Explorer vs. Firefox

Just noticed, if you type 'ikea' in the address bar it finds the website, works with most things.

Have tried 'google', 'fhm', 'bbc' etc.

Saves typing all those www's

KT

BBC Firefox v MS IE

It's not quite as straightforward as that. These are Firefox "Quick Searches". You simply enter a verb and a parameter in the address bar. Default verbs are

Google - sends the parameter to Googles search engine
Goto - displays the results of Googles "I'm feeling lucky"
Dict - passes the parameter to the dictionary.com search
Quot - passes the parameter to Googles stock quote

If you enter a non-valid URL into the taskbar, then "Goto" is assumed so you get the reuslt of Googles "I'm feeling lucky" search. If the word/parameter is a common webword, such as Ikea then google transfers you to the Ikea website for example

You can add additional verbs via bookmarks, by adding "%s" to the bookmarked URL and a Keyword to define the accepted verb...

YL6

ZDNet Article

New security update for Firefox, 1.0.4. now available.

thanks , been waiting for this

A really good extension is SmartSearch. It's similar to DictionarySearch and the like except that it uses your quicksearch bookmarks. So, to add a new search engine, you simply create a new quicksearch bookmark.

Here are two very useful quicksearches for Munich:
MVV (Address): http://www.mvv-muenchen.de/de/home/fahrgas...UR_ADDRESS_HERE
and MVV (Stop): http://www.mvv-muenchen.de/de/home/fahrgas...UR_ADDRESS_HERE

Simply replace YOUR_ADDRESS_HERE at the end of both URLs by your address (eg. "Somestra%DFe%2021" without the quotes -- %DF stands for ß, %20 stands for space). Now you can highlight an address or the name of a stop and select either MVV (Address) or MVV (Stop) from the SmartSearch menu to look up how to get there without having to go through the annoying MVV website.

Also check out Greasemonkey, it's amazing.

After all the hoopla about the "big switch" to Firefox - this came along in another group I read. Just thought I would pass it on.

In Firefox, the more open tabs, the greater the memory usage. I did a side-by-side comparison between IE6 and Firefox Deer Park 2 (the latest alpha) - Firefox comes in at 10 percent higher memory usage when displaying the same page - 22 meg instead of 20.

A new lappie should have at least 512 meg of ram - I personally find that third-party apps to clear memory and screw around with other system settings just slow down my computer. You can make sure that apps are set to completely unload when they close down - unless you're in and out of an application all day... also how many programs are in your autostart folder? C-A-D and another look at the Task manager will reveal all.

You can easily save the 2 meg that FF is chewing extra, and more, by killing unnecessary stuff like the java update applet, and the "quickstarters" so beloved of Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat reader 7, OpenOffice, RealPlayer, Winamp, iTunes, etc etc etc. If you know what you're doing, then under HK_L_M/software/microsoft/windows/current version/run or services.msc you will find several memory-wasting applications that can safely be deleted, or set to manual. Warning, if you don't know what something does, Google it to find out before you fiddle.

@oli2000 - Firefox 1.1 will have a feature under the Help menu called Report Broken Web Site. Firefox/mozilla and many alt.browsers adhere to the established HTML standards, whereas IE does not. You could try the tool for FF where it claims to be IE (this doesn't always work with some Linux flavors and Firefox), or even complain to your bank - because if it's IE-only then you're not going to get in, using Linux.

Mozilla have said that all versions of FF below 1.0.3 are not safe, so you should upgrade. Latest version is 1.0.4.

Looks like a new release today !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4479412.stm

Just installed the new version. Is actually not the full, only RC3, but looks really nice, and whether something has happened with the work proxy, but it seems just a little faster now...

Just trying out the Firefox V3 rc1 and it flies. It really does seem to render quicker than anything I've tried before. Not totally sold on the new look but I'll probably get used to it.

Yeh, Firefox 3 is such a big improvement over Firefox 2. I would curse Firefox 2 all day long, it just loved to suck memory and never give it back to the system which eventually ended in your machine crashing. Firefox 3 is fast and stable as hell so far.

I still don't think it's as quick as Opera though.

Opera has always been that fast.

The only thing that IE is good for is downloading Firefox.

And automatic NT account authentification. And properly running VBscript if you cannot be arsed with all that =={}! shite that javascript involves.

FireFox does NTLM authentication too.

Ha ha ha, not if your clients are fuckwit sales guys, who downloaded firefoy because they are German, and therefore somehow blame Microsoft for George Bush and the war on terror*. Piddling about with the firefox config is about as likely as them being able to not make a stupid fake laugh when a client makes a shitty gag.

*Well, at least that's often the way the conversation seems to go

You shouldn't be using VBScript (unless you're a girl) because it's for girls. Use Javascript and then the excellent Firebug debugger, which has simply no decent equivilant in IE.

Or unless you are supporting legacy apps smothered in VBscript that you really cannot be arsed to upgrade. I'm working with people that still think that office macros and MS access are the answer to everything. Seriously.

Actually come to think of it, I think alot of the inhouse vbscript was indeed written by a girl. Girls should not be writing any code, full stop.

Shouldn't that be } rather than full stop?

Jesus, should I have replaced the "not" with a bloody ! aswell?

I have been using 3.0 for week or so now and one thing is really pissing me off. I have 6 tabs set up that load automatically when i open FF. When doing so at work I have to enter a proxy authentication. In the old version I had to enter it once and it was then remembered for next time so i only needed to hit enter. With 3.0 I have to enter the user name and password for EVERY TAB and it doesn't remember them, despite asking if it should. Is there a setting i need to change or is this a glitch I'll have to live with?

I find FF 3 starts to slow down after a while, not as bad as FF 2 tho. Safari is still the only browser that seems to run ultrafast all the time

Which is all fine and dandy, but it still doesn't seem to work properly with every website e.g. Eurosport, their tv guide thingy doesn't show up at all.

I don't have any problems with any of the sites I go to...so no bother to me

and furthermore, it's the other way around for me, my domain host doesn't work with FF. It also pisses me off that every few webpages I visit I have to download something to be able to view it.

Anyone got the final release version of firefox 3 today? For me it seems a lot quicker than 2...

Agree, the pages seem to render a lot quicker than 2.x. Haven't used it enough to find any problems...except the AVG 8.0 plugins don't seem to work, which may or may not be a bad thing.

I downloaded it this morning and it seems to be working well. A couple of my extras have stopped working (a password manager and download assistant) but otherwise it seems fine. The new 'awesome' bar is a bit annoying at the moment, but it is supposed to learn. It also seems to use less CPU when just idling (displaying gmail, etc)

Found the new awesome bar very annyoing at work and at home - so have now turned it off

go into about:config...

ignroe the warning (include the text - here be dragons!)

change

browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped;true (was false)
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults;0 (was 12)
browser.urlbar.search.chunkSize;0 (was 1000)

One value of the awesome bar is that it is intuitive. Regularly entering "t" for "Toytown" will bring it to the top of the dropdown list.

i dont even have explorer on my pc. firefox wins hands down . but i have been using opera lately which has this really cool speed dial function
i think that alone is slowly winning me over from firefox.

Anybody else finding Firefox 3 crashes quite often? Perhaps mainly when using youtube?

Got a feeling there is a memory leak in there somewhere.

nope, it has never crashed for me, ever. I am using it under OSX though.

Been using FF3 on multiple PCs, and OSs and have never had a crash.. Sounds like you have OS/Hardware issues.

What I've noticed is that sometimes I cannot move the cursor for some time, it's like the cursor is frozen (a lot of times when I am browsing sites with YouTube videos). I can still right-click using the keyboard (not the mouse) and type, so my computer hasn't actually frozen. Sometimes takes a minute or two until I can use the cursor again. Quite odd as I never had this problem with any previous versions of FF. Anyone else have this problem or advice on how to fix it?)

Personally I'm finding firefox 3 an unstable piece of crap.

Just loaded IE 8 Beta 2.

Initial reaction. Quick, probably as quick as firefox.

Better roadtest the 'porn mode'.

Really? I've been running Firefox 3.0.1 on 1) Windows Vista, 2) Windows XP Pro and 3) Mac OS X and find it fantastic!! The only reported crashes occur when I close the browser using the "X" in the upper right-hand corner rather than "Exit." The add-ons I find absolutely brilliant!! There are soooooooo many more things that you can do with Firefox, IMHO.

I'm finding if I have Toytown , Facebook and Hotmail all open at the same time it hangs. Often.

I far prefer the look and feel of Firefox but since I upgraded it's not been good. I know there were issues with flash but I loaded the latest.

still never had firefox crash...ever. Use it at work on XP as well and have it installed on Vista, although that is no real test as I probably only fire Vista up every 2 months or so.
Quite like the "Slice" feature of the new IE beta, but I am sure someone will write an addon to do it in FF soon enough