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Old 17-10-2004   #51 (permalink)
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Re: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

Ihave tried using others and I am not switching browsers till I find something that is appreciably better. As for scripts I use Avast AV script blocker since getting my first virus after entering a questionable site. (My bad for going there.)
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Let me just say this...

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Re: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

I have some experience to tell you from the last days.(from my neighbours pc problem with the DSL speed)
A fresh Windows with IE.
no antivirus software or any antispyware blockin software or a firewall.
The Results are 36 viruses/trjoans/worms some very common things like blaster mydoom and some others.
Thats wasnt all a shitload when you look at the upload and the result is you cant do anything with ie.

And you know what ? That all in just 15mins
Same System with firefox and you are somewhat saver
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Re: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

Never heard of Mozzila Firefox. What is it and where did you get it?
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Never heard of Mozzila Firefox. What is it and where did you get it?
http://www.mozilla.org/
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Old 25-10-2004   #56 (permalink)
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Re: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

Has anyone noticed that Firefox falls asleep when burning cd or dvd is in progress? Because I go nuts!
Anyway, I just wanted to drop a line for Opera too - never mind the banners, then can be ignored in the unregistered verson. Am trying Firefox now, it's simple and elegant - not without problems, of course, but noone is perfect... Enjoy!
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Falls asleep? Are you talking about Firefox taking a long time to "wake up" if you have it minimized for a long time?

This was filed as a bug some time ago for Mozilla applications in general. I do not recall the bug ID. But it turns out that the problem is that Mozilla apps are "good neighbors" and will yield their space in active memory very quickly when they get minimized, and thus are quickly paged out. Once they are paged out, un-minimizing them takes a long time. Most other Windows apps do not play as nice and actually take steps to prevent them from being paged out into the swapfile when they are minimized, which is why bloatier programs like Photoshop will actually take less time to recover from minimization.

The resolution to the "bug" was the creation of a hidden feature...

In user.js in your profile directory (create user.js if it does not exist), add the following line:
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", false);

This was added in FF 0.9. Was broken for a number of the 0.9 releases. And was fixed for 1.0 PR.
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I see. Probably that is part of the problem, although I don't mean minimizing, only switching between windows, or trying to open a new instance of Firefox. Also about loading pages - specifically when burning of a CD/DVD is in progress. First noticed on good old Yahoo! mail - the vertical menu in the left gets streched the whole width of the browser.
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Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0

The final version is not too much different from those that have been released earlier this week. It has some changes to the start page and some minor fixes

www.mozzilla.com

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Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0

The final version is not too much different from those that have been released earlier this week. It has some changes to the start page and some minor fixes

www.mozzilla.com

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oops
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/index.html
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Or as a torrent, since the website is overburdened...
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o....0.exe.torrent
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Back off IE fanboy, don't make me sic debro on your ass.
Stoner you need to lay off the weed or pestisides for awhile:-)
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Never heard of Mozzila Firefox. What is it and where did you get it?
Here ya go >>>http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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Re: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

The 1.0 final is great O.o
speed is godlike.
Now i wait for the "IE is GREAT" and "IE RULEZ" guys lol
The implementation of the you got new mail feature is also nice.
The updating of the plugins worked also really good.
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I Tried FireFox And It Worked Great For Me Thanks
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Re: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

im picky when it comes to changeing webbrowsers... i used ie6 for the longest time but once firefox came along i started using that once i got used to it and i aint never going back to IE... it has a nice clean interface and it aint bloated at all. (not to mention firefox is more secure "overall" )

opera is a fast webbrowser no doubt about that, but reason i like firefox alot better (not counting the fact firefox is free) is opera's interface is more cluttered as where firefox is more simple ... firefox went the smart route in leaving up "add-on" stuff to the individual to install which is a smart thing.

sure u can argue that firefox may have just as many security flaws as ie6 does if it was just as popular... which it might... but the fact of the matter is as of today firefox is plain and simply more secure than IE is... plus no activex support in firefox that right there eliminates alot of what makes ie bad.

bottom line... your average person dont want to mess with installing software to get on the internet! which means there just gonna use whats installed already in windows which is IE! and for your average user there aint much reason to switch webbrowsers since IE displays ALL sites correctly unlike firefox

but i think firefox is better cause it does support standards... maybe in a few years time everyone will start making stuff based on those standards.

cause i have ran into a few sites that dont work properly with firefox but ill manage
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Re: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

That's what the "view in IE" extension is for. But I stopped visiting those IE-only sites a long time ago. Don't seem to be many left anyway.

The really funny ones are the ones that say "please use the latest version of IE or Netscape"... erm, Netscape shares the same engine as Firefox... that caused me to put "Netscape" in my UA string a while ago, but those websites seem to be disappearing, too. Speaking of which, have people seen the new Netscape? The one that's currently in a (very) limited beta based on Firefox?

Opera is nice, but as someone so aptly put it in the Opera web forum (of all places), "Why use FireFox over Opera? Because it's free."
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I think if IE offered tabbed browsing (now it has built in popupstopper) it will be in lead with Firefox and Opera, and will have no customization needed upon install. It would make a huge world of difference for IE users.
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...and RSS feed support... and more sensible CSS2 support... and extension support (FlashBlock, WeatherFox, Magpie)... and the quick-search bar (IMDb and Wikipedia are indispensible, along with having a quick Google search without a Googlebar that takes up a whole toolbar's worth of space)... and the find toolbar with the highlight feature... but I agree, tabbed browsing with the ability to quickly open and close tabs with the middle-click is huge for me.
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Nobody's mentioned the licence. Yes "Firefox" is free, freely distributable. I expect your thinking *grandma, eggs, suck* and shut-up newby but for many people the fact that "firefox" **may be a fraction slower is secondary to its development as free software.
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hi hi all.

joined this discussion a bit late and i havent read most of the material.

However i have used firefox and ie and both for a decent ammount of time.

When it comes down to the nitty gritty they both have there goods and bads, however i found that i could put up with the lacking features of ie6 rather than some annoying things in firefox.

I dont know why, but for some reason, however small, these main things in firefox gave me this shits so incredibly bad, that no matter how many creature comforts i added, it still just seemed easier to use ie.

First of all, in firefox, when you scroll down a page with mousewheel, its a lot rougher and harder on the eyes than with ie.

second, the load time of firefox is about 3 times that of ie.

third, the download manager really does do fuck all!?!? i couldnt figure that out really. i dont get the point of it. the resume doesnt work, and if you pause then unpause the download goes slow as shit.

the good points for it however, totally customizable, very comfortable and easy to skin.

i really do think the net surfing for dialup (at least) is a bit quicker,

the search bar (google or watnot) built into the frame was great

the tabbing was good, however when you create a new tab it should open in the page that you were on <===that should go in a bad :S

absolutely adored the link bar system

skinning and putting addons was piss easy. oh and loved the gmail notifier


Thats basically it
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ps: i'm sure both parties will find some common grounds within my statement for both browsers
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if you have any problems with firefox post a bug at their bugzilla thing.
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(sigh) People of cdfreaks, do i have to keep explaining why IE is so popular amongst the more gullible netizens?

The main popularity issue of IE comes from one thing only : It's pre-installed when you buy a pc. Yes. You buy a pc, you get some form of Windows on it and therefore you have IE. The normal user doesn't need more, so he (where i type he i mean he,she,it,aliens,borgs,fluffy animals and a couple of swedes) will not download.

The main compatibility issue of IE comes from one thing only as well. It can handle ANYTHING. It doesn't handle it good, but it can handle scripts, active-x, java, flash, you name it. It can even handle INCORRECT HTML.

This last one is the most important one here. More than 90% of all websites DO NOT follow the standard international rules of HTML. As with any decent program, you should get an error when something doesn't apply to protocol. Mozilla does, Opera does, FireFox does, Arachne does, but not IE. IE ignores everything and can read any crap HTML. IE can even use .ASP, .NET and all other fun things Microsoft reinvented. It's so "inventive" it can be used as a filescanner, mailer,msn notifier and so forth.

This is also the fundamental problem of IE. Because it accepts and reads anything, it also automagically installs dangerous scripts and is very susceptible to malicious plugins (Auto Dailers, Porn scripts, toolbars, you name it).

So, there's three things you can do :

1 : Learn how to browse (as in "learn how to drive a car")
2 : Protect IE (www.windowsupdate.com)
3 : Use another browser.
Face it MS suck they do as little as possible to fix problem in their os and people pay for that so ho much do you think they will fix on something that is free? I use mozilla for everything and I never have problem. I've had more problems with IE and pops and lets not forget home page hijacking which I've never had a problem on mozilla with that. When you get about:blank then tell me how much you like IE.
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