Mozilla Firefox - The Future Of Browsing

MadPenguin ^ | 5 October 2004 | MadAdmin

[Popman]

When you download the brower it will ask you if you want to import your IE bookmarks. It also comes with a couple of bookmarks already in the browser. I find the booksmarks manager very easy to use also.

The tools icon under "options" has all the info you asked about.

[mattdono]

Well, you make a good point about web validation, however, Firefox validates for everything that I use it for, including my online banking, shopping, etc.

Most every site validates for IE and Netscape (which is what Firefox is based on).

Now, as far as style and usability, that's a personal preferene. I prefer the tabbed browsing, though I do get caught hitting "Alt+Tab" sometimes to flip between pages (but that is a result of having so many years of windows conditioning). I like Firefox. I have also been using Thunderbird for email and find that email program to be quite good (doesn't have all of the code bloat that Outlook has).

[savedbygrace]

I've been using Mozilla for a couple or three months now. It falls down in a couple of areas (sometimes it locks the computer up for several minutes while it thinks about how to handle a pdf in Adobe Reader, and it refuses to show certain windows media movies), but I love the fact that it really does protect me from spyware.

When I downloaded and installed Mozilla, I didn't realize that Firefox was the Mozilla browser without the Email and Composer segments of Mozilla. So, here's my question:

What's the best and easiest way to move from Mozilla to Firefox without losing my Bookmarks?

[SeeRushToldU_So]

FireFox bump.........I love this browser.

When I repair a computer that has been eaten alive with spyware, malware, etc....I always put a copy of FireFox on it.

I encourage people to use FireFox.

[tdadams]

I have come to a point where I'm also tired of the nonstop bombardment of popups, spyware, and adware made possible by IE. I'm about ready to look into this.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Fire Fox will import your bookmarks during installation.

[Tribune7]

Mozilla Firefox bump

[Popman]

Open up the bookmarks manager and click bookmarks so the entire list is displayed on the right hand side of the window. Highlight the folder and right click, open and expand the folder, a drop down menu will appear

Click on "sort by name"

Normal fees waived for Freepers :)

[Popman]

Please do.

You will never look back

[Truth Table]

Gotta say, I used to use Netscape, swapped to IE in about 98, and just downoladed and am using firefox last week. I was not happy with the "IE core" enabled browsers that supported tabbed browsing. Too unstable. BTW, an excellent add-on for tabbs can be found here (tabbrowser extensions):

http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/xul.html.en

FireFox is much faster than IE, and tabs are the only way yo go. Btw, the above extension offers an auto reload time so that I can have the FreeRepublic news page refresh automatically after a delayed time out. Also support for RSS is great. Some security issues with XuL needs to be worked out, but it is a better bet than IE, by far.

Try it.

[SuzanneC]

I read this later.

[smith288]

Most every site validates for IE and Netscape (which is what Firefox is based on).

This is not true. The only thing connecting the two is the engine under the hood.

Netscape uses the same Mozilla engine as Firefox but they are exlusive of each other.

[Truth Table]

I suppose, but no-nmovable tabs at the TOP of the screen are clunky and counter-intuitive. This can be changed by an extension Here: http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/xul.html.en

[Popman]

Bro, if you have not already checked this out, please do.

I have been using FireFox for a couple of mouths now and it's a great browser.

[billakay]

I am using Firefox right now, and I have been for several months. It is an exceptional browser. I don't hate IE or anything, I originally switched because Firefox is better for doing web programming (for testing), because it caches papers differently. IE is dumb in this respect sometimes.
I've just become hooked on Firefox, and I use it all the time.

-Bill

[savedbygrace]

The reason I asked is that on a Mozilla thread a few weeks ago, I read that it wouldn't. Thank you for setting me straight.

One question about Mozilla: The article says Mozilla has calendaring support. What does that mean? I'm currently using Outlook 2003 because of the Calendar features, but I'd love to be able to move away from it.

[Allan]

Click on "sort by name"

Tried that many times.
After clicking on "sort by name"
they remain unsorted.

[Manic_Episode]

Using FF right now, and love it. Got it because stuff was getting thru my popup filter. Problem solved.
Can't get java applets to work with it tho, but no biggie.

[ELS]

Has anyone gotten Firefox to work well on Win98 SE? I tried it a while ago and it didn't work very well. Are the developers concentrating on more recent versions of Windows?

[cyborg]

It seems to be a lot faster than Explorer.