Just started, and it seems a nice change

Dave

 

HeyDave,

I only popped into this forum to post a note about FireFox. For Mac OS X users there's no question. It is better than any other browser out there. do yourself a favour and download a copy (then delete the rest).

Screwd.

PS Use Safari Prefs to nominate FireFox as default browser.

 

Been using it for years.

If your looking for a comparison to IE, it's everything IE isn't and a whole lot more.

 

Yep its way cool, been using it for about 4 months now, still the odd site that does browser detection and cant identify what it is and wont let you go any further, nationallottery.co.uk is one that springs to mind. I wouldnt get rid of IE altogether its just it doesnt see much action these days

For me tabbed browsing and mouse gestures make the whole surfing experience way better than using IE.

Gary

 

mouse gestures?

 

Yes as an example you 'draw' lines with the mouse which map to commands, so if you right-click (or left you choose!) hold the mouse down and drag it left then that is the same as doing browser back, if I hold it down and draw up it opens a new tab!

Gary

 

cool - didnt know it could do that!

but where do you set that up?

 

Tools|Extensions then click on get more extensions and just look for mouse gestures!

 

ok - ta - a 3rd party extension - was thinking it was built in...

 

In havent got mouse gestures!! how do i get those?

 

found 'em,thanks a lot

 

Tabbed browsing is excellent, I have about 8 monitoring pages at work, simply fire up Firefox, select the appropriate bookmark folder, open as tabbed and because my username/password is the same for each page, I just enter it once and log in to every page. It's a fairly small feature, but it just makes things so easy.

 

Have they finally cured the long-standing bug where hitting the "back" button takes you to the top of the previous page, not the last scroll position? Because it is amazingly annoying if you're a mod on a busy BBS trying to check threads - it means every time you go back, you have scroll back down the ****ing page again.

And the annoying way it stores bookmarks could do with some work as well.

Yes, it has some nice features, but I wish people would stop touting like it was the answer to everything.


M

 

It rocks in MHO. Ctrl T is just so good. So good that I managed to burn through 256 MB on one browser window.

Its also quick and stable, and bloatware free, everything IE isn't

 

I must say I do like Firefox, and I've been using it under OS X for a while now. I have recently switched back to safari, there was some reason why, but I can't recall what it was. Now I use both browers, there are still some sites safari does not like, but firefox handles them with no problem at all.

Even the boss has switch to firefox on his pc and is enjoying the new experience, no doubt when I mention extensions to him, he'll love it even more.