firefox is over rated.

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

FireFTP, downloadTHEMall, and tabs... Oh yea.
Tas.

 

[rh71]

I think the hype and "tell all your friends" bit is annoying also. I do use FF though because of its extensions and obviously less prone to spyware (that's when I had enough with IE).

 

[eelw]

The worse thing about FF is the outrageous memory requirements.

 

[HN]

Firefox - you can choose to use tabs or not
IE - you have tabs so no choice (yet)

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: eelw
The worse thing about FF is the outrageous memory requirements.

'fo sho... it constantly runs at 88MB+ with 1 or 2 pages open for me and for a browser, that's just too much. I expect Photoshop to take that much. If you open a lot of stuff with tabs and images come into play.. it becomes slow to respond (and I have 1GB RAM). This was supposed to be a shell of Mozilla... why is it so heavy ?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: eelw
The worse thing about FF is the outrageous memory requirements.

'fo sho... it constantly runs at 88MB+ with 1 or 2 pages open for me and for a browser, that's just too much. I expect Photoshop to take that much. If you open a lot of stuff with tabs and images come into play.. it becomes slow to respond (and I have 1GB RAM). This was supposed to be a shell of Mozilla... why is it so heavy ?

agreed. the memory usage is a bit absurd. it's not a big problem by itself but combine it with other memory hogs like azureus, it becomes really bad.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

firefox has tabs, a plethora of skins and extensions, its constantly up to date, when an exploit is discovered its already patched or gets patched rather quickly, cross platform, and most importantly open-source. of course there are more, but these are the most important to me.

edit: i'm running about 12 tabs and it hasn't reached 50 megs yet. in fact, i've never had any memory problem with firefox. maybe you guys installed some weird extension or something..

 

[kristof007]

I got a nice white skin for it and I have foxytunes which let you control your media player in firefox(it's at the bottom .. jst a row of button) so you don't need to minize it. So I guess what I am saying is it's customization .. endless customization.

 

[DivideBYZero]

- Tabs
- Adblocking
- Mouse gestures
- It's cool
- You can rant on about it to people that still use IE
- Non technical People don't get it
- You can b1tch about sites with 'IE only code, dude'

 

[SVT Cobra]

tabs + extensions + no annoying toolbars

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound

Originally posted by: Auryg
I personally hate tabs. Meh.

tabs in program, tabs in taskbar, there's clutter either way. pick your poison :thumbsdown:

Oh and btw, why do you think MS put the "group similar taskbar buttons" option in Windows XP? Same concept as tabs in firefox.

Except the group similar has all the fuctionality of a rotten Sea Bass as a TV remote.

 

[Gibson486]

yeah FF is overrated...but for free browsers, it is among the best out there. Isn't teh ad-block the same as google's ad-block?

 

[eakers]

I like tabbing. I like being able to open all the links I need from the main page in different tabs and then just close tehm as I need them

 

[KeyserSoze]

Adblock with the updated filters on the web, I don't see any ads at all. It's amazing how much more I notice when I'm on another computer.



KS

 

[AdamSnow]

I agree 100% on the "over rated" argument...

 

[Miramonti]

When using FF you need to do the pipeline tweaks to speed it up, and then to slow it down again all you need to do is add some extensions.

 

[mobobuff]

There are two main reasons most people like it.

1. Ad-block, tabs, extensions etc... (which many other better browsers have anyway).
2. Its strict abidment of the W3C's nazi guidelines, protocols, and standards, thereby making it display half the world's webpages incorrectly.

Of course there's the third unwritten reason, that it's the "cool" browser to have for pseudo-savvy people. Sadly this is probably the most important reason, seeing as how #1 isn't exclusive to Firefox, and #2 is actually detrimental rather than productive.

In short, there are many better browsers out there.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
tabs + adblock ftw

Those are the main things for me.

:thumbsup:

Ditto usually have 10 tabs going at anytime also Microshaft sucks donkey nards

Ausm

 

[Schadenfroh]

http://toadstool.se/journal/images/friends-dont-let-friends-use-ie.jpg

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
There are two main reasons most people like it.

1. Ad-block, tabs, extensions etc... (which many other better browsers have anyway).
2. Its strict abidment of the W3C's nazi guidelines, protocols, and standards, thereby making it display half the world's webpages incorrectly.

Of course there's the third unwritten reason, that it's the "cool" browser to have for pseudo-savvy people. Sadly this is probably the most important reason, seeing as how #1 isn't exclusive to Firefox, and #2 is actually detrimental rather than productive.

In short, there are many better browsers out there.

Better browsers? I'm guessing you mean Opera

 

[steelels1]

Well in addition to all the reasons already stated - Tabs, Ad-blocking, Less bloat, more secure, and a variety of great extensions to add only the functionality you NEED -

One of my main reasons is that I'm a web developer and IE is a nightmare for doing pure CSS/XHTML pages. IE has a total disregard for web standards and the CSS spec (or is just plain buggy, however you want to look at it), and I have to implement a variety of IE specific hacks once I have the page working in everything else. Even the current beta of IE7 still has the majority of the bugs present. Although I believe most of the box model issues have been fixed.

So I guess my point is that because of all the time I spend cursing IE when I'm developing it adds even more aversion to me ever using it. Hell, I think I use Opera more than IE.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: mobobuff
There are two main reasons most people like it.

1. Ad-block, tabs, extensions etc... (which many other better browsers have anyway).
2. Its strict abidment of the W3C's nazi guidelines, protocols, and standards, thereby making it display half the world's webpages incorrectly.

Of course there's the third unwritten reason, that it's the "cool" browser to have for pseudo-savvy people. Sadly this is probably the most important reason, seeing as how #1 isn't exclusive to Firefox, and #2 is actually detrimental rather than productive.

In short, there are many better browsers out there.

Better browsers? I'm guessing you mean Opera

No, Opera is very bloat-heavy. While it does look nice and has some interesting features, it's just too much. Personally I use Maxthon and IE, both of which I find to be better than Firefox. The only instance I can think of where Firefox would be a better choice than IE would be on a computer prone to spyware that's used by a user who doesn't know common procedures to follow to make the computer immune to spyware.

Other browsers that I'd use over Firefox would be K-Meleon (based on the same layout engine as Firefox, but much lighter with less crashing) and Avant.

Firefox is great for some people, but yeah, it's just overrated.

 

[Aquaman]

I just switched to FF......... I like the tabs but I don't like the pop up blocker. It seems t me that I get no pop ups from IE6 but I still get some using FF1.06.

On a side note....... a developer friend of mine told me there is an exploit for people who use online banking and have a couple tabs opened at the same time. He told me never to us online banking with tabs opened and that 1.07 should fix the problem.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[OrByte]

it's not a microsoft product

what more do you need to know?

 

[Medicine Bear]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear

Originally posted by: mobobuff
There are two main reasons most people like it.

1. Ad-block, tabs, extensions etc... (which many other better browsers have anyway).
2. Its strict abidment of the W3C's nazi guidelines, protocols, and standards, thereby making it display half the world's webpages incorrectly.

Of course there's the third unwritten reason, that it's the "cool" browser to have for pseudo-savvy people. Sadly this is probably the most important reason, seeing as how #1 isn't exclusive to Firefox, and #2 is actually detrimental rather than productive.

In short, there are many better browsers out there.

Better browsers? I'm guessing you mean Opera

No, Opera is very bloat-heavy. While it does look nice and has some interesting features, it's just too much. Personally I use Maxthon and IE, both of which I find to be better than Firefox. The only instance I can think of where Firefox would be a better choice than IE would be on a computer prone to spyware that's used by a user who doesn't know common procedures to follow to make the computer immune to spyware.

Other browsers that I'd use over Firefox would be K-Meleon (based on the same layout engine as Firefox, but much lighter with less crashing) and Avant.

Firefox is great for some people, but yeah, it's just overrated.

Never heard of those others. Guess I will check them out.