JA2340 16 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 rather a limited sample - hard to extrapolate to the wider community with the small group of respondents. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 IE is more popular FF is better Its like music, food, etc. The popular stuff is usually the junk. Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Has anyone tried FF3? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 ok, in that case, I'll have my IE medium rare. Link to post Share on other sites
tm12881 0 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Been using FF and upgraded it FF3 at work as it came out. It seems faster and has better memory utilization but I don't like how all my add ins no longer work. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 t177, You need to go to the mozilla site and search the add-ins page. Use the actual name of the add-in (that is - IE Tab with capitalisation and spaces as the actual one, or the search will not find it). IE Tab works fine with the most recent version. Link to post Share on other sites
tm12881 0 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 JA, The add-on I'm using is the All-in-One gesture. FF3 has its own(?) version, but I don't like how some of the usages are not there by default. Link to post Share on other sites
charlotte 0 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Anyone still use Netscape? Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Me only in some old unix machines that I don't have the root password and cant install firefox. Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Originally Posted By: t177 Been using FF and upgraded it FF3 at work as it came out. It seems faster and has better memory utilization but I don't like how all my add ins no longer work. FF3 on my older machine has given it a new lease of life, FF2 was almost unusable with it's lack of speed and the amount of memory it hogged. I agree tho, there are a bunch of extension that still don't work, although these are slowly coming right. FF3 spots when there is an upgrade to the extension/addon etc and asks if I want to install it. The Firefox didn't manage that one very well! Probably didn't give the 3rd party developers sufficient notice. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 10 out of my 12 addons all work in FF3 now. Link to post Share on other sites
tm12881 0 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Yea, it seems like it was too short of a notice to 3rd party for sure. But I'm still appreciating the faster speed and less memory usage of FF3 though. IE7 just blows while trying to open a new tab. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 I think they released the first release candidate last november, but myself I didnt pick up on it until the RC2 came out a month or so ago. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Quote: IE7 just blows while trying to open a new tab. Are you using a Sinclair ZX80? It probably takes less than a small fraction of a second to open BBC news for me. Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 And that's the whole point, IE7 requires a huge amount of horsepower to perform well. Even though it is only 4 years old, my laptop performs like it was a ZX80 when faced with a behemoth like IE7. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 My 2+ year old notebook must just be a super computer then. (And yours must be rubbish!) (Or, your just talking rubbish!) Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Happy, I guess it depends on what you are doing. I regularly run with 3 or 4 tabs open in FF, and find that the same mode of operation with IE causes super slow operation. If you only ever run a single browser instance (whether as tabs or as new browsers) then you will likely see very little difference. OTOH, if as I suspect JM does, you regularly run several tabs and switch between them, then IE will operate extremely slowly. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 I also often have a number of tabs open - sometimes as many as 5 or 6. No slowness here mate. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 OK, whatever! Is it really necessary to start making digs at people (like "(Or, your just talking rubbish!)", though? And, yes, I did see the wink! It seems that Tech people, wherever they are, seem to prefer FF, while the majority of personal users use IE because it is there and enabled by default. This is part of my objection to it. MS has bound IE so closely to the OS that the removal of IE causes the OS to stop functioning properly. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 My apologies, I wasn't meaning to be taking digs. Sorry sorry. It's just that people seem to be talking about something else, not what I use, which is fine. But -- it really doesn't matter, does it! Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 So long as the browser gets you to SJ, I guess not! Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Originally Posted By: happyhappy My 2+ year old notebook must just be a super computer then. :envy: Enjoy it while it lasts! They all turn into crap all too quickly. Originally Posted By: happyhappy And yours must be rubbish! Sad, but now true Originally Posted By: happyhappy Or, your just talking rubbish! Occasionally, but not this time. Of course it could be you... Link to post Share on other sites
HoTRoD 2 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 What comes under "Others" then? Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Safari Lynx ;-) Link to post Share on other sites
DOSser 0 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Firefox 3 crashed my system when I downloaded it. Link to post Share on other sites
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