i'm open to new programs and i've used firefox a couple of times on campus, but i don't understand what the big fascination is. i'm not a very technical person and my standards are limited to browsing at a decent speedy pace. i tried googling it and i searched tech talk (btw- look at most of the topic names: http://www.brentroad.com/message_search.aspx?type=topic§ion=3&searchstring=firefox&username=&usertype=match&sortby=date&sortorder=descending&page=) but i still don't "get it"

i don't want to start trash-talking, trolling, etc. i'd really like to know some specifics from users.

11/8/2005 10:26:11 PM

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160900911

Quote :

"Some also like it simply because it's not from Microsoft. "

11/8/2005 10:27:50 PM

^yeah, i got a little bit of that argument

11/8/2005 10:28:31 PM

Quote :

"Some also like it simply because it's not from Microsoft"

this means shit to me, i wouldnt use an inferior product just because it not made by MS

11/8/2005 10:30:51 PM

the one thing holding me back is i dont think all my toolbars will work there (ebay yahoo etc)

11/8/2005 10:31:35 PM

haha, I always considered those spyware.

11/8/2005 10:33:48 PM

...except that they're not

11/8/2005 10:41:20 PM

i dont get as much spyware with firefox... thats about it

11/8/2005 11:03:09 PM

I'm absolutely addicted to the tabbed browising and mouse gestures
to the point that I can't really use a public machine without getting extremely frustrated.

But the most attractive quality is that it's infinitely configurable.

Go into the Firefox Extension threads - load up stuff like AdBlock, MouseGestures, Sage, and a whole host of others and you'll never turn back.

11/8/2005 11:15:32 PM

http://www.opera.com

11/8/2005 11:20:36 PM

^

11/8/2005 11:26:46 PM

Quote :

" I can't really use a public machine without getting extremely frustrated"

You may like this

http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

works great combined with

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=14&vid=15&category=Bookmarks

11/8/2005 11:26:51 PM

is it any better than Avant Browser?

http://www.avantbrowser.com/

11/8/2005 11:44:26 PM

i use maxthon

it has most of the extensions that you'd go looking for already built-in and it's the IE engine so no major problems with plugins

11/8/2005 11:47:18 PM

Quote :

"is it any better than Avant Browser?"

Way better, smaller, faster, and customizable-er.

[Edited on November 9, 2005 at 12:43 AM. Reason : ]

11/9/2005 12:42:40 AM

http://www.opera.com

11/9/2005 12:43:05 AM

I love the tabs

11/9/2005 12:44:58 AM

^^ eh opera's alright, for some reason it seems to run shitty on my machine compared to firefox

11/9/2005 12:55:04 AM

^ kinda strange, i have the exact opposite problem. FF runs slower than opera and sometimes IE on my computer.

11/9/2005 1:00:42 AM

have they fixed FF's memory problem yet? i won't even touch it without that being fixed.

11/9/2005 1:05:48 AM

i do it for the tabs. i never got spyware with IE, i tried out lots of extensions but ended up removing all of them. i just like the tabs

11/9/2005 8:28:03 AM

The main extension I use expands my uses of tabbed browsing.

Can take a little time to play around with the first time and find exactly how you want your tabs to work, but it's great.

http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/tabextensions/index.html.en

I've got it set to create new tabs for any sites not in the current site's domain, which is a big thing for me.

11/9/2005 9:15:10 AM

firefox is too slow for me, opera doesn't run right with all the fonts I have installed, gonna fix that with a format in a few weeks hopefully. Avantbrowser has worked great for me for years, blocks popups, ads, has tabs and mouse gestures, very simple and clean interface, and quite speedy for me, about the same speed as Opera, much faster than Firefox.

11/9/2005 9:19:23 AM

Tabbed browsing is the biggie for me.

11/9/2005 9:46:25 AM

has anyone mentioned http://www.opera.com yet?

11/9/2005 10:05:23 AM

one more vote for Avant Browser

everything on the net displays correctly for it because it uses the IE engine.

I don't know how you people pickup so much spyware. What kind of sites are you going to?

I run my adware sweepers about once a month and I never get anything other than a bunch of cookies.

11/9/2005 10:10:05 AM

^ porn sites

and i love my free cursors and emoticons

11/9/2005 10:35:42 AM

Quote :

"I'm absolutely addicted to the tabbed browising and mouse gestures to the point that I can't really use a public machine without getting extremely frustrated. "

11/9/2005 11:59:49 AM

Something I really hate about IE that I've noticed after editing a site and checking it in IE and Firefox...

IE seems to zoom in on all images. Which is fine in most circumstances, but makes things look horrible others.

11/9/2005 3:45:23 PM