Bloody Hell Just downloaded Firefox

[zenie]

Everything looks so different

Oh god maybe I am a lemming and can't handle change.

Any idea how I get my bookmarks to open in a column on the left like IE used to do?

 

[chriswill]

- download firefox
- change it to look like IE.


Quality

 

[zenie]

Ok so went view toolbars customise and dragged and dropped it there.

Fuckin great but it seems slower then IE

How do you get it to look like IE? I quite like the look myself it's just change

 

[tendril]

change is good!

And with Firefox you can choose from loads of downloadable skins:

http://www.customize.org/list/firefox

 

[laptop]

Fuckin great but it seems slower then IE

See here

While you're in there, set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true

In fact, read most of the thread.

 

[DG55]

Isnt that solution bad for the servers on the other end? Editor said somthing about it.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Isnt that solution bad for the servers on the other end? Editor said somthing about it.

First time i've heard that, bad how?

 

[laptop]

Isnt that solution bad for the servers on the other end? Editor said somthing about it.

I think those numbers are reasonable. You'll still get a significant speed-up if you halve them, which is definitely reasonable. As I recall, Opera has pipelining of that kind on by default...

 

[dogmatique]

Opera, Opera, Opera.

Miles ahead. Now with built in bittorrent client also, also.

"Extended Evaluation" versions available at your local download site.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Don't you have to pay for it if you want it free of adverts?

 

[laptop]

Don't you have to pay for it if you want it free of adverts?

Yes.

But it also has a really good fullscreen mode in which the ads disappear. Everything except the Web disappears.

At least, version 7 does...

 

[mhendo]

Yeah, stick with Firefox. It's a great browser. Opera's good too, and i sometimes use it as well. But once you've used one or both of those browsers for a while, you'll never go back to IE again.

And, once you start using them, you'll wonder how you ever lived without Mouse Gestures.

 

[skunkboy69]

i used firefox for years.I switched to opera last year coz firefox kept losing my bookmarks n crashing with dodgy extensions.I understand why people use it to avoid IE but having to install all those extensions to make a workable browser put me off bigtime.

 

[mhendo]

i used firefox for years.I switched to opera last year coz firefox kept losing my bookmarks n crashing with dodgy extensions.I understand why people use it to avoid IE but having to install all those extensions to make a workable browser put me off bigtime.

Not sure what you mean by "workable."

Firefox with no extensions installed at all has greater functionality and is a better browser than Internet Explorer in my experience. And i've only had the thing crash on me a couple of times, and i only lost my bookmarks once, very early on.

 

[zenie]

I'm on Evilbay and everything looks weird.

Listings down't sit together right (presumable because they have been coded for IE) how can I make it work in firefox? I don't wanna use IE if I can get away with it.

 

[rubbershoes]

ebay looks and works fine in firefox for me and i haven't done any fancy fiddling with firefox

 

[DexterTCN]

And, once you start using them, you'll wonder how you ever lived without Mouse Gestures.

Never heard of it till you said this.

Went and downloaded it.

Could revolutionise computer use, absolutely amazing.

 

[mhendo]

Never heard of it till you said this.

Went and downloaded it.

Could revolutionise computer use, absolutely amazing.

I know some people who hate them, but i've been using them for a few months now and couldn't live without them any more. In fact, whenever i get on a computer at uni that still uses IE, i find myself trying to use mouse gestures instinctively, and then getting annoyed when it doesn't work.

 

[layabout]

Ok so went view toolbars customise and dragged and dropped it there.

Fuckin great but it seems slower then IE

How do you get it to look like IE? I quite like the look myself it's just change

That's an illusion. IE will not present the page to you, until it has downloaded all of it. Firefox will render the page as it receives the data.

 

[Rune]

And, once you start using them, you'll wonder how you ever lived without Mouse Gestures.

What are Mouse Gestures?

 

[Bob_the_lost]

What are Mouse Gestures?

Same question, but i'm off to try them out!

*bob hops onto bandwagon*

Those are fantastic!

 

[zenie]

ebay looks and works fine in firefox for me and i haven't done any fancy fiddling with firefox

so why does it go like this in firefox?

e-bay link

Would like link to mouse gestures if someone has it to hand see what all the fuss is about

 

[Rune]

so why does it go like this in firefox?

e-bay link

Do all your searches on ebay look like that? Just looked at a couple of random items and they turned up OK.

 

[mhendo]

What are Mouse Gestures?

Mouse Gestures are a little hard to explain, and when you explain what they are people often say, "Well, that's sounds like bollocks. I don't know why you'd want that."

Mouse Gestures are literally what the name says. They are a set of browsing commands that are activated by making certain gestures with the mouse. For example, if i want to close a window in Firefox, instead of moving my mouse cursor to the top right and clicking on the little box with an "x" in it, i simply hold down the right button on the mouse and move the mouse quickly down and to the right. Voila! The window closes.

Using mouse gestures you can open new tabs, open new windows, open links in new tabs or windows, close windows, switch tabs, resize texts, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And you can do all thewse things with far less mouse movement than would otherwise be required. It makes, in my opinion, for faster and easier browsing.

Mopuse Gestures are installed automotically with the Opera browser, and with Firefox you just need to download and install the Mouse Gestures extension. Using them will seem a little awkward at first, but once you've gotten used to it, you'll never go back.

 

[Rune]

Mouse Gestures are a little hard to explain, and when you explain what they are people often say, "Well, that's sounds like bollocks. I don't know why you'd want that."

Mouse Gestures are literally what the name says. They are a set of browsing commands that are activated by making certain gestures with the mouse. For example, if i want to close a window in Firefox, instead of moving my mouse cursor to the top right and clicking on the little box with an "x" in it, i simply hold down the right button on the mouse and move the mouse quickly down and to the right. Voila! The window closes.

Using mouse gestures you can open new tabs, open new windows, open links in new tabs or windows, close windows, switch tabs, resize texts, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And you can do all thewse things with far less mouse movement than would otherwise be required. It makes, in my opinion, for faster and easier browsing.

Mopuse Gestures are installed automotically with the Opera browser, and with Firefox you just need to download and install the Mouse Gestures extension. Using them will seem a little awkward at first, but once you've gotten used to it, you'll never go back.

Well, that's sounds like bollocks. I don't know why you'd want that.

Sorry, had to be said. Thanks for the explanation. If the extension is easy to get rid off, might give them a go.

 

[mhendo]

Sorry, had to be said. Thanks for the explanation. If the extension is easy to get rid off, might give them a go.

The extension installs in about 10 seconds, and uninstalls just as quickly.

 

[zenie]

Do all your searches on ebay look like that? Just looked at a couple of random items and they turned up OK.

Well as I have been looking at greehouses it does just seem like this one

can you get mouse gestures at the extension site?

Also can I uninstall IE so when I check hotmail from MSN messesnger it opens up in firefox?

 

[Crispy]

Well as I have been looking at greehouses it does just seem like this one

can you get mouse gestures at the extension site?

Also can I uninstall IE so when I check hotmail from MSN messesnger it opens up in firefox?

You definately can't unistall IE, as Microsoft have hard-wired it into Windows, the bastards. I doubt MSN will let you use anything but IE either

 

[stdPikachu]

Thanks for the explanation. If the extension is easy to get rid off, might give them a go.

Trust me, once you get the hand of mouse gestures you will never ever want to get rid of them. In fact, they become such second nature after a while that you'll find it a PITA to use a browser that doesn't have them. There also used to be an app called StrokeIt that would let you use gestures in any application by binding them to keyboard shortcuts.

Personally I find the mouse gestures in FF slow and unresponsive compared to Opera.

IIRC the latest version of Messenger honours the "default browser" setting, but older versions are hardwired to open links in IE.

 

[Flavour]

i just set the ipv6 thing to true (it was false), and FF doesn't seem to open faster. tbh it's the only thing about ff that fucks me off. these mouse gestures look good, ill give em a go.