Posted on 11/22/2004 1:15:57 PM PST by Radix
In the past two weeks, Internet users have downloaded over 4.5 million copies of Firefox, the excellent browser available for free from the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. Yes, there are hundreds of millions of IE users, but Firefox is gaining fast, and IE is losing market share for the first time in years. The switch to Firefox will happen even faster as more people realize the full power of this browser, much of it provided by computer hobbyists who are scrambling to create a cornucopia of useful add-ons.
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That's all right. Neither can I.
What? No big boast, no comparative reasoning, no "my MAC is better" speech ??
Wow,, A humble MAC user!! I am impressed!
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FF is great - but remember to clean out the Download Manager regularly. I let mine go for too long and now it's so FULL that I can't do anything with it, when I click on Clean-up it just hangs. Anybody know how to fix this?
yeah.
Well, maybe I am not looking for the extension update correctly.
I have been using Moz 1.7 for some time, almost never use IE anymore.
I thought Firefox was Moz 1.7 browser w/o e-mail. Any reason for me to switch?
Absolutely- you are getting this via Firefox on my PC now. You can't get rid of IE- it's hooked into the operating system- but you only have to use it for certain sites that refuse odd-brand browsers, like the Windows update page.
When I used IE, every day ad-aware and spybot would find tons of nasty cookies, and sometimes registry changes, from supposedly "safe" sites. Plus the occasional virus.
I rarely get that junk any more since using FF as the main browser.
[dennisw]
> For an easy google search of word or phrase
> in your firefox browser>>>>
>
> highlight text>>>
>
>>>> right click>>>
>
> Click menu option that says web
> search (by google)
(*impressed look*) Well, I'll be dipped...!
I was loving FireFox already (another proud FReeper who converted less than a month ago!), mainly because it was blocking pop-ups, but that's *cool!* (Come to think of it, AdAware *hasn't* been detecting much adware, since I switched to FireFox...!)
The Mozilla Thunderbird mail client is really pretty nice. I can check my email around the kids now without worrying about pictures popping up.
Did anyone else notice that you can highlight a word or phrase then with a right click you can search for the phrase on Google? That so rocks!
I've been using FireFox for quite some time now and I don't know how I ever lived without it. Tabbed browsing blows IE off the map.
One less thing to depend on MicroSoft for these days.
I've been using Opera and love it, most of the time...
Browsing this with Firefox 1.0!
I use it with my new notebook running XP. I see quirks here and would like it to remember more of how I use the Internet, but no show stoppers. Good stuff.
Does anyone know how it compares with Opera. Ive been using that for a year or so. It also uses tabs.
It's very fast and I rarely if ever have a long download dropped. If it happens, it has a never fail "Resume" function.
As soon as it gets popular enough to get on the hackers' radar screen, it'll be attacked like everything else.
Go to "tools"/ "options"/ "Privacy" /
Set option in box: "Upon successful download".
All recorded downloads will now be erased from the DL manager upon completion.
PS - it just deletes the listing, not the downloaded files.
ooops... after "Privacy" click "Download Manager History".
I figured you knew that but, whatever..:-)
I didn't know that, great tip!
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