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Ok, this thread peaked my interest..so I downloaded and installed FireFox. So far so good. I have used previous version of "FireBird" and found them to be slow and crappy, but this seems better. I was wondering a few things:

Can I customize my mouse "gestures'? I want to be able to hold right click and then left click, to go back, and hold left click and click right click to go forward. I'm used to that.

Also, is it possible to move the tabs bar to the bottom of the browser window?

And..how come I have never seen this "Quick Reply" before?! WTF?
 
Originally posted by: kalster
1 thing i like about firefox(any mozilla flavor infact) is when you have visual studio install you dont need to deal with the debug error dialog box all the time, thatz irritating
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You know you can turn that off, don't you?
 
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
And..how come I have never seen this "Quick Reply" before?! WTF?
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rofl.. quick reply is in IE too...
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Hmmm...not here. what-the-hell...of the year and a month i've been here, on multiple computers, i've NEVER seen quick reply
 
If users half our users stopped using IE (half use Mozilla/Netscape) I would have probably tons of more hours per week. IE is nothing but trouble. Security and privacy take a back seat. Oh well users certainly fit the stereotype and with using IE they do it oh so well.
 
The fact is: all Windows PC's required IE to be installed, it's not an optional thing. I can get all the Firefox advantages with MyIE2, which is tiny. Never found a page it would not display, it never crashed or hung, very quick to start up. Reports of crashes will keep me from installing.

IE+MyIE2 >> FireFox > IE
 
Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
Ok, this thread peaked my interest..so I downloaded and installed FireFox. So far so good. I have used previous version of "FireBird" and found them to be slow and crappy, but this seems better. I was wondering a few things:

Can I customize my mouse "gestures'? I want to be able to hold right click and then left click, to go back, and hold left click and click right click to go forward. I'm used to that.

Also, is it possible to move the tabs bar to the bottom of the browser window?

And..how come I have never seen this "Quick Reply" before?! WTF?
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I use firebird, so I'm not sure if the extensions will work in Firefox.

1) Get the Mouse Gestures extension by optimoz.mozdev.org. First go to edit mappings and remove everything. Then go back to Window:brower and click on add. From there select rocker type, first mouse button as right, second mouse button as left, and command as back. Recurse

2) Get the Tabbrowser extension by Shimoda Hiroshi. Under tab bar you have the option of showing the tab bar under windows.
 
Originally posted by: GreenGhost
The fact is: all Windows PC's required IE to be installed, it's not an optional thing. I can get all the Firefox advantages with MyIE2, which is tiny. Never found a page it would not display, it never crashed or hung, very quick to start up. Reports of crashes will keep me from installing.

IE+MyIE2 >> FireFox > IE
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IE + MyIE2 = IE >> Firefox --- only because

exploits + activex >> your computer
 
I like mozilla better than firebird/firefox because of one simple thing:

why do they go back to having a separate toolbar for search?
the integrated 'url + search' toolbar they have in mozilla is a lot
easier and more efficient to use.

unless there is a way in firefox to change this?
 
Originally posted by: saxguy
I like mozilla better than firebird/firefox because of one simple thing:

why do they go back to having a separate toolbar for search?
the integrated 'url + search' toolbar they have in mozilla is a lot
easier and more efficient to use.

unless there is a way in firefox to change this?
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I don't know what you're taking about but the search is easy to use. Just use the ctrl-k hotkey anytime.
 
I don't know what you're taking about but the search is easy to use. Just use the ctrl-k hotkey anytime.
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never thought about hotkey, maybe that's the way to go in firebird/fox

anyway, just explaining what I meant, in Mozilla if you type anything in the address bar,
right down at the bottom you have "search Google for xxx (or whatever you type)" (I set
my Internet search to Google).

in Firebird the Internet search comes up in a separate toolbar, like Google toolbar for IE,
you have to [tab] to it to do a search.
 
Originally posted by: saxguy
I don't know what you're taking about but the search is easy to use. Just use the ctrl-k hotkey anytime.
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never thought about hotkey, maybe that's the way to go in firebird/fox

anyway, just explaining what I meant, in Mozilla if you type anything in the address bar,
right down at the bottom you have "search Google for xxx (or whatever you type)" (I set
my Internet search to Google).

in Firebird the Internet search comes up in a separate toolbar, like Google toolbar for IE,
you have to [tab] to it to do a search.
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I think if you type something into the address bar for firefox it uses the google "I'm feeling lucky" feature.
 
Until IE has tabbed browsing I will not use it as my main browser. Scratch that that, until IE has tabbed browsing and a plugin like this Mozilla/Firefox plugin I will not use it as my main browser.

Flash click to View. So very useful for those annoying flash banners where they've disabled sound control.
 
tabbed browsing is horrible. I like all my programs visible in my taskbar. Its pretty obvious that many of you are just trying to bash Microsoft, especially with all the "oh IE isn't secure" bs. I spend 2 minutes once a week running windows update and I have never had any problems. Its one thing to like firefox but some of the reasons people are giving are rather lame. I install google toolbar once and then never again, I can't imagine someone being so pressed for time that they can't install google toolbar once.

IE works simple as that, I tried firefox and see no reason to switch.

IE is still better and how old is the code. Sure is taking a long time for other browsers to catch up.
 
Originally posted by: Rickten
tabbed browsing is horrible. I like all my programs visible in my taskbar. Its pretty obvious that many of you are just trying to bash Microsoft, especially with all the "oh IE isn't secure" bs. I spend 2 minutes once a week running windows update and I have never had any problems. Its one thing to like firefox but some of the reasons people are giving are rather lame. I install google toolbar once and then never again, I can't imagine someone being so pressed for time that they can't install google toolbar once.

IE works simple as that, I tried firefox and see no reason to switch.

IE is still better and how old is the code. Sure is taking a long time for other browsers to catch up.
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you don't have to use tabbed browsing with firefox. you can have 100 windows open in yoiur taskbar if you want
why install a toolbar when it's there already

other browsers to catch up? hahah, it's IE that need to catch up.
 
i just started using Mozilla and here are a few things i dont like
1. you cant just right click on the picture and copy it to photoshop
2. when u want to open multiple threads with shift and right click it opens up an entire new Mozilla instead of using tabs
3. it seems a lot slower than IE
4. the text size keeps on changing, when i open a new tab window it goes back to 100% i want it to stay at 120%
5. plugins

other than that it seems OK 🙂
 
Originally posted by: CtK
i just started using Mozilla and here are a few things i dont like
1. you cant just right click on the picture and copy it to photoshop
2. when u want to open multiple threads with shift and right click it opens up an entire new Mozilla instead of using tabs
3. it seems a lot slower than IE
4. the text size keeps on changing, when i open a new tab window it goes back to 100% i want it to stay at 120%
5. plugins

other than that it seems OK 🙂
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open multiple threads? just use the middle button or control+left click on the link.
 
Originally posted by: fivespeed5
Originally posted by: CtK
i just started using Mozilla and here are a few things i dont like
1. you cant just right click on the picture and copy it to photoshop
2. when u want to open multiple threads with shift and right click it opens up an entire new Mozilla instead of using tabs
3. it seems a lot slower than IE
4. the text size keeps on changing, when i open a new tab window it goes back to 100% i want it to stay at 120%
5. plugins

other than that it seems OK 🙂
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open multiple threads? just use the middle button or control+left click on the link.
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aww it works now had to enable it in the preferences
thanks
now how do u change it so the text size stays at 120%??
 
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