Firefox

[J Smith]

Ok whos useing it?
I just changed to it from internet explorer and I like it a whole lot better.

[severedthumbs]

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll notice pages load faster especially if you are reloading a bunch of tabs at once. Well, I did.

[Concord_Bob]

I use firefox. It is far superior to IE and doesn't appear to have all the security flaws. Some of the extension add ons for it are great.

[Civilian]

I have heard that some sites won't work with it. Is that true, if so any examples?

[rorschach]

I use it, it's great. Any pages that rely heavily on certain ActiveX controls will likely not work well in Firefox. So I recommend you keep IE around for those rare few examples.

Here is an article about some sites that don't work well and the reasons why.

[Outlaw]

Firefox 1.0 works great, no problems at all. It opens web pages much faster than my IE program. I'm still learning it's features, but I'm very happy so far.

[severedthumbs]

anybody do tabbed browsing?

[Moon]

Yeah I have been using it for a few months now.