Firefox = bad

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Originally Posted by devilmaykickass

Anyone know how to fix these?

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Switch to Linux.






:tongue:


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I keed, I keed.

Yeah sorry I wish I was rich enough to switch to Linux (if its actually any good) but sadly I'm not. :(

dmka, go to Tools, Options, Themes, and Get New Themes. That'll fix it. I've switched themes now.

Any good Linux distro is free.

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Originally Posted by devilmaykickass

Yeah sorry I wish I was rich enough to switch to Linux (if its actually any good) but sadly I'm not. :(

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The only thing you have the be rich in is patience. Linux is free, remember? :cool: But yeah, patience. *MSWhore85* :(

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Originally Posted by devilmaykickass

And my apologies for my ignorance, but what the hell is "Tabbed browsing"?

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http://www.carrotmaster.com/images/tabbed.png

In this picture I have five sites open at one time, but only one browser window. I can switch between each one by clicking on its respective tab up top. Much nicer than having five browser windows open.

RSL: Thats pretty cool...I'd never known that exsisted...how do I enable it?

KB: Thanks it worked...thats one problem down.

Nait: WHA? *PM's*

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Originally Posted by RSL

In this picture I have five sites open at one time, but only one browser window. I can switch between each one by clicking on its respective tab up top. Much nicer than having five browser windows open.

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My God...

*switches to Firefox*

So which offers the most candy then?

I'm always up for bribes :D

Tabbing= good.

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Originally Posted by devilmaykickass

RSL: Thats pretty cool...I'd never known that exsisted...how do I enable it?

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You don't have to do anything to enable it. If you have a mouse with the middle mouse wheel, you can click on links with that to open it in a new window. If you don't, you can either right-click links and say "Open in new tab" or CTRL+Left click does it.

I use a mixture of tabs and windows, 40 tabs in one window is too cluttered :p

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Originally Posted by Arche

Whether someone thinks the risk is worth it or not might well be opinion, but that's not the point at hand. The problems which are factually known still exist, and the problems themselves aren't opinions. :p Which one you prefer and think is better to use remains opinion, but from a technical point of view, which one is safer and more robust remains a fact :p

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Anyone who has a good firewall and doesn't go to stupid sites is likely to be pretty well protected and IE6 is pretty safe/robust. I imagine anyone who has Firefox does have a good firewall and doesn't go to stupid sites, so that along with the fact that fewer people use it has a lot more to do with Firefox's good record than most other things do. If a billion people used Firefox with no firewall and they browsed a load of dodgy sites, I imagine that there would be just as many people discovering problems as there are with IE right now. I agree that they would get solved faster and that less people would target a non-profit software, which could be used as an argument to say it's safer to use Firefox, but that doesn't mean that the software is literally that much more robust. It just means it hasn't been put to the test like IE has - I don't think any other software program in browser history ever will be put to such a test, either. But hey, I get by without any problems - IE hasn't crashed on my PC for years. Even when that spam attack came along, while it caused IE to keep refreshing the window, nothing else bad really happened. You'll find that a lot of the problems with IE are actually user-caused rather than hacker-caused, and a lot of them could have been solved by simply adjusting the settings. I think there's a site out there that tests your IE browser and advises on what settings you can change to avoid what problems.

I'll never deny that IE is less safe, but that's about as far as it goes. Safety measures can be taken to secure yourself almost as well as any Firefox user, if not just as well.

been using ie for years now had some problems in the past but nothing major but i felt like a change and more security so i changed to firefox to try it out about 5 weeks ago.

now i dont even want to touch ie with a barge pole its running faster than ie ever has and tabbed browsing is a nice feature i wouldnt want to lose :)

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Originally Posted by Yrkoon

been using ie for years now had some problems in the past but nothing major but i felt like a change and more security so i changed to firefox to try it out about 5 weeks ago.

now i dont even want to touch ie with a barge pole its running faster than ie ever has and tabbed browsing is a nice feature i wouldnt want to lose :)

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