Posted on 02/28/2005 5:17:34 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
I find myself using Firefox, more and more.
For me, Ff handles graphics heavy pages better than IE.
DFAS once required M$ products; however, an email to my representative got that changed.
Try the User Agent Switcher. One of my banks insisted on IE, so I told UAS to identify as IE, and the site works just fine.
I've been using Mozilla Firefox for a month or so, and I love it. For some reason, I've had fewer interferences, viruses and worms. Plus, everything is hunky-dorey in everything else.
If it's too slow do the following...
type about:config in the address bar
change network.http.pipelinning to true
change network.http.pipelinning.maxrequests to 10
That's one thing I like about it... it's configurable. Also I love tabs. And the Adblock extension is absolutely wonderfulllllll!
i'm not familiar with uas. what is it? where is it?
gracias, senor.
Firefox is much more robust, much fewer pop-ups, and has a lot of nice features. Having switched, I much prefer it.
I never understood why people moved away from Netscape
Cuz AOL bought IT
That said, if I was a Windows user, I'd use Firefox, as you'd have to be insane to use IE on the Internet, IMO.
As am I, and at first I assumed that FireFox (and Linux, for that matter) were just hype of the anti-Microsoft crowd. I originally downloaded Netscape as a way to check my webpages for compatibility. I started using it and realized that I liked it better! (Same thing with Linux, by the way) Just give it a chance, maybe you will too, and if not, that's fine. While I'm into computers (I'm majoring in Computer Science), I have always thought that some people are just too excited about it. If you don't like it, don't use it. But those who do use it are not heretics for it.
I think Firefox sux too. Opera crushes it.
FF has features IE doesn't and visa versa.
A few tweets to either would make them "perfect".
It was an evolutionary process, largely caused by the blackmailing of Windows license holders, to pre install all MS products, like MS Office and IE. It's called bundling. In the days of the IBM monopoly it was considered illegal, but MS used it to drive Borland and Netscape, and others off the market. Neophytes began using IE instead of Netscape and Office because it came with the box and they didn't know any better. Other competitors were swallowed up by acquisition and just disappered. Sun fought back when JAVA licensing agreements were violated. MS has been a bad actor from the very beginning of personal computer technology development.
One other thing, MS never improved DOS until DR DOS became available, a far more utilitarian system, at which time they began to improve the DOS product.
I have never used IE, never will....never used MS Office..never will...always been Netscape, Corel(Wordperfect ,Borland) user.
..ben there, done that.
I actually deleted IE from my computer at one point, until I found there were rare occasions when I needed it.
Maybe my preference for Mozilla comes from using Netscape in the early days. More likely, it comes from the fact that IE is total trash, in every way a browser can be measured. I'll never understand why, given the choices out there, why anyone would willingly use IE on a regular basis.
Well, if you look under the "Tools" menu, then "Extensions", you'll see there's a link in the bottom right hand corner to "Get More Extensions". Just search for User Agent Switcher on the Mozdev extensions page. Or google for "firefox user agent switcher". Thank you Chris Pederick.
My solution as well, my ethernet card is buggy, sometimes one works and not the other or visa versa.No one else in the house can stand to wait the extra 10-30 seconds Firefox takes to load compared to IE.
installed.
thanks.
ken.
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