Firefox
Sunday, January 30, 2005 by Adam Michael | Discussion: Community
Just hope the folks from stardock command read these things because I wanted to thank them for the information on the Firefox browser. I installed the browser this weekend and love it. I like it so much that it is now my default browser. Hopefully stardock will change it's mind about allowing skinners to load up their skins. So far my skin has incorporated well with the new browser and I ask that stardock just give it time. People will use this browser as the word spreads about how efficent it is. Thanks for the info, good day and take care. 
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reindeer057
Reply #22 Monday, January 31, 2005 10:23 PM
Reply #22 Monday, January 31, 2005 10:23 PM
hey egraham what command line options are there for firefox? I forgot, And also what turbo mode are you talkin about? You talkin about piplelinin or something different. I also have to say one of my favorite extensions is the mouse shortcuts, like right click + slid left to go back and such
Gotta love the tabs, too.
Gotta love the tabs, too.
horiz0n
Reply #23 Monday, January 31, 2005 10:29 PM
Reply #23 Monday, January 31, 2005 10:29 PM
Tabs are like theeee best way to surf especially multi-tasking several pages. You can load a site or go to the next page without killing the one your on. It's loading when you want to get to it, and bouncing between 8 or 9 tabs as opposed to 8 or 9 windows is a no brainer
And honestly I.E. isn't JUST the most targeted browser, it's the most susceptible.
Likewise Firefox only imports your I.E. stuff by alphabetical order, you can maintain it anyway you'd like. And of course you can't delete the bookmarks folder...you'd have no place to put your bookmarks in if you did.
And honestly I.E. isn't JUST the most targeted browser, it's the most susceptible.
Likewise Firefox only imports your I.E. stuff by alphabetical order, you can maintain it anyway you'd like. And of course you can't delete the bookmarks folder...you'd have no place to put your bookmarks in if you did.
ieatfish
Reply #24 Monday, January 31, 2005 10:38 PM
Reply #24 Monday, January 31, 2005 10:38 PM
Just my two cents, I love firefox because of the customizablity and security. Personally, i have had no spyware or pop-ups through firefox but still get spyware and pop ups often with IE. I use a program called Flexbeta Firetweaker to tweak firefox and it seems to do a good job, but i really can't give any numbers. I love the tabbed browsing as well. It seems like all kona0197 has to argue for IE is his opinion. The majority of his posts include "I like" or "I would rather" or "I care"(as if we did). Also, when the hackers and spyware really start targeting Firefox, everyone will be able to help stop it, not just the team at microsoft. Hooray for open source. As this is my opinion, i am not trying to convince anyone of anything. Anyways, there are my two cents.
egraham23
Reply #25 Tuesday, February 1, 2005 5:03 PM
Reply #25 Tuesday, February 1, 2005 5:03 PM
If you run firefox with the argument -turbo then firefox will pre-load itself into memory. In my experience this has been a flaky implementation at best, but it does make the application launch faster. When I mentioned "turbo mode" I was referring to a feature in the original Mozilla suite (the bastard brother of Netscape). Turbo-mode basically pre-loads parts of the browser into memory on start-up in the same way that MS office, openoffice.org, and some other applications try to do. This feature is more stable than the firefox command above, but so far I haven't found anything like it for Firefox.
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Reply #21 Monday, January 31, 2005 10:21 PM
I would rather have 10 open windows. Tabbed browsing drives me up the wall.
I believe SP2 took care of most the security problems with IE.