Jeff7
Lifer
- Jan 4, 2001
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Two excellent features. Cookieculler is great. For those who don't know:
Find a site that you want to keep a cookie, add it to the list of protected cookies. Then, in Cookieculler's options, check "Clear unprotected cookies at start."
Things I hate about it?
- That sound that it makes while you're searching - it's enabled by default. You need to venture into about:config to turn it off. Maybe a box should pop up on first use with something like, "The search feature makes a sound when it can't find what you're after. Disable the sound? Yes/No."
- Long load time
- How it will sometimes simply corrupt your profile for the hell of it, sometimes resulting in the loss of bookmarks. Having a regular backup routine does help.
Bookmark Backup is a workaround, but the problem should be solved at the root.- In IE, you open a new window - it is a duplicate of the original immediately. Window cloning. Extension Clone Window gives Firefox this ability. However, in IE, if you click Stop before the page in the new window finishes loading, the URL still shows. This is not so in Firefox - the URL only shows if the page loads. Me no like.
That's it for now, at least that I can think of.
I use Firefox almost exclusively now though. Excellent spyware resistance thus far, pretty stable, and, well, it just works.
Heh, depends on the level of computer literacy. I changed my dad's home page once by accident. He asked what happened to Internet Explorer, it wasn't working right.
And, unrelated incident, I asked him to use Firefox. Once I set it to the homepage he was used to, he said "Ok, so what's different?" I think it might gain acceptance there, which is good - fewer spyware headaches for me.
I personally never want to deal with CoolWebSearch again, may its authors rot in hell.A couple legitimate complaints that will probably never be fixed (both address bar related).
The first browser session, if I click on the button to drop down the address bar, it disappears immediatly. I have to click again to make it stay open.
The address bar doesn't rank sites by last visited. If I type in forums.anandtech.com, it stays at the very bottom of the address bar, no matter how many times I click it. IE moves clicked-on addresses to the top of the bar. This is only really an issue when my address bar gets so full that I have to scroll down the list to get to the frequently used sites at the bottom (yes I know I could use bookmarks for this).
The first browser session, if I click on the button to drop down the address bar, it disappears immediatly. I have to click again to make it stay open.
The address bar doesn't rank sites by last visited. If I type in forums.anandtech.com, it stays at the very bottom of the address bar, no matter how many times I click it. IE moves clicked-on addresses to the top of the bar. This is only really an issue when my address bar gets so full that I have to scroll down the list to get to the frequently used sites at the bottom (yes I know I could use bookmarks for this).
That it doesn't format some pages properly (and no, it's NOT always because the page isn't standards complient).
That it doesn't always remember things you type in forms when you go back to them. For example, in autotrader.ca, if you search for a car and then hit the back button to back to the search form, all the stuff you entered is gone. Not so in IE.
That it doesn't always remember things you type in forms when you go back to them. For example, in autotrader.ca, if you search for a car and then hit the back button to back to the search form, all the stuff you entered is gone. Not so in IE.
Probably the bookmark management and some of the options windows... Also that it doesn't look good in certain OS and environments.
I think that's also fixed for 1.5. That has happened randomly for me in the past, but not very often at all, and never anymore.
Mem use and instability.
Like it or not, Firefox is the flagship anti-MS application right now, so it needs to really compete with IE on the mem use, and outshine it in stability.
Like it or not, Firefox is the flagship anti-MS application right now, so it needs to really compete with IE on the mem use, and outshine it in stability.
kamper
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- Mar 18, 2003
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Yeah, but why do I have to even do that? The microsoft standard has everything on little palettes that are easy to move around. Plus stuff always gets messed up when I do it in firefox, particularly regarding whether or not icons have the words by them.
Perhaps one might interpret this as the stereotypical FOSS arrogance, but: :roll:. Manpower can be better spent right now.
Mem use: Remember that IE is just a wrapper for the rendering engine, already "embedded" into the OS. It's hiding that memory usage.
Stability: Many stability problems are caused by extensions. Idea: somebody should be testing different combos of extensions for stability. Most others are from the profile becoming randomly borked. This seems to happen ultra-rarely. A reproducable test case would be nice.
Supermercado
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- Jan 18, 2002
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I hate that when I have the cursor in a text field (like the Quick Reply box), I can't scroll up or down the page without first clicking outside of the text field.
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