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I decided to give FireFox a whirl and I installed the Firesomething extension. i restarted the browser and almost fell over when I saw the title it gave. I am running on Feivel's ChessHorse 🙂

Feivel

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You will not be disappointed.

I started using FireFox and ThnuderBird (the email program) when I got my new computer. I will not change back for 99% of the net browsing I do.

Only problem is bl##dy microsoft windows updates. I sometimes have problems downloading from that page using FireFox. Only time I use IE is to download the windows updates.

-trekkie

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Unfortunately IE is required to use Windows Update and I think so is admin rights.

Feivel the computer geek

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Originally posted by Feivel
I decided to give FireFox a whirl and I installed the Firesomething extension. i restarted the browser and almost fell over when I saw the title it gave. I am running on Feivel's ChessHorse 🙂

Feivel
Hi Feivel, differences aside, I am seriously slutted ( yes slutted ) with the MS /IE / OE browser package's and the continual upgrade patches for my XP Pro, and would dearly love to hop over to the Mozilla suite. How have you found it so far?

regards .Michelle

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Originally posted by skeeter
Hi Feivel, differences aside, I am seriously slutted ( yes slutted ) with the MS /IE / OE browser package's and the continual upgrade patches for my XP Pro, and would dearly love to hop over to the Mozilla suite. How have you found it so far?

regards .Michelle
I love Firefox (and I always recommend it as an IE alternative).

If you are a web developer I strongly recommend you get it. The DOM browser is amazing.

Also, get the 'Web Developer' plug in. This is just soooo useful. It does so much useful stuff (converting GETs to POSTs, setting browser site to key resolutions and LOADS more stuff.)
Get from here :
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=60&vid=63

-Russ

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I like Firefox. Nice tabbed browsing, default download locations etc.
The only thing that bugs me is that is interprets HTML just that bit different from IE. I made a site, works fine in Firefox, but of course it doesn't with IE. *SIGH* Anyway, once you know it, it's only mildly annoying 😀

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Originally posted by Feivel
...Unfortunately IE is required to use Windows Update...
Are they allowed to do that with their US anti-trust and Eurpoean anti-monopoly agreements? I thought IE was meant to be a non-requirement, and I'd think windows update is very much a requirement if you want your PC to last 5 mins out on the wild-west-web

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Originally posted by Russ
I love Firefox (and I always recommend it as an IE alternative).

If you are a web developer I strongly recommend you get it. The DOM browser is amazing.

Also, get the 'Web Developer' plug in. This is just soooo useful. It does so much useful stuff (converting GETs to POSTs, setting browser site to key resolutions and LOADS more stuff.)
Get from he ...[text shortened]... :
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=60&vid=63

-Russ
Hi Russ, my main concern was would Firefox import my plug-ins ( Flash player , MS media player ,Acrobat and Java ) or do I have to re-install?

BR's .Michelle

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Originally posted by Toe
Are they allowed to do that with their US anti-trust and Eurpoean anti-monopoly agreements? I thought IE was meant to be a non-requirement, and I'd think windows update is very much a requirement if you want your PC to last 5 mins out on the wild-west-web
Nope there are quite a few places you can either download the service packs or some have third party patchs (most noteably grc.com).

Feivel

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Originally posted by skeeter
Hi Russ, my main concern was would Firefox import my plug-ins ( Flash player , MS media player ,Acrobat and Java ) or do I have to re-install?

BR's .Michelle
All but Flash Player are automatically installed. The Flash plugin you need to download again.

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Originally posted by piderman
All but Flash Player are automatically installed. The Flash plugin you need to download again.
Ok, I'm doing it. Firefox first and then the extensions.

skeeter

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Originally posted by skeeter
Ok, I'm doing it. Firefox first and then the extensions.

skeeter
do you have to use Microsoft IE to download it? Which is best Firefox or Opera?

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Originally posted by claretnblue
do you have to use Microsoft IE to download it? Which is best Firefox or Opera?
You need some download facility to download it. Which, is irrelevant. For that matter, you can get the Linux version with wget if you want.
I'd say Firefox is better for the very simple reason that it is free. What more reason do you need?

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

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I love Firefox, I use it 99.9% of the time. The only qualm I have with it is how it reads html differently to IE.
I have a website that looks great in IE but the layout looks dodgy in Firefox. I can't figure out how to sort this or which html tags it is misinterpreting.
But this is probably down to my coding.
Other than that Firefox, better than Netscape, IE and Opera. 🙂