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So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - Dark Jaguar - 13th May 2010
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/05/mozillas-firefox-4-roadmap-faster-friendlier-more-secure.ars
Aside from a long-wanted ability to customize settings quickly on a per-site basis (above all, I really want to be able to have a setup where Flash is disabled unless I enable it, and for it's being enabled to be remembered automatically on a per-site basis), copying Chrome's placing of tabs on the title bar is a nice space saver (though I don't want it too simplified, that status bar is something I like having).
The big copy I like to see is MS's big push towards hardware accelerated graphics. Honestly I'm shocked it took until now for them to actually DO this, but with MS making the big change, it's good to see all the others are following a very healthy trend (it's fair, MS has been copying everyone else for years).
Since I don't know for sure when I'll be making the big upgrade to Windows 7, I can safely say that as IE9 won't be made available for XP, I'm probably going to be making a big switch to some other browser. It'll likely be either Chrome or Firefox, whichever I like better when one of them implements hardware acceleration. I don't really care for Opera at all (my main use of it is through the Wii every now and then, and that plus my very limited trial of the PC version pretty much sealed up any interest I might have for that awkard interface), and Safari (which suffers from the standard problem of all Apple software ported to PC, Apple seems dead-set on "demonstrating" PC inferiority by intentionally making their software SUCK in their Windows form, and by suck I mean suck resources and bloat down the startup with all their own little bits of nonsense I have to root out and disable. Annoying, and not a good way to get me to use Apple products. I hate Quicktime in particular because there is NO way to disable the quicktime "quick loader" save setting up a script to clean up the startup registry it inserts EVERY TIME you run the application.
So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - Weltall - 13th May 2010
You still use Internet Explorer? Willingly?
I mean . . . why?
Toven will tell you Firefox. I'll tell you Chrome. I think he's a big stupid face, but still, don't wait. Go get one of them. Get both.
So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - Dark Jaguar - 13th May 2010
No real reason to just yet. You may not be aware of this but MS has in fact moved on from IE6.
So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - Weltall - 13th May 2010
Stating that the current version of Internet Explorer is no longer the worst browser in the history of the entire Internet isn't really much of an endorsement.
So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - A Black Falcon - 13th May 2010
Yeah, it's just the worst browser currently still being worked on today, as IE always has been.
DJ has stuck with IE for years despite all sanity saying that it's a really dumb idea, though, so I'm not exactly surprised to hear that he still uses it...
So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - EdenMaster - 13th May 2010
A Black Falcon Wrote:Yeah, it's just the worst browser currently still being worked on today, as IE always has been.
DJ has stuck with IE for years despite all sanity saying that it's a really dumb idea, though, so I'm not exactly surprised to hear that he still uses it...
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So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - A Black Falcon - 13th May 2010
Sure I used that for years, but at least I wasn't using Internet Explorer after Mozilla came out! And I went to a higher resolution three years ago, regardless.
So Firefox 4 looks like a nice AMAZO of features. - Dark Jaguar - 14th May 2010
Modern IE8 isn't as bad as you make it out to be. Every web site I visit works just fine in it, it's got a nice set of security features, and I'm familiar with it. What else do I need? The biggest issue is just that it's abandoning XP before I am, hence why the next big update, hardware acceleration, means I'll need to make a switch.