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Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:02 pm
by Dogwatcher
Anyone use it?
What are the benefits/negatives?

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:10 pm
by Q.
What are you currently using?

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:27 pm
by Dogwatcher
IE7

Time to update, wondering if Mozilla is a better option.

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:40 pm
by Wedgie
I assume you mean Firefox (Mozilla do a few different things).
I find Firefox more secure and quicker, no brainer for me.

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:44 pm
by Dogwatcher
Spot on Wedgie - firefox.
How more secure?

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:44 pm
by Q.
Holy shit mate, Netscape Navigator would be almost as useful as IE7 :lol:

IE8, let alone IE7, won't support HTML5!

FF can apparently be slow sometimes, but keep up with the constant updates for best performance. I've never had any problems with it.

Mozilla Firefox 4 will be launched soon too.

Here is a graph that can pictorialise it better than I can put it into words (regarding IE8):

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Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:47 pm
by Dogwatcher
Cheers, I think I get it. :lol:

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:58 pm
by dedja
LOL, how relevant is HTML5 compatibility when it hasn't even been ratified yet? #-o

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:17 pm
by Q.
But it will be!

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:20 pm
by smac
Just in time for IE9 to cater for it?

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:24 pm
by Q.
Yep :oops:

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:26 pm
by Dogwatcher
Now you guys are f****** with me! lol

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:37 pm
by dedja
:-"

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:38 pm
by JAS
I've been using Firefox for several years now and I prefer it. Tried Opera but I do quite a few online surveys and found a lot wouldn't work with anything other than IE or Firefox.

DW why don't you download Firefox and give it a try. Shouldn't take long...even my netbook only took a few minutes to download it. If you don't like it you can always delete/remove it and go back to IE or try one of the others.

Regards
JAS

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:39 pm
by dedja
Good advice JAS ... the beauty here is that they're all free, so really how can you go wrong?

Just try them!

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:52 am
by sapaul
Got about 8 browsers, usually just click whichever one the mouse randomly goes to. :roll:

Prefer Safari mostly lately.

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:23 pm
by Psyber
A friend of mine is trying out a beta version of IE9, but he says he won't give Firefox up for it.
I have been using Firefox mainly, for the last year, having downloaded an English language version [i.e. not English US] from Mozilla Europe.

However, the latest incarnation of Firefox has become a bit of a RAM hog, tending not to release it when you close subsidiary tabs.
At one stage it was using over 900MB of my 2GB, and that slows everything down a bit.
So, every so often I close it and look up the process that stays active and kill it, then restart Firefox.

In many ways I like Opera better, and find it is faster, but it doesn't handle storing passwords under master password protection as well as Firefox.
Recently I have found I can't open eStatements on the ANZ site with Firefox and have gone back to Opera for that.
I'll probably switch back to Opera when and if its password handling is improved.

I've dabbled with Safari and Chrome, but I don't like their Bookmarking system - Safari was worse than Firefox with the ANZ site.
Konquerer on Linux KDE set ups was not bad and seemed to work with the banks too.

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:23 pm
by Dog_ger
I don't have a problem.

I use them both.

Internet explorer and Mozilla. :D

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:26 pm
by Westsider
FGS use Chrome

Re: Mozilla

PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:30 pm
by White Line Fever
I use Internet explorer for everything
Mozilla is very handy when you want to look up stuff then clear the history and the missus doesn't suspect a thing...