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01-07-2005
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Just trying it out and on for size today... not sure what I think yet.
Just curious as to how many have thrown away MSIE for it - and what you liked about it best. Still playing with all the buttons & features. 
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I never use IE now except for testing sites offline, firefox is awesome.
There are some ways to speed up the browser too, can't remember where i found it , and it works a treat. If you type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right mouse click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "5". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves. |
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Thanks for the tips!
Having fun playing around with this. I noticed on stats that for webmaster traffic we are getting about 8% now using Firefox - still nearly 84% with MSIE, but that's quite a leap from the last time I'd looked. Still keeping MSIE but this is interesting to say the least.... 
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01-07-2005
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I was using it , but it was preventing me from getting all those great browser redirects and pop up ads , so I changed back...
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01-07-2005
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love it. way smarter, and being improved all the time. security is so much better as well.
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Hell, I just switched to Opera ... have been meaning to give it a try, though.
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So far so good.... it does tend to screw up some pages though so I'm not 100% thrilled with that - but change IS good, so I won't give up yet. I'm so sick of MSIE I could scream - hoping this is the next best thing... |
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01-08-2005
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I love it and I don't have any addons or that nifty thing Newton talked about I'm going to do tomorrow
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01-08-2005
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I'm still a Netscape user...
abondoned IE a long time and haven't really got around to trying Opera or FireFox I use IE to doublecheck designs, but that's about it...
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Kath,
http://maxthon.com has all the nice features of Firefox.. but it handles popups and new windows much better imho. It also works on every site and is much faster than IE or Firefox (although that may not be true with the tweaks for firefox mentioned above) I wish they had an affiliate program for it.. anyone that tries it seems to get hooked ;-) |
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01-08-2005
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I don't know why anyone would still use IE as their default browser these days with so many browsers with better features available.
Since I'm a Mac user I use Apple's default browser Safari since it is integrated better with the OS then other browsers but my second choice for a browser is one of the Gecko browsers like Firefox or Mozilla. Actually I prefer Mozilla over Firefox since it has more features which I find useful for doing geek and web work. |
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01-08-2005
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I started using it about 2 weeks ago. I love it. No crashing, no pop ups and after I did the tweaking, its really fast.
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This year I'm just in the mood to try out new things... I finally tore myself away from just using Notepad - okay, it's just Notetab Pro but babysteps.... babysteps.... lol Cleo - you're right... I clutched onto my beloved MSIE longer than I even held on to AOL back in the day... gosh, how embarassing.... so glad I'm making the move! |
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