IE7 Beta v. FireFox Beta

[bragac200]

I agree, not very objective.

What is Maxthon?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Honestly, other than tabbed browsing, what does FF have over IE???? I always use FF...but sitll I admit it's just because of tabbed browsing...it doesn't offer any other feature that's not on IE in some form

EXTENTIONS! SessionSaver is awesome. If Firefox closes unexpectedly for any reason (power outage, windows crash, FF crash, accidently kick the power cord out of the back of the computer with your foot, whatever) all I have to do is reopen it and it'll reload all the pages I had open.

Another extension I use is downTHEMall! which allows me to download all links to pictures on a page.

Adblock is another great extension. Because of adblock I haven't seen an ad in over a year.

 

[Byte]

holy crap you can move tabs around!!! wow i've only been doing this in opera for 3 years! All browsers still aren't perfect, thats why i generally use 3-4 at one time.

 

[GeneValgene]

can someone explain to me the difference between mozilla and firefox?

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
can someone explain to me the difference between mozilla and firefox?

firefox is based on mozilla. i think ff is supposed to be the mainstream browser with more support and extensions.

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Honestly, other than tabbed browsing, what does FF have over IE???? I always use FF...but sitll I admit it's just because of tabbed browsing...it doesn't offer any other feature that's not on IE in some form

I'd agree... I have no plug-ins and themes to Firefox... other then Tabbed browsing, it's really no better the IE.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: blakeatwork

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Honestly, other than tabbed browsing, what does FF have over IE???? I always use FF...but sitll I admit it's just because of tabbed browsing...it doesn't offer any other feature that's not on IE in some form

I'd agree... I have no plug-ins and themes to Firefox... other then Tabbed browsing, it's really no better the IE.

I said I had no reason to go to FF when I was an IE user... because I had my own popup blocker and don't care about tabs. Well when I went to FF because of spyware on IE, I quickly found that extensions made my life easier (and faster) with mouse gestures and some extensions like dictionary/thesaurus/downloadthemall, etc.

You can't really appreciate it if you never had it, but once you try it out, you won't want to go back. That's why I'm adamant about extensions now. Even on Opera (I feel FF is an overbloated pig in comparison). Opera has similar functional extensions (built-in, which is the best part) so I've made yet another switch. Despite some quirks, I find it the fastest among the 3 browsers so far too.

 

[bragac200]

Opera suffers from a lot of technical problems though. It doesn't seem to be able to handle complex javascript well if at all, and it tends to render pages designed for IE incorrectly. Also the built-in banner is too irritating for words.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: sniperruff

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
can someone explain to me the difference between mozilla and firefox?

firefox is based on mozilla. i think ff is supposed to be the mainstream browser with more support and extensions.

Firefox isn't based on Mozilla. Firefox and Thunderbird are designed to replace the Mozilla suite package.

 

[Freejack2]

There is no such thing as IE for a linux box. So Firefox it is, it's on my windows systems also. My big thing is less chance of spyware getting installed if I run firefox.
My only complaint about firefox was it would crash when printing on the linux version. They fixed that in the last patch.

 

[NatePo717]

Originally posted by: Baked
FF beta is horrible. There, I said it. I went back to 1.0.5 after 5 min.

 

[jjones]

He makes a few valid points but his bias ruins the review.