctly with a site. You may find that about 10-15% of sites don't seem to work correctly with firefox. Then get "IETab". That way you can tell firefox to use the IE rendering engine to render a page. That fixes 99% of those problems.

There are lots of "extensions" or add-on's that I also like.

Adblock Plus and filterset.G for Adblock are must haves. They stop most ads on webpages.

I also like "tabkit" and "tinymenu".

With Tabkit and tinymenu, I'm able to put the list of tabs down the right side (or top or bottom or left side if I want), and condense the top several lines to only one line. By doing that I get more vertical space to view pages (since most pages are vertical) but most monitors are horizontally long.



I know lots of monitors will rotate, but there's also lots of stuff that's designed to be used in landscape mode. Ideally, we'd not have these "widescreen monitors", instead they'd all be square.

[fxeditor]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Not tech savy, but it seems to work OK. Won't work with Netflix online though.

Actually it does Hugh! Install the "IE Tab" plugin and anytime you right click a web page, you'll have the option of opening it using the Internet Explorer engine. this works on any website, even windows update!

Michael

[fxeditor]

Sorry Steve, I didn't see you had already answered Hugh's problem!

Michael

[Paul K]

Firefox is great, except when you try to login to Hotmail. It make you try twice- did some research, turns out it's just Bill Gates getting his own back on those of us who use Hotmail for free but not IE.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Paul K

Firefox is great, except when you try to login to Hotmail. It make you try twice- did some research, turns out it's just Bill Gates getting his own back on those of us who use Hotmail for free but not IE.

I bet IETab would fix that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419