FireFox

[Doomeva]

Should I update to FireFox 1.5.0.8 or to 2?

Is the update as bad as IE6 to IE7?

[Beerknurd]

Firefox 2.0 is great. I have not had any problems.

[NeoGen]

I'm definetly not a fan of these new browsers tab features... I'm trying to change but I keep opening up several IE7 windows instead of tabs.

[Beerknurd]

I hate IE.... I always feel as if I need to run a spy sweeper afterwards... :lol:

[Murray]

Firefox 2.0 is great. I have not had any problems.

Version 2 is great...big upgrade all round:cool:


I'm definetly not a fan of these new browsers tab features... I'm trying to change but I keep opening up several IE7 windows instead of tabs.

Once you start with Firefox NEo you will never ever use IE again...give it a go...:XXarcade:

[Evil-Dragon]

I only use IE for one website these days... my bank's website (they use ActiveX, boooo!)

[gatekeeper53]

I won't anymore use a brouser without tabs than I'll buy a mouse with a ball. I have been useing Netscape for a long time with the tabs and I'm hooked.

[drezha]

Firefox 1 to 2 is good option.

I went Firefox 1 to Swiftfox 2 though ;)

Swiftfox is a better option if you running linux as it's an optimised firefox for your processor :D Runs quicker.

But most of the time I actually use Opera. I prefer it now to firefox. It's built in chat is also better thans Gaim.

[daddygeek]

I went Firefox 1 to Swiftfox 2 though ;)
Thank You, I use Firefox 3 and realy like it but it dosn't work after some updates. I'll try Swiftfox out.

[spikey_richie]

I've been using Firefox for around 2 years now.

I use v2.0 at the moment, with the following extensions:

AdBlock Plus
TabBrowser Preferences
FireFTP
FasterFox
IETab
Download Status bar

And with the Noia 2.0 Extreme theme

[spikey_richie]

I only use IE for one website these days... my bank's website (they use ActiveX, boooo!)

Install IETab for Firefox, load the page, then click 'switch rendering agent' and it'll load the tab via an IE ActiveX control :icon_cool:

[drezha]

faster fox looks like a nice extension. Might have to try it.

[spikey_richie]

It works very well if on Turbo mode

[AMD-USR_JL]

Wow, i didn't know my net connection went that fast! That fasterfox extension is good stuff. That Adblock plus isn't bad either.

[drezha]

Bloody hell.

That fasterfox plugin coupled with Swiftfox REALLY makes FF fly along! :o

Thing you may have converted me back to Firefox now.

THough AMD User's still has a high loading time...18.768s

[spikey_richie]

Un-cached the AMDUsers home page takes 2.85s to load.

What connection speed do you have?

[drezha]

2Mb.

Seems fast everywhere else mind.

[spikey_richie]

Might be a linux thing. Any other forums slow to load?

try my joomla page, that takes a while on my PC

mot.spikey-richie.co.uk

[drezha]

Only AMD user's takes a while to load. Others seem fine.

[NeoGen]

I got 2Mb/256kb cable connection and it loads ok... sometimes the things that stuck the page from loading faster to me are people's stats gifs on the signatures.

[drezha]

I have noticed that Spikey's sig can drive me into 100% CPU usage on Opera at times. I've tested this out and I think it's your leetsig banner.

[spikey_richie]

That's weird! Install AdBlock plus for FF/SF, right click the image, then select 'AdBlock image'

[drezha]

I use Opera mainly ;) I can block content with that and I now have. Don't know why it happens but it sometimes does and when it does...bam, 100% CPU, slow right down etc. Doesn't seem to be a pattern to it either.

[spikey_richie]

Well there's your problem! Upgrade to FF :P

[drezha]

IMHO Opera is the better browser. Both I have little niggles...ie the plug ins for Opera aren't as good because they're basically non existent but the new firefox doesn't like using backspace as a back button and other little niggles.

Not one of them is perfect but Opera's built in chat function whoops FF's one. Firefox seems to be using the same theme as my Gnome so it's very dark...but I'm not changing my Gnome theme as a like it and the brightness of Opera is nice. (and it still appears to fit in nicely) Opera also use less of my resources. Less RAM is used and it responds quicker (now not quite as a big a difference since I installed Swiftfox) and one of the very core and underlying reason is, that in linux, I'm using the default installed drivers for nVidia, I've not got the propriety nVidia ones (because I found they comprimised the stability of linux...it kept going blank at random times) With the default drivers, FF likes to ghost. By that I mean I can change the cursor position and the cursor appears to remain where it is. A VERY annoying niggle and something that drove me to Opera. And once I started using Opera properly, I liked it a lot more...