Screw you firefox, I'm going back to IE

azezil · 25-10-2007 03:50PM #1

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

Rob_l · 25-10-2007 03:52PM

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

25-10-2007 03:53PM

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Rhyme · 25-10-2007 03:54PM

Psst...

Opera.

/furtive

leninbenjamin · 25-10-2007 03:54PM

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 · 25-10-2007 03:55PM

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 · 25-10-2007 03:56PM

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

projectmayhem · 25-10-2007 03:56PM

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 · 25-10-2007 03:57PM

Rhyme wrote: »

Psst...

Opera.

/furtive

+1, firefox is going down the toilet.

azezil · 25-10-2007 03:58PM

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

Ruu_Old · 25-10-2007 03:58PM

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.

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L31mr0d · 25-10-2007 03:58PM

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! · 25-10-2007 03:59PM

Firefox still working flawlessly for me

azezil · 25-10-2007 04:02PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:02PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:03PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:05PM

Firefox FTW!!!

joe_chicken · 25-10-2007 04:06PM

Opera needs a better logo.

cornbb · 25-10-2007 04:07PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:09PM

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.

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Orange69 · 25-10-2007 04:14PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:18PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:18PM

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

Jaysus it was awful!

azezil · 25-10-2007 04:20PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:21PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:21PM

firefox > all

Agamemnon · 25-10-2007 04:23PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:27PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:27PM

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 · 25-10-2007 04:28PM

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

Screw you firefox, I'm going back to IE

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