I use both Firefox and Explorer (7.0 I think) daily. I only use IE to check my mail, as when I press on “you have X new mails” it automatically opens with IE. As far as I know all my prefered setting are on Firefox.
I started to use FF and now I preferi t over IE because I’m used to it. Plus more things work properly in FF. I somehow have a problem with something in IE and I’m too lazy to fix it since it works perfectly fine in firefox.
I really start to dislike IE because of it looks and how I have to use it. What I do like more about IE than FF is that it’s easier to open the first tab. After that it doesn’t matter, but the first tab is nicer to open. (Although usually I just use Ctr+click)
another thing in IE that annoys me: whenever you open a new tab it pops up on the screen: “YOU HAVE OPENED A NEW TAB”. I KNOW I’VE OPENED A NEW TAB, YOU DUMB @>#$>"# !!
well erm yer. you can turn it off… but it’s there because its a “new” feature to IE users… poor people.
Jagsaw: click the “don’t show me this message again” option in the “you have opened a new tab” page, and dismiss the notice by hitting the close button. Stupid message will be replaced with ye olde about:blank page.
Sandra: open fx, get in the options window (I don’t know, it’s either Tools > Options or Edit > Preferences); go to the “Tabs” tab and select “Always show tab bar.” This way, your tab bar will be visible even if only one tab is open, which will make fx look like ie7. Also, if you don’t like the tab bar to always be visible (I certainly don’t), you can right click the menu bar (the one with the File…Help menus), hit “Customise…” and drag a “New Tab” button to your Navigation Toolbar. Voilà: easy tab opening.
im suprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet but ive used Netscape for a while sucessfully its not bad but opera also is good (currently using newest IE not bad at all the new tab system works fabulous)
i use firefox with IE for backup. I really don’t have a preferance, i’m fine with IE and firefox, though firefox is right on my start menu so i pick that. Firefox crashes once in a while but not enough to bug me, and it can restore sessions so that’s that. Firefox is definitely faster though i never had gripes using IE, i’m just used to firefox. plus, i would die without my 7 bookmarks below the toobar (ld4all included.)
I’ve used firefox since v1.0 and I love it. I’ll have to see if I stick with it coming up with version 3.0, see if it is still sleek and fast or goes netscape’s way of big and bloated.
I don’t like IE7, I have to use it at school and just the feel of it kinda hurts me…I dunno why but it does.
I prefer Firefox. It’s faster and more customizable. I can’t tell you how many problems I had with IE. (I have IE7 as well, but I don’t use it much). It crashed A LOT and was a bit slow.
I agree, I’m glad someone else says that. I feel like when I use XP at school I’m struggling to do everything.
I’m using Camino, Mozilla’s browser for Macs. It has great features like Firefox but is super lightweight and fast. Plus, it’s really pretty. I’m a sucker for nice looking things on computers.
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!
Careful with that one. It can get you banned from some servers (or by your own ISP!), if their firewalls interpret your multiple connections as a DoS attack. The higher you set your pipelining maxrequests to, the higher the chances of having your connection refused.
This actually doesn’t make much of a difference, unless your connection has an amazingly fast band, your processor is very powerful and you’re downright obsessed with velocity. Setting that value to zero will mean that either your firefox will start choking during pageload or it will earn you faster page rendering but no more than a quarter of second faster…
Exactly, which is why it doesn’t affect loading speed. All it does it shows info as it is received, rather than waiting 10 milliseconds. It doesn’t make anything load faster it is just an illusion.
The speed up firefox rubbish doesn’t actually work, I removed all that stuff from Firefox before installing Seamonkey, FF actually runs faster without it. At least on my system it appears to. I have a 20mb connection so it’s not exactly “slow slow” anyway.
I have firefox so far and I like it. I have the FasterFox - plugin but I don’t really know if it speeds up things or not. I haven’t tested it out like Mohegan did.
But I think the best and favourite browser of mine would be Opera. I just love it. It’s simple, reliable and pretty fast.
Only downside of that is that some websites aren’t Opera friendly and thus the websites look distorted or funny.
My favorite browser is firefox , opera MIGHT be nice , but if you use it the first time its like feeding yourself with a 180 cm long spoon … IE loads painfully slow , so i try to avoid using it
Ever since the latest releases, Firefox has been increadibly slow. Perhaps as slow as IE itself. Gecko, its graphic rendering engine, is no longer top either: it’s behind Safari’s WebKit (fastest + passes Acid3 test) and Opera’s Presto (faster). And now, weren’t it already slow enough, it’s been having trouble resolving addresses: I tried to change my DNS server, and even to set a fixed one, but that didn’t change anything.
So now I’m using Epiphany. I still have Fx, mostly as backup. I also have Opera installed, and I’m still waiting for a Linux version of Safari. I managed to hack the Windows version into working on Wine, but native software is always faster, and lets face it: Epiphany’s minimalistic and efficient, and it’s next version will switch from Gecko to WebKit, so why bother?
Still exists, you know? Version 9.0 last time I checked. Couldn’t be bothered compiling proprietary code when I already have enough installed browsers for a lifetime, though. If you use Windows, there’s probably an installer, though.
I used to switch back and to between Opera and Firefox and as far as I was concerned they each had their upsides and downsides. When I switched to 64bit there was no 64bit Opera available, I would have to mess around to get the 32bit version working and I felt Firefox and Opera were about equal so didn’t bother. Among the things I miss from Opera are the “Reload image” option in the context menu of images and the option to delay rendering the page by 1 second so when I’m browsing the forum it doesn’t draw a mangled layout and jump all over the place.
I tried to use Epiphany, but I was not happy with it’s lack of options, I couldn’t see how to get the tab bar to appear always. Cookie control is limited and where are the proxy options? Oh and the auto-complete in the address bar taking me to places I didn’t want to go by adding things to the ends of URLs
Right now I’m using Firefox with a few addons, the only real problem is the plug in wrapper crashes, requiring me to restart Firefox to fix it. I’ve been getting frustrated with it ignoring my instructions too. Options “Do NOT keep link history” Yet it still suggests links in the address bar. I’d much rather type www.ld4all.com/forum without it flashing a pop-up suggesting all the threads I’ve been visiting. It is quite a memory hog too… but nothing’s perfect, I’m kind of a little demanding too and apart from these things Firefox is a pretty neat browser.
Voilà: easy tab opening.
If you use Windows, there’s probably an installer, though.
I’d much rather type