Anybody using firefox?

brdmkr · July 12, 2006, 10:55:28 PM

I got sick and tired of adware popping up ruining my concentrations on the words of wisdom displayed at this great site. A friend suggested firefox as a web browser. I loaded'er up and so far, it has worked like a charm. Spybot and some beta release stuff from microsoft were unable to do a thing, but it seems that firefox may have been the fix. I still don't know how to use the cool features that I have been told about, but the browser sure seems to work well for me. 8)

stumpy · July 12, 2006, 11:16:08 PM

I've been using it for about a year and it works great

Bill · July 13, 2006, 01:31:22 AM

I've been using it for around a year. Brand X started up quicker but handled different pages way slower. Firefox starts slower but moves around real fast . 8)

Good Luck with it . . .

Tom Sawyer · July 13, 2006, 02:55:19 AM

Anybody who still uses Internet Explorer needs to download something else TODAY. Firefox is good - I use it. IE simply has too many holes for the bad stuff to get through.

asy · July 13, 2006, 03:04:58 AM

I've been using it for a couple of years now, and I just love it.

Here's a neat tip for you, if you've got a mouse with a scroll button, when you hover the mouse over a clickable link click on the scroll button (push the actual scroll wheel down), it opens a new tab in the same window, it's really neat and very handy, that way you don't lose the original page you're on, and you don't mess up your desktop with hundreds of windows.

I read a couple of forums and am usually on ebay in one capacity or anohter, so I have five windows open, one with this forum, one with my other forum, one with my blog, one with ebay and one with 'other stuff'. This way all the tabs are organised. So, In this forum, for example, I have the first tab as 'recent unread threads' and I keep refreshing that, then click the scroll button on all the ones I'm interested in reading and it opens new tabs. Then I don't miss anything.

Also, when you save bookmarks, there's a neat section called Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, if you want something that you ALWAYS use, you can save it in there, and when you next open Firefox it'll have a new line of links just under the address bar. I keep all the 'always used' ones there.

ALSO! There's another interesting thing, if you open a couple of tabs, and you always want to open with the same few tabs, go into Tools (right up the top) and click on OPTIONS, then click on 'use current pages', it'll open all the pages every time you open a new window, it's like having a few 'home pages'. Very convenient. I have mine open 'google', the forum I moderate, and today's TV programme ;)

The other thing is, if you do a lot of searching on the net, it's worth downloading the Google Toolbar, it makes it really easy if you're searching for stuff, as you can click on words and it autosearches. AND there's a built in spell check for forums (only works on fill-in-able forms, like forum posts) hehe.

asy :D

JimBuis · July 13, 2006, 07:00:31 AM

Firefox? Been using it for a couple of years now. Internet Explorer? What's that. ;D

asy · July 13, 2006, 07:14:03 AM

My brother calls it "Internut Exploder", he says it's as useful as a bag of exploding chestnuts.

asy :D

tnlogger · July 13, 2006, 11:12:46 AM

yup wouldn.t use anything else love it. i d/led the 2.0 beta yesterday and the should be out today some time. the only thing about it is aspell wont work on it yet. guess I need to do some tweeking to get it to work :D

Raphael · July 13, 2006, 12:49:11 PM

I use DOSlinks :D
Actually I haven't had the 286 on the internet since 1998.

I'm one of those people that has never used Internet explorer as it didn't even exist when I wrote my first html much less first accessed the WWW. I find Microsoft's approach to the W3C entirely too offensive to start using it now.

FireFox is definately a good choise, I've got a copy installed on this PC but tend to use Opera as I'm more familiar with it.

Tabbed browsing is great, I'll often have another window full of eBay tabs when I'm looking for a particular tool. This window always has this forum, the FF gallery, the Timber Framers Guild's ask the experts forum, and the Logosol users forum. I usually start Opera with those five tabs open.

tomboysawyer · July 13, 2006, 01:31:24 PM

In the Google search bar you can click the last choice and add searches for anything you want. Google, Wikipedia, the Weather Channel, Reuters, Dictionary.com...

Someone should write the FF search plug-in for FireFox. (FF in this sentence meaning Forestry Forum not Fire Fox) :P

dave7191 · July 14, 2006, 05:39:53 PM

i've used firefox from it's very beginings use ie only when i have to set forestry fourm up in tab book mark and it is always there at the top of the page
Dave719

sprucebunny · July 14, 2006, 05:49:47 PM

When I'm having Safari problems, I use it. Like NOW :

I'll try to get used to it. Where do I find the "tabbed browsing " thing ???

Internet exploder has caused me problems.

tnlogger · July 14, 2006, 06:08:53 PM

joan if you go to tools,options, tab browsing you can set the properties

isawlogs · July 14, 2006, 07:12:30 PM

I've been using firefox for about a year now , Explorer has gotten me to explode once too many . >:( ;D

Daren · July 14, 2006, 09:17:43 PM

I have looked at it, but I guess I need someone to tell me what the real advantage is. My IPS (a family owned/operated local phone company) provides free updates for spyware, pop up blockers, web accelerators... I have never had a pop-up. I have an automatic spyware blocker/cleaner. Maybe I am just not up to speed, but why do you need 12 windows open at one time? I have been using IE with the same ISP for 9 ? years and never had a single problem, and I spend more time online than I should. What am I missing?

asy · July 15, 2006, 12:27:57 AM

Quote from: Daren on July 14, 2006, 09:17:43 PM
Maybe I am just not up to speed, but why do you need 12 windows open at one time?

Well, that's a slow day... I have had enough open that I've jammed up the computer, on numerous occasions...

It's called being busy, and working on the computer.

When I'm working on a project it's not uncommon for me to have 10 windows open just doing that, and if I'm ebaying, that's another 10 or so... So the tabs make it MUCH easier to keep track of what I'm doing.

asy :D

Daren · July 15, 2006, 08:14:22 AM

Wow, asy. I think I figured it out, the setup I have now works for me because I can only do a couple things at a time. If I try to do too many thing I blow up/melt down/crash, not the computer. :D

asy · July 15, 2006, 09:13:28 AM

It's us sneaky wimminses again.

Multitasking.

asy :D

sawguy21 · July 15, 2006, 07:43:20 PM

I switched to Firefox because I was getting frustrated with ie's speed and the DanG popups. Like asy, I find the tabbed browser easy to use but then I have never tried to open twelve pages at once

SwampDonkey · July 15, 2006, 08:57:44 PM

Quote from: Raphael on July 13, 2006, 12:49:11 PM
I use DOSlinks :D
Actually I haven't had the 286 on the internet since 1998.

I'm one of those people that has never used Internet explorer as it didn't even exist when I wrote my first html much less first accessed the WWW. I find Microsoft's approach to the W3C entirely too offensive to start using it now.

Well now, why not try the Contiki web browser on the C64? ;D I been awaiting a PPP dialer, and then I was gonna give it a go over a 1200 baud C= modem. ;D :D It does have a TCP/IP stack if you have a shell account and a terminal program to login. ;)

http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/apps/webbrowser.html

Raphael · July 16, 2006, 12:41:55 AM

Nice... makes me wish I'd bought that C64 when I had the chance.
1200 baud... I feel your pain :'(
I've got the deluxe 2400 baud modem 8)

There was a browser in the works for the Radio Shack Color Computer running OS9 or NitrOS9.
I'll have to check back and see where it's at.

SwampDonkey · July 16, 2006, 08:08:21 AM

JeffB: cough cough (clearing throat here) ;)

' If you see something like the following in your web server logs, you know you've had a visitation from the Contiki web browser:
User-Agent: Contiki/1.0 (Commodore 64; http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki/) '

;D :D :D

tomboysawyer · July 16, 2006, 12:40:09 PM

Quote from: Daren on July 14, 2006, 09:17:43 PM
I have looked at it, but I guess I need someone to tell me what the real advantage is. My IPS (a family owned/operated local phone company) provides free updates for spyware, pop up blockers, web accelerators... I have never had a pop-up. I have an automatic spyware blocker/cleaner. Maybe I am just not up to speed, but why do you need 12 windows open at one time? I have been using IE with the same ISP for 9 ? years and never had a single problem, and I spend more time online than I should. What am I missing?

Why use something other than IE? Two words: ActiveX Controls

If you don't know what those are, then you should either educate yourself or just depend on all those downloaded programs. Nothing like having 12 programs running at once just so you have have a bissfully unaware possibly safe browsing experience with a single window of IE. Just remember, all those spyware blocks, pop-up blockers, dial hijackers, etc. only have code written *after* they find a weak point. OpenSource stuff like FireFox gets broken by the OpenSource developers all the time on purpose (called debugging) and solutions are solved by programmers around the world with good will, not profits, in mind. Microsoft doesn't have any motive to debug - only to build new. Fixed old programs don't encouraged to get people to open up their wallets.

None of your ISP's software will protect you against something you sign a EULA for and install so someone in your family can experience something in IE.

SwampDonkey · July 22, 2006, 06:34:26 PM

Just some interesting tid bits for hobbyists.

Found a PPP dialer through the C64/128 NovaTerm V10 Release 2 program. There are a couple of authors of this program and development was not 100 % complete. It was a (in)complete rewrite of the original program from V 9.x

http://www.ros.com.au/~errol/nt10.html

documents and screen to help config and get online

http://members.chello.at/wiener.freiheit/nt10help_en.htm

I have not had success configuring the inet info, it begins to load the config editor and crashes. Maybe I have some corrupt files, since I extracted the archive in Windows and burned to a Track AT Once multisession disk. Who knows. I was wanting to dial in using Novaterm and use the Contiki web browser to surf the forum. Oh well have to wait it out for a native Contiki OS PPP dialer. ;D

It is already possible the surf with the C64/128 with the WHeels OS (suped up GEOS) with the superCPU (16 bit) expansion and the Wave web browser. I think development has pretty much ended unless Maurice Randall supports it at Censible Software.

SwampDonkey · July 23, 2006, 04:38:02 PM

Not sure if anyone was aware that V 1.5.04 of Firefax was released in June. It didn't seem to come up on automatic updates. I previously had V 1.0.7 installed.