patelg

Jul 31 2005, 06:55 AM

QUOTE(brandice @ Jul 31 2005, 04:03 PM)

I switched over because I get less popup ads bothering me while using firefox.

I've noticed that firefox might be a bit more strict than IE when it comes to css code. So, the EditCSS extension has really helped out.

As Developer if you follow some basic rules then you will not have to worry about different browser. Most of the site works IE also works great in firfox. It should work fine as it is in Netscape/Mozilla.

Firefox is more secure plus there are so many advanced add-ons or extension are available, which makes web development and browsing easy, secure and plus it is free...not like IE.

It had TAB concept, which IE has just followed by installing TOOLBAR..

You know that, TAB browsing is easy if you have many windows to deal with..

Anyway, more and more people are turning to firefox with in this short time...so it tells that something is better in firefox then IE.

Also, people always eants to try something new....CHANGE ...

SPREAD FIREFOX.....

 

 

 

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electriic ink

Jul 31 2005, 07:30 AM

I created an animation about this once



Let's begin listing them shall we:

• It's free -- That's right ie costs, firefox doesn't. Not a penny.
• It's secure -- It's more secure than ie and it's holes get fixed within several weeks! How many months did ie have that security hole? Are we still waiting for the patch or has it arrived?
• It customizable
  • It has themes, which can change the colour, look and feel of firefox. A bit like the themes Window's has - except better.
  • It has extensions. Extra files you download to make firefox that little bit better. I have 3. Adblock, Google Suggest and CustomizeGoogle
• Tabbed Browsing Tired of having 5 windows open at once? Then use tabbed browsing and only have one window and 5 tabs open at the top. It cleaner and they're easier to switch between than windows.
• Community Firefox users make their own creations and don't leave it to mozilla. They actively help out by spreading the word and creating themes and such. Therefore, mozilla has this extra time to fix security holes and make the next edition of firefox better.

That's it I think. But the one problem firefox has is that some pages don't show up correctly. Then again that's not firefox's problem, it's the designers fault. He's just lost 20% of he's customers through poor testing and creating.

Companys are now realizing the value of firefox as a browser and are creating extensions for it. One good example would be the not quite new google toolbar for firefox and the aforementioned google suggest tool.

But what pulled me to use firefox? In fact none of this - although this could probably be down to ie's marvellous security . I noticed that more and pages wouldn't load and instead they displayed the cannot find server error. That really p***ed me off. I found a solution and that was to add pages to my trusted sites. I didn't want to do that because of security reasons so I decided to download this fantastic browser called firefox. To my disbelief pages loaded and I've never used ie since

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Aevum Decessus

Aug 12 2005, 06:17 PM

I switched to Firefox because of recommendations and because I was fed up with the spyware problems I was having with IE. Whenever I would open up IE, even to google, I would watch as spybot would stop at least 3 different toolbar installations, and 4 registry changes, even without me clicking on anything. So far. in the 3 months since I started using Firefox, I haven't gotten a single mailcious program trying to change my information on Firefox, or touching my registry. I also really like the way the Firefox utilizes it's extensions, and themes, which allow me to customize Firefox as I choose, in the ways that I choose. Overall, it has made my life a lot easier than the hassles I had to go through with IE.

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rvovk

Aug 1 2005, 11:28 AM

About ratio of usage between Internet Explorer and Firefox. I made a capture of statistics for my website. You can see it here. It shows unique visitors, so it is irrelevant if somebody with Gecko or IE has clicked my page one thousand time. It has clearly shown that ration is somehow 55:45 for Internet Explorer. This doesn't show true market ratio, but I makes my face to smile when I see people are using browsers other then Internet Explorer.

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Tyssen

Aug 1 2005, 10:44 AM

QUOTE(areawe @ Aug 1 2005, 01:31 PM)

Does that make you feel good about yourself when you cut down someone else?

No, but I see a lot of people on this forum passing themselves off as web designers when they clearly aren't and as someone who has spent a number of years working in various roles for web-related companies, I feel compelled to point out that you're not a web designer just cos you've made a couple of sites - you've got to earn your stripes.

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areawe

Aug 1 2005, 03:31 AM

QUOTE(Tyssen @ Jul 31 2005, 06:48 PM)

You're clearly not really a web designer if you hate to clutter up my machine with another browser and don't know that the reason your sites look OK in IE and not in FF is cos IE is a non-standards-compliant browser whereas FF and Opera and Mozilla are.
If you're a web designer, you should have as many browsers as possible installed so that you can test your site in all of them. Anything else is just not doing your job properly.
And you should be using FF as your primary testing browser, not IE, because, as I said above, IE is not standards compliant. IE7 may be (no-one's really sure yet), but IE6 and earlier definitely aren't.
As to the original question:
1. Themes
2. Extensions
3. Tabbed browsing

2. is the most important one cos there's so many different extensions that it just puts FF in a different realm from IE.

Does that make you feel good about yourself when you cut down someone else?

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Tyssen

Aug 1 2005, 12:48 AM

QUOTE(areawe @ Jul 31 2005, 01:18 PM)

The last I knew 98% of people were using Internet Explorer, so as a web designer, I really only had to worry about Internet Explorer displaying my website correctly.

You're clearly not really a web designer if you hate to clutter up my machine with another browser and don't know that the reason your sites look OK in IE and not in FF is cos IE is a non-standards-compliant browser whereas FF and Opera and Mozilla are.
If you're a web designer, you should have as many browsers as possible installed so that you can test your site in all of them. Anything else is just not doing your job properly.
And you should be using FF as your primary testing browser, not IE, because, as I said above, IE is not standards compliant. IE7 may be (no-one's really sure yet), but IE6 and earlier definitely aren't.
As to the original question:
1. Themes
2. Extensions
3. Tabbed browsing

2. is the most important one cos there's so many different extensions that it just puts FF in a different realm from IE.

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