Google Hires Second Firefox Coder

[Stinky Chicken]

It also gives you crap like Edit and Discuss buttons. Who uses them? I've customised my Firefox so I've got my Back, Forward, History, Stop and reload buttons as well as my address bar all in the one bar. It's nice and neat and they're the only buttons I regularly use.


KM.

Here's my browser. Can't go past this simple layout:

 

[KieranMurphy]

Here's my browser. Can't go past this simple layout[/IMG]

Mine's even simpler. I don't have a Links toolbar. I've never found it useful. I can get to any of my favourite site via my Bookmarks quickly enough.

I'll put up my own screenshot when I get home. I'm currently at college using Internet Exploder. The popup blocker installed on the computers here is beyond useless. It won't let you open up more than one Internet Explorer window. It thinks every IE window is a popup. When I disable it, I'm getting popups all the time. Piece of crap...


KM.

 

[Stinky Chicken]

Have you tried:

A) (In IE) File > New > Window

B) Just click on the IE icon to open a new window

?

Being the techie nerdish guy you sound like I'm going to assume you have already.

 

[sUn]

Have you tried:

A) (In IE) File > New > Window

B) Just click on the IE icon to open a new window

?

Being the techie nerdish guy you sound like I'm going to assume you have already.

Or you could Ctrl+N on your keyboard for a new window in both Firefox and IE.

 

[KieranMurphy]

A) (In IE) File > New > Window
B) Just click on the IE icon to open a new window

Yeah, makes no difference. It's just a crap popup blocker. It can't tell the difference between an automatically spawned IE window and one I opened myself. It won't open up any new windows. I just turn it off when I'm using the college PCs and put up with the stupid popups.


KM.

 

[KieranMurphy]

Here's my current Firefox setup and the default Internet Explorer setup. So much for Internet Explorere having the better setup. It's got fifteen buttons on the toolbar, including crap like "Edit with Microsoft Word", "Discuss", "Research" that I've never used in my life.

I know you can customise what buttons you have like you can in Firefox, but it certainly doesn't have any advantage.



KM.

 

[Event]

Firefox is completely secure, no more hijacked homepages or porno dialers for me!

Yeah, and I know how much you like that!

I'm also using the default theme, I think it's the best. Kev, can I make an avatar out of that? Cheers.

Waaay ahead of ya. I made that for an avatar!

 

[Omnis]

is there any difference between the firefox and mozilla browsers?

i know mozilla comes with the whole shabang of email and chatzilla and all that other stuff, and that firefox is just the internet browser (right?)

but as far as the browsers themselves.....they both do the same exact thing, right?

 

[emad]

is there any difference between the firefox and mozilla browsers?

i know mozilla comes with the whole shabang of email and chatzilla and all that other stuff, and that firefox is just the internet browser (right?)

but as far as the browsers themselves.....they both do the same exact thing, right?

As far as rendering capabilities go, they're identical however firefox just does it faster. As far as they go as browsers, Firefox is the better choice. It uses less system resources while still retaining most of the same features. It's also just a lot cleaner and better made. Plus the abundance of Firefox extensions is just awesome

 

[cardude2004]

I guess I won't mention the holes in Internet Explorer that spyware targets then.

Loading - Firefox loads from the top down, fair call, but IE sits there and loads the whole page in one go, so that takes longer. Plus I think IE uses more RAM.

I have a fast connection so the page loads close to immediately. I like where the whole page shows up, I don't want to see it half finished.

I scan for spyware once in awhile with AdAware and the Microsoft Spyware Scanner thingy, and they don't ever find much, maybe a few cookies from this site and a few others, but not the 50 objects that some people say. The most it ever finds, I would say 10 to 15 objects.

 

[Giancarlo]

Once i switched i knew there was no going back. I can't live without tabbed browsing now.

I only use IE for downloads, because it's about 2 K/S faster than Firefox. And those 2 really count on dial-up.

 

[Shannon]

I find it annoying that the pages in Firefox and Mozilla load from the top down, whereas IE loads the whole page and then displays it, so you aren't waiting half way down the page for the rest to load.

This can be changed from within Firefox itself. There's a hidden option called nglayout.initialpaint.delay that tells Firefox how long to wait before actually rendering the page.

I guess I won't mention the holes in Internet Explorer that spyware targets then.

Firefox is completely secure, no more hijacked homepages or porno dialers for me!

Well, to be completely unbiased, IE's major security flaw is only really ActiveX (the thing that allows websites to install stuff on your computer) and IE is the only browser that uses it. If you disable all this ActiveX, you're far more secure. The fact that IE still has something like 90% of the market share might have something to do with it's insecurity as well. I mean, if I were a hacker, I know I'd be targetting IE as I know I could affect more users. If Firefox and IE switched places, I'm sure Mozilla would be the ones releasing security fixes for Firefox...

Plus I think IE uses more RAM.

If there's one thing I hate about Firefox, it's its ram usage. Firefox uses an insane amount of resources. 👎

 

[crazyazn7412]

still firefox can be tweaked t be way faster, and IE has a seriously large a mount of security flaws. Ever since i've gotten firefox i havent gotten any adware, and i've been using it for 4 months

But firefox doesnt support download accelerator plus...i dont like irefox's normal download manager...anyone know of a better download manager?