I.E. vs Firefox

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

I love Opera, but I begin to stop loving it. What really pisses me off about Opera is the everlasting problems with ebay (reported by my wife) and the non draggable Favorites inside the Favorites/Bookmarks menu. I don't like Opera's bookmark manager.

[71 dB]

...the everlasting problems with ebay (reported by my wife)

What problems? My eBay experiences have been smooth with Opera.  0:)

[haydnguy]

My wife, a non-techie who has never used anything BUT Firefox, has been using IE8 since I installed it. I ask her today which she likes better. She said "IE because it's faster".

[Opus106]

Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension

[drogulus]

     Let us help you make Firefox less secure.

     The link says uninstalling can damage your FF. What about just disabling the extension?

     I just uninstalled the extension. I'm not supposed to be able to do that, but maybe my bleeding edge FF 3.6a1pre has been configured to handle this.

[Opus106]

(I know, this only an IE v Firefox thread.) Posting from Opera 10 Beta. Some new features. I've always used Opera only as a back-up browser (to Firefox), but now I'm going give it a try, proper.

A couple of new features that you immediately see: a permanent but optional bar at the top which shows the tab previews. (By permanent I mean that you do not need to hover the mouse pointer over the tabs to see a short preview), but it takes about 15-20% of the browser space. I'll need to check if I can adjust that.* And speed dial can now accomodate up to 25 websites... which was something I was looking forward to.


* Yes, we can.

[Papageno]

I'm starting to like Google Chrome, what do you think?
But no, I'm a die-hard Safari lover.

[Opus106]

I'm starting to like Google Chrome, what do you think?

Only the alpha version of Chromium, the open-source browser behind Google's Chrome, is available for Linux -- which is what I use -- and it is far from being perfect. In fact, there was a recent article I read where the lead developer complained about the various user interfaces available for Linux and the lack of a standard among the GUI.

I stick to Firefox most of the time because, even with a fast browser like Opera, you don't get the functionality that the add-ons NoScript and AdBlockPlus provide. (Someone correct me if I'm missing something.)

[drogulus]

     One trick I've been using is putting my FF on a flash drive along with a copy of my profile with add-ons, sign-ins, and passwords. I can go anywhere and pop this into a computer and everything I need is there. This requires a bit of setting up since the browser has to be pointed to this profile or it will create a new one. When you remove the drive a small file is left behind where profile info is kept, which you can delete and leave no trace behind.

[Opus106]

    One trick I've been using is putting my FF on a flash drive along with a copy of my profile with add-ons, sign-ins, and passwords. I can go anywhere and pop this into a computer and everything I need is there. This requires a bit of setting up since the browser has to be pointed to this profile or it will create a new one. When you remove the drive a small file is left behind where profile info is kept, which you can delete and leave no trace behind.

If you do all that "by hand," you should try FEBE (and CLEO, and OPIE). FEBE, especially, is godsend.

[drogulus]

If you do all that "by hand," you should try FEBE (and CLEO, and OPIE). FEBE, especially, is godsend.

    I looked at those extensions and it seemed like more rather than less work. I only have a few extensions so I don't need another one to manage them, and the profile I use has all my logins and passwords. All I had to do was copy a profile with everything in it to a folder on the drive and then create a shortcut to Minefield (my FF) with this added: " -P profilename -no-remote" (without quotes). This keeps the browser connected to its own portable profile and not to any profile that may be on the host PC.

[jchen]

What he said ^^. Firefox is a lot better, and you must be the last human still using IE 

false. I am using IE8. I tried Firefox, it sucked

[drogulus]

          I'm using an extension called Screengrab, which does what it says. I grabbed this one using Irfanview so I could show the little icon with the grab options.

     

[Josquin des Prez]

Firefox used to be number one, by i'm not sure anymore. The memory problems are getting annoying, and it seems the browser is a lot slower then it used to be. I don't use any extension except for adblock.

[Scarpia]

Is it my imagination, or has Firefox turned to shit.  Until I opened GMG I had one Firefox window with the ultra-simple Google search page, and it was occupying 80 Mb of memory?  Can even IE be worse?  I think I thinking of switching to Chrome.

[haydnguy]

When Firefox 4.0 came out in final release it seemed terrible. I switched to Chrome and that great but then I had some compatible issues and so I downloaded Firefox (4.01 by this time). Now it seems fine. I don't know if it was my machine or they fixed something. 

[eyeresist]

I use IE, and just in the last month or two have had some memory problems, pages bloating and becoming unusable, so I have to go into Task Manager and shut the windows down. Of course, I usually browse with images and Active X controls and plugins (i.e. Flash) turned off, so this problem may be older and I just haven't noticed it.

What I'd really like is to be able to place buttons for the options I frequently turn off and on (as above) in the command bar.

[drogulus]

     
     I've always found IE perversely organized. They were better off back in the days when they copied the Netscape layout. Most browsers are still close to the Mozilla standard. Here's FF 7.0a1:

     

[haydnguy]

     
     I've always found IE perversely organized. They were better off back in the days when they copied the Netscape layout. Most browsers are still close to the Mozilla standard. Here's FF 7.0a1:

     

Did they decide to get rid of the orange Firefox button up at the top left? I kind of like that. It takes up less space than a row of buttons.

[DavidW]

Did they decide to get rid of the orange Firefox button up at the top left? I kind of like that. It takes up less space than a row of buttons.

It's still there if you look closely just replaced with a planet.  Looks more like seamonkey than firefox.