I have two criticisms of FF:
1. I tried Avant and found it buggy. It would crash often. But one thing I liked a lot was the tabbed browsing in Avant. I know FF has it and I'm using it, but I liked the way Avant did it better. If you closed the browser, then opened it up again, the same tabs would open back the way they were. If you hit "Home", you went ton one page. In FF, you have to program "Home" to be a series of tabs in order to open up multiple tabs. If I click "Home" now, I open up a bunch of new tabs in addition to the ones already open, even if I just wanted to go back to one page I would have designated in Avant or IE. FF needs to change this.
2. Controls. I realize on point FF is trying to make is that Active X is a haven for problems, however, there are sites that use this (or something else that FF doesn't like) and there is no way to utilze that site. On one site I use, quite extensively, I have to open up IE to use it because nothing happens when I click on "buttons" on that site.
In my view, these are two very serious problems for FF.
I believe that is a setting you can set in FF.
If you hit "Home", you went ton one page. In FF, you have to program "Home" to be a series of tabs in order to open up multiple tabs.
You can set your Home page to only one tab if you wish. Nothing stopping you.
... on (1), load the desired multiple tabs in your FF browser ... then "Bookmark This Page" (on any one of them) and check "bookmark all tabs in folder" ... that's all ... on (2) .. go to "Tools/Options", takes just a few seconds to permit the page/control you're looking at ..
... I'm a management consultant, am on the net alot ... had been using IE since 1996 until July, tried Opera, Mozilla then Firefox 1.0 ... rough advantages over IE (Imp = relative importance to me):
.....Item.....................Imp....IE......FF
Update aggravation ...........24......5.....100
Virus attacks ................18......60.....99
Spyware attacks ..............23......30.....99
Download speed (dialup)........5......40.....95
Popup, ad blocking............20......20.....95
Other stuff (lots of it)......10......0......90
Totals/Weighted Grade........100.....25......97
... have had zero problems with virus or Spyware since July (had many before), have done no updates of any kind ... have not needed IE at all since I figured out (2) above ...
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