Something I noticed about IE vs Firefox.... when I saved the

[HysteryDiagnosis]

webpage on the Tyler Texas domestic terrorists, you know the one with the pics of the explosives, chemicals, automatic weapons and such, anyway when I saved the page with IE, the photos were left out, just blanks, placemarkers. I just tried that with Firefox and every photo was put in its proper place, I guess Firefox is all they say and more.... I'm hooked.

[0007]

1. I'm hooked on Firefox....Screw IE

[DS1]

2. This isn't the place to discuss it

but yes, you're right. IE, despite Micro$oft's claims is FAR from css compliancy, in fact, there are now entire webpages that play on that, and display themselves ENTIRELY differently if they are IE because they've "hacked" the CSS markups to force IE to skip over the stuff it can't understand.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. I LOVE Firefox

My brother put Firefox on our computer about a year or so ago and I've loved it ever since. :)

[Libby2]

4. Alright

so kill me.

I don't like firefox. It does some wonky things.

Half the time the images don't show.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Bang Bang.....

[Berserker]

6. I have had firefox for a couple of years

and never had that problem.

[tridim]

9. I agree.. Firefox is not living up to the hype..

It's not bad, but not good either. And I say that as an old-skool professional web developer who deals with IE and Firefox issues every day.

Software, like everything else is subject to opinion. The IE/Firefox debate will go on forever, and nobody will ever win.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. It's an insurgency on both sides..... :)

[firefox]

7. You need to study on extensions

Open the tools menu and chose extensions. In that window you can chose "get more extensions" in the bottom right. "Colorful tabs 0.3" is a nice edition, but things like TinyUrlCreator and DictionarySearch are things we only dreamed of back in the day.

There are things under "bookmarks" that I have yet to explore in regards saving pages as you see them and emailing them- https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application=firefox

Firefox is the best.

[kliljedahl]

10. Nothing like it

Pick and choose the extensions you need & you've got the perfect browser for you. There's even one to open the few pages in IE that don't show correctly.

I'll never use IE again.



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8. I like Firefox too, but have to use IE for some sites.

On a few of the websites I have to use for work, there are buttons that are supposed to drop-down a menu when you scroll over them that I cannot get to work with Firefox. That's the only time I use IE.

[Dogmudgeon]

11. You have to save the WHOLE web page

There are four options in the drop-down:

You can save the HTML page itself. That's probably what you did.

You can save the whole HTML page. That's what you're used to in Firefox.

You can save it as a one-file web archive with the MHT extension. That's what I do -- and Firefox can't handle it.

You can also save the page as text-only. That's not really too useful these days, but it's there if you're just capturing raw information and there a piece of Javascript that hanging the save up.

For me, Firefox was NOT all they said and more. The Mozilla team was only recently made aware of the MHT format (and it's an open format, NOT a Microsoft-only format). It's also making my slow conversion to Linux more painful than it ought to be. I'm looking at the possibility of having to convert close to 20,000 MHT pages to >100,000 web page files complete with extra subdirectories.

Lots of people also crow about how good OpenOffice is. I've started to develop for it (shell and script stuff, and most of the MHT conversion notes I've seen demand some API-based coding and decoding I'm far from up-to-speed with), and it's NOT a fun experience at this point. It only has two display modes, which is a drawback they never discuss. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for downloading the 2.0 beta. (I'm behind in my downloads.)

I'm throwing my lot in with Tux, but Bill's operation is far from shoddy. Meanwhile -- does anyone in Linuxland know where I can get an MHT add-on for Konqueror, Mozilla/Firefox, or other major browsers for Linux?

Good luck with the Firefox, but keep its Wiki URL handy!

--p!

[tulsakatz]

12. I don't even use IE anymore

I use Firefox or Opera

IE seems to have too many security issues.

[shanti]

13. i know all about ie and don't use it

but imo, netscape works better than firefox, so i use that instead. can anyone tell me why i shouldn't use netscape? it has tabs too which i definitely prefer.