OT- Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2

[amdxborg]

I upgraded from 0.8, and this one seems a lot faster! So if you haven't upgraded from a previous version of Firefox yet, give it a try. Oh and for the IE people...you don't know what ur missing...lol

http://www.mozilla.org/

 

[Soggysocks]

It's really cool Had this installed for a week now. Nicer features.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Oh and for the IE people...you don't know what ur missing...lol

I tried it, it flakes out on too many web pages. (shows text in the wrong font size among other strange photo issues) I'm sorry to say I'll have to stick to IE until they get the bugs worked out.

 

[RemyCanad]

Loba, part of the problem is that too many webdesigners are lazy and do not follow standards. So their websites are "Best viewed in IE x.x". So don't always blame the browser, blame the site.

 

[ICXRa]

I like it! There are a few pages that don't show correctly so I just stopped going to those sites.....:evil:

hahah I keep IE around for those but that's about it.

 

[jta]

For the IE users that have tried Mozilla -
I am curious to know what sites are not rendering correctly in the Mozilla browser.

I love Firefox (mozilla) and I also have some sites that do not render correctly, but I blame it on bad HTML, not a bad browser.

So, I wanted to get a list of sites, er pages really, that do not render correctly in Mozilla, and see if the issue is REALLY due to HTML coding errors.

Anyone have a site to share?

j

 

[silverpig]

Been using firefox since 0.4 I think... Great browser

 

[kamper]

Adblock is worth almost any amount of misrendering by itself. The header of these forums doesn't look right but I don't care because I don't see any flashy moving pictures.

Edit: I mean, I never block Anandtech ads.... Just other sites... :Q

 

[scoser]

I click on the ads hidden by AdBlock every now and then on accide--I mean, because I want to support Anandtech!

 

[Allio]

Originally posted by: jta
For the IE users that have tried Mozilla -
I am curious to know what sites are not rendering correctly in the Mozilla browser.

I love Firefox (mozilla) and I also have some sites that do not render correctly, but I blame it on bad HTML, not a bad browser.

So, I wanted to get a list of sites, er pages really, that do not render correctly in Mozilla, and see if the issue is REALLY due to HTML coding errors.

Anyone have a site to share?

j

Slashdot has a rendering bug in Firefox/Mozilla, but it's minor.

 

[kloostec]

I've been using Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox since 0.1. Even then it was a great browser. I installed 0.9 (and 0.9.1) the day it came out. I don't need 0.9.2, as I don't run Windows. I haven't noticed any major rendering bugs in a very long time, but then again I haven't used Internet Explorer in a long time either (almost 12 months?), so I don't know what these sites are supposed to look like, either.

I don't run adblock, but I do run flashblock. It can't be installed in 0.9 yet apparently, but I had it installed before I upgraded (surprisingly still worked after the upgrade!). It replaces flash content with placeholders that are the exact same size as the flash animation was, so there's no misrendering. I don't mind the banner ads (I totally ignore them anyway), so I don't bother blocking them.

 

[FlameDeer]

I am posting this on Firefox 0.9.2

Great browser with tab browsing, popup block, easy to customize & very stable.

 

[kmmatney]

I'm posting with FireFox 0.9.2 as well. Its doesn't seem any faster than IE, but it does work well, and is only a 5 MB download. The main problem with IE is the ActiveX capability, which AFAIK the other browsers do not support. Although the ActiveX capability is powerful, it just has too many security problems. If they dropped it, I doubt there would be asa many security flaws.

 

[CraigRT]

I like it. I've been using it a few days now, no real complaints!!

 

[Chello02]

bump for mozilla!

 

[MoFunk]

I have never been an IE fan. I have uses Netscape since version2 and kept right on going with Mozilla. I have been using firebird/Firefox for a long time and love it. It keeps getting better and better. Just being able to browse the extensions page and grab what I want is great! I have 9.2 installed on my work machine and it hosed my flashblock which sucks, but I keep looking to see if it gets updated. I do not notice any kind of speed increase at home of work, but I do on my friends dial up account. Overall, this is my browser of choice, I tell friends about it and I load it on my clients PC's. The built in ad blocking is great! An IT guy I talk to all the time in a sister office was telling me about some software he was using to block pop ups on the computers in his office, I told him that I have been loading Firefox and did not need to bother with MORE stuff running in the tray! He tried it and liked it. The sucky thing is that our intranet was written for use with IE and firefox does not play well with it. Oh well.

 

[kmmatney]

I upgraded from Firefox 0.8 to 0.92 at home, and the posts on one of the Anandtech news was messed up. It was OK with IE....

 

[Wolfsraider]

thanks for the heads up amdxborg

I have only found one thing i don't like using it (which is a big improvement) and this isn't an ie vs thread nor is it my intebntion to make it one but when editing a web page in a window it tends to try and highlight everything lol anybody know how to stop that?

as an avid user of ie I am almost ready to make the switch for good lol- see above note :beer:

mike

 

[ken008]

Just installed it . Works good on dialup so far. Never saw this Quick reply box with IE . I like the way the pages load.

 

[Spacehead]

I finally got around to downloading this about a week ago. Seems pretty good so far. The tabbed browsing is easy to get used to.

"Never saw this Quick reply box with IE."
I noticed that too. Apparently there was a way to get it to show in IE, i just never bothered.


One weird thing though, go use the forum search function. Does a calendar pop up in the filtering area blocking out the Forum User Search area for you guys? Using 0.9.1. It doesn't do that with IE.

 

[Wolfsraider]

yes but it doesnt block it. it just gives more control over seeing the dates you want to search for , at least for me

mike

 

[Spacehead]

Yes, i realize it gives you more control over search dates, but the other day i wanted to PM some one & tried to use the Forum User Search but couldn't 'cause the calender was covering it over. I can't seem to get the calender to dissapear.