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[Earniel]

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

My god man, how can you live without tabs??

In my case it is: what you don't know, you don't miss. I'm quite used to working with multiple open windows. Althoughbloody XP tends to throw them all together after a while...

Originally Posted by Millane

i use IE, i dont know what tabs are so i probably dont deserve them

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who didn't know.

[Nurvingiel]

No worries guys, I didn't even know Mozilla existed until my boyfriend said I should download it.

I have to say, its pop-up blocker is better than the windows one. It doesn't tell you it has blocked a pop-up, it just does it. Who cares if a pop-up gets blocked? I don't need to know, I just want every
(advertising) pop-up on the internet to die a quick yet excrutiatingly painful death. It still doesn't block this particularly aggressive pop-up at ezboard though... I hate that pop-up.

But yay, Mozilla rules! It's easy to manage your settings too, like which passwords you want it to remember, or which sites you allow pop-ups for, etc.


The only think I can't figure out is how to set the startup page.

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

I have to say, its pop-up blocker is better than the windows one. It doesn't tell you it has blocked a pop-up, it just does it. Who cares if a pop-up gets blocked? I don't need to know, I just want every
(advertising) pop-up on the internet to die a quick yet excrutiatingly painful death. It still doesn't block this particularly aggressive pop-up at ezboard though... I hate that pop-up.

I wonder if Netscape blocks it.

The only think I can't figure out is how to set the startup page.

In preferences or option - you just look for "homepage" and that's the field that you put your "start-up" page. Since in Firefox and Netscape both have it in different locations off the menu - I'm not sure where Mozilla put it.

[Nurvingiel]

Thanks JD! Preferences is found in the Edit menu in Mozilla.

EDIT: Go here and see if you get a pop-up.

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Thanks JD! Preferences is found in the Edit menu in Mozilla.

That's where Netscape puts it. In Firefox it's under tools and it's called "options"

EDIT: Go here and see if you get a pop-up.

I get it - I see what you are talking about now. The reason why nothing can be done about that is because that's not a true pop-up. That's being done with a layer within the website. It's not actually popping up a new window - which is the only thing that pop-up blockers can work against. Also - pop-up blockers only work while the webpage is loading - so if developers find a way to "time delay" the pop-up until after the website loads all pop-up blockers will stop working.

[Nurvingiel]

Aha, that's why. That's so clever of ezboard... yet so evil... oh well. It's not like I really pay attention to whatever the popup thing says anyway.

I'm very impressed with Mozilla, except I also notice that when you add code or click a smilie at Entmoot, it doesn't put it where your cursor is (like IE), but it always puts it at the end. Oh well, I've taken to typing complex posts in Word first anyway.

[Radagast The Brown]

I have Firefox.. got it becasue IE didn't work well, it was a few months ago. When you had 2 IE windows, it closed the older one. It was extremely annoying, especially when there were pop-ups.. it closed the winodow you were using.
So I downloaded both Firefox and Netscape, and I'm using Firefox right now... I like the tabs very much, it's much easier.. there was an article about Firefox in the paper two days ago, that said 6% of the people use Firefox now (which was impressive, apparently), and that the new IE has tabs too.

Oh - forgot to mention, that I had Firefox for some time - so when I downloaded the new one, it deleted all the bookmarks I had in the old one and took the favourties of IE.

[BeardofPants]

Originally Posted by Fat middle

BoP (if not sleeping) or whoever, can you switch tabs in Netscape or Mozilla by alt-tab?

In firefox you can cycle through tabs using "control-tab" or "control-shift-tab". It lets you cycle either in one direction or another. Cycling through tabs is much quicker than cycling through multiple windows.

[Fat middle]

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

In firefox you can cycle through tabs using "control-tab" or "control-shift-tab". It lets you cycle either in one direction or another. Cycling through tabs is much quicker than cycling through multiple windows.

Okay, thanks.

[Jonathan]

I'm so in love with Opera right now. You can navigate with only your keyboard or only your mouse. Or you can just use your microphone and navigate with your voice and skip both the keyboard and mouse!

[cassiopeia]

I used to use Netscape, but now I use Firefox, mainly because it opens much more quickly than Netscape. I don't know how people can live without tabbed browsing. And IE always gets infected with spyware...ugh! Oh, and Firefox has pretty themes. I have Silver Skin going at the moment.

[Khamûl]

I've been using Firefox for several months now and I don't know how I did without it. Tabs rock and so does having the search feature so handy. I love that you can also add a lot of your favorite sites to the search (I have IMDB and several others).

[Nurvingiel]

Yup, I'm still on Firefox, and my favourite features are the tabs, the personal toolbar, and the bookmark manager.

Originally Posted by Jonathan

I'm so in love with Opera right now. You can navigate with only your keyboard or only your mouse. Or you can just use your microphone and navigate with your voice and skip both the keyboard and mouse!

I was going to switch to Opera, but you have to pay to get the browser without ads that drive me up the wall. Paying for software... feh.

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

Yup, I'm still on Firefox, and my favourite features are the tabs, the personal toolbar, and the bookmark manager.

I was going to switch to Opera, but you have to pay to get the browser without ads that drive me up the wall. Paying for software... feh.

The ads are so small that you hardly notice them. The mouse gesture features compensate well for the ads.

[Jonathan]

Halleluja! Opera has just released a new FREE version were the ads are REMOVED!
This makes the browser as good as perfected

[Andúril]

IE6 for PC/laptop
Opera for phone

Bleh @ tabs.

I have IE7 Beta on one of my PCs and Firefox on my laptop, but those were just inquisitive whim installations.

[katya]

I use Lynx. ... j/k

[IronParrot]

I started using Firefox after it hit 1.0, but the memory consumption issues eventually got way out of hand and may have been partly responsible for frying my last computer. (Then again, with the way the caching works in Firefox, memory usage is bound to be a problem when you open as many tabs at once as I do.)

I use Safari now, because the RSS-reading features are absolutely indispensable. (The interface is also integrated with OS X's look and feel, and the font rendering is much better.) There are, however, two significant deficiencies in it that I hope get addressed.

- Selective pop-up blocker: I want to allow pop-ups on a list of websites where I need them, and block pop-ups everywhere else. Firefox lets me do this. Safari doesn't.

- Custom search keywords: I like typing "wp blahblahblah" to search for "blahblahblah" on Wikipedia, and so on and so forth. I found a custom plug-in that lets me do this in Safari like I can in Firefox/Camino, but it's a temporary solution, because it's bound to break in OS X Leopard.

It should say something (positive) that I'm willing to put up with these inconveniences just so I can have Safari's RSS features at my beck and call.

I still keep copies of Firefox and its OS X cousin Camino around, though, mostly for testing purposes.

[GrayMouser]

IP, first of all great to see you back- and you're really digging up the oldies, aren't you?

What is it with Firefox's memory?- I'm just starting to have problems with it