My transition from IE to Firefox: a small rant

Carson · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:10 pm

jrtman wrote:

Pyro Parrot wrote:

You were in denile? was it wet? =:0

Not only that, it was self-destructive and on many an occasion extremely frustrating, infuriating, and bad for my sanity... which brings me full-circle back to the whole self-destructive statement

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I'm very happy with my choice of web browser and disagree with you completely, I don't suppose there's much point in either of us trying to change each others opinion, all we can do is explain our experiences to one another.

That's true. However, I can guarantee that if you were to spend one week with Firefox you wouldn't look at IE the same way you do now. Of course you'll disagree with that statement, I did too, but look at me now

I'm afraid I will have to disagree with that point, as a regular purchaser of PC Front I felt it my duty to try Firefox which they distribute with their free DVD. I believe I used it for over a week, and obviously I did not enjoy it. Can't say what version it was though.

jrtman · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:25 pm

Paul wrote:

jrtman wrote:

Pyro Parrot wrote:

You were in denile? was it wet? =:0

Not only that, it was self-destructive and on many an occasion extremely frustrating, infuriating, and bad for my sanity... which brings me full-circle back to the whole self-destructive statement

You didn't get his joke.

Not to worry, I got the joke. De nile ain't just a river in Egypt, ya know.

Pyro Parrot wrote:

I'm afraid I will have to disagree with that point, as a regular purchaser of PC Front I felt it my duty to try Firefox which they distribute with their free DVD. I believe I used it for over a week, and obviously I did not enjoy it. Can't say what version it was though.

Okie dokie. But to truely appreciate Firefox you need to download the Adblock extension along with the Filterset.G updater extension and use the middle mouse button to open links in a new tab.

Good luck with IE though... but for me I'm gonna leech Ixistant's emoticon and continue using Firefox

Carson · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:28 pm

jrtman wrote:

Paul wrote:

jrtman wrote:

Pyro Parrot wrote:

You were in denile? was it wet? =:0

Not only that, it was self-destructive and on many an occasion extremely frustrating, infuriating, and bad for my sanity... which brings me full-circle back to the whole self-destructive statement

You didn't get his joke.

Not to worry, I got the joke. De nile ain't just a river in Egypt, ya know.

Pyro Parrot wrote:

I'm afraid I will have to disagree with that point, as a regular purchaser of PC Front I felt it my duty to try Firefox which they distribute with their free DVD. I believe I used it for over a week, and obviously I did not enjoy it. Can't say what version it was though.

Okie dokie. But to truely appreciate Firefox you need to download the Adblock extension along with the Filterset.G updater extension and use the middle mouse button to open links in a new tab.

Good luck with IE though... but for me I'm gonna leech Ixistant's emoticon and continue using Firefox

I don't have a middle mouse button, I'm on a laptop lol

Christopher · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:30 pm

jrtman wrote:

Christopher wrote:

I despise firefox. But I don't like IE either. First of all, much of firefox's claims, or what people tell you about it are total lies, it is not faster to start, not faster to load, infact it is quite noticably slower. It wasn't the first to use tabbed browsing either.

While it's true that Firefox is slower than IE to start up, this is simply because it has to load your extensions plus a lot more features than the incredibly basic IE. Regarding Firefox not being the first to used tab browsing, my question is who cares?

The only extension I have is adblock, and I just care because it drives me nuts listening to firefox zombies and their claims.

jrtman wrote:

Christopher wrote:

On top of this it also has numerous issues, the most frustrating of them being Selecting some text and attempting to copy it. It only works half the time, you can ctrl+c all you want but something seems like it doesn't feel like working today.

I think you're using an old version of Firefox, definitely not version 1.5+. I do know for a fact that the really old versions had some problems with copying.

I am using the latest release, I am always using the latest release. People always go 'you must not be using the latest release. You must be a moron' *patronise*

jrtman wrote:

Christopher wrote:

Typing apostraphes. '''''''' <-those things. In firefox when you type one it opens up the search box. I want to abreviate, I dont want all my text transplanted into the blasted search box.

I think that's a computer problem, a bad setting, or maybe even a bad extension because I have never heard anything about apostrophes opening up a search and this has definitely never happened to me.

This happens on three different computers each with 4 years difference in age, and different windows programs? 95, 98, and XP

jrtman wrote:

Christopher wrote:

This is nothing when compared to the fact that 50% of the time it can't figure out that the internet is on and refuses to even go to the home page.

Again I think this is a computer problem or bad settings as this has never happened to me ever or anyone else I know for that matter.

This one I can probably put down to the countries crap internet because both of my working computers are like this.

jrtman · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:37 pm

Pyro Parrot wrote:

I don't have a middle mouse button, I'm on a laptop lol

Did I also mention I used to be a huge fan of the touch-pad mouse? I won't even go there.

Carson · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:39 pm

jrtman wrote:

Pyro Parrot wrote:

I don't have a middle mouse button, I'm on a laptop lol

Did I also mention I used to be a huge fan of the touch-pad mouse? I won't even go there.

And while I'm on the topic of mouses (mice?) I don't know how Mac owners can stand not being able to right-click or scroll using the best invention ever; the scrollie wheel. I'd be lost without it.

I do have a cordless USB mouse but I only use that for gaming. the touch-pad is very good on this laptop.

Paul · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:35 pm

jrtman wrote:

Pyro Parrot wrote:

I don't have a middle mouse button, I'm on a laptop lol

Did I also mention I used to be a huge fan of the touch-pad mouse? I won't even go there.

And while I'm on the topic of mouses (mice?) I don't know how Mac owners can stand not being able to right-click or scroll using the best invention ever; the scrollie wheel. I'd be lost without it.

Amethyst · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:40 pm

I've tried FF, and I VASTLY prefer IE. It's easier to use, simpler, and it loads pages faster. I never have problems with spyware or popups, and FF seems to take up more RAM, which is not good since I normally have IE, Photoshop, MSN, and iTunes all running at the same time.

Asthaloth · **Posts:** 4284 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 4:48 am

Christopher wrote:

I despise firefox. But I don't like IE either. First of all, much of firefox's claims, or what people tell you about it are total lies, it is not faster to start, not faster to load, infact it is quite noticably slower. It wasn't the first to use tabbed browsing either. On top of this it also has numerous issues, the most frustrating of them being:

*Hacked the coding with some help*
It now runs about 100 Times faster for me.
And everyone else who knows where to look for the coding.

Christopher · **Posted:** Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:40 pm

Setekh wrote:

Christopher wrote:

I despise firefox. But I don't like IE either. First of all, much of firefox's claims, or what people tell you about it are total lies, it is not faster to start, not faster to load, infact it is quite noticably slower. It wasn't the first to use tabbed browsing either. On top of this it also has numerous issues, the most frustrating of them being:

*Hacked the coding with some help*
It now runs about 100 Times faster for me.
And everyone else who knows where to look for the coding.

I've also done the code hack thing, no noticible difference

Asthaloth · **Posts:** 4284 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 4:48 am

?
Like I say, mine is Noticably differant.

stinkyllama · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:48 am

I switched to Firefox around the LDP time last fall to block ads and popups I seemed to be getting with IE. However, it uses a ridiculously large amount of RAM for my frail prehistoric laptop and occasionally spontaneously shuts down. Using it is out of the question if I want other applications running in the background so I find myself frequently switching betweening Firefox and IE depending on what I'm doing. One of these days when I don't feel so mentally lazy, I intend to modify IE so I can use it as my primary browser. (But hey, more power to you Firefox users who have no problems with it.)

Dragonfire · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:38 am

jrtman wrote:

And while I'm on the topic of mouses (mice?) I don't know how Mac owners can stand not being able to right-click or scroll using the best invention ever; the scrollie wheel. I'd be lost without it.

There's the Mighty Mouse, Ctrl+Click, and you can always use a PC mouse.

Oh, and Christopher, I get the apostrophe thing too. And despite what everyone says, Fasterfox doesn't speed it up a lot.

Oh, and IE Tab is the best.

843 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:08 am

Christopher wrote:

I despise firefox. But I don't like IE either. First of all, much of firefox's claims, or what people tell you about it are total lies, it is not faster to start, not faster to load, infact it is quite noticably slower. It wasn't the first to use tabbed browsing either.

You probably haven't downloaded Fasterfox and the likes. Most probably you also haven't tinkered with the about:config setting

Christopher wrote:

On top of this it also has numerous issues, the most frustrating of them being:

Selecting some text and attempting to copy it. It only works half the time, you can ctrl+c all you want but something seems like it doesn't feel like working today.

I've never had any problem with this so I don't know what's wrong

Christopher wrote:

Typing apostraphes. '''''''' <-those things. In firefox when you type one it opens up the search box. I want to abreviate, I dont want all my text transplanted into the blasted search box.

The search box only appears if you're not typing in a text box while typing the aphostrophe.

Christopher wrote:

This is nothing when compared to the fact that 50% of the time it can't figure out that the internet is on and refuses to even go to the home page.

Again, I've never had this problem before. Probably it's something to do with your computer settings? o_O

Christopher · **Posted:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:12 am

You didn't bother reading my other posts whatsoever did you? I dub ye Firefox Zombie

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