Something I really dislike about Internet Exporer 7 on my new PC is that, for some stupid reason, all of my favorites are kept with my ISP. In other words I have to log in to my ISP to save favorites. I haven’t been able to figure out how to keep them locally.
So, with that, plus many other bothersome things I’ve decided I might just swich to Firefox.
I know a lot of you use Firefox. What are your likes and dislikes?
It’s not IE.
'nuff said.
I don’t have too many problems with Firefox, besides sites that insist on using
DirectX or otherwise require you to use IE. For those, I use an addon called
IETab, which creates a tab in firefox that is actually running IE.
I constantly have problems with Firefox. Sometimes it decides it doesn’t know what to do with .wmv files. Some days it doesn’t know how to display .jpg’s. It’s a constant fight to get it to work properly from day to day, with lots of going back to their Help sites and resetting options and stuff.
I am not impressed.
djm
Weird. Never seen that. I wonder if folks are setting their MIME types improperly.
I think you should try Firefox and if you don’t like it, go back to IE. As a web developer I only developed in Firefox (because there are so many great tools you can install to help with that) then checked it in IE to make sure it was functional. That’s the way good web developers are doing it these days.
It seems that IE7 took the good things about Firefox and then made them maddening to use while retaining all the things about IE6 that I found maddening. Screw it.
I’ve not had a problem with Firefox in ages. Early on, there were a few sites that didn’t like Firefox, but I haven’t had that problem in a while.
I love it and would never willingly go back to IE.
Eric
I’ve used Firefox on the wife’s computer and on my home computer for the last couple of years. I’ve also used it here at my son’s shop for the last year. I would recommend giving it a try. Works great, lots of add-ons available and frequently updated.
It blocks adds. That is one great reason to switch. Sometimes it is a little weird, and I don’t like it as much as safari, so I use safari normally and firefox on heavily added sites. I would never use IE, but I guess if you don’t have a mac safari isn’t an option.
Lately Firefox keeps trying to load an upgrade, and then fails with some cryptic error. (I’m at work and don’t have the details). It happens every time I launch it, then it fails, and then goes about its merry way.
That’s the first oddity I’ve noticed in a year of using mostly just Firefox. I’d recommend trying it out, for sure.
WTF?
That isn’t normal…
Actually, that is pretty weird. I wonder if that’s some sort of hook your ISP
installed in IE (or a customized version of IE like AOL had). Hopefully they
don’t do the same crap to Firefox. At any rate, Firefox is easy to try, and can
be uninstalled if you don’t like it, so what’s there to wait for?
Exactly. You don’t have to choose one or the other. There’s no rule that says if you use one you have to uninstall the other. Download firefox, give it a try. If you don’t like it just keep using IE.
unlike IE, you can take it off if it upsets ya!
I’m so glad this thread is about browsers. Even if it is April 1.
Firefox is okay, but chokes at times. I have yet to understand why it doesn’t have a simple history memory, but erases it after you close things and such. I probably have to set some Preference but other browsers always just did it, leaving a big ol long history to check on when necessary.
After years of struggle, I finally gave up on Microsoft based computers, and went to a Mac, a few years ago.
As an Internet browser, for instance, a Mac has Safari, which is quite unlike any of the IE browsers. Oh, happy day!
As a note, Firefox and Safari are both Unix based browsers, not proprietary Microsoft browsers, and so work in similar ways.
As my suggestion, get yourself one of the newer, Intel Mac computers, and that way you could also install a* Microsoft OS and any* Microsoft .app.
No excuses, an iMac could substitute for your PC where you work, just add an XP and/or a Vista OS in addition to the native Mac OS X, if you need to.
In addition, this Mac, with OS X, has gone around the e-world during the past year or so, and has had virtually no troubles, at all. Yup, it’s just that good.
Go Mac!
EDIT: *=more recent
it does…
the icon looks like an alarm clock or
History/Show in sidebar or
Ctrl H
It is now, and it’s lightning quick - even on Windows XP.
Firefox has been my default browser for a long time now, and I love it, though it’s lately gotten slower and is a bit of a memory hog. And it won’t unload Adobe Acrobat after viewing a .pdf file. But I’ve read that the upcoming Firefox 3 corrects some speed and memory issues. I sure am hoping so.
If you don’t like IE, you have quite a few choices actually.
Firefox - you can use either the current download version or use the beta 4 version of Firefox 3 (the one I use).
Opera - the 9.5 beta version of Opera - it is the browser I use to browse C&F as it handles posting to the forum better than the earlier releases - I like this one for the simple reason that there is a fit to page button for all these oversized photos etc in posts.
Safari - it is available for windows as well as mac and works ok.
Seamonkey - the all in one version of Firefox/Thunderbird, I have not got round to playing with this yet.
David
I’ve been using Safari since they released it for PC, and it runs much faster than Firefox did. And Firefox always ran faster for me than IE. So there’s that.