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Off Topic - Mozilla Firefox
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 12:54
by Priff
I took Boxrec's suggestion and switched to Firefox.
It's about 37 times better than Internet Explorer.
Well worth a look.
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 13:17
by Goz
Didn't like it myself. Few decent features but slowed down the old laptop I installed it on terribly.
Re: Off Topic - Mozilla Firefox
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 13:26
by jamesmcdonnell
Priff wrote:I took Boxrec's suggestion and switched to Firefox.
It's about 37 times better than Internet Explorer.
Well worth a look.
about 37 times, couldn't you have been more precise?
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 13:33
by John
Nothing is perfect but I'm recommending it based on the fact that it doesn't subject you to suffer all those virus and trojans that explorer loves to install by the backdoor
Re: Off Topic - Mozilla Firefox
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 15:24
by neil r
Priff wrote:I took Boxrec's suggestion and switched to Firefox.
It's about 37 times better than Internet Explorer.
Well worth a look.
I disagree. I installed it kept it for a while, but i found it lagged a bit at what i reckoned was only 35 times faster, hence i uninstalled it.
Posted: 23 Dec 2004, 16:20
by Manos de Oro
Someone told me they lost a 30gb hardisk simply by clicking a link with Internet Explorer. I haven't used it since. That was the year 2000.
It's also great being able to open all the threads on boxrec with one middle click each, instead of going back and forward constantly, or having 20 memory hogging windows open at once.
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 04:40
by Twinkle Toes
I'd recommend it over IE.
Brillinat pop up stopper, and tab browsing is fantastic :)
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 06:43
by Priff
Goz wrote:Didn't like it myself. Few decent features but slowed down the old laptop I installed it on terribly.
I installed XP on a Dell 266Mhz laptop (128 MB RAM).
Firefox works well on it, not sure why it would slow yours down so much.
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 08:53
by bugs
I use Opera when at home, it is safer than IE. I tried Firefox but got a lot of slowdown too. Opera is cool
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 09:38
by Goz
Priff wrote:Goz wrote:Didn't like it myself. Few decent features but slowed down the old laptop I installed it on terribly.
I installed XP on a Dell 266Mhz laptop (128 MB RAM).
Firefox works well on it, not sure why it would slow yours down so much.
I installed it on a very similar spec laptop, Toshiba though. Still running Windows 98 which I reckon is about the best for an older spec PC like that.
Posted: 24 Dec 2004, 15:38
by Smit
Been using Firefox for a few years (used to be called Firebird until it changed its name a few months back) . Best browser on a windows platform by far.
IE is just so insecure.
Still prefer Konqueror though