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Firefox woes, IE?!
Ramuh.Dasva
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By Ramuh.Dasva 2010-01-11 08:54:31
Fail fox sucks!
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 08:56:01
Ramuh.Dasva said: Fail fox sucks!
no, your face sucks
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By Cerberus.Katarzyna 2010-01-11 16:39:46
Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: FF over IE or your first born sons will be sacrificed to the Gods of Cyber Violence.
ANYTHING over IE is better, but that doesn't mean it's the best out there.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 16:41:04
Cerberus.Katarzyna said: Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: FF over IE or your first born sons will be sacrificed to the Gods of Cyber Violence.
ANYTHING over IE is better, but that doesn't mean it's the best out there.
never said it was "the best" ,just said it was BETTER than IE.
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By Ramuh.Lilbusta 2010-01-11 16:41:12
Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: Ramuh.Dasva said: Fail fox sucks! no, your face sucks
Dasva's Hoover skills raised 0.5
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 16:41:57
Ramuh.Lilbusta said: Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: Ramuh.Dasva said: Fail fox sucks! no, your face sucks
Dasva's Hoover skills raised 0.5
Dasva's Hoover Suck levels reaches Level 20
Dasva learns "Mega Suck"
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By Hades.Dizzmal 2010-01-11 17:01:00
I have used both FF and IE, Since 3.0 came out FF has went down the drain for me. I took it off my Gaming Pc all together but my laptop and 1 pc @ work still uses FF to see if it has gotten any better.
To make a long story short:I have 7 PCs between work and home. 1 Vista FF PC and 2 XP FF PCs, the rest uses IE8. Out of 6 PCs(3 Vista, 4Xp) the only FF installed PC that works worth a damn is the Vista PC that it was just installed on. Both XP FF PCs have major issuses with performance. The 2 IE8 XP Pcs run fine and have yet to have a problems with spyware or anything I have to clean off. All but one PCs had FF on it to start with, now I'm slowly winging them from it(I have an older guy that loves FF no matter what so I have to keep it on his PC) My PC @ home has always used IE and not once have I had a security issuse.
I was a big fan of FF before all these problems, but now I enjoy IE8 and untill something happens that changes my mind I will stick with IE.
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By Ramuh.Lilbusta 2010-01-11 17:03:24
I've tried Chrome, but I just missed the nice plugins FF has. Gmail checker, ADBlock, No Script and some other that rips video from websites are the best thing for me.
IE was nice, but I got sick of popups even when popup blocker was on.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 17:04:30
FF only works great with AdBlock Plus and NoScript... thats it!
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By Odin.Joeofalltrades 2010-01-11 17:11:06
just get google chrome and use both. i still use firefox to stumbleupon and for all the good plug-ins but google is fastest for browsing i believe.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 17:12:01
I dont wanna see the ads or have hidden scripts run on my computer without me knowing it.
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By Ramuh.Lilbusta 2010-01-11 17:12:26
True, but those things will never be incorporated into the browsers themselves.
If Chrome comes out with some plugins like the ones I use then I'll move back to it.
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-01-11 21:52:00
I use the chrome beta, It's got adblock and scriptblock.
google is really cleaning up, huh.
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By Siren.Eagleeyes 2010-01-11 21:56:36
Ramuh.Lilbusta said: True, but those things will never be incorporated into the browsers themselves.
If Chrome comes out with some plugins like the ones I use then I'll move back to it.
Chrome has had extensions for like 3 months now. You must use the beta Chrome with dev channel enabled.
I'm personally not a heavy add on user
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-01-11 22:00:16
Same here, I mean I use the handy ones, flash block, adblock, scriptblock and that's it really.
I'd like to see a greasemonkey be released though.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 22:01:54
AdBlock Plus and NoScript are all thats needed for FF, anything else is either a luxury or unneeded.
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By Siren.Eagleeyes 2010-01-11 22:03:01
Shiva.Flionheart said: Same here, I mean I use the handy ones, flash block, adblock, scriptblock and that's it really.
I'd like to see a greasemonkey be released though.
You should know chrome can use most if not all of greasemonkey scripts natively
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-01-11 22:04:43
Siren.Eagleeyes said: Shiva.Flionheart said: Same here, I mean I use the handy ones, flash block, adblock, scriptblock and that's it really.
I'd like to see a greasemonkey be released though.
You should know chrome can use most if not all of greasemonkey scripts natively
I had an awesome ... 4chan one before for multi voting in twitter, to make pedobear miley cyrus' number one fan. I'd like to change that about, and work with it. Multiple form submission must have some useful and funny uses.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 22:05:18
so basically, from what I gather, greasemonkey lets you actually customize the way webpages look?
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By Siren.Eagleeyes 2010-01-11 22:08:19
Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: so basically, from what I gather, greasemonkey lets you actually customize the way webpages look?
greasemonkey is a extension for firefox that enabled you to use userscripts.
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By Siren.Eagleeyes 2010-01-11 22:10:23
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 22:10:33
Siren.Eagleeyes said: Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: so basically, from what I gather, greasemonkey lets you actually customize the way webpages look?
greasemonkey is a extension for firefox that enabled you to use userscripts.
hmmm... still doesn't explain it. I know its an extension for FF, but does it let you use scripts to change the way web pages look?
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By Siren.Eagleeyes 2010-01-11 22:13:09
Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: Siren.Eagleeyes said: Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: so basically, from what I gather, greasemonkey lets you actually customize the way webpages look?
greasemonkey is a extension for firefox that enabled you to use userscripts.
hmmm... still doesn't explain it. I know its an extension for FF, but does it let you use scripts to change the way web pages look?
yeah but there's way more uses for it than that.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 22:14:52
Siren.Eagleeyes said: Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: Siren.Eagleeyes said: Ifrit.Kungfuhustle said: so basically, from what I gather, greasemonkey lets you actually customize the way webpages look?
greasemonkey is a extension for firefox that enabled you to use userscripts.
hmmm... still doesn't explain it. I know its an extension for FF, but does it let you use scripts to change the way web pages look?
yeah but there's way more uses for it than that.
yeah, I saw one script for Mafia Wars, how would I add it to the list?
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By Seraph.Caiyuo 2010-01-11 22:26:47
Once Greasemonkey is installed you navigate userscripts.org and the giant green "Install" button brings up Greasemonkey prompts to install it. Then as long as the little monkey icon in the status bar isn't dimmed out the scripts are active.
Greasemonkey is generally more for changing functionality as well as appearance, whereas the Stylish extension usually deals with layouts and aesthetics. You can browse and install new styles from this site: http://userstyles.org/
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 22:27:55
thanks Caiyuo
Ramuh.Dasva
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By Ramuh.Dasva 2010-01-11 22:53:23
Have any of you IE haters even tried it in the last 3 years let alone since 8 came out?
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-01-11 22:54:49
Ramuh.Dasva said: Have any of you IE haters even tried it in the last 3 years let alone since 8 came out?
Yup, it still crashes on my Gmail, on a new install of windows 7.
Also lack of developer support.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2010-01-11 22:55:17
there goes Dasva and his sucking power again!
and to answer your question, I have used IE8, and I R not impressed.
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By Ramuh.Dasva 2010-01-11 22:57:10
Lol sure ok. FF can litterally suck more ram than my computer has.
IE sucks up next to nothing and works perfectly fine. Really what is so bad about it?
So Firefox has been on my bad side lately, and I mean bad. It's been freezing, crashing plugins, slow, and not even working properly. And this isn't just on my computer, it's on both my laptops and just about every friend i've spoke to about it. The window would freeze when i load up facebook, taking up to 30 seconds to unfreeze. It would take my mouse curser away for a few seconds (which piss me off). It makes my youtube videos freeze momentarily, skipping part of the video.
I have been tracking the usage in the taskbar, and today it came to a woping 840,445KB of usage. WTF firefox? Do you REALLY need all that? It's been trending up, at any given time it could be at 300,000KB and up. Where as IE would only be taking up a nice clean 60,000KB, when it has been running all day with multiple websites up.
Before you start saying "Just reinstall it and run with no plugins!" I've done that. And I've done just about everything else to it. It's FIREFOX IT'S SELF, the whole program, the big one it's self. It takes just as many recourses with no plugins, and google.com as the only website visited as it does with plugins.
So here's the thing that really makes me laugh. When my Firefox is acting up that bad, I just switch to IE. IE is a perfect world, a whole other deminsion in browsing experiance. Compared to how my Firefox is being, its like heaven. Now I've been a long time Firefox fan, and to see IE laugh in it's face is almost rediculous. I'm starting to like IE.
So I am asking, because i'll probably never go back to firefox unless they can prove to beat IE's speed. I know IE has some security issues, and before I do my usual routine of banking, FFXIing, and others, I want to make sure I'm safe. Here's what I'm asking. I have found a temporary fix of adblocking, which seems to work. But does anyone know anything similar to noscript or flashblock, or some extra security features availiable in IE? It saddens me I acutally have to face that ugly blue E every time I want to surf the web, but firefox really has been turning me off lately.
Now I hope this doesn't turn into an IE V.S. Firefox thread because that's not the intent, just pointing out that my Firefox has gone to the crapper lately, and it isn't just me. Please input some advice for IE.
Also, I hate to say it, but a spellchecker for it might not be so bad either (if you know what i mean)
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