Is Firefox For Everyone? - Comments Page 4

I am extremely happy with Firefox. I rarely get any popups. maybe once every several months. I have had zero problems. I run it with Various Linux, MS XP PRO, and 98SE. I see no reason to have IE at all except to do MS updates. I do not think that MS would have added anything to IE, if Firefox had not become so popular.

As for security threats, Mozilla does not drag its heels and try to sweep them under the carpet the way MS does. Mozilla is not perfect,but is perfectly honest. They are very upfront about problems, and are very quick to let the community know about them.

The two biggest reasons that I prefer Firefox to IE 7 have to do with the add-ons. The first add-on which I use is Auto Copy. Auto Copy automatically copies selected text to the clipboard. Another program that I use is Speakonia and one of its options is to speak text from the clipboard. Thus when I highlight text using Firefox, it is automatically read to me. With IE 7, after highlighting the text, I have to hit Ctrl-C in order to have it read, adding a step to the operation.

The next two add-ons that I use are Adblock Plus and the Adblock Filterset.G Updater. These two add-ons are very effective at blocking ads. I haven't come across anything which works as well with IE 7.

But why not Opera -- or K-Meleon for that matter? Opera is faster than Firefox (and IE, of course). In the matter of extensions and the problems they can cause when Firefox changes versions, Opera already has many of these functions built in.

The number one reason is I am still using win98 and no security updates from MS. I have not had a virus or adware since I started using firefox and thunderbird almost two years ago. I very seldom run "adaware or spybot" anymore. It was a daily maintenance when I was using Ie.
I must admit I have become a lttle careless lately.
But when I do run my virus and adware programs they come up zero. I am now using Opera a lot more since they introduced tabbed browsing.

I've been using Firefox for a number of years. IE just didn't have the smooth feel that Firefox has. (I also gave up Windows entirely and went with Xandros, a nice stable Linux distro). Now there are no virus, spyware, or other malware problems and the pop up control is excellent. Lastly, Firefox add-ons, extensions and themes allow superior customization of the interface.

For Johnbbq -- "Firefox.....did not work well with Hotmail and garbled the addresses. In addition I had many skips and crashes in writing. I switched back to IE and am very happy"

Try using something better than hotmail. I had a hotmail account only because it was required by school. I had no prejudice about hotmail, but quickly learned to hate it. So slow. Too much stuff to wade thru to look at my mail. I use Mozilla Thunderbird.

I am not trying to make excuses for Mozilla. You got to admit that it would not be too far fetched to suggest that MS would do something to make hotmail not work with Thunderbird.

I use (or should I say did) Firefox and Internet Explorer. I tried IE 7 beta and it didn't like my Computer so out it came using the uninstall feature. Now, I still can use my Firefox, but I no longer seem to have any Internet Explorer at all on my machine, and I am unable to install any version at all. It comes up with "there is already a newer version installed" and will not allow it to progress any further.
I won't be making the trip to IE7 again anytime in the near future.

I've been using FF for a very long time -- started when I was having problems with Win98. FF solved those problems and more. It's been much more reliable than IE6. I use IE at work because that's what they have. At home, FF exclusively. I REALLY like the spell checker that's part of FF2.0, I use web mail accounts a lot, and this browser based spell checker checks the word as soon as I have written it.

I also like the ability to search a word in the browser with whatever search engine I have selected. If I need to check a word's dictionary meaning, I select the Webster search engine, highlight the word, right click, select "Search" and get the definition in a new tab faster than I can find a dictionary on my desk!

Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, when I get an update from FF, the previous settings are incorporated into the new version -- this happened even when FF moved to version 2.0. IE7 on the other hand seemed to forget even the basics -- like which text size I want. NOT a smart move! My recommendation remains -- use FF!

I have been using Firefox and Thunderbird for some time now and I love them (I hate explorer - it just doesn't work!!) However I recently upgraded to Firefox 2 and what a mess!! All my favourites are gone! I can still get most of my sites in the history but I am unable to save any favourites! I am very disappointed as I never used Explorer - The latest version - 7 (IE) is better than previous releases but I still rate it only "fair". I am very happy with Thunderbird for my emails - and I wish I could go back to my previous version of Firefox as it was fabulous - fast - and never crashed! I felt "safer" somehow using Mozilla products - too much useless "crap" on microsoft.

I'm a long time Firefox user, and I guess a computer "geek" as I work with them all the time. I have both IE7 (on Vista), IE6 (on XP Pro) and Firefox 2.0 (on XP). My favourite, by far, is the Firefox 2. Reasons - first of all I will support anything which broadens the options available to us.
Secondly I like the way that the tabbed browsing in Firefox 2 works. I am usually looking for information and will have 10+ tabs open at a time. In IE7 this makes the tabs so small I can't read the header - same in Firefox you say? NO the "down" button on the far right of the Firefox tab bar gives me a full list of all the tabs open and is selectable!!
I do buy a fair amount of stuff on the internet and have had no problems in this regard with Firefox. The only website I've had problems with in Firefox are - suprise - Microsoft sites. Only thing I like better in IE7 the ease of opening a new tab.