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| Mozilla Firefox; pros? cons? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 8 2007, 07:36 PM (139 Views) | |
| plays88keys | Jan 8 2007, 07:36 PM Post #1 |
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What's the difference between Firefox and IE in terms of ease of use, speed and safety? |
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| CTPianotech | Jan 8 2007, 07:48 PM Post #2 |
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I know I stopped getting popups when I went to firefox. I switched from IE because I was having trouble viewing pictures online. I'd have to click out of IE, then go back in. There was another forum recently I went on, that said it was showing a video. No one could see the video. Then someone chimed in and said they could see it, and they were using IE7 I figured what the hell, and went to go download it. It told me it was going to search my computer to verify I had a 'genuine' version of Windows. I said F-dat. I just didn't like the tone of the message. |
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| Steve Miller | Jan 8 2007, 08:46 PM Post #3 |
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With Firefox you get no popups, no browser hijacks, no weird toolbars appearing unbidden and on the rare occasion when Firefox hangs up you can restart just Firefox rather than having to restart the entire machine. I never use anything but. |
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| George K | Jan 8 2007, 08:55 PM Post #4 |
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What I love about Firefox is all the add ons that are available, as well as all the different skins. |
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| Larry | Jan 8 2007, 08:57 PM Post #5 |
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Sometimes Firefox lets a popup slip through, but not very often. It's faster than IE, but I get irritated at how it deals with my clicking on the little bar at the top where you type in urls. If you want to simply click and pull up an url you've typed in before, the first time you click on it it opens and then closes again very fast. The next time it will stay open so you can select the url you want. At least, that's what mine does.. But my biggest gripe about Firefox is that every once in awhile it just dumps all the cookies, all the bookmarks, and all the saved links. I have to go find all of them again, reload my passwords into things, etc. Pain in the tush... |
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| The 89th Key | Jan 8 2007, 09:05 PM Post #6 |
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Firefox IMO is faster, safer, no pop ups, many extensions, easy to update or install them, most user-friendly, etc. I dont know of any cons. |
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| Steve Miller | Jan 8 2007, 09:14 PM Post #7 |
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I can see how you might lose passwords and URL's; you can set how those are handled under "Tools" then "Options". But I've never lost my bookmarks. Here is a page from Firefox.com that talks about the problem. Maybe you can find something you can use: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks#Prevention If all else fails, you might try posting on their message board. It looks to be fairly active: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38 |
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