Screw you firefox, I'm going back to IE

azezil

There I've said it, Firefox just sucks donkey balls lately, I'm going to IE 6! :mad:

Rob_l

azezil wrote: »

There I've said it, Firefox just sucks donkey balls lately, I'm going to IE 6! :mad:

ie7 is good still lacking some feature of firefox but is good

Heisenberg.

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Rhyme

Psst...

Opera.

/furtive

leninbenjamin

that's blasphemy.

IE 7 is the most useless piece of coding ever. it takes all the worst bits of of IE, then takes all the worst bits of Firefox and marries them all together into one big heap of shit.

cance

azezil wrote: »

There I've said it, Firefox just sucks donkey balls lately, I'm going to IE 6! :mad:

i agree with 4-5 tabs open it turns into a big steaming bag of memory hogging ****e.

any good alternatives? (opera blows donkey balls).

Galadriel

Indeed IE 7 is fairly crappy BUT I find firefox doesn;t work on random websites I go to

projectmayhem

The Scientist wrote: »

The only advantage i ever saw in using firefox was 'tabs' and thats fairly chit anyway.

yeah forget about the security, skins and extensions...:rolleyes:

humbert

Rhyme wrote: »

Psst...

Opera.

/furtive

+1, firefox is going down the toilet.

azezil

Feck that IE 7 tripe, I don't like the layout, IE 6 FTW!

Ruu_Old

I changed to Opera a few days ago, not too bad. Tired of Firefox memory leaks (we'll fix it by version 1.5..by 2.0, still having problems. )

L31mr0d

Rhyme wrote: »

Psst...

Opera.

/furtive

I like to take the approach from the other end of the spectrum

HEY YOU!!! YEAH YOU, azezil... USE... OPERA... NOW



If you're a developer, use firefox, if not, then use opera. Simple as. Why don't more people use Opera???

Dave!

Firefox still working flawlessly for me

azezil

DaveMcG wrote: »

Firefox still working flawlessly for me

You're clearly not using it right then.

Opera, I used that years ago and it had inbuilt ads, eh, NO THANKS CHIEF!

TerrorFirmer

It used to be great but gotten crap lately. Takes about 2 seconds on my laptop before I can open a new tab, and on my desktop it crashes alot, especially when downloading. Never used to happen on older versions.

Must try this Opera lark. Because I'm not going back to IE...tried IE7, didn't like it that much.

Wertz

Still using 1.5.0.12, didn't upgrade it after reading about some problems. All my extensions work, I couldn't manage without my favourites bar and 20 active tabs, black skin and all that. I don't even think IE7 is on this PC... *checks* Nope. I only use IE when a page doesn't render in FF or sometimes a plug-in for video won't work (damn you quicktime codec) so not much point in updating. I'm sure MS have just borrowed the best features from FF and stuck them into a familiar window and obviously made it more secure....but FF was already that so why go back?

AngryBadger

Firefox FTW!!!

joe_chicken

Opera needs a better logo.

cornbb

I agree that Firefox sucks, it hogs far too much memory and CPU.

But there aint no way I'm going back to IE...

Alun

cance wrote: »

i agree with 4-5 tabs open it turns into a big steaming bag of memory hogging ****e.

Probably all those dodgy extensions you've loaded ... my Firefox here has 13 tabs open at the moment .. a whopping 65MB used.

Heisenberg.

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Orange69

From an interaction point of view i prefer firefox but it does have some serious issues in terms of excessive cpu and ram use..

Opera is excellent but it has a different interaction style that FF which is annoying i.e. ctrl-click opens in current tab not in a new background tab like firefox, i also dont like the way it remembers form data..

IE7 is possibly the greatest pile of **** ever created..

I tend to use FF until it starts to act the cnut then use opera until it annoys me enough to go back to FF.. Its a tough life!

projectmayhem

The Scientist wrote: »

Goodness, how silly of me. How could i forget about skins and extensions!!
Nerd.

having adblock+ and gmail notifier are great, handy tools that i just can't get on opera (which i'm using now to see what the fuss is about).

chopperbyrne

Azezil were you still there when for a laugh some of us started using the latest Netscape in work.

Jaysus it was awful!

azezil

My main gripes with Firefox are:

Memory and cpu usage
Hitting ctrl t doesn't always open a new tab
Quicktime just refuses to work!
It doesn't always log into site which require cookies!!?!?!?

Ugh its just a pail in the gaul!

azezil

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Azezil were you still there when for a laugh some of us started using the latest Netscape in work.

Jaysus it was awful!

*shudder*

KamiKazi

firefox > all

Agamemnon

azezil wrote: »

My main gripes with Firefox are:

Memory and cpu usage
Hitting ctrl t doesn't always open a new tab
Quicktime just refuses to work!
It doesn't always log into site which require cookies!!?!?!?

Ugh its just a pail in the gaul!

I've never had any of those problems with it. IE in all its incarnations is utter trash. I'll give Opera a go though, see what it's like.

jester77

I'm happy out with Firefox. I can keep all my bookmarks in sync between my different ms & linux machines using foxmarks. Worth it just for that extension alone!

thebman

Orange69 wrote: »

From an interaction point of view i prefer firefox but it does have some serious issues in terms of excessive cpu and ram use..

Opera is excellent but it has a different interaction style that FF which is annoying i.e. ctrl-click opens in current tab not in a new background tab like firefox, i also dont like the way it remembers form data..

IE7 is possibly the greatest pile of **** ever created..

I tend to use FF until it starts to act the cnut then use opera until it annoys me enough to go back to FF.. Its a tough life!

Opera has open in background tab in the right click menu, you can customize all the keyboard shortcuts in Opera to whatever you want.

You can stop it remembering form data if you want.

I'm the same way, with the new version of Opera, I'm not going back. Speed Dial FTW!

azezil wrote: »

You're clearly not using it right then.

Opera, I used that years ago and it had inbuilt ads, eh, NO THANKS CHIEF!

You used it years ago so. It doesn't have any of that anymore and its faster than ever and has more features than ever.

Its also got the easiest content blocker in the world to use, bittorrent support, widget support and less known security holes than any other web browser.

Type Opera:config into the address bar in Opera to configure virtually everything about it. Personally I like most of it the way it is out of the box.

Firefox has gone terrible recently, memory hog, takes too long to open tabs (I have the speed dial extension installed so its probably partly responsible but Opera can handle that without any problems), renders slow.

Opera has everything you could want and the newest version (beta release) has preference synchronizes your preferences if you sign up for my Opera (free) and you can then bring your bookmarks to any computer by clicking file synchronize. The lastest beta is blisteringly fast and uses about half the memory of Firefox with twice the number of tabs open.

Don't know why you'd use anything else!

thewing

Safari is now out on Windows.......

MoominPapa

FF is grand, except opening and closing PDFs, its a pain in the aser

The Don

Never had trouble with Firefox until this week. It was using up over 500MB of RAM (did have alot of tabs open though in a few browsers).

Might try out Opera this wknd, some of the lads are always raving on about it.

Black Swan

azezil wrote: »

I'm going to IE 6!

Why IE 6 and not 7? Heard that 6 was shot full of security holes...

Ghost Train

maxthon

thebman

thewing wrote: »

Safari is now out on Windows.......

and its about as much fun as Quicktime for Windows.

It does render pages fast, memory hog though and menus are weird compared to other web browsers as its just ported from Mac.

azezil

thewing wrote: »

Safari is now out on Windows.......

Look, just get out! GO

MooseJam

Firefox works fine for me, never had any trouble at all, IE7 is bad mmkay

kaimera

lol @ Az.

Opera ftw; it's matured since you've used it last kiddo, no more ads, faster than both FF || IE7 and just nicer

chopperbyrne

Go on S man you know you want to!

http://browser.netscape.com/

SimpleSam06

azezil wrote: »

There I've said it, Firefox just sucks donkey balls lately, I'm going to IE 6! :mad:

Hope you're well lubed up because...

Ruu_Old

MoominPapa wrote: »

FF is grand, except opening and closing PDFs, its a pain in the aser

PDF Downloader extension will soon sort that out.

MooseJam

why would you want to open a pdf, the format invented by satan himself, pdf sux donkey balls

Jigsaw

I heard Opera was sh1te, but then I wouldn't know either way. I was told by someone knowledgeable with computers. I, however, don't have a clue really. I pass myself.

It's definitely getting talked up here. Is it a fre download somewhere?

MooseJam

yea its free, google it

Terry

FF 1.5.0.12 and no problems.
10 extensions.

Tar.Aldarion

In oreder of how good they are:
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Any other browser
IE

MooseJam

yea but which order, bottom to top or top to bottom

Tar.Aldarion

oreder means from top to bottom.
>_>

thelordofcheese

L31mr0d wrote: »

If you're a developer, use firefox, if not, then use opera. Simple as. Why don't more people use Opera???

wait, what?

Nehpets

The order in which I rate them: (from top to bottom )

Opera - http://www.opera.com
IE7
Firefox
Safari

Firefox is a memory hog. I haven't even installed it on my new laptop. The extensions are great but it's not worth having them when it's just annoying to go to websites. The developer tools are good though. Actually, a lot of the extensions are very very good.

IE7 works with practically every website. That's always a plus. The tabs take longer to open than Opera and it just isn't as smooth or fast. I'll use this for college websites and other things.

Safari didn't impress me at all. The tabs open slowly and it seems sluggish (Only a few tabs open). I didn't try it out for long because it just isn't as good as any of the others. I think I even uninstalled it.

Opera is the best, in my opinion. I have 9 tabs open right now and it's running perfect (Works perfect with far more too). It opens and runs .pdfs perfectly without slowing down the browser. The tabs open very quickly. You'll never have more the one opera "window" open when using tabs, everything opens inside it. It is completely configurable. The transfer manager is prefect and so is the bookmark manager. You can have widgets (I don't use them). One thing I LOVE about Opera and a feature that I always use is the speed dial. I have it set that when I open a new tab there are 9 blocks in which I can put any website in. The blocks have a number and I can actually just type that instead of the URL. Example www.google.ie = 1, www.bebo.com = 2, www.boards.ie = 3, www.gmail.com = 4 and so on. It's a really handy feature and it's not in IE7 or Safari (correct me if I am wrong!) and I don't think it's in Firefox but I haven't used that in a few months and I guess it could be an extension.