Firefox 1.0

[MistressValerie1]

The official stable version of Firefox 1.0 has just been released (free, www.mozilla.org ). Although I've always been a staunch Internet Explorer user, I decided to try this alternative browser, and so far, I mostly like it 🙂

I have not had any major problems with sites rendering poorly, although MSN Groups and Yahoo Mail lose the formatting toolbars in Firefox. The built-in popup blocker is the best I've ever used, passing all but one test at popuptest.com. The download manager is very convenient, since it allows you to pause and resume downloads, something that IE cannot do. Firefox also allows blocking of images from given sites, via a simple right-click option. Last, but not least, Firefox is far more secure than Internet Explorer; it offers 256-bit encryption, and does not suffer from critical unpatched vulnerabilities like IE.

Is anyone else here using Firefox, and if so, how do you like it?

 

[alf1]

Is anyone else here using Firefox, and if so, how do you like it?

Well, i use it since few months now, and it's really appreciable not to have pop ups everywhere and anytime blocking pages 🙂
Layout is cool, easy to use, the downloading system is also nice, although i used DAP before for it. Still quick though.
In fact i was looking for an alternative for IE and i think i found the good one :snob: 😉

 

[tukano_2]

My position is very different from yours: I always searched for an alternative to Internet Explorer, since the beginning, either for "political" (Microsoft is a virus itself!) and for functional reasons, since Netscape->Mozilla->Firefox has always offered much greater configurability, often greater security options (specially lately with Firefox) and gret tools for software developers, like me.

In the past Netscape and Mozilla were sometimes slower and, above all Mozilla, were buggy, but Firefox 1.0 is fast and stable.

There are a lot of extensions you can download from mozilla site: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions, that allow users to enhance and customize the browser behaviour, and users who can program can develop extensions themselves.

Aport of the features MistressValerie described above, the tab feature of Firefox is one of the most useful I used on a browser.
I had no problems with flash, java and other plugins. The most problems with graphics in some sites is due to the fact that some people ONLY develop sites for Explorer: this way they are passively accepting and actively supporting Microsoft monopoly.

 

[somebody231]

when you update... do you have to first a) download the 1.0 firefox, then uninstall the previous one, then install the new one... or install on the old one? (not uninstalling the old one) OR ... possibly there's an update choice someone hidden from my eyes? ^_^

"Guide me, my mistress!" 🙂 Light my path! 😉

 

[Smade1]

Last week I downloaded version 1 pre-release over 0.7 somthing and it just updated - no uninstall.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Install over the old version, as Smade said. LOVE Firefox. If only for tabbed browsing it kicks IE all over the place. Their password manages is also superior to IE's; it picked up password forms on pages IE missed completely.

The only annoyances I have thus far with it are that its opacity attributes are different from IEs, which renders void some java effects I have been using, and that on certain sites coded badly, tables will 'bleed' into other tables, making a small number of pages unreadable. But, both are minor.

 

[nessonite1]

Kalamos, dude, Opera. Seriously. I've not used FireFox but I have never had a problem with Opera. Tabbed browsing, popup blocker, and a TON of advanced customization. The free vversion has a small ad in the upper toolbar but it's simple enough to get rid of with a crack.
www.opera.com

 

[Cbarton]

I've heard of some incompataiblites with firefox with MS and.or yahoo....fact ot competitors fiction?

 

[pleatherdyke]

i've been using firefox for months. it is a joy both to have a browser that is stable and secure and to resist microsoft's monopolism.

and tabbed browsing is eye-opening the first time one experiences it.

 

[MistressValerie1]

I've heard of some incompataiblites with firefox with MS and.or yahoo....fact ot competitors fiction?

There is some truth to this. MSN Groups, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail all lose the rich-text toolbars when viewed with Firefox, although all other functions remain fully useable. On the other hand, Firefox actually uploads files to MSN Groups better than Internet Explorer, because Firefox doesn't require installation of annoying, unstable Active-X controls 🙂

 

[Cbarton]

There is some truth to this. MSN Groups, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail all lose the rich-text toolbars when viewed with Firefox, although all other functions remain fully useable. On the other hand, Firefox actually uploads files to MSN Groups better than Internet Explorer, because Firefox doesn't require installation of annoying, unstable Active-X controls 🙂

I may just try it then....

 

[MistressValerie1]

Kalamos, dude, Opera. Seriously. I've not used FireFox but I have never had a problem with Opera. Tabbed browsing, popup blocker, and a TON of advanced customization. The free vversion has a small ad in the upper toolbar but it's simple enough to get rid of with a crack.
www.opera.com

Firefox functions very much like Opera, although it looks and feels like IE (which is a plus, to me). Opera is a tiny bit more secure because patches are released often, but Firefox is still far more secure than IE, which is becoming a joke (I-frame exploit, anyone?).

 

[Smade1]

The only downside for me is that it's a real memory hog - only 3 tabs open (all text files) and it's holding 60Mb of memory. It's a pain when working with 3D software as they like to hold onto even more.

 

[MistressValerie1]

The only downside for me is that it's a real memory hog - only 3 tabs open (all text files) and it's holding 60Mb of memory. It's a pain when working with 3D software as they like to hold onto even more.

Good point ... I just checked and saw that with only this page open, it was using a whopping 42MB of memory. It does seem to render pages a little slower than IE as well. I hope that these annoyances will be fixed in future versions.

 

[Quiller1]

Usually with pre-release versions there is alot of debug code left in the application until the developers are happy. Hopefully when they are happy with the browser this problem might go away.

It's still streets ahead of anything else out there - and free.