09-22-2004, 11:22 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 598
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Spread Firefox! Take back the web...
Let's get on board with the effort to Spread Firefox - they have hit one million downloads in 100 hours and the ticker is a blur.
You can also download Firefox directly.
Firefox Help 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 extension to make posting to these and most other forums a snap! See some info and screenshots here.
Make the switch to Firefox and Thunderbird. You will never look back.
J'bm
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09-22-2004, 01:35 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,878
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Re: Spread Firefox! Take back the web...
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Originally Posted by Jereboam
Admins, moderators, can we front page this?
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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
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"My eyes are rolling back in my head so far I can see my grey matter bubbling and frothing from reading this thread....bleh." JD
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09-25-2004, 10:10 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Re: Spread Firefox! Take back the web...
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Originally Posted by Steven Cedrone
Not sure about movin' it to the front page, but I sure can move it to off-topic! :wink:
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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
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09-26-2004, 10:41 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 12,959
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Re: Spread Firefox! Take back the web...
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
I think we should hold off on frontpaging it, because we'd start a Firefox-vs-IE debate
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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. 
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09-26-2004, 12:03 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,208
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we'd start a Firefox-vs-IE debate
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i am ready ! Lets get the party started 
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09-27-2004, 02:45 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 174
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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!
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09-27-2004, 07:08 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,124
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The new IE in SP2 has native popup blocking and activex controlling.
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09-27-2004, 07:54 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 174
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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.
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09-27-2004, 08:50 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,124
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Yeah on the new version though you have to explicitly agree every time one is installed.
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09-27-2004, 10:06 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,766
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The "Spread Firefox" link doesn't work for me. Is this the same with anyone else?
-Justin.
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