GRR Firefox

AlexLoup · Post by **AlexLoup** » Apr Thu 20, 2006 1:26 pm

There is nothing wrong with it... I used it once it had a problem then I uninstalled it.

I just found out that my brother installed it, so I brought it up so it can transfer all my things from IE, and it won't. Stupid.

Does anyone else know if I still get them all transfer that doesn't involve me manually adding my things, cause if that's the case then I'm sticking with IE.

Post by **spaulo** » Apr Thu 20, 2006 2:03 pm

Your things? Like your bookmarks? Or other stuff? I suppose it all depends on what the "things" you want to transfer are, but if you go to Bookmarks --> Manage Bookmarks and then in the new window click File --> Import, you can import bookmarks from IE.

AlexLoup · Post by **AlexLoup** » Apr Thu 20, 2006 2:48 pm

Cool and what about cookies?

Post by **spaulo** » Apr Thu 20, 2006 5:00 pm

Nah, I don't think you can transfer over cookies/browser history/cache... don't even know about saved passwords (but I heavily doubt it)...

And believe me, that's not Firefox's fault... I don't think any browser transfers that stuff...

AlexLoup · Post by **AlexLoup** » Apr Thu 20, 2006 9:12 pm

Well if you read their help thingy, when it origanlly sets up it takes just about everything from IE and put it onto FireFox. It doesn't matter now. I just have to get used to not having the Favorites list on the side.

Post by **subsonic** » Apr Fri 21, 2006 11:21 am

Ctrl-B will show bookmarks on the side.

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Apr Fri 20, 2007 1:47 pm

Was just searching the internet and found this little gem, really puts my feelings into perspective.

Post by **spaulo** » Apr Fri 20, 2007 4:27 pm

As a web designer, I sometimes don't know who to be more mad at... Microsoft for just doing whatever they feel like with their rendering engine, or the W3C and compliant browsers like Safari and Firefox for not just doing what Microsoft says is "right."

I know who I SHOULD be more upset with, but either of those situations would make my life easier. And the W3C is far from perfect... that they haven't instituted a getElementsByClassName (or similar) event in the DOM is ludicrous... you have to go through a bunch of crap "foreach" iterations of getElementsByTagName to replicate the process (or do like I do and use Prototype or another JS library that has a function that does this job)...

any way, [/developerRant]

casrin · Post by **casrin** » Apr Mon 30, 2007 1:08 pm

Lovely Firefox/IE image there! Haha.

Lion Sleeps Tonight · Post by **Lion Sleeps Tonight** » Apr Mon 30, 2007 3:34 pm

Yeah. I used to use IE, then Netscape and now Firefox. I'm okay with it, and haven't had problems with it except for that one time Firefox wouldn't let me open a window to do some important registration work for the WDW college program. I nearly freaked out. I ended up on another computer where the site worked just fine with IE. GRR indeed.

Post by **acp** » Apr Mon 30, 2007 6:00 pm

I currently use Camino (Basically Firefox with a pretty mac frontend instead of the XUL one). I've tried tollerating pretty much every browser, and none of them please me at the moment. Firefox is too buggy, Safari uses too much memory, Opera annoys me (for a reason I've not worked out yet, it just does), Camino seems to currently be the best browser on the Mac. On other platforms (Linux, Windows) I use Firefox. Naturally, in RISC OS (and Linux) I use NetSurf ( www.netsurf-browser.org )

Andy.

U016292 · Post by **U016292** » Jul Tue 03, 2007 6:59 am

I like to use IE7, it looks better then Firefox, and in my opinion, it's easier to use.
I also saw how you need to download things with Firefox and seems to me very laborious.

The only thing I like from Firefox is the logo

Post by **spaulo** » Jul Tue 03, 2007 10:34 am

IE7 is definitely a step up from IE6, really many steps. I'm not sure what you mean by "how you need to download things with Firefox," but to each their own.

The one thing IE7 got right that we need to see in Firefox 3.0 is anti-aliased fonts. The web becomes sooooo much prettier!

danimal3114u · Post by **danimal3114u** » Aug Fri 17, 2007 12:05 pm

If you're interested in alternatives to IE (ir just a browser in general), I highly suggest Maxthon. It's a customizable, skinnable browser that works somewhat with IEs framework, but has all of the functionality (and more) of Firefox. Because it works with IE, you shouldn't encoutner any problems, and all of your stuff automatically gets switched over. I've been using Maxthon for about 3 years now (from Firefox), and absolutely love it.