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10/28/2006 08:40:51 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by alfresco:
<-- will endure endless kicks to the groin before using ie :)
*perks ears .... Flash Blocker??!?! |
Amen, brotha.
//flashblock.mozdev.org/
P.S. FYI - And update was just available on mine. Up to 1.5.1 now.
Message edited by author 2006-10-28 20:41:44.
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10/31/2006 01:47:59 PM · #27 |
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10/31/2006 01:52:25 PM · #28 |
pc mag.
I don't have Firefox but I'm watching the battle of the browsers. It seems to me it's who you read and who is on the front page. I think I'll stick with my IE6 for a bit longer. |
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10/31/2006 02:19:41 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by lesgainous:
IE7 substantially improves your online security and working with tabs is much easier in IE7. One advantage of coming in late to the tabbed browsing party, as Internet Explorer has, is that you get to improve on the ideas of those who've gone before you. IE7's controls for opening, closing, and managing tabbed windows are noticeably simpler than those in Firefox, with a button on the tab bar to open a new window and a red X to close the active Web page. Out of the box, closing a Firefox tab is a potentially awkward two-click operation -- one click to select the tab, and a second click on the red X at the far right of the tab bar. The process is annoying enough that most Firefox experts quickly install a tab-browsing extension. No extra software is required for IE7 to handle this. |
Out of the box, a middle button click on the tab closes that tab. Has done for a while now. No extensions required.
Tab views are available through the free extension architecture - 'tab catalog' for example. The whole point of firefox that it doesn't come with all the possible junk included. You get to pick and choose your junk, rather than having it forced down your throat ;)
Message edited by author 2006-10-31 14:28:44. |
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10/31/2006 02:22:19 PM · #30 |
Though the full article should really be 'is Firefox 2.0 a dud on a currently unreleased operating system' given that most of it is a discussion on how it doesn't work so well on Vista.
Maybe when Vista eventually arrives and is available, Firefox might improve. Holding your breath about Vista seems like a bad idea just now. |
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10/31/2006 03:18:38 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Maybe when Vista eventually arrives and is available, Firefox might improve. Holding your breath about Vista seems like a bad idea just now. |
Hm? Aside from the fact that I'm using it now at home, it'll be here in November for business and January for consumers. As November is less than 24 hours away, and Microsoft hasn't announced any changes to its release date, it's a safe bet you'll be seeing it on time. |
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10/31/2006 03:29:36 PM · #32 |
Bunch of BS - been running Firefox2 (since beta2) for months without any of these issues. And yeah, memory leaks and site incompatibility - its only gotten better since v1.5. The author is probably paid by microsoft. |
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10/31/2006 03:32:43 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Originally posted by Gordon:
Maybe when Vista eventually arrives and is available, Firefox might improve. Holding your breath about Vista seems like a bad idea just now. |
Hm? Aside from the fact that I'm using it now at home, it'll be here in November for business and January for consumers. As November is less than 24 hours away, and Microsoft hasn't announced any changes to its release date, it's a safe bet you'll be seeing it on time. |
it just slipped another week, last week. Bug causes Microsoft...
I'm sure it'll be rock solid next week though.
Don't get me wrong. I'll be all over Vista. I can't wait.
Well, I'll be all over it around the time the second service pack has
dropped and the issues are solved/ resolved.
Maybe this time next year would be a good time to jump on board.
Message edited by author 2006-10-31 15:51:10. |
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10/31/2006 03:58:06 PM · #34 |
I love Firefox for Adblock Plus and Flash Block - can't imagine web browsing without them.
The spell-checker of Firefox 2 is very convenient.
Yet another feature - the IE Tab extension allows you to open a page with IE *inside* your current Firefox tab, for those rare cases when a page has some IE-specific Java-script or some such. |
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10/31/2006 04:32:09 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by gusto:
oh yes the firefox/opera arguement. I too am a fan of how wonderfully both of these fine appz scramble web pages and expecially where flash content is involved... ;) I'm still waiting on the firefox OS.... ummmmmm oh yea all they do is browsers... hahahahahaha |
a) Not sure what you mean by "where flash content is involved". Both IE & Firefox simply include the Flash plug-in. The Flash Player does all the rendering of Flash.
If you mean where the browser positions the Flash movie. Well that's another matter. See (b)
b) Firefox endeavors to adhere to the standards as specified by the WC3. IE does not. As such, IE killed all the relevant competition for several years (yes, it did, it was at the point where like 97% of browsers were IE on all platforms). The end result is many pages were coded to work in IE, and to work with IE's bad implemenation. That means, when a browser that uses proper implementation views a page it will likely not show up correctly. It is not the fault of the browser, but rather the fault of the programmer and even more so the fault of Microsoft for not conforming to the standards established. And for using it's monopoly to kill off the competition.
(Netscape was a free browser. IE was never and never will be a free browser. Everyone who buys Windows is forced to pay for IE.) |
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10/31/2006 04:41:27 PM · #36 |
Thanks for that. This item comes just one day after some IT Business Edge pundit chided Gartner for suggesting Microsoft wouldn't make it on time. :) Here. Albeit it seems the generalized schedule will be adhered to. |
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