Ugh. This is what firefox is a sollution to for me. It's not 'IE sucks and I wanna be special'. Most of the good stuff comes from plugins, by the way. You need those to make your firefox good. Otherwise it's like a christmas tree with nothing in it.
- Nuke anything. When I see an image I don't like on a webpage, I press 'NUKE' and it's gone. works with everything. text, banners, porn, ANYTHING. It's fucking brilliant and I'll not hear otherwise from anyone.
- Tabbed browsing, pop up blocking, google search bar. Self-evident, but what the hell. Here I go anyway. I love going "Open this link in a new tab' when pages are loading slow. Then I can have page two load in the background, unintrusive, whilst I read page one.
- Image zooming. I have a screen that has a far higher DPI than a normal screen. This makes it that images tend to be really small on my screen. With a firefox plugin I installed, I can now right click an image and I get a context-sensitive menu that allows me to zoom to 200%, 300%, 400%... couldn't do without it anymore.
- Ad block plugin. No more banners. Simple. Elegant.
- Mouse Gestures. Right click and scroll button motion. (You press right click and use the scroll button to go through a pop-up menu that lists all the pages you've visited. You can go to a page you visited an hour ago with one smooth movement. It's faster than going to the back button. Mouse gestures make everything better.
Crashing has never been an issue for me. Security hasn't either. I hardly ever scan anything, figureing if the virus bites, it bites. I can always reinstall, no biggie. Pop ups are an issue to me, however.
I don't use firefox to be different. I used to love opera. I switched to firefox because opera wouldn't render pages well a long time ago, and I've been using it for over half a year now. It couldn't be better.
So get plugins. Actually USE it instead of checking it out just to try and find some way to discredit it. I get the impression that to use IE and not Firefox would be the action of a person who wants to be different. Because there's no objective reason to still use it.
What else was I gonna say? I forgot. Yeah, okay, some negative points about firefox. It's slow ass hell to start up. I haven't found a good skin to use with it. It uses up shitloads of memory.
But all of those are workeable. And, again dude. GO LOOK AT THE PLUGINS PAGE. BROWSER MANA!
And don't bitch about not getting a proper answer. You sound like a kid. People have given you a sollution. If you don't like it, tough. Sometimes you gotta adapt. You cannot have everything your way. And you cannot be dissing people for trying to help you. I mean... surely you're not so dense as to think that people are suggesting firefox to you as a way to spite you? Don't shoot the pianists. Don't be a child. There. That should be enough. I think I'm on my quota for today.
