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| admin (no pm's please) |
Firefox 1.50Been using this a few days now and it seems to have solved the very annoying over zealous form filling bug the old Firefox had
Notably faster to
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| Symon |
Could anyone be knid enough to explain the difference between firefox and I.E
As like most users on the net i use I.E why well because it was there nd we have all heard of it but what are the pros and cons on both ? |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Firefox is faster, more standards compliant, much less hacked or hackable, has tabbed browsing, has an amazing range of extensions you can decide to add on to it.
I have: DOM inspector Chipmarks Groowe search toolbar adsense notifer Duplicate tab Plain old favourites Tabbrowser preferences Web Developer Search Status LastTab Colorful tabs - may kill this one SessionSaver E.g. a pretty customised browsing experience. |
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| Symon |
Is it still prone to collaspse like I.E | ||||
| admin (no pm's please) |
Firefox 1.0 had bugs, it would after a time leak memory quite badly 
I have yet to see a crash or a real problem with 1.5, but it is early days. |
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| St0rm[TitE] |
all go and download Firefox.
i could never go back to using IE |
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| St0rm[TitE] |
admin
ive just downloaded the new version of firefox. where is the allow software installation option now? im trying to install some new themes and extensions but it wont let me. |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Under Tools which is where it was already! | ||||
| BenMcDermott |
So FireFox is highly recommended then? what if i don't go to firefox and stick with IE? will i DEFANATLY be prone to attacks sometimes? and if firefox easy to use?
i get tracking cookies sometimes.. found 58 on my computer when i logged on this afternoon... |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Not sure if you can avoid tracking cookies easily on any browser
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| Viper |
It's a shame that the User Hide option for phpbb forums isn't compatible with it
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| St0rm[TitE] |
tools/options but i still cant see where the allow software installation option |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
did not think that was an option a such. |
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| St0rm[TitE] |
for those thinking of using of Firefox but are still indecided, read the following
Is Firefox more secure than Internet Explorer? Yes, Firefox and all other Mozilla-based products are more secure. Why? Here is a list of the most important reasons: * It is not integrated with Windows, which helps prevent viruses and hackers from causing damage if they somehow manage to compromise Firefox. * There is no support for VBScript and ActiveX, two technologies which are the reasons for many IE security holes. * No spyware/adware software can automatically install in Firefox just by visiting a web site. * Firefox doesn't use Microsoft's Java VM, which has a history of more flaws than other Java VMs. * You have complete control over cookies |
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| St0rm[TitE] |
here is the option in version 1.07 
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| MarkD |
Couple of the things I love about this, only downloaded yesterday so still playing.
Tabbed browsing. This is great, one browser window open with tab to all the pages you want to view. I have discovered today you can open a new tab, if you are using a wheel mouse, by putting the mouse pointer on the link and clicking the wheel. Good for moderating, I just go to all updated thread and open them in a new tab. Multiple homepages as separate tabs. I have six or seven sites I need to go on when I get in the office. I have just set them all up as homepages, that way as soon as I open Firefox, it opens a tab for each site I have set up as homepage. I am sure most people who use it know this, but I would have ditched IE sooner just for these options. Mark |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
I have 20 tabs on the go at the moment
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| MarkD |
Yeah, I do find myself having more and more open. It was always a pain in IE having that many "windows" open. I go on to some sites main pages and open about every link they have in a new tab. 
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| St0rm[TitE] |
ive got football scores extension, various themes, and many more added to my firefox.
IE is like a n00b™ browser compared to it |
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| Sitaram |
One of the computers at the office was having strange problems in I.E. sending yahoo email (it could not send any).
Being a regular visitor at forum.myfreeforums.org, I was aware of firefox. I download firefox in a few minutes and had it running. Firefox browser was able to send yahoo email with no problems. I even visited Microsofts site to see if there might be an easy way to re-install I.E., and correct the problem, but there was no easy way that I could find. I had been experiencing a bug in Fedex Power Ship, when I print a group of shipping labels, it would die during the print process, and I would have to take a long time to reprint each label one by one. I was guessing that this problem was caused by I.E. browser. I did my label printing from firefox browser, and, so far, no problems. Of course, there is no reason why one cannot have several browsers on your computer, and use all of them. I have netscape i.e. opera and firefox on one computer. I have learned so many useful things from admin here at forum.myfreeforum.org, and the various knowledgable members who post here. |
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| St0rm[TitE] |
same here a large pool of knowledge to tap into is always good |
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| Guest |
I tried that one at first, didn't like it didn't seem to do what it says on the tin so to speak. I now use this one HashColouredTabs Seems to be much better. |
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| MarkD |
First time I have forgot to log in before I post, That was me above. | ||||
| admin (no pm's please) |
I looked at that, but does it not overwrite the icons for sites that actually have defined icons? It does not make this clear 
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| MarkD |
For example I have my forum and this forum up at the moment and it gives them both the myfreefroum.org icon. I have three BBC news tabs open and they all have the icon. But when I go onto a non iconed site I get a colour and that colour remains the same for all pages I open for that URL. If I open another site with no icon I get a different colour and that colour remains the same for all pages I open for that URL. That reply reminds of SGTS reply to the libel thread in the owners forum, if you understand that I will be amazed.
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Perfectly clear and i will now install it
thanks |
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