Firefox amazes me any time I use it!

[Confused]

I've just found yet another cool thing in Firefox which will make my browsing experience much better

Press and hold Ctrl, then press 1, 2, 3 etc, and it will jump to that tab! Much quicker than Ctrl-Tab and moving the mouse!

 

[silent tone]

I'm amazed firefox renders slashdot so poorly, while IE is flawless.

 

[Schadenfroh]

try these two extensions:

Ad-Block for blocking iFrame, banner, and flash ads
cookie-culler, better cookie management to help keep tracking cookies under control.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: istallion
I'm amazed firefox renders slashdot so poorly, while IE is flawless.

screen shots of /. using IE/FireFox:

FireFox .9.3
Internet Explorer 6 SP1, my IE-spyad is most likely the cause for the login screen not to be where it is in firefox

 

[stndn]

sob....
i'm using mozilla, and ctrl 1 - browser, ctrl 2 - email, etc. .. -(
well, i'm using it for the browser + email, so .... no firefox + thunderbird for me

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: istallion
I'm amazed firefox renders slashdot so poorly, while IE is flawless.

screen shots?

ff renders /. perfectly/.

 

[Flexicon]

Neat trick! Thanks. I've been using FF forever and can't believe I didn't know that one.

 

[Wigwam]

had it for a week now and generally love it. would like it a heckuva lot more however if it didnt crash once a day on me!

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Anyone know how to change the tab switching from ctrl+# to Lshift+#? I'm a lazyass and my pinky doesn't want to reach that far

 

[rh71]

still not liking the tabs concept. I'd still rather alt-tab to new windows. More natural hand motion anyway.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: rh71
still not liking the tabs concept. I'd still rather alt-tab to new windows. More natural hand motion anyway.

same here

 

[Wigwam]

re Tabs - i am still always lookign at the taskbar to see what is open etc....need to think twice to look up for tabs.
mind you there is an extension apparantly that lets you put the tabs at the bottom.

starting to get really annoyed with FF now due to random crahses/turns-itself-offs...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Tabs are the only way I can browse easily. If I had a task bar on my home machine, I wouldn't want 10-15 items down there for various websites, I wouldn't know which one was which. Tabs with 2 windows open is just about perfect though.

 

[Flexicon]

ITA, n0cmonkey. Tabs are just faster/more organized for me.

Wigwam, sounds like you have a conflict of some sort. FF never crashes for me. Geez, the last time I had a crash was around v. 0.7! Maybe you should re-install or hit the FF forums and get some help.

Everyone else, don't forget to browse the wonderful world of Firefox Extensions. Your life will never be the same.

 

[emjem]

Originally posted by: Wigwam
had it for a week now and generally love it. would like it a heckuva lot more however if it didnt crash once a day on me!

Way too many crashes. And I've had a couple of critical crashes during data 'submit' points. Aarrrrrg!

I like the tab feature, especially being able to open new pages with a click of the mouse wheel.

Oh, and I can't get FF to play sound files on sites, like www.palmettopoint.net.

After about 2 months of using it now I'm thinking about uninstalling it in favor of IE. Besides the crashing I still occasionally have to use IE to get proper page rendering from some sites -- like when using the 'submit' button on this page Adobe Submit

 

[Wigwam]

yeah it has gotten worse since i installed chromedit and adblock.
i have had it for such a short time that i dont know if either is the cuprit or not but i will uninstall them and see...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Wigwam
re Tabs - i am still always lookign at the taskbar to see what is open etc....need to think twice to look up for tabs.
mind you there is an extension apparantly that lets you put the tabs at the bottom.

starting to get really annoyed with FF now due to random crahses/turns-itself-offs...

in XP you can group similar items in taskbar.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Wigwam
re Tabs - i am still always lookign at the taskbar to see what is open etc....need to think twice to look up for tabs.
mind you there is an extension apparantly that lets you put the tabs at the bottom.

starting to get really annoyed with FF now due to random crahses/turns-itself-offs...

in XP you can group similar items in taskbar.

Which means an extra click to find something.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Wigwam
re Tabs - i am still always lookign at the taskbar to see what is open etc....need to think twice to look up for tabs.
mind you there is an extension apparantly that lets you put the tabs at the bottom.

starting to get really annoyed with FF now due to random crahses/turns-itself-offs...

in XP you can group similar items in taskbar.

Now that's a feature I hate.

 

[Abhi]

Useful feature...

 

[omegaalpha]

If you guys are into Firefox so much, you might as well try versions that are *optimized* for your CPU. The upshot, these versions have better patches, are more stable, are more current in the development track, and are hella faster than the official builds!

My favorites can be found here: http://moox.ws/tech/mozilla

Other sources include http://pryan.org/mozilla and http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42

 

[Wigwam]

Originally posted by: Wigwam
yeah it has gotten worse since i installed chromedit and adblock.
i have had it for such a short time that i dont know if either is the cuprit or not but i will uninstall them and see...

well i have uninstalled both and it is much more stable now...

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: Wigwam

Originally posted by: Wigwam
yeah it has gotten worse since i installed chromedit and adblock.
i have had it for such a short time that i dont know if either is the cuprit or not but i will uninstall them and see...

well i have uninstalled both and it is much more stable now...

what were you doing with chrome edit? Did you have things you changed? it could been the changes you introduced.

Ad-Block is pretty stable if you ask me. I've never had an Ad-Block related crash.

lately, i've noticed alot of Sun Java errors and crashing my firefox. I might have to update my Java version.

 

[Wigwam]

i had reservations abotu chrome edit as it did say only upto version 0.9 and i have 0.93; i needed to edit the user chrome file to resize the browser bar and this seemed to be the way to go. luckily the changes stay after the extension is gone [the userchrome.css file is now created and the syntax in place i guess].

i didnt reall notice any benefit to having the adblock to be honest and it seemed abit daunting to set-up....

 

[Flexicon]

Ad Block is the shiznit when it works, but it does cause more problems than any other extension I've tried. Especially if you saved your user profile data from a previous version of FF and imported it into .9.3. If you're still having problems, check out the Adblock forum:

http://aasted.org/adblock/viewforum.php?f=1