Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 An essential for Firefox users on this forum: the BBCode extension. It lets you have a right-click menu for things like: Underlining Italicizing Quoteing Making lists Colors And so on (in fact, I used it to make that list) Try it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 It's much quicker than putting the tags in yourself. But why has nobody even bothered to look here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 i looked, and then pressed 'back' rather than load the 'new posts' page all over again, not that it takes long, like 1sec (im on 512K) but still, thats one more second of my life! however it seems not to always register that i viewed the page. anyway, i normally just put in the tags because i cant be bothered to click, as that means moving my hand to the mouse , anyway... yeah, the thing which isnt soo good about firefox is that you have to download extensions, not that they're big, resource hogging or hard to do, just another manual user job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 What-you want all of the extensions to come with it? Then you'd have to download them all in the first place! I think it's very handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 its just a lot more user work, which whilsts very easy to us is not suitable for begginers and also is just more work, im not suggesting that all of them come with firefox, but things like the ad-blocker, ability to read all of the code formats should come default... also it should be able to use the already downloaded shockwave and flash etc. automatically, rather than having to be re-setup so that you can access sites with flash/shockwave features on. whereas IE has all of this stuff already done, im not supporting IE, but IE is in a way more user-friendly in that there is less user work involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 Also because only the most computer illiterate people would not switch to Firefox anyways. Did you download it to try it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 i've got it and use it! not at the moment, as im only on SFN and that is safe, so im on IE because i find IE faster, however when im googling or just randomly browsing i do use FF and it is all set-up with add-ons and all customised and everything, it wasnt hard, however there are a lot of basic people out there who do not switch to FF because it is more work and IE is already there and they dont really understand the differences. at the same time i have never caught a virus/ad-aware through IE and there is only one site i know which gives me pop-ups (NIS prof has a pop-up stopper). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 You have NEVER gotten spyware through IE‽ Are you nuts? And Firefox IS faster than IE, it's been tested. SFN doesn't necessarily have to be "safe," since any of the banner ads can give you spyware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 nope, never got spyware through IE, sayo says probably due to good browsing habbits + decent AV, firewall and background anti-spyware progs.... thats one of the reasons why i didnt originally switch to FF. people say that FF is faster than IE, i find otherwise, maybe thats just my computer, i dont know, thats just what i find. it is unlikely that an SFN banner will download spyware to my computer... but i see your point, the fact is that there are background program's that would catch it anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 people say that FF is faster than IE, i find otherwise, maybe thats just my computer, i dont know, thats just what i find. It's faster at rendering pages (as is Opera). It's not as fast loading (well, by default) because IE loads into memory when Windows starts up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 Mozilla originally had the option to ALWAYS be in memory like IE, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Afaik it still does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 And how do you like the extension? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted October 9, 2004 Share Posted October 9, 2004 Not tried it yet because restarting FF is not convenient at the minute. I'll let you know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSX Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I was wondering if there is any way to change Firefox's bookmark logos? Some sites (e.g. the vB ones) have a default icon that appears to the left of the url, and it the icon is defaulted onto the bookmark one, though most are blank with the default page icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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