[ShadowAce]

Partial tech Browser ping.

[js1138]

Just a small word. It is the desire to be unobtrusive that makes MS products vulnerable to hacks. When the user doesn't see security issues of make decisions, then programs will be making those decisions.

[BibChr]

Nah. Ff's okay, I suppose, but no-nmovable tabs at the TOP of the screen are clunky and counter-intuitive.

Plus, it's snotty.

One can't bury one's head in the sand: most things are written for IE. When I pointed out to the Mozilla people that early FF had a bug that wouldn't allow it to exploit the features of a page, they snottily replied that this was because the page was written improperly. So they'd not fix it -- because it wasn't a bug.

Of course, all I cared (and care) about is that I can use the page. The bottom line, then, is that Ff wouldn't read it, and my browser would.

My browser is Avant Browser, which is built on IE. (Go to www.avantbrowser.com.) Popup blocker, movable tabs at the bottom of the screen, many other features.

It's free, it's just as fast, it's neat -- and it's written to use what 99.9% of the internet is written to use.

In other words, it's not snotty.

Dan

[aspiring.hillbilly]

I allready got Mozilla installed, is there any reason to go to firefox or is it very much the same ?

[Allan]

Hey Mr. ShadowAce
can you tell me
how you get Firefox to list the bookmarks
in alphabetical order???

I have tried to do this many times
and there seems to be no way
except by manually moving them
one by one.

[smith288]

I switched to firefox a few weeks ago after getting nailed with a trojan activex adware trick. I have been fighting this stupid adware since.

Firefox is ok, I prefer IE because of its vast capabilities and forgiving rendering but Firefox is definately something to be looked at.

Does anyone know where one can learn how to develop extensions for Firefox?

[Rightly Biased]

for home viewing

thanks

[Popman]

My tagline says it all.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Firefox also doesn't get infected by anything close to what everyone refers to as 'spyware'. Perform an experiment for me if you don't mind. Download a tool such as Spy Sweeper and clean your system with it. Run IE as you normally would for one week and sweep your system again. Count the traces of spyware it finds and remove them. Then run Firefox as you normally would for one week (don't use IE at all during this week) and run Spy Sweeper again. What you will see is ZERO traces of spyware. Try it and prove me wrong."

Well, although I use and like Firefox, the above is NOT true. I "still" get "adware" sticking stuff on my computer clandestinely. Certainly, the problem is not nearly as bad as it was with Internet Explorer, but the incident rate is definitely non-zero.

I just got through running Spybot and Ad-aware, and I was surprised to find half a dozen or so pieces of adware.

[mollynme]

Since I started using FF 2 weeks ago, Spybot has been coming up empty on adware searches. Yay!

[LS]

I quit using Explorer---and I used it to make a political statement that I thought the jihad against Gates was unconscionable. Still, the viruses and popups were killing me. I put in Mozilla, and presto---99% of my problems are gone!

[rabidralph]

Our IT guy gave us an overview of Firefox and he was excited about the live links function that update automatically, if the web site has the function, and the search and word highlight function within the bookmarks. I will wait for the actual release before I download Firefox.

[JimRed]

The sample screen shows an ad for CNN radio. That's enough to put ME off!

[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.

[Tribune7]

Mozilla Firefox bump

[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.

[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.