grimace Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Mouse gestures can be added to Firefox for those who want them. I believe there are a number of plug ins. The two most popular mouse gestures plugins for Firefox are not as responsive as Opera's native mouse gesture support especially on older (sub-800MHz) machines. Personally, I don't want email in my browser. I want my browser to browse. So I use Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client. Search for Hugin and Mugin. Removing the mail client doesn't help Opera's speed from what I've heard. And it's still "the fatest browser on earth" :) (Note the quotes) http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html With Opera & Firefox, I suspect it's largely a matter of taste. But they're both incomparably better than IE6!!! Very true. :) I'm interested in IE7 though. Given the slow startups for both FF and Thunderbird on older machines, I'm looking forward to what Microsoft does. EDIT: Note to potential new users of Opera: there are a few popular sites that are partially broken in Opera. Most of them deliberately serve broken code to only Opera.. there are ways around this though. Feel free to visit the Opera forums to find out how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymity Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 The only time I use IE is when there is no choice, i.e. Windows Update, and all those other product updates. For all the other regular browsing, my top choice is Opera. I find it to be doing a very good job. For browsing that requires ActiveX, I use Netscape. As Opera has expressed, they tend to stay on being open-source in their projects so ActiveX handling is out of the question. Perhaps it's the only thing that's keeping Opera from being a universal browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDawgAMD Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Firefox all the way, but i dont have the load time issues because i just added firefox to the windows prefetch and blam, loads just as fast as IE ever did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Sure the tabbed browsing is nice' date=' but not THAT nice.[/quote'] To each their own ... I don't see how I could live w/o tabbed browsing anymore. Lets me open every link on a page w/o navigating away from it, then I can read/bookmark and open more tabs as needed. Firefox's Bookmark Synchronizer extension is vital to me. It allows me to keep my bookmarks on multiple computers synchronized/shared. Since I use several at work, a few at home, and others when I travel, it's a feature I can hardly live without. The hBar extension I use frequently at work to search LNL's excellent database of physics and complexity theory publications. Being able to copy plain text, or URL+selection is often convenient. And an extension to copy the current link target to the clipboard simplifies blogging and documentation greatly. Somebody mentioned a "long load time" for Firefox? I think much of that delay is in loading extensions, themes, and config files. The absolute, undisputable advantage, however, is that neither Opera nor IE have the words of Frank Herbert available at the click of a menu item. The "I must not fear" extension for Firefox pops up with: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synexo Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Switched to Firefox a few months back because I was getting sick of freakin' drive-by ad-ware all the time. Works great if you ask me. Had tried switching to Opera in the past but didn't like how it displayed so many webpages all messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vystral Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 I don't mean any disrespect, Nite, but I find Opera to be just too clunky. Same goes for Maxthon. Firefox has such a clean interface. Plus, you can use your middle mouse button to open links in new tabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werecow Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 firefox just rocks!!!! what else can you say?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDawgAMD Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 Besides, look at all the Themes and extensions available to tailor firefox to suit the look and feel you like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDad Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I'm a Firefox user myself, but occasionally resort to IE (when forced). If you use multiple browsers, consider LinkSync http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4527.html . It syncs bookmarks from one browser to several others on the fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxmaster Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I am using Firefox now. Since I stopped using Internet Explorer I have less Windows Crashes, Less Spyware and no more virus. The websites I make, are made for Firefox and not for IE. IE can't display CSS normal. For all webdesigners who make IE only sites STOP IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektram Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I find that it's often hard to get css-enabled websites working in IE without stuffing them up for Firefox. I experiment with stylesheets for my site and at first attempt they work perfectly in Firefox but not in IE. Get Firefox :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0xx Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 IE SUCKS! FireFox is the shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Well' date=' I'm curious how things will evolve when IE7 is released. It is supposed to have a lot of features that make firefox special right now. The bèta will be released in 2 months time. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.[/quote'] So Micro$oft will be a year behind the Mozilla team ... it will be a worse product, and all the computer mags will ooh and ahh and chatter about what a wonderful and superior product the M$ beta is - all the while ignoring that it's a huge, resource consuming, unstable PIG! Or, perhaps M$ will actually do something right ... I just remember how badly IE6 broke my Win98 machine. It ran fine under IE5.5, but moving to 6 left me with a brain-dead machine. Resource consumtion was high. Swapping drastically increased - and this is w/o running the browser. IE6 kept crashing the machine. When I installed FireBird (now FireFox), the bad things didn't stop, but I could browse with very few crashes. The IE6 d/l was 25+ MB (a big pain on dial up), while FireBird was just a few megs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weareborg Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Firefox all the way. I couldn't do without it. Opera is horrible, and it has Ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weareborg Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 The problem is, when Microsoft release IE7, it will still be the most used browser in the world, making it the obious choice for people that make viruses, spyware etc. As long as browsers like firefox and Opera don't become too popular, they will still target IE, it affects more people. It's a bit like this site, amazing, but if it get's too popular, it will get noticed by the powers that be (Which none of us want). Minorities are better, more personal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolax Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Firefox 4TW, IE is just a bunch of bull and opera you have to pay to get the ads removed. 46mill downloads and counting on firefox :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 I fixed my Firefox problem. Turned out to be an update to an extension. Unfortunately, I uninstalled the extension w/o writing down which one it was. Now I have the choice of opening a new window (when clicking on the forum/tracker link from the other) or using the middle button to open in a new tab again. It's good to have life returning to normal!!! BTW, I just noticed that FF has over 400 extensions!!! Something for everybody, methinks! point 1 point 2 point 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 I fixed my Firefox problem. Turned out to be an update to an extension. Unfortunately, I uninstalled the extension w/o writing down which one it was. Now I have the choice of opening a new window (when clicking on the forum/tracker link from the other) or using the middle button to open in a new tab again. It's good to have life returning to normal!!! BTW, I just noticed that FF has over 400 extensions!!! Something for everybody, methinks! It even has a BBCode extension that allows formatting text for the forums with a right click. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 If you are all curious, check out the stats for the website HERE. Currently, it's 46% IE, 37% Firefox, 4% Opera, 3% Safari, and 2% Mozilla. That's the total for 2.35 million hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weyoun Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 If you are all curious' date=' check out the stats for the website HERE. Currently, it's 46% IE, 37% Firefox, 4% Opera, 3% Safari, and 2% Mozilla. That's the total for 2.35 million hits. Wow! this sure is a site used by nerds! (myself included of course) I think on average it is still over 80 percent ie, isn't it? Hmm. I am going to have to research this. EDIT: Official stats, from what I can see... Browser Statistics Month by Month 2005 IE 6 IE 5 O 7/8 Ffox Moz NN 4 NN 7 May 61.9% 3.1% 1.9% 24.6% 3.6% 0.2% 0.9% April 62.3% 3.4% 1.9% 23.9% 3.5% 0.2% 0.9% March 63.8% 3.9% 1.8% 21.8% 3.7% 0.2% 1.0% Comes from this page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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