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Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Tequila
At work: FF 3.5. Firebug is just too valuable a tool and FF runs fine on 32-bit XP

At home: Chrome has taken over FF. FF 3.5 is too buggy on 64-bit Vista and I don't really want to go backwards with FF 3.0.
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What exactly is the problem with FF 3.5 and 64 bit Vista? Curious. How does it run better on 32 bit XP?
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I made a post about it in another thread but to recap FF 3.5 freezes a lot on me under Vista64 especially when playing videos on yahoo, cnn, cnbc, etc. I have to constantly kill the process and start over. I don't have any of those issues at work on XP32.

This is why I tried Chrome at home and now I love it 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Tequila
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Tequila
At work: FF 3.5. Firebug is just too valuable a tool and FF runs fine on 32-bit XP

At home: Chrome has taken over FF. FF 3.5 is too buggy on 64-bit Vista and I don't really want to go backwards with FF 3.0.
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What exactly is the problem with FF 3.5 and 64 bit Vista? Curious. How does it run better on 32 bit XP?
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I made a post about it in another thread but to recap FF 3.5 freezes a lot on me under Vista64 especially when playing videos on yahoo, cnn, cnbc, etc. I have to constantly kill the process and start over. I don't have any of those issues at work on XP32.

This is why I tried Chrome at home and now I love it 🙂
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Interesting. I wonder why this is. Wish there was a easier way to tell.
 
Firefox with Adblock, Flashblock and IE Tab. Also, Firefox's search feature has spoiled me. Having a "find bar" on the bottom of the web browser has completely changed how I do some things. Finding a specific word or phrase makes the browsing experience so much better.
 
Chrome. You can get most of the extension functionality of Firefox now that userscripts work properly. For example I'm running Flashblock identical to Firefox's version.
 
Chrome 3.0 + Ad Muncher. It's lightning fast. Firefox and IE8 feel extremely slow for me. It bothers me that much now, after using Chrome, that when I wanted to go back to FF I couldn't... I was getting frustrated at the slowness of everything under FF and IE8.

You never know how fast a browser should be working until you try Chrome 🙂
 
Problem with most browsers is their UI is bad or sometimes even annoying. Only one I am comfortable with is Maxthon 2.1.5.
 
Firefox feels too slow and I don't like the way it displays a lot of pages compared to IE8 or Chrome. I was using Chrome a lot but have recently soley been using IE8.
 
I've always used Opera until now. I'm really starting to like Firefox with the extensions. It doesn't feel slow to me.
 
I'm using FF, adblock is installed, but I'm not sure it's doing anything. It's enabled but I see no filter rules. The help says it does a thing automatically when you first run it, but at this point it's already installed, so should I uninstall it and reinstall or configure some other way? How do I know if it's doing anything?

Got another issue maybe someone can speak to. I have Tab-Mix-Plus installed, but when I hit Control+Shift+N, I don't get a new window. Instead (here) I find myself editing my post! I've got a workaround going (Open New Window in my context menu), but I'm used to the key combo. Just moved to Vista, but don't know if that's a factor.
 
Originally posted by: Muse
I'm using FF, adblock is installed, but I'm not sure it's doing anything. It's enabled but I see no filter rules. The help says it does a thing automatically when you first run it, but at this point it's already installed, so should I uninstall it and reinstall or configure some other way? How do I know if it's doing anything?

Got another issue maybe someone can speak to. I have Tab-Mix-Plus installed, but when I hit Control+Shift+N, I don't get a new window. Instead (here) I find myself editing my post! I've got a workaround going (Open New Window in my context menu), but I'm used to the key combo. Just moved to Vista, but don't know if that's a factor.
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Adblock Plus doesn't block anything and doesn't come with filters by default. That is, unless you subscribe to one of the filters that it shows you when you first run it.

You could also just subscribe to Easylist here
http://easylist.adblockplus.org/

Control + N = new window
 
Originally posted by: Muse
I'm using FF, adblock is installed, but I'm not sure it's doing anything. It's enabled but I see no filter rules. The help says it does a thing automatically when you first run it, but at this point it's already installed, so should I uninstall it and reinstall or configure some other way? How do I know if it's doing anything?
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Go to Tools>Add-ons>Adblock>Options

Edit your options.
 
Shiretoko (Firefox nightly) because of the add-ons. I use Coral IETab for the few sites that don't work.

Edit: Actually make that Minefield (3.7 alpha), seems that my extensions are working properly with that now.
 
Chrome for day-to-day stuff. It's noticeably faster than Firefox, and leaps and bounds faster than IE7 / 8.

Firefox for work. Firebug is great, and I use FireFTP for a simple, light-weight FTP client.

IE8 for sites that still don't realize the year is 2009 and IE6 isn't the only browser that has graced the faces of our desktops.
 
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