What is your favorite feature of Firefox?
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CActr + F, with instant match
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA1. The search feature (I know IE7 has this too) 2. Firebug plugin 3. Javascript window (Good to see if there are errors in your script) 4. Downloads manager
WM. What about weapons of mass-construction? "What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAI've recently found Showcase plugin - so useful if you open loads of tabs like I do!
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
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I love the Web Developer option on the right-click context menu, I love the "Save Session" feature, I love the ability to download so many plug ins, extensions and themes, I love the spell-checker right in the browser as I type. I started using it for the Tabbed Browsing before IE decided it implement it, plus the UI is much easier to use/interact with. The only thing I don't like is that I can't get CSS to render the same in FF as I can in IE no matter how hard I try. Case in point, right now I am working on re-doing a website for a company. I'm doing it with CSS and DIV's only (no tables allowed) and when I get a page to look wonderful in IE I preview it in FF and it's nowhere close. So I work and work and finally get it fin in FF then it's broke in IE. It's a never ending cycle. But all in all, I wouldn't leave FF for IE under any circumstances.
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
:doh: sounds like you need a good book on CSS. apress pro css techniques comes highly recommended by me. :)
---Guy H (;-)---
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I love the Web Developer option on the right-click context menu, I love the "Save Session" feature, I love the ability to download so many plug ins, extensions and themes, I love the spell-checker right in the browser as I type. I started using it for the Tabbed Browsing before IE decided it implement it, plus the UI is much easier to use/interact with. The only thing I don't like is that I can't get CSS to render the same in FF as I can in IE no matter how hard I try. Case in point, right now I am working on re-doing a website for a company. I'm doing it with CSS and DIV's only (no tables allowed) and when I get a page to look wonderful in IE I preview it in FF and it's nowhere close. So I work and work and finally get it fin in FF then it's broke in IE. It's a never ending cycle. But all in all, I wouldn't leave FF for IE under any circumstances.
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CASlim, Tabbed, Safe and Fast. Its Firefox, and not Microsoft. And its FREE.;)
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAWeb Developer plugin. Stealther. And watching http request-plugin. Calculator. AdBlock plus. http://phpstones.blogspot.com
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RoswellNX wrote:
What is your favorite feature of Firefox?
It isn't Internet Explorer. ;)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
Why does everyone hate IE so much? i think its and excellent browser ;)
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAFirebug
Matthew Hazlett Sometimes I miss the simpler DOS days of Borland Turbo Pascal (but not very often).
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAI dont like firefox, I dont like IE 7 either, I find both are too cluttered, guess its a case of what you become familiar with, I know one day I will have to upgrade ( or should that be downgrade) to IE7 or an alternative, but I like the stone age way of doing things, at least in this respect.
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Why does everyone hate IE so much? i think its and excellent browser ;)
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
Firebug. And Firebug. also - firebug. I love it.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Hey Christian, you should try this extension called Firebug.... You'll love it. :laugh:
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Hey Christian, you should try this extension called Firebug.... You'll love it. :laugh:
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Why does everyone hate IE so much? i think its and excellent browser ;)
IE is flaky, is taking forever to close when a page is not rendering correctly. It also has a lot of difficulty with networks that has a weak connection. It is targeted by a lot of hackers and malware vendors. It is not easily expandable like firefox. Finally, IE follows the other browsers in terms of features and ease of use so that making it a poor browser. Do you need any other reason? PS. Indeed, if you can't install firefox because you don't have enough rights on the computer you're working on, IE can do the job. It is not evil, just not as good as firefox.
Jean-Michel Aubin Software Engineer Imaging division Matrox Electronics Ltee.
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IE is flaky, is taking forever to close when a page is not rendering correctly. It also has a lot of difficulty with networks that has a weak connection. It is targeted by a lot of hackers and malware vendors. It is not easily expandable like firefox. Finally, IE follows the other browsers in terms of features and ease of use so that making it a poor browser. Do you need any other reason? PS. Indeed, if you can't install firefox because you don't have enough rights on the computer you're working on, IE can do the job. It is not evil, just not as good as firefox.
Jean-Michel Aubin Software Engineer Imaging division Matrox Electronics Ltee.
I agree with you but the truth of the matter is that most websites are optimized for IE and they tend to look funny on Firefox. That should be reson enough to use IE
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I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
I'm always using several browsers at once to test my client-side code and making sure it renders the same way in each - and i'm assuming those of you currently working on web-based projects do as well. So after a while i switched to FF for things like research and finally just didn't bother using IE for anything other than work. ----------------- Mine: 1) The combination of tabs and comfortable UI, something between IE 6 and IE 7, but with the best of both worlds. 2) Ability to view the DOM source of a selection, even on a basic installation, something IE can't do. Especially useful when you are working with JavaScript/DHTML and looking for rendering bugs or just need a quick way understand code that someone else has written, esp. with OO JavaScript. 3) The Firebug plugin 4) The auto-save feature, especially useful now with the random reboot problem Roswell:)
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAIt is called FireBug ana it is awesome :-)