Switched to Fire fox!

[Neoma]

Microsoft IE blows,and I'm convinced that its the most unsafe browsers out there.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Spread it around :)

[Maat]

1. Am using it now!

Genius internet husband switched me a couple of days ago. I love it.

[Neoma]

3. No popups..when you get on a bad site it stops it from downloading

bad stuff on your computer automaticly...
its faster..
easyer..
i can go on and on about it :)

[Bombtrack]

2. what exactly are the differences between the 2

as in aesthetically, simplicity, etc.

[rodeodance]

4. no pop up and prevents spy ware from being installed

[wtmusic]

13. "Spyware" being installed is a myth

a website can leave cookies, find out the last site you visited, find out what kind of computer you're using, find out what domain you're coming from. That's about it.

The only way spyware can be installed is if you open an attachment. Also, many sites rely on popups to function correctly.

I'm sticking with Netscape.

[Liberal Veteran]

29. Not entirely true....

Spyware can be installed by way of those popups from like Comet Cursor or The Gator Corporation or Lop.com or Xupiter and various others like Porn Toolbars that link themselves onto IE through the use of ActiveX controls.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. Don't forget tabbed browsing.

I've set up all the areas I go to here on DU by bookmarking each section and putting them all in a single folder in my bookmark list. When I want to go here, I just select that bookmark folder, and at the bottom is the selection "Open in Tabs"
I just click that, and now I've got eight tabs open with the sections I visit here on DU. All in one browser window. It's spiffy.

[Neoma]

11. wow nice feature,thanks for pointing that out.

[wtmusic]

14. Netscape has had that feature for quite a while n/t

[Lex]

19. Did you put your favorites directly on your toolbar?

I like that about Foxfire too.

[Poiuyt]

10. It renders pages much faster

[Lex]

5. Did you know you can personalize a toolbar at the top

of your Firefox browser so that you have one click links to your favorite websites right there on your toolbar?

That's my fav feature of Firefox.

[RevolutionaryActs]

7. TABS! I love that tabs! and all the different search engines in one place

Ok.. I admit it, I love Firefox! :7

[Lex]

20. But putting your favorite bookmarks on your toolbar is

a different thing from tabbed browsing (which I also love!).

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. Oh yes I know, I have DU on my toolbar.. ahh easy access!

;)

[Lex]

23. Oh cool, DU's on there for me too.

I have so many up there on my toolbar that I had to give them 2 or 3 letters only (to fit a lot in)--it looks like the NY Stock Exchange abbreviations up there!

[starroute]

24. You can put folders on the toolbar, too

I have one for political links, one for other current interests, one for practical stuff like banking and shopping, etc. But only the stuff I use all the time, to keep it simple.

Just right-click on the bar and choose "New Folder."

[RevolutionaryActs]

26. OH.MY.GAWD. Really? SWEET! Thanks for telling me that!!!!!!!!!

:pals:

[KDLarsen]

9. Not to mention..

.. there's loads of funny extensions & themes you can add to Firefox.
I'm using the FirefoxModern theme, which is really spiffy, plus I have some anti-spoof extensions, an RSS reader, a stock ticker AND, to top it off, a little monitor that tells me how freaked out the DoHS is right now. At the moment, it stands at yellow - SCARED!

[BurtWorm]

8. I can't log in to DU on Firefox for some reason.

I access DU on Netscape. :shrug:

[Berserker]

12. Check out Noia 2.0 theme

It's great

[Berserker]

15. Burt Worm

did you not allow cookies in DU? If not you can allow them and then you can.

[Waistdeep]

16. Firefox works fine for me on DU

On both windows and linux. Are you using version 1.0?

[Maat]

18. That's odd...

I'm no computer expert ... but I've had no problem accessing DU. In fact, DU and its features ... everything has been hummin' along. Go figure.

[Renew Deal]

27. Works for me.

Are you allowing cookies? What happens? Any errors?

[Waistdeep]

17. My favorite extension is Bookmark Synchronizer

I can keep all my bookmarks synchronized between 4 different computers at home and at work, so I can get distracted by DU no matter what I'm doing.

[Lex]

21. Oh, I didn't know about that extension!

Thanks for the tip!

[hinachan]

25. You forgot Poland -- I mean, OPERA! :D

Opera has the features of FireFox and then some. (Fun fact: Most of the "new" features of FireFox and Netscape are imitations of the features Opera's had for ages!) It's also a very small, fast program, so you can even use it on old PC's. I could spend all day extolling the virtues of this lovely browser, lovely enough that you don't have to pick a new skin for it (though you can, from the dozens of skins available in the Opera Community site)...but it's enough to say that it freed me from the tyrrany of Micro$haft Internet Crasher.

Oh, yeah...and the way clickable buttons on the web now GLOW when I hover over them is way cool, too! Any day now, I expect to see Netscape trying to copy it...!

This site tells all the awesome stuff you can do in Opera, which is a quick download, even on dial-up:

http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/

[Berserker]

28. And oh ya Firefox is FREE

and Opera is not!