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Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 40

Interesting that a few Firefox users seem to use Opera for baiting.

Any particular reason for that?

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:41 am

The main advantage of Firefox over other browsers in my opinion (especially with regards to baiting) is the massive extensibility. You can get extensions to block adverts, check multiple GMail accounts, anonymise Google's cookies, manage proxy connections, and all sorts of other things.

I seem to remember Opera having some scope for extensions, but has nothing like the variety that Firefox does.

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3193

Firefox. 2.0 at work on Windows, 1.5 at home because Ubuntu Linux is still in the dark ages. 2.0 has an auto spell-checker so your posts to eater don't have silly mistakes. Never had any stability problems.

Ditto DrWho; there is no way IE could be made as secure as FF et al, due to the way it is integrated into Windows. I don't doubt that it's more secure than IE6, and if they really get their fingers out it could approach FF et al but, with Microsoft, backward compatibility trumps security every time. If a security patch break backwards compatibility then it will not be accepted.

When you open a Windows Explorer window to browse your hard disk, you're using IE. When you read your emails with Outlook, you're using IE. Even your desktop is IE. The various incarnations are supposed to have different security levels, but in reality past bugs have allowed emails to start ActiveX programs and so forth. It is far better to have one program for one function rather than to fix all the ways one function can leak into another, added to which a simple program is more easily fixed.

Popular open source programs are generally fixed within hours of a bug being reported. Some serious Microsoft bugs stay open for months.

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:43 pm

Firefox on the Mac can be a pain if it is set to open new pages in a new window cause these take ages to open (even on a core2duo). If you set it to open in a new tab instead it is about 3-4 times faster. Wink

Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 40

I've just had to switch back to IE to log on here. For some reason I can't log in when accessing the site through Firefox but can when using IE with exactly the same username & password.

I didn't have a problem last night logging in using firefox but no joy this morning, very strange Sad

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:49 pm

That doesn't make a lot of sense... What's the nature of the problem? Does it say "Incorrect username/password", or does it look like it's logging you in, but then it doesn't?

If the former, it's not a browser-related issue. It's either a server-side problem, or you're entering the username/password wrong.

If the latter, then the only problem I can think it could be is that you don't have cookies enabled of Firefox. If that's the case, under the "Privacy" tab in the Preferences dialogue, make sure "Keep cookies from sites" is ticked.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 40

@ Ivor

Logged on last night using Firefox without problem (ticking the keep me logged in button) and didn't have any problem.

Accessed the site this morning via Firefox without problem and made a post. Switched off and came back a little later and I was back to the login page. When I try to log in the page just refreshes and clears out the username & password I've entered. No error messages.

Switched to IE and logged in without a problem. I've been trying periodically since to get in using Firefox but to no avail. Very strange Sad

EDIT: Back in with Firefox now, I cleared the cookies out and bingo. Ah well, problem solved (for now) Very Happy

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:23 pm

Any of the web browsers on a Linux system are good. I use Konqueror, FF (sometimes), Opera, Mozilla and even Ditto, links and Lynx once in a while for troublesome sites (mostly sites that are made with that worthless piece of garbage called FrontPage).

(edit: Oops...Ditto should be Dillo)

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:35 pm

definate FF user
but always clear your download manager history out every now and then(found thru tools/options) this helps FF to run abit smoother.

Wink

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:08 pm

Bertie Magoo wrote:

Interesting that a few Firefox users seem to use Opera for baiting.

Any particular reason for that?

it has a wand feature for logging on so that I can log on to any of my gmail accounts with a couple of clicks.
plus all my baiting bookmarks are on it so no chance of other people stumbling onto them.

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:43 pm

I'm almost exclusively Linux at home and Firefox is my browser of choice, but I wanted to use something completely different for baiting, so I can be sure everything gets kept separate and I don't accidentally respond to something from the wrong account. Opera has a cool 'wand' which makes it a breeze to log into multiple Gmail accounts.

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:35 pm

Firefox for Mac
Firefox for Windows

There are just slight differences between the two -- mainly in the keyboard shortcuts.

The choices of extensions for Firefox provides functionality and flexibility that is superior.

I keep IE 7 handy for those odd times where a commercial web site is still using Active X or if they haven't standardized their code to make it pretty on FF. A handy FF extension called IE View enables you render the page in Firefox using the IE engine.

I have quit using Safari. It hasn't kept up with the others. Maybe Leopard will change that.

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:57 pm

I use IE and Firefox. I don�t really do enough on the internet to really care about either of the differeneces between them. Honestly, I don't prefer one to the other.

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Anyone know where I can download the older FireFox version 1.5 please?

Most links on Google for 1.5 downloads now show the download for 2.0 when going to the link.

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:26 pm

FF 2.0 rocks for me. I 'specisally like the popup blocker.

I keep IE for when I really have to use it, But when I first started using it with XP I got so many viruses lads could have started using a picture of my PC in their 'dying old lady' scams.

Never again.

*** BANNED *** Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 3779

Scam Patroller wrote:

Anyone know where I can download the older FireFox version 1.5 please?

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.9/

You'll probably need the win32/en-GB/ build.

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

^^^^^ Cheers TFI, will download that later.

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:34 pm

Anybody using FF 2.0.0.1 ?

http://www.pcwelt.de/news/sicherheit/67814/index.html
http://www.pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=49700&type=0&nrubrik=
(Both in German, I cannot translate it as I even don't understand stuff like this in German)

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Now back on FireFox 1.5 and no problems at all like with 2.0 happy crowd

Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:39 pm

Dott. Giascopato wrote:

both in German, I cannot translate

No problem, since only the German version is affected. Wink

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364599

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:20 pm

There is a version of firefox, called firefox portable that you can run from a usb drive. Actually, there is a growing number of applications available in a "portable" format. This allows you to run it from a usb key from any computer. (Mostly windows apps) Great for anyone who likes to check their mail and such from work, not that I know anyone who does. Smile

Just google "portable applications".

** SUSPENDED ** Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 135

I prefer FF, but sometimes I have to use IE.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:12 pm

Just gone back to FF 1.5. Too many problems with 2.0.01 - can't print from browser window, periodic lock-ups & now the Gmail plug-in's gone mad - continually checking accounts, no matter what the preferences are set to & reporting non-existant emails. Crying or Very sad

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:47 pm

V2 of firefox keeps freezing on me, so another one going back to 1.5.

Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:39 pm

No problems with FF2 with fasterfox running.
Need to use IE7 to open mail and add attachments for work.
Hate it with a vengeance for its security issues.
Never got on with Opera though

All in all only personal preferences

Very Happy

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