Mozilla Firefox

[Duker]

Downloaded this new browser last week. Haven't had a pop up for or a freeze up since. plus all my history and favorites and cookies transfered over from IE. Help fight microsoft!

check it out here
Firefox


duke

[bagtagley]

Life without tabbed browsing is a distant memory...not sure how I got by.

FYI, I'd suggest version 0.8 until they work the kinks out of 0.9

[Beaver]

I had to stop using my firefox because it would not go to TGR. Whenever I tried my hard drive would spin and spin but I would never get to TGR. Everything else on the interweb worked but not TGR. Withdrawl set in and I reverted to Mozilla 1.4.1.

[Snow Dog]

Originally posted by Beaver
...I reverted to Mozilla 1.4.1.

1.4 is so 2003. It's up to 1.7 now.

[fiddler]

I haven't quite figured out the tabbed browsing here on Mozilla yet. But on Opera the tabs are great.

[FNG]

It works great for me. Stable as a mother.

[fez]

some of the coolest part about firefox are the extensions available. go to tools>extensions. a little popup window will open, there is a link bottom right to get more extensions. some are really cool, some are really odd, and some just suck. but most are 20 to 250k so they dont take long to download.

my favorites:
google bar
just like it says.

web developer
lots of cool tools for checking out and debugging tools. if you spend any time building web pages you will wonder how you did without it.

javascript debugger
another handy web geek tool.

css editor
and yet another, opens css for a page in a sidebar and lets you edit it live on the fly. you can open one for one of your sites or for any site and see how little tweaks affect things.

ieview
adds context menu to reload current page in ie or open link in ie. makes going back to ie for pages that dont work slightly less annoying.

single window
forces most new windows to open in new tab instead. note: if you open a link in a javascript popup you will have two tabs open in the popup, but no tabs to click.

bug-me-not / allow right click
these two extensions are both available here. bug me not adds context menu to open bug me not search for current page.. bug me not allows you to bypass compulsory registration at the new york times for instance. (havent seen it give out any porn passwords) allow right click bypasses javascript to prevent you from right clicking on a page.

status bar clock
adds a little clock to the bottom right bar on the browser. if you hide your windows tool bar like i do, its nice to have.

super drag and go
lets you drag any link (or even any text that looks like a link) to a blank spot on a page and it opens in a new tab. my current favorite.

foxy tunes
adds media player (supports most common ones, from xmms to itunes) controls to status bar of browser.

gmail notifier
adds status bar item for checking gmail

gmail compose
mailto: links open gmail.

[L7]

Been using Mozilla for a couple of years now and most recently 1.7. Had to wipe out my hard drive again and went to firefox. No probs with TGR. Tabbed browsing is definitely where it's at.

[Hayduke]

Does the Google bar work with Mozilla? Can't seem to get it....

[fez]

Originally posted by Hayduke
Does the Google bar work with Mozilla? Can't seem to get it....

i havent used mozilla in a while, but the link from both firefox and mozilla point to the same extension so i would assume it does. you may have to upgrade to the newest version of mozilla though. (current 1.7.2)

[jibij]

Awesome list of extensions, fez. Thanks for those.
I was most excited about foxy tunes, but can't get it to work with iTunes on my Mac. The others I installed will be very helpful.

[Mustonen]

i love my mac.

that is all.

[bad_roo]

Tabbed browsing. How is this any more advantageous than opening new windows in Explorer? I've signed up for the Firefiox experience and I am rather whelmed. Am I missing something here?

[cj001f]

Tabbed browsing. How is this any more advantageous than opening new windows in Explorer?

It doesn't shit a brick when you have alot of tabs open.

Download extra search plugins - I added IMDB, Powells books, Weather Underground, Bookfinder - can search all from the browser

[Foggy_Goggles]

To appreciate the tabbed option you need to enable the "open links in new tab" option. Here is an example of the genious. You're are searching for 9K accessories in goggle. You can open all the results you want to look at in different tabs and compare. It also works great for figuring out travel plans. You can have multiple tabs for the different airlines, car hire, etc.

[truth]

To appreciate the tabbed option you need to enable the "open links in new tab" option. Here is an example of the genious. You're are searching for 9K accessories in goggle. You can open all the results you want to look at in different tabs and compare. It also works great for figuring out travel plans. You can have multiple tabs for the different airlines, car hire, etc.

You nailed it. It's the only way to play the shopping game.

[VTskibum]

I use Firefox exclusively (except for one side because the webdevelopers are idiots) and for surfing TGR at work I use Ghostzilla. Never once had a pop-up window or spyware problem.

Once you go to tabbed browsing you can't go back. At work when I have 13 things open at once, it's nice to only have one browser window open. So you can run Gmail, Yahoo, TGR, ShavedBeaver.com, LS9K_Afficianados.com, all at once with only one window.

[dbp]

No browser is going to be 100% secure, but you don't
have to deel with as much stuff like the following. Hey,
even Homeland Security thinks you should switch.

Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found

I hate it when I recommend this switch to someone and
they resist doing it for no particular reason. These people
then come to me when their PC is hosed. IE is usually the
main reason.

I haven't used IE for a non-ActiveX site in over a year.

[Canuk]

I use Firefox exclusively (except for one side because the webdevelopers are idiots) and for surfing TGR at work I use Ghostzilla. Never once had a pop-up window or spyware problem.

Once you go to tabbed browsing you can't go back. At work when I have 13 things open at once, it's nice to only have one browser window open. So you can run Gmail, Yahoo, TGR, ShavedBeaver.com, LS9K_Afficianados.com, all at once with only one window.

I can't get Ghostzilla to let me into TGR...I always get some sort of error popup. Then again, I am completely computer retarded...

[gorms]

Is there a keyboard command to go from tab to tab or is it all done witht the mouse?

[dbp]

ctrl + PageUp/PageDown

[gorms]

Thanks.... that will certainly increase the efficiency of my procrastination

[spanky]

ctrl + PageUp/PageDown

or ctrl+tab

[ghcaz]

thats a lifesaver... no more alt + tab was my biggest gripe with firefox.

guess i should have read the manual

[Will]

Have a mac, used to use Safari, now I use firefox.
Here are some extensions I've enjoyed...

Dictionary Search
- Allows you to highlight a word, right click, and select to look the word up in an online dictionary (opens new tab).

AdBlock
- Once installed, it's a snap to filter elements at their source-address. Just right-click: Adblock: done. Filters use either the wildcard character (*) or full Regular Expression syntax.

Tiny URL creator
- Allows you to right click to create a tiny-url for the page you're viewing.

NUKE anything
- Don't like an object on the screen? Perhaps it's flashing and annoying? Right click, remove object, object gone. It returns when you reload the page though.

And for those porn addicts out there :
Thumbs
- Highlight a punch of links, right click thumbs, and a new page opens containing a thumb of the first image from each highlighted link.