Firefox

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:23 pm

I'll admit it. Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1.2 is better than Mozilla Navigator. Try it now.

It's just one detail after another that makes the difference. Like the Google Search field and everything opening in new tabs.

Firefox 1.0 is going to be pretty sweet.

Peijen · Post by **Peijen** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 6:55 pm

let me know when 1.0 is out and i will switch then

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:43 am

FWIW:

First and foremost, in our hands-on testing we noticed that pages load much faster in Firefox and Opera than in IE.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C1759% ... 7%2C00.asp

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:04 am

I am so installing this on my work laptop to try it out when it hits 1.0

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 3:46 am

Started using Firefox, it r0x0rs.

George · Post by **George** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:52 am

Yep, I've been using Firefox since it was Firebird, and it certainly seems faster than IE. Plus, I don't have to install spyware to block popups.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:50 pm

Man I love some of these extensions. Like the one where it opens a link in a new tab if you drag it onto a blank spot on the page. And the Gmail notifier is damn awesome too.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:59 pm

I middle-click every link.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:13 pm

Ah, my laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button.

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:39 pm

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ + http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html = happiness

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:12 pm

AdBlock will block Google Ads, for the ultimate in low-profile browsing. And, of course, it'll do everything else: images, movies, flash, etc.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:09 am

ok, IE has pissed me off enough to switch over to firefox before 1.0. So far, it seems pretty nice and responsive. Multiple windows with multiple tabs still run under one process so there's a smaller overall memory footprint compared to IE. It does seem faster at loading itself, but some pages seems slower, but it might just be tonight. I'll play with the features the rest of you already mentioned tomorrow.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:31 pm

Firefox >>>>>>> IE

On Macs, Safari > Firefox

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:46 pm

What's the hotkey to change tabs in firefox?

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:59 pm

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html

CTRL+TAB or CTRL+PAGEDOWN

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:24 pm

I tried ctrl+pgdown and it didn't work... I didn't try ctrl+tab yet though.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:30 pm

I think easy user customization of what different mouse clicking combinations would be awesome. Like, I want to be able to map, ctrl+left click to open in a new background tab and ctrl+shift+left click to open in new foreground tab, etc... Software needs better user interface customization.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:22 am

firefox extension article

skanks · Post by **skanks** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:04 am

I use firefox for everything. the only problem with it is that it doesn't automatically associate bittorrent files with my bittorrent client.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:23 pm

I love the session saver extension.