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Posted: 10/24/2004 4:58:59 PM EDT
just downloaded firefox and customized to my liking. it's pretty cool, but tell me again why it is so much better than IE. i'm not being a smartass--i'm just ignorant and would really like to know.
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:00:53 PM EDT
[#1]
security
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:01:39 PM EDT
[#2]
while it was a fairly entertaining movie, it was definitely not Clint Eastwoods best work
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:01:44 PM EDT
[#3]
Doesnt lock up or crash as much

Loads pages faster

No pop ups
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:02:35 PM EDT
[#4]
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:05:22 PM EDT
[#5]
It has TABS!!!!!
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:07:37 PM EDT
[#6]
Doesn't work for editing MSN pages
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:08:10 PM EDT
[#7]
Spend the next hour surfing porn sites...at the end of it, you won't have any spyware, malware, redirected home pages, or any other shit you don't want.  And no pop ups either.  It puts the FUN back in the internet
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:09:09 PM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:
security



Til they figure out how to get past it, and yes they will get past it and it will be no better than IE.
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:14:47 PM EDT
[#9]
All of the above plus under "tools" it  gives you the option to "clear all" if you like with a single button. All site history, all download history, all temp internet files, all cache, all cookies...everything.  Or you can just clear what you want, or nothing.

I haven't haven't seen a single popup since I started using it months ago.
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:21:01 PM EDT
[#10]
how do you set your default mail?
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:26:29 PM EDT
[#11]
Great movie.
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:29:24 PM EDT
[#12]
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:35:50 PM EDT
[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
security



Til they figure out how to get past it, and yes they will get past it and it will be no better than IE.



Firefox has holes, just like every other piece of software, but like the Mac OS, nobody cares because not enough people use it to make a big impact.  That and it's open source, which most hackers and virus writers support.
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:38:38 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Doesn't work for editing MSN pages



Yes, by design it doesn't support ActiveX because of security issues.
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:45:39 PM EDT
[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
security



Til they figure out how to get past it, and yes they will get past it and it will be no better than IE.



There will be minor exploits that are discovered in Firefox but it does not have the hooks into the O/S that MS IE has.  As an application it simply doesn't have the authority to exec certain functions that makes IE a security risk.
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:53:07 PM EDT
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I still cant get the Shockwave plugin to work.



Are you using the latest version?  I've haven't had any problems with Shockwave.

Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:53:12 PM EDT
[#17]

Quoted:
while it was a fairly entertaining movie, it was definitely not Clint Eastwoods best work



I know but the books are better.  Oh I thought you said Foxfire. A little slissdexic tonight.
CH
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 6:33:56 PM EDT
[#18]

Quoted:
just downloaded firefox and customized to my liking. it's pretty cool, but tell me again why it is so much better than IE. i'm not being a smartass--i'm just ignorant and would really like to know.




heh heh,  you reminded me of foxfire (1996) and Angelina Jolie  going topless.

Link Posted: 10/24/2004 6:44:15 PM EDT
[#19]

Quoted:
It has TABS!!!!!



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