FireFox any drawbacks??

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anonomoose

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I hear some good stuff about Firefox over the use of IE7...

Anyone care to explain some of the drawbacks to use this web brouser over the Explorer stuff I have used for a decade or two?

Nash....wake up buddy....time to get the bug killer out.
 
lofsfire

lofsfire

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The main reason is it NOT Microsoft!
Seriously try it and you'll be hooked. Once you get a feel for what it's doing and how its doing things, you'll see is much more user friendly. Lots of safety things build in, and easy to customize to the way you want plus lots of cool add-on tools.

If you tired of the office suite try http://www.openoffice.org/ and its free! Go into the options and you can even set it to save and *.doc and *.xdoc files automatically. It has a programs comparable to the all programs in the office suite.
 
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yamahauler

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Can't think of any drawbacks.

One thing is for sure...the hackers don't really go after Firefox but they are in hyperdrive towards IE. It is basically a game for them.
 
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jeepbob47

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I use Apple Safari and Firefox on my Macs. Both work great. And yes they work because they are not Microcrap!
 
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dcsnomo

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In my corporate years I was a huge supporter of Microsoft. Now MS seems behind the times, slow, bloated, not innovative. Dump IE, there are better products out there. Try Firefox or Google Chrome, you will love them. I really like Google Chrome...fast, easy...like Google!
 
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dcsnomo

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anonomoose said:
I hear some good stuff about Firefox over the use of IE7...

Anyone care to explain some of the drawbacks to use this web brouser over the Explorer stuff I have used for a decade or two?

Nash....wake up buddy....time to get the bug killer out.
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Sorry, missed your question with a direct answer THERE ARE NO DRAWBACKS!
 
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anonomoose

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lofsfire said:
The main reason is it NOT Microsoft!
Seriously try it and you'll be hooked. Once you get a feel for what it's doing and how its doing things, you'll see is much more user friendly. Lots of safety things build in, and easy to customize to the way you want plus lots of cool add-on tools.

If you tired of the office suite try http://www.openoffice.org/ and its free! Go into the options and you can even set it to save and *.doc and *.xdoc files automatically. It has a programs comparable to the all programs in the office suite.
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So you are not a Microsoft enthusiast, eh? (Is anybody who has suffered thru the "...I know, let's dump it on the masses, and see what happens..." ideology...me neither, but afraid to run into the SORRY...INCOMPATIBLE messages.

Still I like going where NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE...if for no other reason than it sounds cool and I have lots and lots of time to fool with stuff I don't understand, get mad as hockey pucks when it doesn't work right and have a need to hurt myself just when things aren't really all that bad. But hey...that's me.

Thanks for the tip on the free office suite website...I had heard of that a while back but forgot about it and though it sounds like broadening the playing field for hackers and whackers to take a shot at me from Tandonesia, or Venisula....(hey I read doctor zuis books too) I think I will give it a try.

John Diddilly Dee mentioned Chrome a while back and I looked at it but couldn't get it to load right so I dropped it. Maybe it is better nowadays..donno.

Looks like some long midnites ahead installing firefox, and then looking for all the right add-ons which no doubt will be hiding and full of "never install this over....." instructions. But hey...life has been good lately might as well mess it up with a new stab at things.
 
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dcsnomo

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Shouldn't be a problem...Firefox has a 24% market share which makes it second to IE so it's in wide useage. Also, you are not removing IE, you will still be able to use it. You will just have 2 browsers. It's like 2 women, you won't have to commit to either one (although one is old, fat, and mean and the other is a green eyed redhead)! Your choice...hello redhead!
 
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anonomoose

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dcsnomo said:
Shouldn't be a problem...Firefox has a 24% market share which makes it second to IE so it's in wide useage. Also, you are not removing IE, you will still be able to use it. You will just have 2 browsers. It's like 2 women, you won't have to commit to either one (although one is old, fat, and mean and the other is a green eyed redhead)! Your choice...hello redhead!
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Could one be a brunett??...kinda partial to those...in a red dress...shhhhsssshhhh....don't tell my wife...she don't need to know, don't yeah know!

Hey...I'm not DEAD yet...no harm in lookin is there??
 
lofsfire

lofsfire

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Are we still talking internet browsers.... Like dcsnomo said you do not need to uninstall IE but you will not want to use it for much anymore. In 6 years of using FireFox I have only found two websites that did not work as expected.

One is the Manual updates for MS Windows and the other was a local towns web page. Instead of displaying links, it displayed everything as picture. So it would apear as it was a link to click but nothing happened when you did click it. I just happened to run in to this last Friday at work.
 
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frnash

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anonomoose said:
Anyone care to explain some of the drawbacks to use this web brouser (sic) over the Explorer stuff I have used for a decade or two?

Nash....wake up buddy....time to get the bug killer out.
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(Oooo, did I just kill a bug? ;) )

I know of absolutely NO drawbacks to the use of Mozilla's Firefox browser, ditto for Mozilla's Thunderbird email manager. (And you can't beat the price: FREE!)

Unless you count the fact that MSIE seems to handle the Michigan Tech live action (motion) webcams a tad better.
Other than that, Firefox is A-One for me.

lofsfire said:
If you tired of the office suite try http://www.openoffice.org/ and its free! Go into the options and you can even set it to save and *.doc and *.xdoc files automatically. It has a programs comparable to the all programs in the office suite.
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Ditto to that as well!

There are only a few minor differences in the operation of Open Office vs. MS Office, and it's no worse that learning the totally new interface and new behavior of MS Office on each new release! :mad:

I have a number of large spreadsheet apps in Open Calc as well, 'tis only a minor learning curve.

anonomoose said:
Looks like some long midnites ahead installing firefox, and then looking for all the right add-ons which no doubt will be hiding and full of "never install this over....." instructions. But hey...life has been good lately might as well mess it up with a new stab at things.
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"Some long midnites installing Firefox?"
Heck no, give it twenty minutes or less, and it'll be installed and working.

You may have to spend a bit more time selecting your choice of add-ons, but you can find lots 'o help at the Mozilla web site, like a list of the most popular add-ons end such. Here's a short list:
Adblock Plus, Dictionary Search, Image Zoom, SmoothWheel. <hr width="75%" size="2">Added 6:55 PM MST:
By the way, I just updated my Open Office to version 3.2 today. Now that was a slow process, it took 1 hour + 10 minutes to download the update, and another 40 minutes to install, and I'm getting 1.18Mb/s downloads this afternoon on Cox cable (I guess I picked a slow day, it's usually more like 12-20Mb/s).
 
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yamadooed

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Set firefox as yer default browzer and save internutz exploiter for the few stoopid gov website dinosores that won't run without it. Firefox is much more user friendly platform if yer not too skeert to use the tools menu...
 
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highhertel

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memory hog

I use Firefox, but keep in mind it is a memory hog. If you have multiple windows opened, the risk of Firefox crashing increases.

HH
 
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frnash

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highhertel said:
I use Firefox, but keep in mind it is a memory hog. If you have multiple windows opened, the risk of Firefox crashing increases.

HH
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Interesting …
I've never experienced that, not even on my laptop (Win XP, 768MB memory) and I typically have a bunch o' windows open, including a monster spreadsheet (Open Calc) and two or three Firefox windows, each with multiple tabs.
 
lofsfire

lofsfire

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frnash said:
Interesting …
I've never experienced that, not even on my laptop (Win XP, 768MB memory) and I typically have a bunch o' windows open, including a monster spreadsheet (Open Calc) and two or three Firefox windows, each with multiple tabs.
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No memory issue for me either. My typical day I have 3 browses open one with 3 mail tabs and Calandar tab and streaming radio tab. Another browse with 3 sled sites tabs. and A thrid browse for real work. Plus I run AutoCad and and Photoshop and open file that can be larger than 2-3 gb, yes that was gigabytes! And this is on my POS at work that is only an AMD 4800 2.5ghz Duel core 32 bit and 3 gb of ram. My i5 quad core at home will smoke this thing big time!
 
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highhertel

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It does not happen often, but an error message will pop up saying how embarrassed Firefox is for the error, then it prompts you to restart a new page or resume where left off. Maybe I am using an older version.

HH
 
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anonomoose

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frnash said:
(Oooo, did I just kill a bug? ;) )

I know of absolutely NO drawbacks to the use of Mozilla's Firefox browser, ditto for Mozilla's Thunderbird email manager. (And you can't beat the price: FREE!)

Unless you count the fact that MSIE seems to handle the Michigan Tech live action (motion) webcams a tad better.
Other than that, Firefox is A-One for me.


Ditto to that as well!

There are only a few minor differences in the operation of Open Office vs. MS Office, and it's no worse that learning the totally new interface and new behavior of MS Office on each new release! :mad:

I have a number of large spreadsheet apps in Open Calc as well, 'tis only a minor learning curve.



"Some long midnites installing Firefox?"
Heck no, give it twenty minutes or less, and it'll be installed and working.

You may have to spend a bit more time selecting your choice of add-ons, but you can find lots 'o help at the Mozilla web site, like a list of the most popular add-ons end such. Here's a short list:

Adblock Plus, Dictionary Search, Image Zoom, SmoothWheel. <HR SIZE=2 width="75%">Added 6:55 PM MST:
By the way, I just updated my Open Office to version 3.2 today. Now that was a slow process, it took 1 hour + 10 minutes to download the update, and another 40 minutes to install, and I'm getting 1.18Mb/s downloads this afternoon on Cox cable (I guess I picked a slow day, it's usually more like 12-20Mb/s).
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What's thunderbird all about??

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