firefox

[Darkslayer633]

i am not sure where this goes but i think it goes here

i read a few things on firefox and most of it says that firefox is sooo good because of the pop-up blocker

but what is really soo good about firefox?
and as far as pop-up blockers go i got 2

BTW those are the built in ones as well as the google toolbar

[Fenguin]

If you're set on using IE, there's no way to persuade you to do otherwise. However, since you don't seem to be, I'll continue.

Ways Firefox is a viable alternative to IE:

Security. Although an excuse for Firefox's lack of exploits is that no one uses it, why not be exploit-less and use it?
Search. Without installing any plugins that might contain adware (i.e. 90% of IE toolbars), you can search from a little box on the top right of the screen. You can search in a multitude of search engines as well.
Pop-up blocker. Again, most of the toolbars one can install for IE contain adware. The newest version of IE has built-in popup blocking though.
Tabbed browsing. You have no idea how much better this makes one's browsing experience. Instead of cluttering the taskbar with a bunch of windows, you can have all your pages in tabs in the same window.
News feeds. Yess Firefox has built-in RSS syndication.
Extensions. Omg some of the extensions are awesome. Omg omg omg.


Ways IE sucks:

Its CSS parsing engine is very very buggy. Sometimes one has to add nonexistent tags (those not specified by W3C) to make something look nice. Also sometimes a randomly placed <br /> solves problems. Like what the freak.

[Darkslayer633]

Security. Although an excuse for Firefox's lack of exploits is that no one uses it, why not be exploit-less and use it?
not sure what there is to exploit i got lots of stuff to get rid of adware and spyware as well as block it from commin in, in the first place.
i haven't had any and i have had my comp for 2mths

Search. Without installing any plugins that might contain adware (i.e. 90% of IE toolbars), you can search from a little box on the top right of the screen. You can search in a multitude of search engines as well.
covered in my google toolbar

Pop-up blocker. Again, most of the toolbars one can install for IE contain adware. The newest version of IE has built-in popup blocking though.
again covered but had 2 edit in the ones i have

Tabbed browsing. You have no idea how much better this makes one's browsing experience. Instead of cluttering the taskbar with a bunch of windows, you can have all your pages in tabs in the same window.
now this i can see as useful

News feeds. Yess Firefox has built-in RSS syndication
not even sure wat that is.

Extensions. Omg some of the extensions are awesome. Omg omg omg.again not really sure
Ways IE sucks:
Its CSS parsing engine is very very buggy. Sometimes one has to add nonexistent tags (those not specified by W3C) to make something look nice. Also sometimes a randomly placed <br /> solves problems. Like what the freak.
what in all of the un-holy hell does that mean?

[Mattimeo]

The point is that you don't need to worry about adware and spyware with firefox like you do with IE. You don't have to have those other applications and you don't need to worry about whether your google toolbar has adware or not. Maybe you like having a bunch of programs around on your computer but for my money (well, not really seeing as firefox is free) Firefox is better.

~Don't Panic

[Darkslayer633]

is 1.0 the only version yet?

[mcflurry_1982]

from what fenguin has described it seems that netscape is just as good.

[Darkslayer633]

i dled it and it seems pretty good what extensions or themes would you reccommend?

[Sauvastika]

from what fenguin has described it seems that netscape is just as good.
Well, Firefox is based on the Netscape engine.

[Fenguin]

from what fenguin has described it seems that netscape is just as good.
However, Netscape (as far as I know) is not open-source and thus does not have as many useful extensions. For example, I can't live without QuickNote now.

(I've actually never used Netscape so what I typed above could be a bunch of baloney.)

[mcflurry_1982]

netscape isnt open source and i dont think it can use quiknotes

[TimP]

Although Mozilla, and later Firefox came from Netscape's code, so in a sense Netscape is open source.

[Seal]

... and then new Netscape uses firefox code.

[Basan]

And the extensions (u can call'em some sort of plug-ins that improve FF)... Oh my, oh my. ;)

[Neo]

Although Mozilla, and later Firefox came from Netscape's code, so in a sense Netscape is open source.

Technically the new mozillas/FF are under a specific OS-Like thing, but new netscapes will be based off this code and re-released with some special thing(s) or whatever. Basically it was netscape --> mozilla, now its mozilla --> netscape. Lol :)

Some extensions I would suggest:

Adblock http://adblock.mozdev.org/ (Adblock is just effing awesome. It allows you to block images, flashes, scripts, everything. This is really helpful becuase popupers are trying new and new ways to pop stuff up and FF doesn't always catch them -- whats really annoying is when Javascripts goto resize the window. Adblock can help block this kind of crud.)
Tabbrowser Extensions http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabextensions.html.en (This allows you to rearrange tabs/duplicate tabs/set permissions for each tabs, etc... Mostly it allows you a ton of control over tabs, but if you find the default setup is fine, don't worry about it)

There are some others like chatzilla, and such, that you might find useful, I use Foxytunes to control winamp from the browser (it can control damn near any media player) and some other things, but just browse around and find some you like:

https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox

There are TONS of things.

-Neo

[crazybowlinguy]

Man the best thing about firefox is that u can tab. I hate having to open and close windows.

[Basan]

Neox, I went extensions galore the other day. Now the FoxyTunes doesn't uninstall properly (did it the 1st time when was offline). Altough it says it will do so the next time I'll use FF, when I do so it still hangs there but you can't uninstall it. The reinstall trick to repeat the removal procedure doesn't work either. How can I get rid of it definetly? :cry:
Btw, I use Nero Mix as my media player.

Spellbound, translators and dictionary checks are also some awesome FF extensions. :)

[Fenguin]

Another fun thing you can do with Firefox is increase your connection speed easily. (http://www.warboards.org/showthread.php?t=6920) FF also has HTTP pipelining for even more fun.

[Basan]

Fixed FF now. The freakin' hard way... :mad2:

Another extensions galore day. But some of the one's I had, now don't show in the FF's extensions pages (see link Neox provided). Thus I tried new ones. *Ranting mood*
I now try to acces the extension of improved tab control (post #14) but I can't acces the site. :confused:
Anyone can help me out? :shiftyl:

Edit add: Finally! I got the Tabbrowser extension to work (refered above in post #14). *Yay*
It's simply awesome. Now I can do almost everything related to web surfing with it. :cool: