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SVan
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Around the time of the hack I switched browsers. I used IE for pretty much everything before and didn't like Netscape at all. I had gotten tired of IE always messing up on me so I decided to look for a new browser and after trying a bunch of them, I finally came across Mozilla Firefox. After I got used to it, I fell in love with it.

Anyone use a different browser from IE and why you switched and what brought you to the new browser?

-Steve

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I've been using Firefox since version .1 (used to be called phoenix back then) . I think it became Firebird around version .5 or .6, then Firefox for version .8. Anywho, it's the best browser out there. It's got tabbed browsing, popup blocking, mouse gestures, and modular extensions for added usability. Oh yeah, it's also not succeptable (sp?) to spyware.

I've used Opera before too, but Firefox definately has the smallest filesize and memory footprint.

IE is just too prone to everything out there from virii, trojans, spyware, etc...

It's amazing to me that Firefox hasn't even reached version 1 yet and it's lightyears ahead of IE

SVan
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Don't forget that it allows you to be asked if you want a cookie on your computer everytime a site wants to add one...

I didn't realize until now that IE would allow 10 to 20 cookies to be added automatically when you regulally browse until i was able to have permission over them (10 to 20 in a short amount of time, 30 minutes)

Another great thing is when you deny a cookie from a site, it will never ask you again if you want it gone, it just wont allow it. And if you deny a cookie you want, it's not hard to get it off the denied list.

-Steve

(There's so much more to this browser that I love that it could take me hours to write it up and it's only been a week or two since i got it.)

khsoh
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I've been using Mozilla (Firefox plus mail and news client) for more than a year. The features I really like are site navigation toolbar (for example, see the Document link in www.bgdf.com), tabbed browsing, find links by typing the first few letters of a link in a page and easier access history navigation by keyboard in Mozilla (Alt+G) than in IE (Alt+V+O).

Chip
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I switched to Firefox just a couple days ago. The latest publicized security attacks (on a national level, not the recent BGDF hack) prompted me to switch. So far everything's great.

It's interesting to me that integrating IE into the Microsoft operating system, although initially a competitive advantage for the company, is actually what makes Internet Explorer so vulnerable now. How ironic.

Chip

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OldScratch
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When I got my PC a few months ago (switched from Mac, because I couldn't afford one :)), I got IE with it, and hated it. I was so used to Safari, with tabbed browsing and all that, so I switched to Netscape. But, that was such a big program and it was slow and clumsy so I went to the Mozilla site and saw this. I downloaded it and loved it, probably the closest thing on the PC to Safari. I also switched to Thunderbird recently, case Outlook wasn't letting me send email FOR NO REASON! That was stupid.

Anonymous
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My browsers, in order of preference:

Firefox
Safari (Mac only)
Mozilla
Camino (Mac only)
Netscape
IE (very very last resort)

I haven't really kept up with iCab (Mac only) or OMNIweb (Mac Only), but I imagine they'd rank a bit higher than the lame excuse for a browser M$ calls IE.

OldScratch
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If I remember correctly, wasn't OMNIweb a pay-to-use browser? EIther that or Opera, I'm not sure. The one I used didn't really offer anything great, so it was a bit stupid to charge money for using it.

iCab I never really kept up with either. I used it once or twice then went back to Explorer (This was way before Safari).

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Folks,

Just a heads up, Firefox has finally gone Non Beta with it's 1.0 release yesterday. You can get it from www.mozilla.org . It's highly recommended.

-Darke

OldScratch
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Yep, saw that it went 1.0 last night on Screensavers and downloaded it right away. I don't see any difference, but I'm sure something's better. :)

By the way, does the FireFox updater button do anything for anyone? It's that little arrow on the upper right of the browser window. Whenever I try to use it, a window comes up and says that it's downloading and installing updates but the progress bar never moves. It was like that for like half an hour last night and I gave up and downloaded the update manually.

hpox
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That's just because the server was getting hammered.

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I love Firefox, but I do a lot of file up- and downloading, and whenever I save anything from a website or FTP with Firefox, it freezes for a few seconds each time. This might not sound like much, but a five to ten second hang for every download is very irritating. IE, for all its faults, never did anything of the sort, and could perform downloads in the background. Is there any way to make Firefox not lock up for those few seconds?

Hamumu
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That does sound irritating. I use Firefox and that doesn't happen to me, so I don't know what it is. Somewhere out there in the great wide internet there's discussion of tweaks you can apply to some config file to make firefox faster, that may fix your problem, or change some important setting like WaitFiveSecondsBeforeDownload=OFF. Don't really know where that stuff is though, google hard.

HRPuffenstuf
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Good timing as I have a firefox question

I've been using it for a few months now and the only thing I can't figure out is how to make JPG files open up in this browser. If I download a picture and save it to my desktop, I have to change the extension and add JPG and even then, it only opens in IE. I've looked for 3rd party modules but haven't found anything yet. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
HR Puff

comport9
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I'm not sure what you mean by "only opens in IE". But it sounds like you have to change your File Types menu so that FireFox will open when you click on JPG's instead of IE.

I too get a bit of a pause when I start a download. :(

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Funny, I probably could have found this when I first started using Firefox, but I guess I just assumed the lag was inherent in the program:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

comport9
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It really works. :) (Only for broadband though)

comport9
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It really works. :) (Only for broadband though)

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ACtually, now that I've tried it out, it doesn't seem to do anything at all for me. Grr!

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ACtually, now that I've tried it out, it doesn't seem to do anything at all for me. Grr!

comport9
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It really works. :) (Only for broadband though)

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Actually, now that I've tried it out, it doesn't seem to do anything at all for me. Grr!

comport9
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hehe. Maybe it makes posting to this thread difficult considering all the duplicate posts. :P

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