Firefox

gazzo

Oh my gosh... I still can't get over how cool firefox is. Even coming from an old mozilla version. I had to use internet explorer on a friends laptop (forgot ma usb drive with firefox on it ) and UGH!

And the dictionary extension is so awesome especially on physicsforums where you can instantly search a selected word in a new tab on wikipedia (or anywhere else you decide).

eek, sorry for starting to sounds like someone from marketing... but... drool.

mattmns

Yeah fx is great! Only bad thing is that not all sites support it, but that will hopefully change with time.

franznietzsche

The only major one i know is microsofts website. You don't "support" a web browser, rather you add features that only work with IE.

Firefox is your friend.

Kerrie

I like firefox too, but the pop ads still happen.

franznietzsche

i haven't had a single one since the day i installed firefox.

You probably have spyware problems, do the popups pop in an IE window? if so, thats definitely it. Spybot and Ad-aware are good programs to take care of that.

master_coda

I've seen a couple. I believe there are ways of locking things down so that you never get popups, but I get them so rarely that it just isn't worth the trouble to me.

If you're getting a lot of popups with firefox you may have the blocker diabled or have spyware on your computer. Even the popup blocker in IE stops most popups, so if you're getting a lot of popups then it's unlikely that it's a hole in the blocker.

Greg Bernhardt

Firefox is fetch! lol

I use the ad-block, stockticker, foxforecast and webdev extensions.

marley.wannabee

i dont like firefox... i don't like ie... they both always crash, they both screw up... they both add time to my online work day.

franznietzsche

what kind of system are you running that would make fx crash?

seriously, i have all sorts of problems with IE, but thats because its a computers equivalent of a flesh eating virus. I've never had a problem with firefox in either linux or windows. Ever.

master_coda

I've seen firefox crash on systems under a lot of cpu and memory load. It doesn't crash all the time, but it does it often enough that if you had to work with it all day then it would really be painful.

Kerrie

I still had less problems with firefox then with ie..but since my computer crashed a few days ago, I have no internet :(

Greg Bernhardt

Yup, firefox isn't perfect, but it's headed in the right direction, unlike IE which hasn't been updated in 2 years.

graphic7

Firefox and Mozilla are fairly unstable on platforms other than Linux or Windows. I browse pretty heavily on my Solaris workstation, and I expect Firefox and Mozilla to crash once or twice in a 24-hour period. I've had a few incidents when Mozilla and Firefox, both, were in the beta stages on various platforms (IRIX and FreeBSD), but those incidents aren't worth mentioning.

I suspect some of the crashing may be the result of installing 3rd party plugins, such as Macromedia's Flash and the JavaVM plugins.

Edit: I usually have about 5-8 tabs open at a time, also. As master_coda suggested, systems under a high memory load might be subject to a crash. Most of the time, that particular workstation doesn't get over a 0.5 CPU load.

master_coda

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with that. It's a very good browser, I just wanted to point out that I have seen firefox crash repeatedly on systems that are otherwise stable. I don't think it's fair to assume that if firefox is crashing on someone then it must be due to a problem with their system and not a problem with firefox.

Ryoukomaru

I havent had a single crash since i upgraded to 1.0 PR. But i remember i used to have crashes pretty often when i had 0.9
Btw i dont have a single extension installed since i dont need them at all. However i have plenty of skins. ^^

mattmns

Firefox has crashed a few times, and also ie has a few times. One thing that helped stop the crashes was upgrading to all of the latests plugins. Usually firefox would crash when I tried to open a pdf or when a java ap was opened. Once I got the latests versions of acrobat and sun java this was fixed.

franznietzsche

then thats not a firefox problem, thats an acrobat and java problem. Give credit where credit is due.