Comments on: Install Firefox - Please avoid getting sucked in by IE7 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/ News, Insights, and Humour Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:06:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Saskboy http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7491 Saskboy Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:26:06 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7491 JR, I don't know what you're talking about, it's right here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3524/ JR, I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s right here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3524/

]]> By: JR http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7436 JR Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:33:57 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7436 In my mind the chief advantage of Firefox has been both the quantity and the quality of the third party add-ons they've made available. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft will support the developer community. I just found this cool application on their new IE7 AddOn site. http://www.ieaddons.com/SearchResults.aspx?keywords=trailfire I did not see it on the Mozilla site. In my mind the chief advantage of Firefox has been both the quantity and the quality of the third party add-ons they’ve made available. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft will support the developer community.

I just found this cool application on their new IE7 AddOn site.

http://www.ieaddons.com/SearchResults.aspx?keywords=trailfire

I did not see it on the Mozilla site.

]]> By: Saskboy http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7360 Saskboy Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:05:03 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7360 Amanda, 3 years ago Mozilla Suite was a different browser. Mozilla Firefox wasn't out of beta version then, and has a new name now [previously callled Pheonix, and Firebird]. It is superior in that it has a master password, for all of your stored passwords - if you want to set one. Unlike IE, you have only one bookmark file to back up, instead of dozens or hundreds of favourites shortcuts. Mozilla is faster at releasing security patches, and an update is checked for automatically each time you run Firefox. You can install peer-reviewed spyware free Extensions or Add-Ons, which make the small-to-download Firefox do even more. With the click of the middle scroll wheel on a link, the link opens into a new tab [window within your Firefox Window] letting you finish reading the page you are on, while the other page loads in the background before you switch over to it. You can install the Adblock extension, and cut most advertisements out of your websurfing experience. IETab shows a website that isn't Standards compliant [needs IE] in a Firefox tab. Only the cool kids know about Firefox still, so you're part of an elite, yet not really snobby club of <15% people. There's a google/dictionary/wikipedia/whatever search box in the corner of your window for fast searches. If you accidentally close a window/tab too soon, you can go back and open it from the menu. You're less likely to infect your system with a worm by visiting a hostile webpage, because Firefox isn't part of the Operating System. And I just noticed that I've had my typos underlined as I wrote this, so I just have to right click the word to fix it, instead of proof reading my comment. [This is version 2.0 rc1 I'm running, the precursor to version 2 which is out in a few weeks, and has built in spell check. All other features I mentioned are in version 1.5 and upgrading is as simple as installing overtop of your old version, and takes just seconds on a new computer.] Amanda,
3 years ago Mozilla Suite was a different browser. Mozilla Firefox wasn’t out of beta version then, and has a new name now [previously callled Pheonix, and Firebird].
It is superior in that it has a master password, for all of your stored passwords - if you want to set one. Unlike IE, you have only one bookmark file to back up, instead of dozens or hundreds of favourites shortcuts. Mozilla is faster at releasing security patches, and an update is checked for automatically each time you run Firefox. You can install peer-reviewed spyware free Extensions or Add-Ons, which make the small-to-download Firefox do even more. With the click of the middle scroll wheel on a link, the link opens into a new tab [window within your Firefox Window] letting you finish reading the page you are on, while the other page loads in the background before you switch over to it.

You can install the Adblock extension, and cut most advertisements out of your websurfing experience. IETab shows a website that isn’t Standards compliant [needs IE] in a Firefox tab. Only the cool kids know about Firefox still, so you’re part of an elite, yet not really snobby club of <15% people.

There’s a google/dictionary/wikipedia/whatever search box in the corner of your window for fast searches. If you accidentally close a window/tab too soon, you can go back and open it from the menu. You’re less likely to infect your system with a worm by visiting a hostile webpage, because Firefox isn’t part of the Operating System.

And I just noticed that I’ve had my typos underlined as I wrote this, so I just have to right click the word to fix it, instead of proof reading my comment. [This is version 2.0 rc1 I'm running, the precursor to version 2 which is out in a few weeks, and has built in spell check. All other features I mentioned are in version 1.5 and upgrading is as simple as installing overtop of your old version, and takes just seconds on a new computer.]

]]> By: Amanda http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7357 Amanda Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:32:40 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7357 Eternal skeptic here: I tried Mozilla a wh ile ago... about three years now... and really didn't see it as all that great. I hate that I am, once again, a slave to the Microsoft regime. I could be convinced to switch, but, can anyone give me some concrete examples of HOW Mozilla is superior? What can it do that IE cannot? Eternal skeptic here:

I tried Mozilla a wh ile ago… about three years now… and really didn’t see it as all that great. I hate that I am, once again, a slave to the Microsoft regime. I could be convinced to switch, but, can anyone give me some concrete examples of HOW Mozilla is superior? What can it do that IE cannot?

]]> By: Saskboy http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7325 Saskboy Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:06:12 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7325 What was the glitch if you don't mind me asking? I like the spell checker, it's rather nifty. What was the glitch if you don’t mind me asking? I like the spell checker, it’s rather nifty.

]]> By: Miss Cellania http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7323 Miss Cellania Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:45:23 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7323 I tried Firefox 2.0 and had one glitch that made blogging really difficult. So I'm back to FF 1.5 for now. No way would I go back to Safari, and forget IE! I tried Firefox 2.0 and had one glitch that made blogging really difficult. So I’m back to FF 1.5 for now. No way would I go back to Safari, and forget IE!

]]> By: Stephen Glauser http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7287 Stephen Glauser Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:27:25 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2006/10/15/ffox/#comment-7287 <strong>Forgo IE7, use Firefox 2...</strong> With the new design of my site I feel even more obliged to ask my readers to use Firefox over Internet Explorer. Saskboy gave me a reason to write this little plea. While the arrival of IE7 is imminent, it...... Forgo IE7, use Firefox 2…

With the new design of my site I feel even more obliged to ask my readers to use Firefox over Internet Explorer. Saskboy gave me a reason to write this little plea. While the arrival of IE7 is imminent, it……

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