Anybody else using Firefox as opposed to IE?

[The Great Cornholio]

If not, why not? I've had it for a couple of months now. I run a spyware check the other day and found 1 spyware cookie. That was it. Not the normal 20 or so. Blocks popups automatically. Allows multiple tabs.

Where are you going today? Towards someone else's Internet Browser, Mr Gates.

Mozilla Firefox

 

[Cian]

Been using it since Mozilla Phoenix 0.1, in late 2002.

Don't think *anyone* here can meet or beat that, especially considering I used monolithic Mozilla for a long time before that

 

[Rangdo]

I've tried Firefox but found it to be slower than IE at loading up the pages and that was on a 600Kbits connection.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

I've tried Firefox but found it to be slower than IE at loading up the pages and that was on a 600Kbits connection.

I'm on ADSL and find it fine - it load pages differently but at the same speed.

 

[Cian]

It loads significantly faster than IE on my 1Mbit.

However, IE will have all your commonly visited pages heavily cached and hence Firefox will need a few days to catch up.

Also, its heavily heavily optomised for Intel processors, as most people still use real CPU's and not AMD's cheap mexican knockoffs. Hence to get the highest speed boost you need a *real* 686 or higher (Pentium II, original Celeron, original Xeon or anything above them)

 

[Bwian]

I use it too...occasional problems getting PDF files to download/open but other than that beats IE6 imho.

 

[Cian]

IE has "occasional problems" with PDF's as well. Its an architechtural cockup in Acrobat Reader (its using ancient plugin API's).

However, Adobe are in a consortium with Mozilla, Sun, Apple, Macromedia and others (but not Microsoft) to make a new browser plugin API that fixes those issues. Which will mean that IE will be left with old, buggy Java, Flash, Shockwave, RealPlayer and Acrobat plugins and Firefox will have working ones.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

My IE became infected and slowed down ridiculously and when I couldn't repair or remove the bleeding thing, went to Firefox. It is a tad slower loading up, but all the little extras makes it so much more user friendly and 21st Century.

I don't know anything about viruses and infections but from the web research I did, Firefox has 'em covered.

Recommended.

 

[Rangdo]

Ok, because of you guys I'm going to give it another go.

 

[SUFFOLK SEAGULL]

i've got it to, my ie got a problem with closing when the red cross was pressed it just went dong and didn't close i had to ctrl alt del to get it to close in the end . plus i couldn't shop for anything like the seagulls shop or tescos but this firefox is out of this world no pop ups. yeeha

 

[B.M.F]

Have been using it for about 10 minutes now and it seems to be quicker on my machine. Time will tell though

 

[pasty]

I used to have big problems using IE, so on recomendation from someone on here (can't remember who but thanks), I swapped to Mozilla and have been using it for a few months now. Much better IMHO.

 

[Bwian]

The fall of Microshaft can't be far away....

 

[CdeB]

Tried it for a bit, and like it - nice clean interface, popups and stuff blocked by default.

However, the problem I have had is that sometimes (especially when using multiple tabs), the page has a tendency to jiggle up and down a few pixels. Its very annoying, and makes browsing with a hangover a nightmare!

Has anyone else had this problem? I've googled a bit but found nothing about it.

 

[Cian]

You aren't use an old wheel mouse, particularly a Logitech or Microsoft one?

Its a hardware issue with the wheel pickups if thats the case, some Microsoft software has a filter built in but most of them don't.

My "wheel mouse" is the Z-axis on the touchpad on my Vaio so I don't have a wheel pickup to go wrong

 

[Kryten]

what are the advantages and disadvantages of firefox over IE?

 

[CdeB]

You aren't use an old wheel mouse, particularly a Logitech or Microsoft one?

Its a hardware issue with the wheel pickups if thats the case, some Microsoft software has a filter built in but most of them don't.

My "wheel mouse" is the Z-axis on the touchpad on my Vaio so I don't have a wheel pickup to go wrong

I've got a plain old microsoft optical wheel mouse - so I think thats a yes!

Cheers for the info - do you know if there's a workaround or if it will be fixed in a future version?

 

[Cian]

There may be a workaround, but note thats if thats whats wrong its a hardware fault - the actual mouse is faulty.

Happened to my Microsoft wheel mouse and my Fujitsu one, both made by Logitech.

Del Boy - speed and security.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

what are the advantages and disadvantages of firefox over IE?

The advantages are that it is smaller, faster and a lot less prone to security holes as it is not built into the OS. The main disadvantage for me is that people NSC signatures appear left justified rather than centred.

 

[Cian]

Bugzilla it. Unlike IE, Firefox has a public bug database that anyone can file bugs into, and they will be fixed as soon as possible.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org