| Author | Comment |
JcCorp
Probe
Posted: 25 Feb 2005
11:32 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | Hmm... I trying Firefox now... I don't seem to like it much, it doesn't have the nice custom scrollbars IE has... the site did seem to load up quicker though. Any special features I should know about? |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 25 Feb 2005
11:38 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Crashes less and is faster, those are plenty of reasons, not to mention a lot less security holes. |
Morgan
Ultralisk
Posted: 25 Feb 2005
14:45 GMT
Total Posts: 321 | Check out al the extensions available. I just did yesterday and found a few that were of great interest to me. You can also get a new theme if you don't like the look.
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox
It has a wicked Add Blocker that you can even stp the yahoo adds from coming up and a gmail notifier built in. I just switched to their RSS reader as well.
Oh and it shows my local weather and current temp :-) there is just a plethora of extensions that I am sure you will find useful. |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 25 Feb 2005
20:08 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | You know, we both missed this one: tabbed browsing. That's the main reason against IE, because MSIE doesn't have that feature. |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 25 Feb 2005
21:38 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Ah yes, the tabs are very nice, I will admit. |
Morgan
Ultralisk
Posted: 25 Feb 2005
22:52 GMT
Total Posts: 321 | Hell yeah! |
JcCorp
Probe
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
05:17 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | Ah yes, does save a lot of clutter. yum.
Calc Haven gets screwed up on Firefox, though...
I DLed a RSS feed for Firefox, now I have your news at the bottom. :) |
greenorange
Goliath
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
09:18 GMT
Total Posts: 199 | ForcastFox! GMail Notifier! Bandwidth Tester! IRC Chat! All these can be added an to Firefox, as well as a ton of new skins! And don't forget FoxyTunes and FlashGot are pretty neat extensions! |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
10:00 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | 'Course Opera is better than FireFox, but I'm sure all of you people get uptight and cranky when you have to pay for software. |
korkow
Ultralisk
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
10:39 GMT
Total Posts: 465 | The only thing I truly dislike about firefox is that you can't use the little scroller thing on your mouse that lets you easily scroll up and down pages. |
greenorange
Goliath
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
11:55 GMT
Total Posts: 199 | I probably would be less inclined to use Firefox if the scroll wouldnt work. Do you mean this forum doesn't scroll on your mouse, because mine seems to work. Maybe you didn't set the driver up correctly? It might be Firefox's fault, but it could be something else...
[Edited by greenorange on 26-Feb-05 20:55] |
JcCorp
Probe
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
16:05 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | It actually works for me sometimes. |
BullFrog
Wraith
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
18:09 GMT
Total Posts: 623 | You might have to click on the area you want to scroll... That's sometimes a problem for me.
<< 'Course Opera is better than FireFox, but I'm sure all of you people get uptight and cranky when you have to pay for software. >>
You have to pay for Opera? I thought there was a free version or something...
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"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
18:11 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Is opera even good, and does it include all the little nuances that msie and netscape miss? |
Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 26 Feb 2005
19:34 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | Is opera even good, and does it include all the little nuances that msie and netscape miss? |
calcman05
Marine
Posted: 27 Feb 2005
08:17 GMT
Total Posts: 22 | Dose any one use chatzilla if u do maby we could create a calc talc room.... |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 27 Feb 2005
09:02 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | *ahem* http://www.calcgames.org/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?id=2 *ahem*
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Lunchbox
Carrier
Posted: 27 Feb 2005
14:23 GMT
Total Posts: 2007 | link |
spiral
Wraith
Posted: 28 Feb 2005
23:56 GMT
Total Posts: 958 | the scrolling wheel on my mouse works fine. The only thing that annoys me a little about firefox is that sometimes Mozilla browser is faster for some stuff. Also, the menus are incredibly dumbed-down, so for some options you have to type about: config into the url bar to access it. But the add-ons are amazing. |
Racer9
Probe
Posted: 3 Mar 2005
13:25 GMT
Total Posts: 13 | All you have to do is have the mouse over where you want to scroll. I think that is neat. What extensions do you people have? |
Midnight Walker
Marine
Posted: 16 Mar 2005
05:11 GMT
Total Posts: 21 | "The only thing I truly dislike about firefox is that you can't use the little scroller thing on your mouse that lets you easily scroll up and down pages."
You have to go to Tools>Options>Advanced>Browesing and click the last two.
I've been using firefox for a few months now, and I would never think of going back to IE. Tabbed browsing is by far easier and better. |
Andy
Administrator
Posted: 16 Mar 2005
08:17 GMT
Total Posts: 939 | I personally prefer Opera in Windows too... But I think the Linux version of Opera just doesn't look right, so I use FireFox there. I should install FireFox in XP and try it here again... But I just like the colors of Opera and the handy side bar. |
