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Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2004-12-09 06:06pm

and it is Firefox. I wanted to see if its what everyone was talking about and so far I like the browser. But I am still holding on to IE. I'm loyal to Gates! ALL HAIL DARTH GATES!!!

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-09 06:49pm

do yourself a favor and ditch IE completely. if you need a browser that works with IE only sites, then get maxthon's browser. it's effectively IE on steroids, offering tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, a built in proxy spoofer, and a translation utility for foreign language pages.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2004-12-09 10:37pm

Darth_Zod wrote:do yourself a favor and ditch IE completely. if you need a browser that works with IE only sites, then get maxthon's browser. it's effectively IE on steroids, offering tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, a built in proxy spoofer, and a translation utility for foreign language pages.

Nah.. IE stays as is. My sister uses it while I'm trying out FireFox.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2004-12-09 10:45pm

I'm using Firefox too, I never got around to downloading it to see what the fuss was about, and my dad wouldn't have appreciated me changing default browsers, he has an issue with these things. But then my computer got a nasty little virus, and the nice guy who fixed our computer told us to use Firefox after. And I must say, it's great. The scrolling isn't as smooth as I like it, and turning on smooth scrolling just slows it down too much. Other than that, it's fantastic, better than IE ever was. But then, I suppose you folks have heard plenty of stories like man, haven't you?

Joy Division · Post by **Joy Division** » 2004-12-10 03:31pm

Enigma wrote:and it is Firefox. I wanted to see if its what everyone was talking about and so far I like the browser. But I am still holding on to IE. I'm loyal to Gates! ALL HAIL DARTH GATES!!!

I have installed Firefox, only today, ad set it as my default browser and I too have found it to be better than IE6. And it's nice not to have all the security issues. Does anyone know if there is a risk me just keeping IE on my computer? (if my attempt to wean my family onto Firefox doesn't work).

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-12-10 03:37pm

Unfortunately, IE is integrated into Windows in such a way that removing it ranges from the difficult to the impossible. Even if you've resolved to never use it again, you're stuck with it on your hard drive unless you decide to ditch Windows entirely (the "removal" option in the Add/Remove Windows Components dialog only removes its icons from your desktop and Start menu. The program itself is still there.)

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-12-10 03:50pm

Enigma wrote:and it is Firefox. I wanted to see if its what everyone was talking about and so far I like the browser. But I am still holding on to IE. I'm loyal to Gates! ALL HAIL DARTH GATES!!!

http://www.microsith.com/

Heretic

Tatsumi · Post by **Tatsumi** » 2004-12-14 12:05pm

Darth_Zod wrote:do yourself a favor and ditch IE completely. if you need a browser that works with IE only sites, then get maxthon's browser. it's effectively IE on steroids, offering tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, a built in proxy spoofer, and a translation utility for foreign language pages.

All im looking for is popup blockers...Fuck the rest of that bullshit...all it does is piss me off

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-12-14 12:28pm

Tatsumi wrote:All im looking for is popup blockers...Fuck the rest of that bullshit...all it does is piss me off

Fine, then get SP2, works perfectly.

Adios away.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-14 05:35pm

Tatsumi wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:do yourself a favor and ditch IE completely. if you need a browser that works with IE only sites, then get maxthon's browser. it's effectively IE on steroids, offering tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, a built in proxy spoofer, and a translation utility for foreign language pages.
All im looking for is popup blockers...Fuck the rest of that bullshit...all it does is piss me off

so just get the google toolbar and stop whining about how much you don't like extra options in browsers then.

Tatsumi · Post by **Tatsumi** » 2004-12-15 11:57am

Google toolbar dont help...at all..lol, I use Firefuck

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-12-15 12:27pm

If you use FireFox, just turn on the built in popup blocker

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2004-12-15 02:54pm

It runs just fine on my system which is an Athlon 1400 also with only 96megs of RAM, although I'm running XP.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-12-15 03:30pm

Destructionator XIII wrote:Actually, I'm pretty happy with IE, after I disabled Java and cookies and set all other scripting to prompt. Bye bye pop ups and other crap, but should I switch I need to know something:
FireFox's system requirements: I'm using a Pentium 1 200Mhz with 96megs of RAM on Winblows 98. Should it work? I know I am under the requirements listed on the site. I am right now using M$IE6, though I am below the requirements for that, too.

it runs fine on my 333mhz system, with 64 megs of ram, so it might run on yours without too many problems.

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2004-12-15 04:02pm

Darth_Zod wrote:
Destructionator XIII wrote:Actually, I'm pretty happy with IE, after I disabled Java and cookies and set all other scripting to prompt. Bye bye pop ups and other crap, but should I switch I need to know something:
FireFox's system requirements: I'm using a Pentium 1 200Mhz with 96megs of RAM on Winblows 98. Should it work? I know I am under the requirements listed on the site. I am right now using M$IE6, though I am below the requirements for that, too.
it runs fine on my 333mhz system, with 64 megs of ram, so it might run on yours without too many problems.

Perhaps some sort of thread should be started to see which of us SDNetter's has the computer with the lowest specs.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-12-15 04:14pm

It starts slower but you'll find it loads faster after starting.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2004-12-15 09:22pm

observer_20000 wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:
Destructionator XIII wrote:Actually, I'm pretty happy with IE, after I disabled Java and cookies and set all other scripting to prompt. Bye bye pop ups and other crap, but should I switch I need to know something:
FireFox's system requirements: I'm using a Pentium 1 200Mhz with 96megs of RAM on Winblows 98. Should it work? I know I am under the requirements listed on the site. I am right now using M$IE6, though I am below the requirements for that, too.
it runs fine on my 333mhz system, with 64 megs of ram, so it might run on yours without too many problems.
Perhaps some sort of thread should be started to see which of us SDNetter's has the computer with the lowest specs.

I've got an eight year old computer that I still use and its a P133 with 64megs of RAM.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-12-16 12:23am

Dosn't PU have you all beat?

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2004-12-16 12:28am

What are his specs?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-12-16 02:22am

You can try INET. It is a small browser I wrote that works on low end systems too.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-12-16 12:58pm

Well, I just upgraded from Firefox 0.8 to 1.0. It seems a bit faster than before, and there are many more great extensions for it, like a nifty 'Paste Quote' one which adds that command to the context menu for text forms. It pastes the current clipboard contents with UBB quote tags around them, which is great for lazy people like me.

Unfortunately, I had to go hunting around for my favorite extension, Tabbrowser Extensions. Anyone who doesn't use it yet, should. It's that good.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-12-16 03:10pm

Yay' I's a smart'un! I figured out how to delete that accursed Bookmarks Toolbar Folder entirely, thanks to an apparent 'bug' in the Manage Bookmarks menu. Here's how:

1. Click the Bookmarks menu, then click Manage Bookmarks.
2. Create a new folder, then select it and click the Edit menu, then click Set as Bookmarks Toolbar Folder.
3. Click the Edit menu, then Undo New Folder.
4. Delete the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder.

Normally, you would be unable to delete the new folder, as the BTF is set to be undeleteable from the menu. However, when you Undo New Folder, the command is undone without regard to your setting it as the BTF. Since the old BTF isn't reset, it can be deleted too.

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