Firefox vs IE

[Logan]

I love firefox. The tabs are awesome. If you have not figured it out yet, you can open as many tabs as you want and then save it as your home page. That way every time you start up, you get all you most used site open right up. Also the weather thing is very handy.

[darsey715]

I am such an idiot. It asked me to save the file, I kept saving it and saving it. Finally I checked my documents and double clicked on it and BAM! I got video. talk about retarded.

[planeoldguy]

I've had FF installed forever, just never got around to switching my faves so I was using IE, Finally did it, but it hiccups when opening this site, nowhere else. Confuzzled.

[twhouse]

Once you get used to Firefox ya will never go back, I dumped Netscape, the only reason IE is still on the machine it is imbeded in XP. I truly enjoy the tabbed browsing Firefox uses.
Gary W7TZS

[darsey715]

Originally Posted by planeoldguy

I've had FF installed forever, just never got around to switching my faves so I was using IE, Finally did it, but it hiccups when opening this site, nowhere else. Confuzzled.

I notice this also.

[twhouse]

No hickups with it here, Am using XP home with a 450 mhz PIII and 650 meg ram, old and slow but it still works.

[iLoveSoccrMoms15]

I'm not sure about the hiccup problem as I don't experience this, but I will look into it here at the office. I'm glad you are enjoying firefox. Any program using open source layouts are much better and more secure (i.e. linux). Firefox runs off of the Gecko engine which uses a sandbox security model and limits scripts from accessing data from other web sites based on the same origin policy.

In computer security, a sandbox is a security mechanism for safely running programs. It is often used to execute untested code, or untrusted programs from unverified third-parties, suppliers and untrusted users. The sandbox typically provides a tightly-controlled set of resources for guest programs to run in, such as scratch space on disk and memory. A widely known example of this is Microsoft's Virtual Machine which basically allows a special allocation of the hard drive (not in use) to act as RAM. When programs run on virtual memory it is running in a virtual computer created by Windows. The good side is that should the program become corrupt you can wipe virtual memory immediately with little effect on your operating system (hence the sand box system), the bad side is that it usually runs slower considering it caches from the hard drive. Just some information!

Sergio

[darsey715]

Sergio, no wonder you can afford that beautiful truck. You speak english and computer. LOL

[Banshee34]

We use Firefox exclusively here at work because of all the things previously said.

I do however, have one stupid creditor that I pay on-line that requires that I use IE .... they obviously haven't moved into the 21st Century.

[WHISKY6]

Hi,this whisky6,i to use firefox3,the few add ons i have with ff3,the one i really like is
called clipmark,s it allows you to clip a page or paragraph and send by way of e-mail
with just a few click,s,the other one i use is a level of trust a site that grades a site
on how much the users give each site,thank,s,whisky6