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Surya 
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Firefox 3 has been released, and it's fucking fast! Just one of the absolute best internet browsers out there!
All head over to http://www.mozilla.com and get this amazing piece of technology today, especially if you're still using that piece of crap called Internet Explorer!
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18-06-2008 07:26 |
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The best new feature is the "awesome bar" 
also the new page zooming is great, it zooms everything, not just the text.
Have been using it for a long time now on my laptop. There were some problems in the beginning with addons that didn't work properly, but it works very smooth now.
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18-06-2008 08:53 |
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Surya
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Originally posted by TheSentinel
I've had firefox 3 since maybe 2 weeks ago or whenever they released it !!! |
Woptiedoo, I've had it for months, but that's called BETA release, and RC and such. This is the very first non-beta and non RC release, smartass
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18-06-2008 19:39 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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What actually is so good about FF?
I've only briefly looked at it... whats all this fuss about?
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18-06-2008 21:18 |
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Originally posted by PLaGuE CeLL
What actually is so good about FF?
I've only briefly looked at it... whats all this fuss about? |
i prefer it too , cant explain atm , but for me its better to work with (configuration)
speed is the same +- but its just more easy and just ... cooler
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18-06-2008 23:45 |
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I'm an FF fan too. It seems like the most easy-to-use browser out there. For extra ease-of-use I always install Goggle Toolbar. This allows me to do pretty much everything I need from the browser.
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19-06-2008 08:25 |
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Surya
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Been using it since early 2003 too 
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Originally posted by PLaGuE CeLL
What actually is so good about FF?
I've only briefly looked at it... whats all this fuss about? |
As opposed to Internet Explorer
- It's MUCH faster
- It uses way less memory
- It's much more customizable
- It has supported tabbed browsing sinds the first edition, IE has only added this feature in its last version
- The awesomebar is just awesome, no other browser has that.
- It has much more frequent updates
- It has way better security
- Bugs are fixed way faster
- It's way more standards compliant, which is SO important if you're a web designer (it's so much easier to make a website that looks right in FF and than apply some CSS hacks to make it look good in IE too, than the other way around).
- It's the sole reason IE7 exists. After MS had won the browser wars, they disbanded their IE team, and stopped development. It wasn't until FF started getting a decent amount of usage that MS set up a new IE team to make a new version. Why is this important? New internet standards are invented each year, but if browsers don't support them, they're of no use. So new versions of browsers are essential for the evolution of the internet. So people using FF are the main reason MS is even investing in the evolution of the internet. The more people use FF, the more IE will try it's best to make a better browser (and there's LOTS of space for improvement!) and drive the web forward.
I'll stop there 
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20-06-2008 07:47 |
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Phalanx
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Damn Surya, you sure are a fanboy 
I think this just about says it all though:
Firefox
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20-06-2008 10:20 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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Ah well that sounds like a decent argument
But what do you mean by faster?
Surely it doesn't mean it loads pages faster...
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20-06-2008 13:31 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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Originally posted by MinasTirithGuard
I think this just about says it all though:
Firefox |
That. Was. Brilliant.
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20-06-2008 13:33 |
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20-06-2008 16:12 |
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And what the hell is awesomebar?!
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20-06-2008 16:32 |
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Surya
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Originally posted by MinasTirithGuard
Damn Surya, you sure are a fanboy
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Dunno if I would say that, but as more people use Firefox (or any other decent browser, thus not IE) it makes my job as a webdeveloper easier and it makes the use of new web technologies viable. So that's why I encourage it's use.
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But what do you mean by faster?
Surely it doesn't mean it loads pages faster... |
It loads them just as fast, but it renders (= shows) them faster. A browser first loads the data on the page, and then starts showing it. That part of the process goes way faster on FF than on IE.
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And what the hell is awesomebar?! |
It's the new address bar. When you start typing something in it, it will show a list of websites in you have in your history, bookmarks and tagged (which is another new function, you can add tags to sites to find them more easily). But it shows the most visit at the top, so its way easier to find what you're looking for. Eg, if you tag this site "dnbbe", that's all you have to type in the address bar, to find this site!
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21-06-2008 11:39 |
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Muad'Dib
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Thanx, Surya
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23-06-2008 10:50 |
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PLaGuE CeLL
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Originally posted by Surya
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And what the hell is awesomebar?! |
It's the new address bar. When you start typing something in it, it will show a list of websites in you have in your history, bookmarks and tagged (which is another new function, you can add tags to sites to find them more easily). But it shows the most visit at the top, so its way easier to find what you're looking for. Eg, if you tag this site "dnbbe", that's all you have to type in the address bar, to find this site! |
That is indeed a very awesome bar!
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23-06-2008 15:54 |
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Surya
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Once you know how it works, you know what you should type to find what you want, so handy!
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23-06-2008 22:08 |
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You'll never guess what browser I am now looking at this forum on...
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