OT: Firefox - Page 3

Thermodyne · #21 June 24th, 2004, 03:23 PM

It lets the browser load/fill pages faster. If you are on dial up, you won't see much. But if you have DSL or a big cable pipe, it'll make a big change.

Ragnarok · #22 June 24th, 2004, 03:54 PM

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
It lets the browser load/fill pages faster. If you are on dial up, you won't see much. But if you have DSL or a big cable pipe, it'll make a big change.

Oh ok, we have 1.5mbs down and 768kbs up here at work so I should notice a difference. I will start browsing now to see if anything can be noticed.

Baron Munchausen · #23 June 25th, 2004, 02:37 AM

There are problems with both 'keep alive' and 'pipelining' though. There are several threads on the Mozillazine forums about excessive memory usage and things being 'orphaned' in memory (browser plugins like the Acrobat reader) when people use these features. After seeing these threads I disabled 'keep alive' (never even tried pipelining) and several sites I had been having problems with started working much better.

Even with these problems, it's much better to be using Mozilla or Firefox than IE. Here comes another exploit:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...4/tc_zd/130226

This time it's a graphic being used to break in to your system, not an active-x or a script! Yes, IE is even buggy in the way it displays plain old .jpg or .gif graphics. Expect to hear more about this soon. It could be a very big event since it gets around all existing security enhancements for IE.

[ June 25, 2004, 01:39: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Fyron · #24 June 25th, 2004, 02:41 AM

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Originally posted by Makinus:
BTW: where i can send the URLs of the sites that don�t work right so the next Version of Firefox can make them work?

Nowhere. 99.9% of such sites do not work because they rely on HTML and other code that is specific to IE, and is not part of the standard language(s). Such sites will never work in Firefox.

Roanon · #25 June 25th, 2004, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by Makinus:
BTW: where i can send the URLs of the sites that don�t work right so the next Version of Firefox can make them work?

To the webmasters of these URLs, tell them to please use standard HTML and not some non-standard abnormal pseudo-HTML subset that only IE understands.

Captain Kwok · #26 June 25th, 2004, 07:50 PM

I've been trying Firefox for the Last couple of days. I like it so far, not a big fan of the way it loads pages which reminds of netscacpe, but oh well I'll get use to it.

Kamog · #27 July 5th, 2004, 03:22 AM

Hi, I started using Firefox today. It's great. Some nice features. Up until yesterday I was stubbornly using Internet Explorer. I should have listened to Fyron the first time he recommended it!

Renegade 13 · #28 July 5th, 2004, 06:27 AM

I too have joined the growing ranks of those using Firefox, as of today. I like it so far, hopefully I will continue to do so. IE just has too many vulnerablities, and that pop-ups really bugged me.

Raging Deadstar · #29 July 5th, 2004, 11:09 AM

Yeah. I got the file off Fyron i think as My IE had completely crashed. I assure you now that you won't want to go back

David E. Gervais · #30 July 5th, 2004, 05:45 PM

I'm a new 'Follower' of Mozilla too. I haven't seen the need to upgrade to Firefox. I'm not yet convinced that it has much more to offer than Mozilla. Since I only use the 'Browser' and not any of the other stuff.

Is there good reason for me to drop Mozilla in favor of Firefox? I wonder what you all think.

Cheers!