Mozilla. What's so great about it?

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Firefox is shit. There's better alternatives.

 

Don't believe the hype.

 

Read the fucking thread, block head. Motherfuckers are praising this because it works and works well. Not because of some fabricated sense of accomplishment in toppling an evil empire. Stop arguing for the sake of it.

 

And the only reason Firefox has had this recent wave of popularity is because they publically announced a grassroots campaign to flood software websites with artificial reviews praising it.

 

Any software developer worth their weight does this.

[GreatWhiteNope 0]

And the only reason Firefox has had this recent wave of popularity is because they publically announced a grassroots campaign to flood software websites with artificial reviews praising it.

 

Any pathetic software developer does this.

Edited for accuracy.

 

Not because of some fabricated sense of accomplishment in toppling an evil empire.

 

Then why does everyone always answer "it's more secure than IE"?

 

Maxthon is simply a frontend for Internet Explorer that adds features it lacks. The odds of IE being compromised is slim to none. 99% of web pages today are developed with Internet Exporer-based rendering in mind.

 

You hate IE because the linux geeks got to you.

 

Admit it.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Don't use that stupid fucking edited for accuracy joke with me. Especially since I'm quite correct in that assertion. Just look at a large number of the things offered on download.com, expecially from some larger companies.

 

Then why does everyone always answer "it's more secure than IE"?

 

Because it is?

[GreatWhiteNope 0]

Don't use that stupid fucking edited for accuracy joke with me. Especially since I'm quite correct in that assertion. Just look at a large number of the things offered on download.com, expecially from some larger companies.

Download.com is a terrible site.

 

Then why does everyone always answer "it's more secure than IE"?

 

Because it is?

 

I meant in regards to someone describing what advantages Firefox has over IE.

 

That's all they ever come up with.

 

That, and tabbed browsing, which has been a feature of many other browsers for years. People are acting like Firefox is innovative when it just copied everything else and still lacks in some areas.

 

Mainly it's rendering engine.

 

And like I said, the odds of someone's browser being compromised is slim to none.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I have four browsers on my computer: IE, Maxthon, Firefox, and Opera (the registered version, not the one with a banner). I use them all from time to time, but Firefox is the one I come back to the most because it seems to give me the least problems.

 

I have no problem with the way pages load, but then again I have high speed internet. One great thing I noticed is when I switched from Maxthon to Firefox the amount of adware on my computer dropped immensly.

[Slayer 0]

You hate IE because the linux geeks got to you.

What you got against Linux geeks, boi?

[TheFranchise 0]

*Recently converted to Mozilla*

 

I'll just agree with the majority that this owns all kinds of ownage.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

I don't get why Microsoft releasing security updates for Internet Explorer makes it an unsafe browser.

Because of it's hooks into Windows, it's engine being used by a bunch of different applications (most notably Outlook/Express) so if the engine is at risk a lot more programs than the browser are at risk.

 

ActiveX, which was a Java competitor gone wrong gone into something a lot of people turn off. While Windows Update is nice, it stopped being worth it once other pages learned how to use the same technology for evil instead of good.

 

There's better alternatives.

True, but Opera is basically a pay product, Safari doesn't exist for Windows (and while Apple's WebCore library is similar in theory to IE's synergy with other apps, OSX is by nature a hell of a lot more secure than Windows), and OmniWeb suffers from both of the above. So there go the great browsers.

[MrRant 0]

You hate IE because the linux geeks got to you.

What you got against Linux geeks, boi?

True Linux geeks spell boy correctly.

[Lando Griffin 0]

Opera had tabbed browsing and popup blocking first, but Mozilla/Firefox gets all the credit.

[The Electrifyer 0]

I just downloaded Mozilla and I must say, with the FoxyTunes add-on this thing is so sexy. The tabbed browsing and customized links are very nice too.

 

But how do you make it so when you click on a link that is supposed to open in a new window, it opens in a new tab instead? For example, when you click on a link posted on a TSM post, it opens in a new window. How do you make it so the link opens in a new tab instead?

[Jobber of the Week 0]

But how do you make it so when you click on a link that is supposed to open in a new window, it opens in a new tab instead? For example, when you click on a link posted on a TSM post, it opens in a new window. How do you make it so the link opens in a new tab instead?

Middle click (aka wheel-click if you have a wheel mouse, which you likely do) on a link and it'll open up in a new tab.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I actually fell in love with Firefox when using one of my school's computer lab computers which some geek decided apparently to take out Windows and IE, and put in Linux with Firefox. And man I loved it. But I installed it on my old crappy computer, which is 100% mine as opposed to this one which is shared (we both have dial-up AOHell, at least until I get my new computer with a high-speed connection), and the page rendering is absolute crap. So, I've come to the conclusion that Maxthon is probably better if you have dial-up, and Firefox is better if you have a high-speed connection. Because that's truly the only drawback to Firefox, everything seems to load from top to bottom instead of object by object like IE does.

 

Download.com is a terrible site.

Ironic you say that, considering Maxthon has an apparent partnership with download.com, and is their primary source for downloading Maxthon.

[DokDoyle 0]

I've been using Mozilla/Firefox at home for a little over a year and will only use IE for sites that won't open in Mozilla (Launchcast being one real good example). I have to use IE at work and find it wanting.

 

Really, How hard would it have been to add Tabbed Browsing to SP2?

[Positively Kanyon 0]

I've got Firefox installed but MSN Messenger and Windows Update continue to use Internet Explorer when I run those programs, and I don't want to use IE anymore... Can anybody help me with this problem?

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Internet Explorer technology is built into Windows and is used for browsing the local filesystem as well as by other programs. You can disable IE the browser by unchecking it in Add/Remove Windows Components (inside Add/Remove Software), but you can not entirely remove IE's library. For this reason it's important that, even if you abandon IE as a browser entirely, you pay attention to it's security updates.

 

IE has been hooked in as a vital organ to Windows since about 1999 or so.

[Dr. Tom 0]

I've been using FIrefox at home for months now, and have been using it at work for about 6-8 weeks. We were "encouraged" to use other browsers because of the JPG vulnerability in IE (since patched, but still). The only thing I have to use IE for is to do my timesheet online.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Firefox users -

 

Type about:config in your address bar and double click these things and edit the values as I have listed.

 

network.http.max-connections : 64

network.http.max-connections-per-server : 21

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server : 8

network.http.pipelining : true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests : 100

network.http.proxy.pipelining : true

 

Pages will now load about 10x faster.

 

I also got this link from someone, but haven't tested it myself. It's a list of unnofficial builds optimized for different cpus. Take with a grain of salt, but I hear they work.

 

http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/firefox_m3.htm

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Pages will now load about 10x faster.

You'll also be hammering the fuck out of any server you visit. Bad netiquette.

[MrRant 0]

Thing about that is that with that enabled it causes some pages to not render correctly.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

You'll also be hammering the fuck out of any server you visit. Bad netiquette.

 

I am aware that it isn't very neighbourly.