Whywhyzed From Canada, joined Jan 2005, 914 posts, RR: 18 Posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 807 times:
After along time of hearing how great Firefox is, and seeing how popular it has become. (Through website statistics.) I thought that i'd download it and give it a go.
I'm not seeing anything so great about it!! Infact it's ALOT slower than IE, atleast for me.
So I'm asking all of you, What do you see as being soooo great in the web browser FireFox?
NeilYYZ From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 807 times:
I like it mainly because you can click on a link to "open in new tab" instead of having a whole new browser window open up. This saves me room on the toolbar when I've got 10 websites open for a project, I can see them all at once in tabs under the URL bar in Firefox, IE dosen't offer that feature. And for me it's just as fast.
Canuckpaxguy From Canada, joined Sep 2003, 1510 posts, RR: 56 Reply 2, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 795 times:
It's all the thoughtful touches --- the little things.
For example if you want to change the address in your URL, you can double click on the word you want to change whereas IE highlights the whole line. The pop-up blocker works great too. The multiple tabs. I find Firefox more intuitive than IE.
It's not ONE thing that makes it better ... it's all the little ones.
Corey07850 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2519 posts, RR: 5 Reply 3, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 779 times:
Not sure if IE is doing this now or not, but the "favorites" bar is probably my favorite feature of Firefox... I have about 8 of my favorite links ready to go with just one click, all with a nice icon next to each.
The pop-up blocker is very useful
The google search bar is handy (I think IE can get this as well)
Overall, I haven't noticed any difference in speed compared to IE... The only problem is that certain things don't run right on Firefox and I have to dust off IE to run whatever I'm trying to run.
Gigneil From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 16215 posts, RR: 88 Reply 4, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 772 times:
Simple. Firefox will not let anyone anywhere on the internet with their own website take over your computer.
Solarix From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 731 times:
I use Firefox because...
- Less likely to be infected by spyware
- You can pimp out Firefox with extensions
- Ability to use tabs without third party software
- More customizable than Internet Explorer
- Haven't seen 1 popup ad since I switched!
I only use IE for Windows Update and that's pretty much it.
STLGph From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8981 posts, RR: 27 Reply 6, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 723 times:
I think the little puppy is cute.
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Itsjustme From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 2765 posts, RR: 11 Reply 7, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 713 times:
Quoting Solarix (Reply 5): - Less likely to be infected by spyware
- You can pimp out Firefox with extensions
- Ability to use tabs without third party software
- More customizable than Internet Explorer
- Haven't seen 1 popup ad since I switched!
Must have extensions:
Adblock Plus
Adblock Filterset.G Updater (use this in conjunction with Adblock and your days of pop ups and banner ads are history)
Tab Mix Plus
Web Search Pro
IE View (for those pesky Microsoft-related websites)
RichardPrice From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 703 times:
Quoting Gigneil (Reply 4): Simple. Firefox will not let anyone anywhere on the internet with their own website take over your computer.
The recent security release for Firefox fixed something like 20 remote execution flaws. Firefox will let people taake over your computer, its just noones doing it yet.
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 9, posted (7 years 1 month 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 673 times:
Quoting NeilYYZ (Reply 1): I like it mainly because you can click on a link to "open in new tab" instead of having a whole new browser window open up.
The new beta release of IE 7.05whatever allows you to open windows in this "tab" form. Its great.
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