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[arib]

I'm considering switching to Firefox on my WinXP box.

Pros? Cons?

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[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Pro: It's not IE.

Con: The blink tag still works in Firefox.

[gingicat]

I use Firefox as my default on my Win2K box at work. There are a couple of work-related things which are written to only work with MSIE, but otherwise it's great.

[cheshyre]

Well, it's blinking in Opera as well... (my preferred browser over Firefox, for reasons including better RSS-handling and keyboard shortcuts.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

I think it works in everything but IE. Blink and marquee are my two least favorite tags evar.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I know I shouldn't ask, because I don't really want to know, but it's like a trainwreck, you gotta look.

*bracing self*

What is marquee?

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

FIREFOX ROCKS!

The Vortex

[cellio]

From what?

[arib.livejournal.com]

aieee!

That is to say, MS:IE

[ororo.livejournal.com]

I've been quite happy with it.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Totally Firefox. It's pimptastic for two major reasons:

1) Tabbed browsing: you hit control-t and you have a second tab inside the same window. You can have as many of these tidy tabs as you want. Even better, you click hold down the control button when you click on a link should you want to open that in a separate tab instead of the same screen or a pop-up window. Rawk! I find that I leave a few tabs around so that I can refer back to a piece of data days later without reloading. Great, eh?

2) Built-in pop-up blocker.

So yeah, totally. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Isn't free software wonderful?

-GNU, Dante

[arib.livejournal.com]

How do you get the tabs to survive after you quit the browser?

[rscott.livejournal.com]

Totally second that. Some more reasons: cute theme graphics, and fun extensions. Now that I've gotten used to Firefox's tabbed browsing, I don't know how I survived without it.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

I like Firefox a *lot*. I used Netscape for ages then Opera for about four years...but then Opera began sucking like a seriously sucky thing, so I switched a couplethree months ago.

It's fast to load (both the program and pages within the prog), is remarkably customizable, doesn't crash all the bloody time and the extensions (From the page:Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to your Mozilla program. They can add anything from a toolbar button to a completely new feature.) are marvelous.

It loads more pages without a problem than Opera ever did and, unless it's bought and becomes a sucky thing, I can't see the point of using something else.:)

Cons...there are some pages that refuse to load in Firefox, but that's more a problem with the page's designer than the browser. Sometimes it decides it needs *all* the resources, right now and gets huge, but it doesn't happen often and restarting the browser fixes the problem. And you have to restart it to see new skins or extensions.

Gessi

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

They don't. There is an extension (I can't remember which one right now...) that will save your tabs in case of a crash, but if you close Firefox normally, all the tabs go too.

Gessi

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Marquee makes your text scroll across the screen like this. Whee!

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

Augh!

Okay, it's not as bad as a blink tag, but it's pretty bad. :-)