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andrewduckerThe Mozilla stand-alone browser has been rebranded as FireFox. I downloaded it, used the new installer, added in the must-have extension "Tabbed Browser Preferences" and had it up and running in about 30 seconds. Another two minutes to get Shockwave and Flash installed and I was able to browse about 99% of the internet.
If you're not using it and you're fed up with the ridiculous popups, adverts, crashes and general annoyances that come with Internet Explorer then you should bloody well be downloading it here.
If you're still not sure then check out the 13 Reasons to use Firefox page.
Oh, and there's an "open in IE" extension that I use about once a week for pages that really don't want to work in FireFox. Right-click on the background and select open in IE and there it is. I always feel dirty afterwards tho.
If you're not using it and you're fed up with the ridiculous popups, adverts, crashes and general annoyances that come with Internet Explorer then you should bloody well be downloading it here.
If you're still not sure then check out the 13 Reasons to use Firefox page.
Oh, and there's an "open in IE" extension that I use about once a week for pages that really don't want to work in FireFox. Right-click on the background and select open in IE and there it is. I always feel dirty afterwards tho.
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Re: Open in IE
Date: 2004-02-15 01:50 pm (UTC)I'd love for 'open in IE' to work but somehow it doesn't get the idea that it should pull up vmware and run IE in that...
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Date: 2004-02-15 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-02-15 03:13 pm (UTC)I can't remember why I didn't like Opera, but it just didn't grab me when I tried it.
And now I have Firefox I'm not sure what else Opera could provide.
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Date: 2004-02-15 03:38 pm (UTC)There was about a 6-9 month period, roughly around the late M-series of Mozilla browsers, where I thought Opera was better as a browser, if only because it didn't blow up every 3-5 days. But there's enough little quirks (for example, accidentally triggering Author mode) that it made it hard for me to really feel comfortable with it, and feel at home using Opera as my main browser.
Now I think the Mozilla project makes a much stronger browser, but Opera's mouse gestures are still much more robust. Opera wins on a power user's ease-of-use curse, but Firefox (or even Mozilla Suite) wins on speed and "regular joe" ease-of-use, and are moving faster and faster towards kicking IE's ass on it's home turf, even with IE-oriented sites.
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Date: 2004-02-15 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-15 09:44 pm (UTC)Is Firefox really that much better?
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Date: 2004-02-16 09:36 am (UTC)TBH it doesn't seem to be any better than Netscape thus far...