Author Topic: Firefox (Read 6801 times)

Druid · « **on:** August 05, 2011, 15:06 »

Hi All,

I've noticed that quite a few people on here use Firefox, are there any advantages to using it as your browser instead of IE. Is it just more reliable or are there any other reasons for using it??

Druid

sharpshot · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2011, 15:42 »

I have used firefox for a few years now. There was a time when it was much better than IE but I really don't know any more. The lateat version seems really fast and relaible. I like firefox because it's made by the Mozilla foundation and they're a non-profit organisation. I'm more comfortable with them than with google or microsoft.

And I have firefox set up exactly as I want it and I can't replicate that with IE or chrome, so I'm going to stick with firefox. I use linux on my laptop and PC and can sync all my bookmarks. Can't do that easily with IE and chrome doesn't function as well for me.

microstockphoto.co.uk · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2011, 15:59 »

Both IE and Firefox are working great at present with all microstock sites that I know.

I use both on Windows, and Firefox when I'm on Linux or when I need to run Greasemonkey scripts.
Firefox also seems a bit faster at parsing complex JavaScript especially on slow computers.

Snufkin · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2011, 16:22 »

The purpose of Internet Exploder, its raison d'être is to download Firefox, Chrome or Opera.
IE performs this task quite well. I don't use it for anything else.

Of all the common browsers I found IE to be by far the worst. The worst interface, the slowest and the worst overall user experience.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2011, 16:56 »

I now use it on the Mac, but I used to use it on Windows - except when I needed to download something from Microsoft that they restricted to work only if you were using IE at the time.

In the beginning it was features like tabs (when IE didn't have them). Now it's the add ons that keep me tied to Firefox. I use Safari or Chrome if I need a comparison browser, but not on a regular basis. On my iPhone I use Safari.

We have a couple of PCs at the house as well as Macs and I use Firefox on the PC because it's a familiar environment. Having a cross platform browser is nice.

trek · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2011, 22:14 »

Camino is just like Firefox except it allows you to block flash ads. Works great.

elvinstar · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2011, 23:20 »

Firefox (as well as chrome, opera and others) are far better than Internet Explorer in so far as they render W3C supported HTML, Javascript and CSS properly. There are so many fixes that you have to put in place in case someone is using IE when you're building a website! It's truly terrible.

Spread the word to everyone that you know to stop using IE and web developers the world over will thank you!

Druid · « **Reply #7 on:** August 06, 2011, 12:06 »

Many thanks everyone thats answered my question. Firefox it is.....

Druid

grp_photo · « **Reply #8 on:** August 06, 2011, 12:48 »

Quote from: sharpshot on August 05, 2011, 15:42

I have used firefox for a few years now. There was a time when it was much better than IE but I really don't know any more. The lateat version seems really fast and relaible. I like firefox because it's made by the Mozilla foundation and they're a non-profit organisation. I'm more comfortable with them than with google or microsoft.

And I have firefox set up exactly as I want it and I can't replicate that with IE or chrome, so I'm going to stick with firefox. I use linux on my laptop and PC and can sync all my bookmarks. Can't do that easily with IE and chrome doesn't function as well for me.

+1 with exception that I'm a Windows user :-)

LSD72 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 06, 2011, 13:35 »

Quote from: grp_photo on August 06, 2011, 12:48

Quote from: sharpshot on August 05, 2011, 15:42
I have used firefox for a few years now. There was a time when it was much better than IE but I really don't know any more. The lateat version seems really fast and relaible. I like firefox because it's made by the Mozilla foundation and they're a non-profit organisation. I'm more comfortable with them than with google or microsoft.

And I have firefox set up exactly as I want it and I can't replicate that with IE or chrome, so I'm going to stick with firefox. I use linux on my laptop and PC and can sync all my bookmarks. Can't do that easily with IE and chrome doesn't function as well for me.
+1 with exception that I'm a Windows user :-)

Same here. IE is just a back up browser to me... behind Chrome and behind Firefox.

sharpshot · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2011, 16:52 »

Just updated to Firefox 7, seems like the fastest browser I have ever used

RacePhoto · « **Reply #11 on:** October 04, 2011, 14:02 »

Quote from: trek on August 05, 2011, 22:14

Camino is just like Firefox except it allows you to block flash ads. Works great.

Firefox Flash Blocker and NoScript (blocks scripts until I approve them) first thing I installed when I added the FF to a new computer. Also EXIF viewer, FlagFox (shows server location), Xmarks bookmark and password synchronize (because I have over six computers and three laptops), Image Exchange and image tracking, and OK you get the idea, more than I care to install.

By the way, Google Chrome actually works better for some sites that use heavy caching, FF is second and IE is of course slowest and last. That would be Zynga games on Facebook, which I don't do anymore, but it was interesting to see how they brought a computer down, and which browser handled it best.

For what we do, FF works fine. And for a long time I've had a utility called IE remover that I run to remove it and save space. No fan of IE at all.

Xalanx · « **Reply #12 on:** October 04, 2011, 15:40 »

Anyone that's using Tab Mix Plus on FF found anything relatively similar for Chrome? I hate having the tab bar at the top.

Microstock Posts · « **Reply #13 on:** October 05, 2011, 09:43 »

Quote from: sharpshot on September 30, 2011, 16:52

Just updated to Firefox 7, seems like the fastest browser I have ever used

It's so much faster than the previous versions. I've been using Opera recently too, really nice browser, but unless the other browsers get the amount of add ons that ff has, firefox will always be the leader.

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Author Topic: Firefox (Read 6801 times)

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