With the current release of Mozilla Firefox 0.8, and in the excitement to try out something new, FlexBeta decided to compile 13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE.
Thirteen Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE
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They do exist, but with each large change means recompilation of the extentions.
takes time for that stuff to catch up…
I think the feature that is still missing from firefox is preventing the images from animating. In mozilla there is an option for this.
There doesn’t seem to be a UI interface to this, but if you do “about:config” in the location bar, you’ll get the raw preferences.
Type “ani” into the filter, and all that should be left is:
image.animation_mode
Change it’s value from “normal” to “once” or “none” to have animated gifs animate only once or not at all (respectively).
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Obviously this isn’t the friendliest way to do this, but I think the developers have tried to remove UI complexity by not catering to the lesser used features.
…and Opera’s UI has the very powerful flexible and speed.
Is opera open source? does it support extensions? is it free? can it render nearly every webpage, as Gecko does? and what about the giant ad?
Opera is itself a troll
The anti-Opera trolls like you call us want a better Opera, While I agree with Bascule that Opera still have many goodies, they are moving towards disaster.
They should concentrate on polishing the wheell, nor reinventing it, the interface in version 7.2x was good enough, what they plan to do in 7.5 is a mistake.
I know it is sad to say this, but they will be much better if they concentrate their efforts on the browser end than in a floating-feeling email client. Yes I meant that if they want to do an email client they should do an Outlook 2000-like approach to the interface. I do not see any advantage from their actual implementation, it is quite confusing/annoying.
What’s the point including functionality from other standalone programs if the resulting functionality is worse.
You’ll end with a browser+half-email+half-chat, a decent email client and a chat program.
They create a first class browser with a half-baked email client.
Frankly I do not see the point.
Safari does all that except better.
I have tried IE4,5,6, Netscape 4.7x,6,7, Mozillas, Firebirds but still found they are not good enough. Firebird takes 45MB memory when I have about 8-10 tabs open. How can one call it lightweight?
MyIE2 need not be a browser for an end user. When I read a page on web I think about the content not the browser so why such “And hey, MyIE is *NOT* a browser!!!!”?
Microsoft has given flexibility to use IE controls and let smart developers build smart solutions around that. I remember industry gurus use resueable component since ages.
Firexxxx has a long way to go. OSS is good but that does not mean MS is bad and MyIE2 is certainly not bad.
Well, that’s one Opera feature down. Now answer me where I can find extensions for the following other features:
* Fast Forward / Rewind
Not available, AFAIK. I never found a use for that in Opera, and considered it stupid.
* Saved Sessions
At the Extensions forum on http://forums.mozillazine.org rue has posted SessionSaver 0.2d. You could also use Tabbrowser Extensions(not sure where to get it; Google is your friend here). However, TBE is plagued by incompatibilities with Firefox and the chief developer himself(Ben Goodger) does not recommend using it.
* Zooming of all page elements
The Extension Room is reachable from here.
* Page (tab) selection via scroll wheel
miniT at Mozillazine’s Extensions forum.
* Quick toggling of page versus user style sheets (^G in Opera)
The Extension Room?
* Open last page (tab) closed (^Z in opera)
Only TBE has this feature.
* List closed pages (tabs)
Hm…I’m not sure. TBE perhaps?
None of this functionality appears to be built into Firefox per default. I think that’s a far cry from “all the useful features that Opera does”, but perhaps it’s the case that you don’t know how to use these Opera features. Personally, I now find it infuriating to use a browser that doesn’t support Fast Forward / Rewind.
Personally, I find it infuriating to use a browser that’s bloated. For example, this funny bar(listing author, publisher, etc.) pops up on certain webpages, and I have to disable it manually. The Hotlist is enabled by default. A lot of the user interface elements are useless for someone like me who doesn’t need more than single-window mode and session saving. There aren’t extensions for Opera(sure, you need to install Mouse Gestures and the like for Firefox, but they will be bundled in 0.9 and onwards, and besides, eventually when more extensions are developed, their combined features will exceed Opera’s). I can see the use for Opera(and no, trolls, the ad isn’t giant), but it requires too much work to get it set up quickly and painlessly compared to Firefox.
Why did my comment get moderated down? Some guy is talking about opera beeing a troll because its not open-source and bashing it for no reasons and I get moderated down for a valid answer to his post?
To clear up my statement: Good software doesn’t have to be opensource or free. Extensions are not needed if the package contains nearly everything you may need. Operas engine is as good as Gecko. Some sites render better in one, some in the other. And the AD isn’t huge on a normal screen.
I have no doubts. Firefox is a good browser but Opera is better, much better and compliant. Mozilla, following the MS “bad example” has many suck proprietary extensions…
Opera opens the Web…;-)
“try konqueror before u judge mozilla as the best.”
I have…I’ll stick with FireFox.
The section on “Keeps HTML Formatting” seems like a stretch. It depends on what application you paste the text into. For example if you use WordPad, you get to keep the bullet points and the bold style with IE. Firebird loses the bold style.
http://www.coven.com/images//keeps_html_formatting.jpg
Connected to my exchange server web account, couldn’t use it due to formatting problems.
Otherwise, it seemed pretty good.
G.