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offline Torley Wong on 2004-07-12 05:05 [#01273872]
Points: 235 Status: Lurker



Anyone else here using Firefox instead of IE? :)

Watcha think? Pluses, minuses, all that?

I've noticed that there seem to be a few glitches here and
there (pushing return and moving the cursor from Point A to
Point B within a message seems to leave some sort of weird
trail sometimes), and the text cursor (I-beam) is slightly
too thick while typing in some text fields such as the one
I'm typing in now.

But on the whole, not bad.

 

offline Jedi Chris on 2004-07-12 05:11 [#01273874]
Points: 11496 Status: Lurker



Its pretty, but after a while I drifted back to IE.....and
I'm happy with IE.


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-07-12 05:16 [#01273877]
Points: 6851 Status: Regular



I'm using it, but I find MyIE shell much more convenient,
and - it FUCKS advertisement hard.


 

offline eXXailon from purgatory on 2004-07-12 05:23 [#01273880]
Points: 6745 Status: Lurker



It's pretty good if you want something alternative that
renders pages completely different from IE and derivatives,
however I'd go for Opera rather than Firefox if it weren't
for Opera not supporting ActiveX (therefore it doesn't load
GMail). It seems as though Opera uses JavaScript differently
than firefox because Firefox does support GMail :\

I use Avant Browser myself. It's basically a shell over IE,
so it uses the IE engine but has a different interface with
tabbed browsing, popup blocking etc.


 

offline eXXailon from purgatory on 2004-07-12 05:24 [#01273881]
Points: 6745 Status: Lurker | Followup to Matvey: #01273877



You might want to try Avant Browser as well then.

 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-07-12 05:27 [#01273882]
Points: 6851 Status: Regular | Followup to eXXailon: #01273881



Yeah, maybe. I'll check it soon, thanks for the
recomendation.



 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-07-12 05:36 [#01273885]
Points: 6851 Status: Regular | Followup to eXXailon: #01273881



I downloaded avant browser. It's nice, but I'll be using
MyIE yet because I'm used to... and it's nice, too:)


 

offline Torley Wong on 2004-07-12 05:39 [#01273888]
Points: 235 Status: Lurker



Thanks guys... yeah... I may move yet back to Avant Browser,
or at least, have both on my hard drive until they have
these little glitches tweaked out. Kind of annoying. I tried
Opera a long time back but because of its ActiveX
incompatibility and other incompatibilities, it wasn't very
useful for me. Also, it had a lot of features I never would
have gotten around to using :|

Avant Browser needs a few adjustments like a
non-alphabetical way to sort Favorites in the main menu when
you access them -- the base IE does have this feature, but
oddly enough, Avant does not seem to. Nice of them to be
constantly updating, but the flaws of IE like the
bogged-down page loading are really beginning to show, even
on today's fast computers.

The more the merrier... I guess web browser duos are common.
:D


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2004-07-12 05:46 [#01273893]
Points: 50073 Status: Moderator



check :)

 

offline face pixellator on 2004-07-12 05:49 [#01273894]
Points: 205 Status: Regular



I use FireFox -- I've noticed sometimes it doesn't click
links until you've button bashed your mouse a few times.


 

offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2004-07-12 05:51 [#01273895]
Points: 16065 Status: Regular



firefox works great for me - the only downside is that it
wont open the java module for my internet banking thingey :(


 

offline Torley Wong on 2004-07-12 05:54 [#01273896]
Points: 235 Status: Lurker



Thx... woof woof :)

Yuh there's supposed to be the major 1.0 update later this
summer, isn't there?


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2004-07-12 11:59 [#01273932]
Points: 12878 Status: Addict



i'm using firefox. i think it's nice - apart from the fact
that i was well used to just keying in URLs to local
directory windows and such..


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-07-12 12:03 [#01273935]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator



I used it for a bit, but it seemed to slow down my computer,
which was pretty weird.

and then when I got logged out here, I tried logging back in
and everyfuckintime firefox froze.


 

offline gnocelot from Greifswald (Germany) on 2004-07-12 12:54 [#01274009]
Points: 288 Status: Lurker



I use Mozilla (not Firefox; I haven't tried Firefox
recently, though I disliked the last version I tried,
Firebird 0.7, for UI reasons)... and I really don't see why
so many people can't be persuaded to stop using IE or IE
derivatives (MyIE, AvantBrowser), what with all the deadly
security flaws and the horribly broken rendering engine
(e.g. only halfhearted and broken CSS support, and PNG
transparency is off by default, and the way to turn it on is
obscure).


 

offline Torley Wong on 2004-07-12 14:00 [#01274116]
Points: 235 Status: Lurker



Thank you guys for the informed opinions :)

 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-07-12 15:46 [#01274189]
Points: 17620 Status: Lurker | Followup to gnocelot: #01274009



woah. how do you turn ie PNG transparency support on?

i know of a few hacks to put in webpages that will get PNGs
to display correctly in IE, but they're not reliable, and
some of them hurt performance... but, i didn't know there
was a way to actually fix the browser.


 

offline gnocelot from Greifswald (Germany) on 2004-07-12 15:50 [#01274193]
Points: 288 Status: Lurker | Followup to epohs: #01274189



Those hacks were what I was referring to, sorry. As far as I
know, there's nothing the user can do to make PNGs with
alpha display properly without them.


 

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