Mozilla Firefox

I've just downloaded Firefox and will be installing it later this evening as I've heard it's better than IE.


Does anyone else use it and what are your views of it.

Cheers

 

it's very very good

originally the best bit was the auto pop-up blocker, but now IE does that too.

However, best bits are - tab'd internet pages, and the ability to right click on any word/image etc and autosearch using google

 

Its very good, very similar to IE as in the usuability and the interface. It can block popups and all sorts and will be an improvement.

 

Awesome, it also has a whole host of extensions that you can install

 

It's V.good and seems less likely to be hijacked by nasty homepage viruses etc.. In fact the only reason I still use Internet Explorer is because I'm used to it...

 

I use it as my default Browser. its Excellent, IMO

 

I'm liking the basics of it so far.

Easy to use etc....


I think I'll stick with it.


I'm working on over clocking next need a bit more beef for a couple of game I have and my system is considered to be highly overclockable (I'll start small)

 

Make sure you have a good cooling system if you're going to overclock otherwise you will end up shelling out for a new CPU and that ain't fun I can tell you

 

I know that it's 'better' than IE< but I can't get used to it. Every time I try, I go scuttling back to IE. I'm comfortable there, and not demanding of any major alterations. So yeah, for all it's advantages, Firefox can't win me over.

 

Internet Explorer 7 will be out next year. That'll have tabbed browsing and I assume most of Firefix's other features too.

 

I have vast amounts of cooling on my system, Hard drive fan, CPU fan (Obviously) and an exhaust fan.

If I'm not wearing socks and I'm in front of my PC it's like having an arctic breeze blow over my feet.


I intend to start working upwards in small increments though as I've never overclocked before so I don't want to kill my PC.

 

I too can recommend Mozilla Firefox as a web browser, even though I use Opera myself. Anything is better than using the aged-disaster that is IE. The best bits about FF are the extensions and themes which are quite a novelty for first time users, however you may notice the more you add to FF the slower it becomes. It is certainly worth using, however be weary of the FF fanboys who will have you beleive that FF is the solution to all of lifes problems - it isn't, but its certainly worth using instead of IE.

The reason I personally use Opera is because its way faster than any browser I have ever used (inc FF and IE), and according to Secunia amongst other orgainsiations it is considered much more secure than FF and obviously IE. To add to that, if your happy to get your hands dirty, you can customise Opera in as many ways as you can do with FF, and it has many of the "desirable" extensions built in as standard, e.g. mouse genstures, RSS client, e-mail client etc. Its a free download and certainly worth looking at now, especially since it went ad-free.

 

I tried Firefox for a brief time but ultimately, I couldn't get used to it. I know it's better than IE but since I've been using IE for so long, I can't get used to any other browser.

It's stupid, I know, but until I develop some patience I'm still a slave to Microsoft.

 

I have been using Firefox for ages, it has some very good features that can be put to use for <cough> special purposes <cough> .

 

Yeah, i know what ya mean moylesy

 

I don't

 

I also use firefox. However, I still need I,E as bad code in some sites does not work in firefox (I think thats the reason).

 

You'll find thats a big problem for many alternative web browsers, because many web sites don't follow the correct web standards. This is a wide complaint from people I speak to about Opera, when they claim Opera "renders pages wrongly" - actually you'll find that its lazy developers who can't arsed coding their web pages properly. Opera did introduce something called the user-agent spoof (I'm not aware of a similar thing in FF)which tricks web pages into believeing that it is actually IE (or Firefox, or Netscape!), and there are many UserJavaScript work arounds, but sadly these are often beyond the capabilities of the average net user.

The web is starting to come into line, and Mozilla Firefox must take some credit for this. The more people use web-standard compliant browsers, the better.

 

I took the plunge and installed Firefox yesterday.......

....have to say, not that bad