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[POLL] - Firefox is gaining ground, IE down to 89%

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Firefox: tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, much less spyware. But its best feature is that I can modify the program or get extensions so that I can have FireFox set up the why I want it to be set up....
 
Firefox, I should have changed over from IE a long time ago. Firefox has a bunch of useful features and plugins, and you can easily open up IE within Firefox for those pagse that don't load correctly.
 
Firefox is good because there aren't so many people targeting firefox with popups and all of that (aside from great features). Same thing with windows and linux. I wish mozilla success, but I think sooner or later, I'll have to switch to another browser because of the same reasons I switched to firefox in the first palce.
 
Bump. :thumbsdown:

I've used Opera for a while, since version 6.2x, and I've liked it. But a few days ago, I decided to try Firefox (I had used it briefly before to test some stuff), and I think I like it almost as much. I prefer the feel of Opera, but the bottom line is Firefox is more compatible than Opera and renders more pages correctly.

And with extensions, it can do everything Opera can and more. Opera feels faster to me, but only by a small margin.

But I wonder if it's possible to move the tabs bar down to the bottom? The way it is in Opera. I find it easier to read that way.
 
Firefox, but I switched from Opera. I wish they would implement something like Opera's crash recovery feature where it remembers what tabs you had open so they open right back up if the browser does crash.
 
Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Bump. :thumbsdown:

I've used Opera for a while, since version 6.2x, and I've liked it. But a few days ago, I decided to try Firefox (I had used it briefly before to test some stuff), and I think I like it almost as much. I prefer the feel of Opera, but the bottom line is Firefox is more compatible than Opera and renders more pages correctly.

And with extensions, it can do everything Opera can and more. Opera feels faster to me, but only by a small margin.

But I wonder if it's possible to move the tabs bar down to the bottom? The way it is in Opera. I find it easier to read that way.
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I'm sure you can move the tab bar but you need to add an extension to do it. Not sure which one but there's a bunch of tabbed based extensions out there.

Try here: www.extensionsmirror.nl
and go to Firefox Extensions on the left.
 
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Originally posted by: Ikonomi
Bump. :thumbsdown:

I've used Opera for a while, since version 6.2x, and I've liked it. But a few days ago, I decided to try Firefox (I had used it briefly before to test some stuff), and I think I like it almost as much. I prefer the feel of Opera, but the bottom line is Firefox is more compatible than Opera and renders more pages correctly.

And with extensions, it can do everything Opera can and more. Opera feels faster to me, but only by a small margin.

But I wonder if it's possible to move the tabs bar down to the bottom? The way it is in Opera. I find it easier to read that way.
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I'm sure you can move the tab bar but you need to add an extension to do it. Not sure which one but there's a bunch of tabbed based extensions out there.

Try here: www.extensionsmirror.nl
and go to Firefox Extensions on the left.
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Thanks, I'm using the "Tabbrowser Extensions" which I thought to be the most widely used. Maybe I have to add another one just for moving the bar, or maybe I'm missing a setting.

Edit: WHOOPS, yeah, I found it. 🙂 I don't know how I missed that.
 
Originally posted by: Kev
i use firefox & every time i fix some idiot's computer i force them to start using it too. i'm sick of IE and its god damn spyware.
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NEVER got any spyware on my system... just don't install it when it asks you to, and don't visit sites with malicious activex codes.
 
Firefox, tabbed browsing, and overall it's a solid little program. I'll occaisonally use IE if a page doesn't render right, but that's very rare.

--Mark
 
Originally posted by: SaturnX
Firefox, tabbed browsing, and overall it's a solid little program. I'll occaisonally use IE if a page doesn't render right, but that's very rare.

--Mark
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Don't blame firefox for that.

That's the result of bad coding on the designers' part. If s/he used truly DOM-compliant markup, then there would be no reason it would look any different in FF than it does in *should* IE.

I say should because IE uses a ton of proprietary code and non standard rendering methods.
 
I wonder how much of that percentage is from here 😀

Considering how many members are on this site & how many use FF, we might make up a nice portion of those users.
 
I've used IE forever, but I recently tried the Maxthon (née MyIE2) again, and like it a lot.

Edit: Forgot to ad the comment that I found out about Maxthon, rather was reminded about it, in another of the 2^n threads on broswers.
 
Mozilla, but I'll likely give Firefox another try soon. I tried it a few months ago and didn't really see anything to reccomend it over Mozilla, and it was less stable.
 
Anybody know how to find the browser stats from google ... I was just poking around on there and didn't come up with it.
Of course, all of these stats are flawed because some people change their browser ID string to IE because some ignorant sites require it.
 
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