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Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox - what do u think?

  • Yup, its great

    Votes: 34 68.0%
  • I don't like it (please post reasons)

    Votes: 5 10.0%
  • Firewhat??

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • I'll be sticking with MS Internet Explorer

    Votes: 3 6.0%
  • never tried it

    Votes: 7 14.0%

  • Total voters
    50
Is anyone else using this browser?

I have been using it for a little while now and I can't be the only one who thinks its the mutts nuts.

I had some probs with the previous Mozilla browser (my bank wouldn't support it, some pages didn't work etc) but that all seems to have been fixed with this release.

Goodbye IE forever!
 
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It is good browser, and we made sure our web site supported it, generally using it for development testing.

It does however still have a few quirks and bugs especially rendering sometimes goes to pot, 0.8 when first came out was in my view worse than 0.7, skins stop working and the installer was terrible...0.8 seemed a bit rushed to market, but that appears fixed now.

It has better boomark management, and tabbed browsing is very useful, even though i still find myself opening a new browser (still not got out of thinking IE).

As for a free browser it's excellent example of communities coming together to develop something. Is it better than IE, i still think IE has it by a nose, just for the overall polished finish...but 0.9 and 1.0 from Firefox should in my view move ahead...especially as there appears to be no IE7 on the tables.

Martin
 
Been using Firefox for some time now and i also find it far less quirky than I.E. Installation was no problem even the java installed and worked first time, (which it never did on previous versions.

There are a few sites that it does not handle as well as I.E but that is a small price to pay for it's speed and general usability.
 
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Been using it for ages - as well as 0.8, I've got some of the later optimised versions (for cpu and SVG) also loaded.

Never use IE now - well, only for bank.

I think you have to remember Firefox hasn't even reached version 1 yet and is still very much 'work in progress'. I think it can only go from strength to strength, especially with a strong community supporting it.
 
Used it for a while now from it's early days thru' Firebird and now Firefox in both windows and Linux forms.

It's fast and lean and renders without fault. If your on Linux use the gtk2 build that's now available otherwise your font look a bit naff!

Cheers
 
I voted I don't like it, not because, I don't like it - I do - but there are a few quibbles that will need to be sorted out before I use it instead of IE. The main one is it not expanding ALT tags for images (unless anyone knows different) - a couple of websites I use rely on being able to see the alt tags.
 
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IE? IE? What's that?

Oh! You mean that thing that I fire up when I want to copy and paste files from my PC into my webspace - ah, yes, I remember it now.

Other than that, and as one of three extra browsers that I use just to check what my pages look like with them if I've done something that I'm uncertain about, I no longer have any use for IE.

Been trying this since it was Phoenix, when I just used it as an alternative to experiment with, and each release has been an improvement, to the point where it is now my only browser for normal use. I'm with the Co-op, so even my bank works, no problems at all.

Prof Pete:
I am not sure that I understand what you need - I am very good at getting the wrong end of the stick - but does this sound any good to you:
Popup ALT Attributes
by Shimoda Hiroshi
Version: 1.3.2004031001
File Size: 7 KB
Updated: 2004-03-10
This is an add-on package to popup alternate texts given as ALT attributes (they are not descriptions, but authors often use the attribute only for popups), like NN4, IE, and other browsers.

If so, it's on the extensions page,
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/
 
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The trick is, with stubburn sites, to install an addon that allows you to spoof another browser ident, such as internet explorer. If this fails, install the required video plugins. I install the K-Lite mega codec pack, and that gets quicktime and real out of the way, and a quick look at about:plugins shows that wma/wmv and other ms codecs are fine too

I use Mozilla mind, installed as 'browser only' as I use Mozilla Thunderbird for mail. I really can't bring myself to like Firefox, even though I proved it to myself that it can format pages faster (made both browsers load a massive php file locally, which at the end, shows the time it took) Its just too simple, needs addons to make it do things that Mozilla does out of the box
 
Each to their own, Shaun - if Mozilla suits you better, fine, I'm certainly not knocking it, but personally the fact that Firefox is very simple is one of the things that I like about it - you're not automatically cluttered up with a load if stuff which you (or, to be more accurate, I) don't need, but the plug-ins (or extensions) are usually there if you need them.

Speaking of plug-ins, some things that apparently don't work with Firefox can be solved with a bit of head-scratching. One site which I use presents you with .djvu images. If you don't have the viewer installed, you get the "Click here for the plug-in" message and, needless to say, the choice is IE or Netscape. I found, however, that by installing it in IE, then literally just copying all the files into the Firefox Plug-in directory, it works fine.
 
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Its probably more of a getting stuck in ones ways thing, like i would never ever ditch winamp as my music player

I am so used to Mozilla, that I couldn't picture myself using anything else
 
KDS said:
can u play the video :confused: when ever I try to play it's saying browser not supported :(

No - thought you meant the site in general, audio is fine.

The problem is that the site uses Active-X and if you load that into Firefox you start getting into the same security issues that plague IE.

The easier option is probably to watch MTV instead :)

Picked this up from one of the Firefox forums and is the routine to adopt,

Download the plugin you can get it from here -
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/en-AU/windows.html#ActiveX

After that you need to do the following,

Install the User Agent Switcher extension -
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#useragentswitcher

Add Netscape 7.1 in User Agent Switcher options

Visit launch.com and select Netscape 7.1 from tools --> User agent switcher menu

To be honest, it's too messy but I thought you'd like to see a way round the problem.
 
I will never ever EVER give my mozilla installation active x support!

Most sites use javascript now anyway
 
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