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Fire Fox. But it takes much longer for it to open up for me!
IE or Firefox,
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Firefox easily.
Been using firefox from home for a couple of years now, and IE7 i've just started using on my new system at work recently.
the main difference i've struggled to come to terms with in IE is that you can't drag links to the tab bar to open them in a new tab, you can't middle click to open link in new tab, you can't undo close tab.. just overall firefox handles tabs much much better.
the one thing i do like in IE is the zoom in/out changing the size of the images as well as the text, so it all sorta grows/shrinks together. but that feature is in firefox 3 beta, though i havent upgraded to that at home yet.
Been using firefox from home for a couple of years now, and IE7 i've just started using on my new system at work recently.
the main difference i've struggled to come to terms with in IE is that you can't drag links to the tab bar to open them in a new tab, you can't middle click to open link in new tab, you can't undo close tab.. just overall firefox handles tabs much much better.
the one thing i do like in IE is the zoom in/out changing the size of the images as well as the text, so it all sorta grows/shrinks together. but that feature is in firefox 3 beta, though i havent upgraded to that at home yet.
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??? I can middle click to open a new tab, just terribly slow... The popup blockers are horrible and simply block anything even if it is on the same page.. Annoying as hell
But Firefox just has IE dominated in the tabs department
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not on my IE u cant.??? I can middle click to open a new tab, just terribly slow... The popup blockers are horrible and simply block anything even if it is on the same page.. Annoying as hell
But Firefox just has IE dominated in the tabs department
also a point of note is firefox on linux doesnt seem to like middle clicking..
Firefox runs so much better and i have no problems viewing video's or anything.
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Fact is these computers that I am using at TAFE all have IE on them and not much else. They do have firefox but as always is the case it shits itself.nothing new there.
I do have a slight problem with Firefox: sometimes it takes quite a while to load. Maybe I am not setting it up correctly. I have the latest version of Firefox.
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if you have an adon that requires connection to the internet to do some updating/checking etc, this could be the problem.
also if you have very strict internet settings, a slow computer with corrupted/crap/full ram, etc.
its most probably to do with computer settings.
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Talking about Ubuntu I upgraded an old pc yesterday - pIII 500 MHz with 256 MB RAM with Xubuntu yesterday and the it works surprisingly well.
Definitely recommend it if your look for value out of old boxes.
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I have got all three up. Opera, Firefox and IE.
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ubuntu runs like a dream.
for a while till i installed a few new apps on my laptop that needed to load a boottime, my laptop was going from bios to login screen in 10 seconds - was happy as.
so bloody quick!
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Firefox FTW.
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Yeh - XFCE is very light, great for the more modest machine.
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Am finding Firefox far superior to IE. However is there a way to send a saved bookmark(favourite) to my desktop using Firefox as is possible using IE?
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Just make the screen size smaller, open bookmarks grab the actual bookmark and drag it onto the desktop.
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Thanks
Does the free version still come with that obnoxious banner?
IMO FF beats them all for one, simple reason: open source ftw!
And what reasons do the Opera users prefer it over FF? Haven't used Opera for years