Firefox or IE?

SuperCommando · Post by **SuperCommando** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:53 pm

Hawaiian Modder wrote:Of all of the browsers, which looks alright, uses the least amount of memory, has tabs and works on Windows?

I'm pretty sure its opera

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:58 pm

Thats why I dislike firefox...I dont want to wait up to 10 seconds for it to open fr the first time

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:06 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Thats why I dislike firefox...I dont want to wait up to 10 seconds for it to open fr the first time

'Tis quite annoying.

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:19 pm

Yea firefox has a lame load up time, but the lack of adds sells it to me, plus Firefox is just more awesome.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:19 pm

I just set my home page to about:blank...it loads instantly...

gmp_gmp · Post by **gmp_gmp** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:20 pm

Probably Opera. Or an extensionless ff

Leiukemia · Post by **Leiukemia** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:27 pm

I've never felt the need to extend my web browser. I don't even know what any of the the freakin extensions are. Obviously it's something I don't need.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:36 am

yup. They're pretty much all things that are cool once and then something you never want to use again.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:13 pm

Some extensions I use quite frequently...such as tools to download videos directly off of YouTube and other embedded flash sites, a notifier that checks my Gmail account for new messages, and a Wikipedia contextual menu option.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:36 pm

The only extensions I have are Linkification (on GameFAQs' forums, the links appear as text...and in certain .txt documents on various sites, etc), various search engines for sites I frequent, and FireFTP...which I honestly don't even use.

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:43 pm

I have around 9, I use pretty much all of them except FoxyTunes.

Ar5eNiC · Post by **Ar5eNiC** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:51 pm

I thought of something else...the recently closed tabs feature in Firefox. At any given time I usually have around 2-3 tabs open, and I am constantly closing the wrong one. The recently closed tabs feature is amazing and a life saver...almost makes me hate using older versions of Firefox (and other browsers that don't have it).

Malolo420 · Post by **Malolo420** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:32 am

I use IE, but my flash player only works on firefox so I have to switch to that every once and a while.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:21 am

gtavcmaster100 wrote:I thought of something else...the recently closed tabs feature in Firefox. At any given time I usually have around 2-3 tabs open, and I am constantly closing the wrong one. The recently closed tabs feature is amazing and a life saver...almost makes me hate using older versions of Firefox (and other browsers that don't have it).

Amen. That and the restore tabs feature are really fun.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:02 pm

Tsk Tsk, don't know it's wrong to post things you got from someone else even if they've been banned from the forum?

And don't steal my quotes >_>
I use Firefox because the Aliens told me to.

SuperCommando · Post by **SuperCommando** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:04 pm

IE7 has 6 of those reasons, that musta been for IE6 vs. Firefox

jks · Post by **jks** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:12 pm

Don't know what you are talking about for the FF loading time... I don't have any problems, besides, once FF is open I don't close it until I go to sleep.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:17 pm

the best part of firefox that I've found was, It didn't give you an annoying notification when you opened tabs for the first time. I find it easier to come here, and middle click my hot sections, and pop through them all.

Leiukemia · Post by **Leiukemia** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:59 pm

That restore tabs thing does sound cool. But I'm sticking with IE. Other extensions you mentioned don't really appeal to me. I don't ever download movies, I rarely get popups, and the aliens can kiss my rump.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:45 am

Cuda wrote:middle click my hot sections, and pop through them all.

I just barely found out about middle-clicking. I love it.