Someting Other Than Internet Explorer

[Gee!]

So I have figured out why I dont like this new high speed.. Its not the high speed, its the IE.. Are there better alternatives than IE?

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

You seek Firefox.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

 

[Gee!]

You seek Firefox.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

sweet.. is this the newest best version? just dont wanna have to d/l it twice

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Yeah, Firefox 2 is the newest form but it may have you run an update when you first start it up. Luckily, updates in Firefox are painless.

 

[Gee!]

hey this kicks ass.. much better than IE..

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Firefox rox

 

[Duckjake]

Just downloaded firefox. Pages load almost instantly. Far superior to IE, which on my computer won't even load images on ASFN anymore. Just the little boxes with the x in them.

Speaking of ASFN. On my computer at work the color scheme is red. On my computer at home the color scheme is gray. Anyone know what's up with that?

 

[JS22]

Firefox is awesome. The add-on feature alone make it 50000000000x better than IE.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2

 

[Gee!]

Just downloaded firefox. Pages load almost instantly. Far superior to IE, which on my computer won't even load images on ASFN anymore. Just the little boxes with the x in them.

Speaking of ASFN. On my computer at work the color scheme is red. On my computer at home the color scheme is gray. Anyone know what's up with that?

Thats exactly what was pissing me off about IE at first..

Dont know about the color schemes though..

This firefox is nice..

 

[Covert Rain]

Thats exactly what was pissing me off about IE at first..

Dont know about the color schemes though..

This firefox is nice..

If you want to try another one...try the Opera web browser.

http://www.opera.com/

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Speaking of ASFN. On my computer at work the color scheme is red. On my computer at home the color scheme is gray. Anyone know what's up with that?

Go to User CP and then Edit Options. All the way at the bottom is a box marked "forum skin," there are several options there to change the color scheme. That's probably what's going on.

 

[Ryanwb]

All the way at the bottom is a box marked "fore skin,"

 

[Duckjake]

Go to User CP and then Edit Options. All the way at the bottom is a box marked "forum skin," there are several options there to change the color scheme. That's probably what's going on.

Another benefit of switching to firefox is the automatic spell check on posts for ASFN that I didn't have before.

It's also a lot faster loading pages.

 

[Hollywood]

All this firefox talk has me curious. I think I will take a look at it when I get home.

 

[Linderbee]

All this firefox talk has me curious. I think I will take a look at it when I get home.

I heart firefox.

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Haha, I had to check and make sure I didn't actually accidentally say that.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

If you want to try another one...try the Opera web browser.

http://www.opera.com/

I think I'm gonna dl this tonight. It looks pretty spiffy.

 

[Darth Llama]

Firefox > All

 

[Sandan]

Firefox is the only way to fly

And you can add in many options including a IE emulator

 

[AZZenny]

Is there any problem with Firefox and complex foreign language websites loading and interaction, etc.?

 

[Sandan]

I use Firefox 99.999% of the time

Firefox has an amazing array of plugins but the biggies are

• IEtab - runs IE on IE only sites [very rare] most company internal
• Noscript - Selectively blocks active content [including annoying flash ads]
• Adblock plus - eliminates adverts
• CustomizeGoogle - Forces Google tools into https mode so they are encrypted.

I haven't looked into other languages but I would be very surprised if it had problems

 

[Gaddabout]

Love Firefox, but it crashes on startup on my Dell/WinXP Laptop. I've trashed it and reloaded it and still no change. I miss Firefox.

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Love Firefox, but it crashes on startup on my Dell/WinXP Laptop. I've trashed it and reloaded it and still no change. I miss Firefox.

What version were you using? You can try the updated version of Firefox 2, or the beta of Firefox 3 to see if it makes a difference.

 

[Sandan]

Crashes ?

 

[Pariah]

My firefox stopped working coreectly--I couldn't use apostrophes, tabbing didn't work right, etc... So, I uninstalled and re-installed. No dice. I'm back to IE.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say that Microsoft sabotoged it.