If You Use Internet Explorer

[lolfighter]

Firefox is based off Netscape too.

Why should I use Mozilla though? Because of the more complicated options? Or because I'll get

• advanced e-mail and newsgroup client (I don't use newsgroups, do all my email via browser)
• IRC chat client (I use mIRC, and can't be bothered to migrate when I see no reason to do so)
• HTML editing made simple (I don't edit HTML)

There's just no reason for people like me to get Mozilla. I'll pass.

[Tombomb]

OK well i have swiched over to firefox and i must say it is the best browser i have ever used.  If you still use IE or some other old stoopid browser i sugest swich over to the most painfree and userfriendly browser of alll firefox!

[BobTheJanitor]

Why should I use Mozilla though? Because of the more complicated options?

Ah, where you see more complicated options, I see more variety for individualized control of my browser. And it's really not that much more in depth, but it is still preferable to firefox. All the complaints about firefox I've seen here, I've never seen in mozilla. So  :p

[Satiagraha]

Hey bob, I'm interested in the more advanced features of the Mozilla browser. I'm using FireFox right now, and I enjoy that. I don't need the email capabilities (go gmail!) or the IRC (Hydra), and as for HTML editing, I always use Macromedia Dreamweaver or sometimes MS Frontpage.  I'm purely interested in the extra couple of options. Is it worth the switch and having all that crap that I won't use (and could possibly annoy me)? or should I just stick with FireFox?

[devicenull]

You can choose not to install chatzilla (IRC).. as for the rest, you won't even know they are installed (They reside on a small toolbar in the bottom left of the screen)..
They don't pop unless you want them to

[Niteowl]

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,64085,00.html

[Black Mage]

Firefox is based off Netscape too.

okies, mozilla is the company. they made gecko.
gecko is the rendering engine behind netscape and firefox
gecko was completely rewritten when netscape "lost" the browser war
after gecko was finished, mozilla formed the firefox team to write a wrapper for gecko (originally called phoenix, then firebird, then firefox)

firefox != netscape
firefox is a brand new wrapper for a brand new rendering engine which just happens to have the same name as the old one (same company though, but a mostly different team)

[Uranium - 235]

Another little beef with firefox - it doesn't figure out the size of images first (like IE does) and move all the crap around on the screen before it's loaded - The result is that viewing an image-heavy page causes the text to fly and scroll all over the place, so you have to wait for every image to load before you can read anything.

[Narfwak]

Call me a lucky nub, but I've never really had trouble with IE.  I may get around to using Firefox or Mozilla when I go off to college in a month.  We'll see.

Oh, and uh, hi.

[Asal]

Firefox FTW

[johnjacobjingle]

IE cuz i'm nub and really don't care to change.

currently my excuse is "i have favorites set up on ie, i don't wanna do it all over again on firefox/whatever"

[Asal]

IE cuz i'm nub and really don't care to change.

currently my excuse is "i have favorites set up on ie, i don't wanna do it all over again on firefox/whatever"

Translation: I'm a lazy n00b.

[ANeM]

IE cuz i'm nub and really don't care to change.

currently my excuse is "i have favorites set up on ie, i don't wanna do it all over again on firefox/whatever"

Firefox automatically imports your favorites from IE.
Your excuse is flawed.

[johnjacobjingle]

*cries*  

FINE, i dont' have an excuse, BUT!  i still haven't done it!  HAH!

[Niteowl]

*cries* 

FINE, i dont' have an excuse, BUT!  i still haven't done it!  HAH!

the lazy force is strong in this one, emperor...

[Guspaz]

Another little beef with firefox - it doesn't figure out the size of images first (like IE does) and move all the crap around on the screen before it's loaded - The result is that viewing an image-heavy page causes the text to fly and scroll all over the place, so you have to wait for every image to load before you can read anything.

If that's the only reason you're not using Firefox, it's a fairly minor one.

This is not the exact thing you're talking about, but you can have Firefox display images as they load instead of placeholders like it normally does.

There are various ways to set an advanced preference... I prefer this method:

1) In the address bar, type "about:config"
2) Find the setting"browser.display.show_image_placeholders", or if it doesn't exist, add it, type boolean
3) Set it to false.

Now then, keep in mind that the thing you describe is caused by image tags that don't have widths and heights pre-set... This affects BOTH browsers equally. Are you sure you're not just viewing different websites in IE and in Firefox?

EDIT: The fix I posted above will HELP the issue, as as soon as images start loading the browser will know how big they are.