How many use Mozilla Firefox and whats your evaluation???

[MightyPez]

For those complaining about speed, here are some tips.

If you want to speed up the launch of the program, tack on "/prefetch:1" at the end of the shortcut to add Firefox into the system memory (Windows only).

For faster loading of pages, go to the navigation bar and type "about:config" and look for the following lines:

network.http.max-connections                                   24
network.http.max-connections-per-server                        8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy              4
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server             2
network.http.pipelining                                        false
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests                            false

The numbers at the end signify the default values. Change these to:

network.http.max-connections                                   32
network.http.max-connections-per-server                        16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy              8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server             4
network.http.pipelining                                        true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests                            32

 

[Saem]

The problem with pipelining is that sites on IIS might do some very stupid stuff, IIRC, IIS has busticated pipelining support.

 

[Althornin]

A friend of mine just made the same comment about moving the tab bar this weekend so I guess he's not the only one that would like this feature.

I'm not so fussed about moving the tab bar to the bottom but it would be nice to be able to re-order the tabs.

TBE - thats Tabbed Browser Extensions.
It works great, been using em forever.
My "mandatory extensions" that i install are:
AdBlock
Tabbed Browser Extensions

Thats it, but i have to have them both.

 

[MightyPez]

The problem with pipelining is that sites on IIS might do some very stupid stuff, IIRC, IIS has busticated pipelining support.

Never had a problem with it myself. The only time Firefox hasn't rendered pages correctly for me is when someone obviously used Front Page to create a site for them without any HTML checking, or when I got overzealous with the Adblock extension and blocked some of the wrong servers.

Hell, I've even been able to navigate MS partner (retail personal use program, etc) sites properly in Firefox.

 

[L233]

Once firefox/opera (for that matter linux) become more popular you will see a shift of hackers move from IE to the other software/OS.

While that might be true to a certain extend, Firefox/Opera don't have many of the inherent flaws of IE, like the inherently insecure security zone model.

 

[Ilfirin]

I use it (Firefox), but it's a real pain in the ass. So many sites don't work with it, or have problems with cookies when using it. The popup blocker blocks so many legit popup windows too, it's annoying (i.e. I was filling out some student loan forms, and firefox kept closing some of the intentional popups (additional forms, or information about a certain question on the form I was filling out); that can be just plain dangerous so I finished it all with IE).


So I still use IE as my main browser and only use firefox when I know I'm going to a site with pop-up ads (which isn't too often), or when I'm going to a site that might have an IE security exploit on it (such as, random links people send me).

I also hate all the extra features.. with internet browsing, at least for me, less is always more. All I want is an address bar, and the web page I'm viewing.. that's it! No tabs, no massive colorful buttons (not an issue with Firefox, but Opera is annoying as hell on this front), NOTHING but the website I'm viewing and an address bar. My mouse has back and forward buttons on it, and my keyboard can stop and refresh pages, so please keep that shit off my screen (or, at least, allow me to remove all of it without any effort at all).

 

[Evil_Cloud]

I use Firefox since version 0.6. I believe.

The tabs, the speed, the easy theme/extensions manager, the pop-up blocker, and entire open source community behind it, I wouldn't want to trade it for IE6, one of the worst browsers of this moment IMHO, sluggish as hell, ugly, not many possibilities,...

Firefox = ace.

 

[WolfsBane58]

I do miss being able to resize or auto-hide the Menu Toolbar. I like to see my web pages without having the toolbars hogging a tenth of the space.

 

[Saem]

Ilfirin, there is a simple little button at that you can double click and turn pop-up blocking off for a site. What's so hard about that?

 

[Ilfirin]

The problem is, I don't go to any sites that have pop up ads except in extremely rare cases, so I have to punch that button at every site pretty much, which is tedius and annoying.

If they reversed the functionality (only turn it ON for certain sites) it wouldn't be such a pain.

 

[3dcgi]

If you want tabs on the bottom, there are a extention for it: Tabbrowser Extensions. Its got a truckload of other options too.

Install it and go to the Tab Bar in options to find tabbar placement

http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en

Just found this over at Ace's. Haven't tried it, YMMV, etc.

From a cursory glance it looks like it'll allow you to move the tab bar to the side/bottom, and re-order the tabs. Don't blame me if it's crap!

I have this installed on my laptop with Mozilla 1.4 and it works great, but I could never get it to work on my desktop with Mozilla 1.6. I never noticed that it allowed you to move the tab bar. I guess because I never desired to move the tab bar.

 

[WolfsBane58]

I was able to find out how to move all my buttons into one line on Firebird. Very, Very neat, and it gives the browser window the clean look that I'm looking for.

Last night, I once played with the themes and changed it. To my surprise, this time my websites retained their web content, (previously, when I changed my themes, for some reason it blanked my browser screen. I'll play with it a little tonight and see if it will retain this behaviour consistently.

I also incorporated the recommended changes that MightyPez suggested above. So far so good!!!

0.9.1 seems very stable. Still finding some websites that don't seem to display properly or that call for IE, (Mcafee in fact won't download updates unless IE Active X is activated). I was thinking to myself that for all the complaining and bellyaching that the IT community has about MS, that they would not have nearly as much to complain with users trying their products if they would just make the infrastructure available so that folks can use their products in Microsoft.

 

[Natoma]

These are the extensions I use:

Googlebar
IE View
Dictionary Search
Allow Right-Click
Single Window
undoclosetab
miniIT
BlankLast
Session Saver
Spiderzilla

 

[WolfsBane58]

These are the extensions I use:

Googlebar
IE View
Dictionary Search
Allow Right-Click
Single Window
undoclosetab
miniIT
BlankLast
Session Saver
Spiderzilla

Spiderzilla??? Whats that?

 

[Vadi]

Spiderzilla allows you to download sites linked sites. Neat. [Seems like it ain't compatible with Firefox 0.9 (without the "show old extensions" extenxion) but it's a frontend for WinHTTrack]

Here are some additional extensions which I use and recommend:
All-in-One-Gestures
Clone Window
Context Highlighter
Context Search
Ctrl-M-Click
DownloadWith
Find in this Selectionbox
Find Statusbar
Paste and Go
QuickNote
Scrollbar Anywhere
Show failed URL
Textlink

 

[AAlcHemY]

I'm happy with Firefox myself, just a few sites that don't show the same as internet explorer, like the site of Jaguar

Internet Explorer 6:

Firefox 0.9:

 

[Althornin]

The problem is, I don't go to any sites that have pop up ads except in extremely rare cases, so I have to punch that button at every site pretty much, which is tedius and annoying.

If they reversed the functionality (only turn it ON for certain sites) it wouldn't be such a pain.

why dont you just fill out the whitelist?

 

[Althornin]

These are the extensions I use:

Googlebar
IE View
Dictionary Search
Allow Right-Click
Single Window
undoclosetab
miniIT
BlankLast
Session Saver
Spiderzilla

Single window,
undoclosetab,
and session saver are all features included in TBE.

 

[Natoma]

These are the extensions I use:

Googlebar
IE View
Dictionary Search
Allow Right-Click
Single Window
undoclosetab
miniIT
BlankLast
Session Saver
Spiderzilla

Single window,
undoclosetab,
and session saver are all features included in TBE.

TBE doesn't work in Firefox 0.9.1.

Those plugins are replacements for the features in TBE.

 

[Althornin]

These are the extensions I use:

Googlebar
IE View
Dictionary Search
Allow Right-Click
Single Window
undoclosetab
miniIT
BlankLast
Session Saver
Spiderzilla

Single window,
undoclosetab,
and session saver are all features included in TBE.

TBE doesn't work in Firefox 0.9.1.

Those plugins are replacements for the features in TBE.

um, yes it does.
And it worked fine in .9 also.
I've got it on 3 different machines...works fine!