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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

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Firefox is like a shoe that is 2 sizes too small...

It's bloody great to get shut of it once you are daft enough to allow yourself to get talked into using it.

Only people who say that has had a virus within the last 2 months. I been 7 years without a virus.

I found it to be a tad slower, but I increased firefox's 2 speed a lot.
I can almost do the same in Firefox 3. Go to the URL bar and type "about:config" (no quotes) and look for network.http.pipelining and right click toggle. What that does is when loading mutiple web sites it loads 1 first then loads another one, it on allows it to load them all at the same time, which on some computers is faster. By default it is set at 4 web pages.

From there someone like admin can tweak Firefox.

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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 6:44 am Post subject:

No virus here _________________

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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:39 am Post subject:

Firefox is undoubtedly somewhat safer on the malware front. But the determining factor with malware is user behavior, I don't have the stats to prove it, but a very high % of malware is socially engineered, it only gets installed as the victim takes more than one stupid step to get infected. Such exploits will effect Firefox users as well once firefox is targetted, though perhaps Firefox users are less dumb than IE users on average The more than one steps thing is key here, the holy grail of malware is exploits that can occur without the user clicking YES, such exploits have existed and when the malware authors have got in before the fixes, they have run totally rampant _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject:

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though perhaps Firefox users are less dumb than IE users on average

could'nt agree more

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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:

I don't see why most people are using firefox now. I downloaded firefox 2 last month and i tried using it for a few days but everything was so different comapred t IE. And sinse i've been using it for.. like.. ever, I like it much better xD So, i uninstalled firefox. O.o _________________ http://connorconway.myfastforum.org Over 160 members! Over 36,000 posts! Discussions on all TV shows Fantasy RPG currently in creation Join today =] (or at least have a look? ) http://connorconway.myfastforum.org

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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject:

Most people arent using Firefox at all, IE is by far the number one used browser, for some reason though, people who do choose to use Firefox attempt to either convert IE users to their browser, or insinuate they are 'dumb' for not changing. Still, let them enjoy themselves _________________

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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

Bravo wrote:

Most people arent using Firefox at all, IE is by far the number one used browser, for some reason though, people who do choose to use Firefox attempt to either convert IE users to their browser, or insinuate they are 'dumb' for not changing.

Still, let them enjoy themselves Wink

I love firefox tbh and have never "roughed up" anyone for using anything else, that may be the web designer part of me getting in the way tho as I have to make it all cross browser, so at some point I do use a browser I don't like.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6656808-7.html?tag=btn Firefox deleivers a knockout blow to IE7 _________________ http://oasisfanatics.myfastforum.org

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject:

Well the final has been released and 8 million downloads so far. The Topic Review bug is also in Firefox 2 by the way In other news, Microsoft sent Firefox team another cake on Firefox 3 http://www.arcanology.com/2008/06...mozilla-a-new-cake-for-firefox-3/ _________________ Number 92, Right Guard Offensive Line. Smyrna Bull Dog FOOTBALL TemplateTester and Link Exchange

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject:

Shouldn't have sent them a cake... Should have given them some humble pie to eat, thats right... sits back as Firefox user ears prick up with the scent of yet another battle on why everyone should conver to their relig--- erm browser _________________

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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

mate you know I prefer firefox immensely, but even I'm gonna sit back and wait for people to find holes for mozilla to plug and mem issues to tweak. _________________ CALM TIME: When calm time is called, all posters in a topic must take time out to calm down. I'm better than Jose!

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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

Nick(NR) wrote:

mate you know I prefer firefox immensely, but even I'm gonna sit back and wait for people to find holes for mozilla to plug and mem issues to tweak.

All the paranoid people are sitting back waiting for a zero day exploit to happen
Having this post reply page open and another site (running a java applet clock) FF is using about 90k worth of memory.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:33 am Post subject:

IE is vastly inferior to FF3. i cant understand why people still use IE. i guess they all have pentium 1 pc's and have yet to discover the beatles. get with the times! _________________ http://oasisfanatics.myfastforum.org