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Firefox vs. IE

Muse

Muse

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I'm a longtime IE user and recently installed Firefox 1.0. I imported all of my IE favorites (many!) into Firefox but now find that they are divergent. IOW, I'm using both browsers. Is there a way to resynchronize the favorites/bookmarks? I know where the IE favorites are kept (where the \Favorites folder is). Where are the Firefox bookmarks on HD?

One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?

I'd appreciate a discussion and explanation and comparison of the two browsers. Thanks!!!!
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Please use the search button, there are many IE versus FireFox flame wars
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OK, I know you are completely right. Well, then, I can dispense with the flamewars. You can disregard my last question if it's silly to start another such discussion. However, my other two questions I'd like answered if it's possible:

Can you make a duplicate of the current page quickly and easily in FF as you can in IE, and if so, how?

Can you easily resynchronize your bookmarks between the two browsers. Am I the only guy who uses both browsers? I have one important site that I go to that always flashes a warning when I open it in FF that it's not optimized for my browser, so I use IE for that site. Yes, I can limit my use of IE to that site (and maybe I will). Thanks, all.
 
One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?
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I have never wanted to do this and it's one of the things that IE does that I absolutely hate, I've never understood why you would want to do that.
 
Originally posted by: Muse
One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?
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Ctrl N doesn't duplicate the page for me in IE6... 😕 It just goes to the home page.
 
Err, why create a new window when you can use tabs?

And YES, it's MUCH easier with FF than IE if you get the mouse gestures plugin!
You can open a duplicate window by holding down RMB, and moving the mouse up then down (or down the up) to make a new window with mouse gestures plugin loaded.
 
Book marks are in something like c:\documents and settings\username\application data\firefox. It'll be a file called something like bookmarks.html.
 
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Err, why create a new window when you can use tabs?

And YES, it's MUCH easier with FF than IE if you get the mouse gestures plugin!
You can open a duplicate window by holding down RMB, and moving the mouse up then down (or down the up) to make a new window with mouse gestures plugin loaded.
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Link to Mouse Gestures plugin? Is this All-in-One Gestures - Firefox Extension?
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Muse
One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?
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Ctrl N doesn't duplicate the page for me in IE6... 😕 It just goes to the home page.
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Do you have "Reuse windows when launching shortcuts" checked in Tools/Options/Advanced?
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?
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I have never wanted to do this and it's one of the things that IE does that I absolutely hate, I've never understood why you would want to do that.
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Well, for one thing I have found that sometimes I can't open a link off the context menu (right click menu), and have to hit a link directly. To have my previous page without having to reload it (Back button) I just hit CTRL-N before leaving my original page. There are other times I do this, too, I think.
 
Originally posted by: Muse
Originally posted by: Nothinman
One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?
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I have never wanted to do this and it's one of the things that IE does that I absolutely hate, I've never understood why you would want to do that.
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Well, for one thing I have found that sometimes I can't open a link off the context menu (right click menu), and have to hit a link directly. To have my previous page without having to reload it (Back button) I just hit CTRL-N before leaving my original page. There are other times I do this, too, I think.
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I vaguely remember this problem with IE, but it has been a long time. I don't have the problem with using right-click "Open in new tab"

Do you have an example? I will test it.
 
Originally posted by: TSDible
Originally posted by: Muse
Originally posted by: Nothinman
One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?
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I have never wanted to do this and it's one of the things that IE does that I absolutely hate, I've never understood why you would want to do that.
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Well, for one thing I have found that sometimes I can't open a link off the context menu (right click menu), and have to hit a link directly. To have my previous page without having to reload it (Back button) I just hit CTRL-N before leaving my original page. There are other times I do this, too, I think.
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I vaguely remember this problem with IE, but it has been a long time. I don't have the problem with using right-click "Open in new tab"

Do you have an example? I will test it.
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I don't have an example at hand. It often happens when I'm shopping for something online. The links to the product and such-and-such a site often don't work off the Context Menu but do work when you hit the link directly. Anyway, that's been my experience in IE 6.
 
Originally posted by: Muse
Originally posted by: TSDible
Originally posted by: Muse
Originally posted by: Nothinman
One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?
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I have never wanted to do this and it's one of the things that IE does that I absolutely hate, I've never understood why you would want to do that.
Click to expand...

Well, for one thing I have found that sometimes I can't open a link off the context menu (right click menu), and have to hit a link directly. To have my previous page without having to reload it (Back button) I just hit CTRL-N before leaving my original page. There are other times I do this, too, I think.
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I vaguely remember this problem with IE, but it has been a long time. I don't have the problem with using right-click "Open in new tab"

Do you have an example? I will test it.
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I don't have an example at hand. It often happens when I'm shopping for something online. The links to the product and such-and-such a site often don't work off the Context Menu but do work when you hit the link directly. Anyway, that's been my experience in IE 6.
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The profile button at the top of this window.
 
Originally posted by: Muse
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Err, why create a new window when you can use tabs?

And YES, it's MUCH easier with FF than IE if you get the mouse gestures plugin!
You can open a duplicate window by holding down RMB, and moving the mouse up then down (or down the up) to make a new window with mouse gestures plugin loaded.
Click to expand...

Link to Mouse Gestures plugin? Is this https://addons.update.mozilla....=firefox&id=12&vid=741">All-in-One Gestures - Firefox Extension</a>?
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I don't know about that one, but I useEasy Gestures and I really like it.
 
Originally posted by: Muse
I'm a longtime IE user and recently installed Firefox 1.0. I imported all of my IE favorites (many!) into Firefox but now find that they are divergent. IOW, I'm using both browsers. Is there a way to resynchronize the favorites/bookmarks? I know where the IE favorites are kept (where the \Favorites folder is). Where are the Firefox bookmarks on HD?

One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?

I'd appreciate a discussion and explanation and comparison of the two browsers. Thanks!!!!
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Very easy to do in Opera

I think for most, once you switch you won't need to come back. Opera can do anything IE can do, better. Soon it will even support activex I believe, which is like the last thing it needs. A new beta version is out which is to Opera as firefox is to mozilla. The neat thing about Opera is that you won't need to mess around with any extensions like in firefox, opera already does everything.
 
Originally posted by: malak
Originally posted by: Muse
I'm a longtime IE user and recently installed Firefox 1.0. I imported all of my IE favorites (many!) into Firefox but now find that they are divergent. IOW, I'm using both browsers. Is there a way to resynchronize the favorites/bookmarks? I know where the IE favorites are kept (where the \Favorites folder is). Where are the Firefox bookmarks on HD?

One reason I'm still using IE is that I can quickly and easily create a duplicate of the current page by hitting CTRL+N. Is there a way to do this with Firefox?

I'd appreciate a discussion and explanation and comparison of the two browsers. Thanks!!!!
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Very easy to do in Opera

I think for most, once you switch you won't need to come back. Opera can do anything IE can do, better. Soon it will even support activex I believe, which is like the last thing it needs. A new beta version is out which is to Opera as firefox is to mozilla. The neat thing about Opera is that you won't need to mess around with any extensions like in firefox, opera already does everything.
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It's a bunch of junk? 😕

I used Opera for a while. The ads got annoying.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: Nothinman
The neat thing about Opera is that you won't need to mess around with any extensions like in firefox, opera already does everything.
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Horray for inflexibility.
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Opera must be huge if it can do all this
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From just the first page I think there was maybe one thing it can't do natively. And that one thing wasn't something your average home user is going to care about anyway. It's not huge, it's actually very small, and the people at Opera take pride in that fact. It's the swiss-army knife of browsers.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
From just the first page I think there was maybe one thing it can't do natively.
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The first page is only half of the A's, a little over 5% of the total available extensions.
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Still an indication of things to come.
 
Still an indication of things to come.
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An indication that Opera will soon be the Emacs of the web browsing world? Ooh look a text editor with a mail client built in. Actually it wouldn't even be Emacs, Emacs is extensible via LISP.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Still an indication of things to come.
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An indication that Opera will soon be the Emacs of the web browsing world? Ooh look a text editor with a mail client built in. Actually it wouldn't even be Emacs, Emacs is extensible via LISP.
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The reasoning behind your hate makes no sense. It's a solid browser that requires a lot less work from the user to do everything you want than firefox. You'd like to call it bloat, but it's still very small, and how is it bloat if you are going to download all those extensions anyway for firefox?
 
The reasoning behind your hate makes no sense. It's a solid browser that requires a lot less work from the user to do everything you want than firefox
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How do you know what I want?

You'd like to call it bloat, but it's still very small, and how is it bloat if you are going to download all those extensions anyway for firefox?
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Because I only get the extentions I want, not the ones the Opera dev team wants.
 
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