Today, I've officially screwed Bill Gates once more and switched to the Mozilla Firefox browser. I definently feel like my deepest darkest secrets are safer than ever. I no longer have any reason to fear any crackers, hackers (black-hats), lusers, phreaks, wardrivers, script kiddies, WaReZ d00dz, or code monkeys. Now it's just a matter of transfering all those bookmarked pages. MoonGoat (Oozing with security)

I've been using it for quite some time,........as far as the code monkeys,.........give them time they'll get around to us eventually. Welcome to the other side. Safer, not completely safe though.

Now you would really be screwing Bill Gates if you switched to Linux or Mac or Amiga or even C64 :) I only use I.E. To update windows.

I used the export and import to get my numerous bookmarks over. I love firefox. It is the dog's!

There is a plugin for firefox that gives you a 'open this page in IE" option on the right button menu. It is called IEVIEW. There are some web sites where firefox does not correctly handle the web page. The above plugin lets you switch browsers easily. And Firefox is NOT totally secure, just much better than IE.

Firefox is the bomb! I love tabbed browsing.

I'd say you have more left the Darkside, rather than gone over to it. The previous sentance was type in Firefox..;)

I think I may have stumbled into a Firefox cult.

Yep, Tabbed viewing rocks... !

Although I'm typing this with my fingers crossed, I've never had a problem with IE. Maybe it has something to do with avoiding certain sites, keeping the IE up to date, and using a good firewall, I dunno. I have tried a few of the freebies like Mozilla, but I just didn't like them as much, sorry.

And don't forget the ChatZilla plugin if you ever feel like wandering around irc for a bit.

Isn't there a law in the USA stating that even threatening the life of Bill Gates can get you jail-time?

I never had a problem with IE either but I got curious and haven't switched back.

now if I could just get Thunderbird to work..;) I finally got an email addy, and loaded Outlook Express, and was infected with Cool Web Search within 5 minutes. (The new version is the most insidious yet; the infecting file is hidden, and all rights to do anything but copy it are removed, even for the Administrator. There's a 12-step process for deleting it, but it involves a partial reload of Win2k..sigh..;)

Er... I've been using Firefox for a while now, but - what's "tabbed browsing"??

Those little things at the top of the page just below the address bar that show the titles of the pages that are open in the different tabs. If you open all the pages you frequently visit in tabs you can set them as your homepages. Every time you open firefox all those websites will open in their own tabs. Very handy.

Just open all your pages in new tabs(File - New Tab) and in the Options choose "Use Current Pages."

Aye, all of the versions of Firefox after 1.0 incorporate importing right into the setup (right after the setup, really...) I don't know why yours didn't? But it's a great program, the greatest thing to happen to web-browsing in years.

The importer is there, it's probably a case of the person installing it going click-click before reading what's on the screen. :p

TobinLam, Mine doesn't look like yours - at all... but after searching, I did find File/New Tab - but where's the "Options choose "Use Current Pages."" bit??? If I press "File/New Tab", I just get an untitled empty page... Help? Fran

Oh... wait.... If I paste an address into the address bar after going "File/New Tab" then that tabbed thingie goes to the new address leaving the old page I was on - this thread - still there on the first tab thingie. Is that what's meant to happen? Fran

You got it. Mine looks different because I am using a theme called SaferFox Expanded and the ForecastFox plugin. You can get these and more from the Firefox website. What I like to do is browse the forums and right-click on a topic and open it in a tab and continue browsing while I wait for the servers to respond. Sometimes I can open two or three topics waiting for the first one to load.

Aye, but you could do all of that anyway, by clicking, "Open in New Window". I currently have 15 windows open, I'll just never get used to multi-tabbing. (IE must have ruined me...)

With 15 windows open they all get grouped into one icon that I have to click and the select the right one. I just find tabs a lot more convenient.

I forgot to add: Options is at the very bottom of the Tools menu at the top. The homepage stuff is the very first thing in the General settings.

Tobinlam, that's due to your settings in XP, not due to the browser. Right-click on your taskbar, and uncheck, "Group Similar taskbar buttons", and that will get rid of it.

I know. It makes for a neater taskbar when you open IE, another program, then another IE window.

Aye, but isn't that the point? Nobody uses IE anymore.

Speaking of tabs in Firefox, if you click on a link with the scroller it will bring up the link in a new tab. However, some sites use scripting that isn't compatable with this. (Not sure why, since it's annoying. Might be a coding flaw or some unresolved bug in Firefox.)

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Speaking of Firefox, I found this thread in the Rhino forum. It will help vastly... "ere's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!" Amazing stuff. Firefox really outdoes IE, in every way I've found...

That is totally awesome!