Spread Firefox! Take back the web...

[Jereboam]

Let's get on board with the effort to Spread Firefox (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/) - they have hit one million downloads in 100 hours and the ticker is a blur.

You can also download (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) Firefox directly.

Firefox Help (http://texturizer.net/firefox/) is a great site for configuration tips.

Admins, moderators, can we front page this?

Perhaps we can make this a tips thread for PPC Thoughts users also. Here's my first - use the BBCode (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=380&hl=bbcode) extension to make posting to these and most other forums a snap! See some info and screenshots here (http://blog.codefront.net/archives/2004/07/01/post-in-forums-a-lot-bbcode-is-for-you).

Make the switch to Firefox and Thunderbird. You will never look back.

J'bm

[Steven Cedrone]

Admins, moderators, can we front page this?

Not sure about movin' it to the front page, but I sure can move it to off-topic! :wink:

Send a blurb to the news team about it!

Steve

[Janak Parekh]

Not sure about movin' it to the front page, but I sure can move it to off-topic! :wink:
I think we should hold off on frontpaging it, because we'd start a Firefox-vs-IE debate -- and we've got enough IE users on the news team to make that debate a little heated. :P

I've been a Firefox user for a while, and am very happy with it, though.

--janak

[Darius Wey]

I think we should hold off on frontpaging it, because we'd start a Firefox-vs-IE debate

Hehe...if anyone wanted to read about a Firefox vs IE debate, there are plenty out there on those techy sites. Just Google to your heart's content if you're getting fidgety. :D

[Kowalski]

we'd start a Firefox-vs-IE debate
i am ready ! Lets get the party started :)

[KimVette]

What I like about MSIE:
* Launches faster than any other browser on Windows (it ought to, since it is integrated into the operating environment)
* ActiveX support (stop laughing. once you secure it, it's darn good!)
* Spyware/brower hijacker removal keeps me busy (see above point: it's fine once you secure the browser)

What I hate about MSIE:
* a VERY broken PNG renderer (ever try to get a PNG alpha blending to render correctly on your site? It's darn difficult -- but possible (as evidenced on my web site)
* browser hijackers (see point above about securing ActiveX)
* no native ability to disable popups
* even securing the browser and installing popup blockers does not achieve 100% effectiveness in blocking popup and pop under ads)

What I like about Firefox:
* open source
* loads pages faster than MSIE
* excellent PNG rendering
* the best GECKO implementation
* supports almost as many CSS elements/attributes as MSIE
* even handles MSIE-specific HTML tags
* displays most designed-for-MSIE pages accurately
* tabbed viewing is the best of any tabbed browser. Unlike other tabbed browsers, it enables you to open a new page EITHER as a tab OR as a new window. Firefox has made me embrace tabbed browsing, since it does not force tabs on me when tabs are not desired.
* excellent extension support

What I do not like about Firefox:
* does not support ActiveX without extensions (which are in early alpha stages, and very buggy)
* Not multithreaded as well as MSIE
* CSS support comes close to MSIE's CSS support, but falls slightly short
* GUI (out of the box) is not as nice as MSIE
* built-in search toolbar is not configurable for size - it is a fixed tiny size PLUS there is no "go" or "search" button for that toolbar (yes, I've gone into the available buttons, the "go" button is for the location/address bar)

What, code my own extension to fix those things? You've got to be kidding! :D

[PetiteFlower]

The new IE in SP2 has native popup blocking and activex controlling.

[KimVette]

IE had ActiveX restrictions from the beginning (to be fair to M$) - security on them were normally set to low by default though, so you had to know enough to bump up the security to take advantage of it.

[PetiteFlower]

Yeah on the new version though you have to explicitly agree every time one is installed.

[JustinGTP]

The "Spread Firefox" link doesn't work for me. Is this the same with anyone else?

-Justin.

[KimVette]

Works for me. If you do a nslookup, whois, or ping, (at a command prompt of course) is an IP address returned?