You All Must Get Firefox. (2 Viewers)

[loquasagacious]

Firefox is a functional, secure and sexy to boot.

 

[soha]

yeah firefox is koolies

 

[mossup]

i love my firefox

 

[klh]

thanks Jm1234567890!!!
the google part anyway.

 

[Andrea86]

ooo.. just installed Firefox and i like it

 

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

does it let me open pdf files? cause i rememebr using firefox before and it didnt let me open pdf's

 

[Grizzly]

I;ve never used it, but since it appears to popular im downloading it now, and gonna try it out.

Can someone tell me how i can "import" my favourites to firefox ?
How can i make it the default browser as well...i.e, when i click a link sent to me, it will open firefox, not IE.

ta

 

[MedNez]

When you install Firefox, it will ask if you want to import settings from IE, or any other browsers install. Just select it and hit yes

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does it let me open pdf files? cause i rememebr using firefox before and it didnt let me open pdf's

Yeah, Firefox 1.0 seems to fix the PDF probs, too, thank goodness

[/edit]

 

[Xayma]

Yes I love firefox.

Especially with extensions, you must download the extension that reverts the cookie description back to what it was.

Things like keeping the last session when restarting firefox etc I couldn't live without.

 

[fatmuscle]

i love portable firefox!

firefox that fits on ur USB and u can use it on any win environment

dunno if it saves profiles or anyhting, haven't tested.

 

[Grizzly]

Why does firefox use about 30-50mbs of system resources, whilst IE6 uses 10-20mbs...this to me, makes me want to go back to IE6.

Seen in TASK MANAGER under "MEMORY USAGE".

 

[jm1234567890]

Why does firefox use about 30-50mbs of system resources, whilst IE6 uses 10-20mbs...this to me, makes me want to go back to IE6.

Seen in TASK MANAGER under "MEMORY USAGE".

that is cause bits of IE are contained within explorer.

and when opening multiple pages firefox will generally use less.

 

[Grizzly]

Oh, it makes it quite annoying, using so much memory on my 1ghz laptop

Also, when i have multiple windows of firefox, how can i get it to stop changing windows as soon as something has finished loading on the window thats minimized.

 

[jm1234567890]

Oh, it makes it quite annoying, using so much memory on my 1ghz laptop

Also, when i have multiple windows of firefox, how can i get it to stop changing windows as soon as something has finished loading on the window thats minimized.

oh yeah, whn i said multiple pages, i meant tabs.

i use tabs so i'm not sure what you mean...

let me try.

 

[Grizzly]

If you could, thanks
How do you enable the tabs ? Coz when i "CTRL-N" it opens a new window....
I dont like the tabs, coz its too thick, take away screen space

IMHO, my opera7 experience was better, alought, it did use more memory than IE and FFox combined

 

[jm1234567890]

well this is what i did. I opened msn.com, minismised to window and went to another window quickly.

and nothing abnormal happened...

tabs are alot better if you have middle click. cause you can middle click to close tabs. and middle click to open link in new backgroud tab.

 

[Grizzly]

Ok, im not sure, if thats what triggers it , but heres what triggers mine.

The window is currently at BOS site.
I minimise it,
Click on the firefox icon on my desktop, where my homepage is ninemsn (takes around 5secs to fully load on 512k)
Within those 5secs, i bring back up the minimised BOS window from the taskbar....then suddently, ninemsn window pops up fully loaded which was "behind" the BOS window, not minimised.


Ahhh, excellent, yup i have middle click, and that is great . thanks!

 

[jm1234567890]

Ok, im not sure, if thats what triggers it , but heres what triggers mine.

The window is currently at BOS site.
I minimise it,
Click on the firefox icon on my desktop, where my homepage is ninemsn (takes around 5secs to fully load on 512k)
Within those 5secs, i bring back up the minimised BOS window from the taskbar....then suddently, ninemsn window pops up fully loaded which was "behind" the BOS window, not minimised.

.... doesn't happen to me.

hmm... mabye install powertoys for windows xp and stop applications from stealing focus

EDIT:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

use tweakUI

 

[Grizzly]

.... doesn't happen to me.

hmm... mabye install powertoys for windows xp and stop applications from stealing focus

EDIT:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

use tweakUI

Thanks, ill try looking for the "steal focus" thingy.

Apparently there is another program that tweaks FFox....i forgot where i saw it ....

 

[Grizzly]

Although, i do feel, that with FFox, my download rates stay higher for longer

You know how with ASDL, it starts like , twice as fast as it should be, and then drops very fast to the ""capped"" speed (in my case 512k) ... well, with FFox, it seems it maintains high speeds for ages..