If You Use Internet Explorer

[Black Mage]

sorry for the double, but to secure your computer and knock ~10s off of your bewt time, go to add/remove programs --> set program access and defaults (tab) [note the circles]

[Sancho]

Ok, sucking it up and downloading firefox.  I've been using IE for as long as I can remember, so this'll be a bit weird.  Is there an option to import my IE favorites??

EDIT:  Also, I've been trying to find a replacement for Outlook Express.  Anyone know of an e-mail program which can work with Hotmail?

[SwiftSpear]

Ok, sucking it up and downloading firefox.  I've been using IE for as long as I can remember, so this'll be a bit weird.  Is there an option to import my IE favorites??

EDIT:  Also, I've been trying to find a replacement for Outlook Express.  Anyone know of an e-mail program which can work with Hotmail?

Mozzilla Thunderbird?

[sonic]

It should automatically import your favourites , and i think it asks you if you want to import them or not when you install it.

[Satiagraha]

erm, one question about firefox, how do you allow the resizing of frames? Such as the nav frame of the LM site

[Niteowl]

oh, fine, i'll add a freaking poll to this.

[SwiftSpear]

Isn't fire fox and mozilla the same thing?

[JHunz]

While IE is prone to the more serious known vulnerabilities right now, Firefox users shouldn't forget that there is currently a way to spoof links that works on Firefox.  In fact, Safari on the Mac platform is one of the only browsers that doesn't have a known link-spoofing vulnerability at present.

[Leaderz0rz]

mozzilla  comes with e-mal client, html editor etc. firefox is just the browser

[SwiftSpear]

mozzilla  comes with e-mal client, html editor etc. firefox is just the browser

mozzilla IS a browser though?  Wouldn't it be like asking, what internet brower do you use, IE6 or microsoft?

[Leaderz0rz]

Mozilla is a BROWSER mozilla.org is the company

[BobTheJanitor]

Mozilla is a slightly different browser from firefox actually. Same code base, but different implementations. Firefox is a wee bit dumbed down, actually. You go to the options for mozilla and you get lots of collapsable menus and radio buttons and drop down boxes and such. Do the same in firefox and you get like 5 menus with big bright shiny playskool brand buttons.  :p

And firefox has a seperate search bar while mozilla lets you search from the address bar, and I hate clutter on my browser window. I have too much of it on my computer desk...

[Tooky]

I agree with bob on this one. My choice would be Mozilla due to its simplicity and how it doesnt take up much space on my task bar. It is faster, somewhat, I find compared to IE but the only thing I dislike about it is probably that I have to get the programs again such as Flash or Shockwave. And the spalsh screen can get a bit of an annoyance but overall I rate it way better than IE.  The search bar is also a handy tool that came with it and has the best popup killer ever.
Overall rating on Mozilla: 9.4/10

Is Firefox that faster than IE/Mozilla?

[Black Mage]

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)

\o/

edit: mozilla browser for linux is a port of netscape ... methinks

[A Boojum Snark]

Well I decided to look into firefox a bit more, and I found another annoying thing. It alphabetizes my favorites and wont let me reorganize them into the order I want <_<...and now I see I can scroll the page with the wheel when I'm in a typing box, which makes it harder when I wanna peek back to a post I wanted to comment on :p

[Sancho]

Go to manage bookmarks to arrange them in the way you want.

So far, I'm not finding firefox much better.  It doesn't let me use Microsoft Virtual Machine, which is WAY better than Sun Java.  At first it felt slower, but then I realised its because IE won't display alot of the webpage until most of it had downloaded.  FireFox was indeed faster.  Couple other annoying little things...meh, guess I'll keep it, BUT I'LL CONTINUE TO WHINE ABOUT IT! :angry:

[Leaderz0rz]

it does have its annoy things, but the good things  outweigh the bad

[Satiagraha]

erm, one question about firefox, how do you allow the resizing of frames? Such as the nav frame of the LM site

*bump* I know how to view only that one page, but I can't figure out how to make the frames resizable... :help:

[Avs]

What happens when you use like 4 browsers at once?

[Leaderz0rz]

nothing?