Page 1 of 2

Tech Help - Internet Browers - Which One Do YOU Use

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 20:42
by Andy TG
Good Evening Everyone

I am in a bit of a fix - I need some advice on which Internet Broswer I should install

I tried IE 7 - but it really played havok with my OS (XP Pro SP2) so got rid of that

Thought I would go back to Opera - installed 8.0 or 8.5 - but that crashes too much and I lose all the tabbed pages i was looking at - usually about 10

Is MOZILLA any good - or shoudl I be looking at something else?

Thanks in advance

Andy

Knew You'd Be Pleased.....

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 20:48
by emilystrange
firefox is fine. i have IE and safari as well as i often use two browsers at once to be logged in to myspace/gmail mutiple accounts

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 20:55
by EvilBastard
Love FireFox, wouldn't go back to IE for money. Running FF on XP Pro, love the Tabs feature.

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 20:59
by Obviousman
Firefox, none other, whichever system.

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 21:09
by Andy TG
Thanks Guys and Girls - Your ALL Stars

Will be giving FireFox a go - Cheers

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 21:13
by emilystrange
make it pretty. mine's all black with chromatabs.

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 22:36
by limur
Firefox is nice. But Opera is superb.

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 23:02
by EvilBastard
emilystrange wrote:make it pretty. mine's all black with chromatabs.
How do you do that?! :eek:

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 23:30
by eotunun

Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 23:35
by Bartek
"Firefox", before "Opera". Mozilla better, imho

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 00:28
by nodubmanshouts
I never really had a problem with IE7, then one day GMAIL started loading realllll slow. So I switched to Firefox, and have never looked back...

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 00:54
by Andy TG
I have now installed FF and added loads of UM Add - Ons LOL - got a black Aqua summit GUI - which is rather nice - looks like I am in HL all the time

Thanks ALL for the advice and helpful tips

Your ALL Stars

Knew I'd Be Pleased......

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 08:44
by markfiend
Recommended addons:
adblock plus -- you need never look at an online advert again. 8)
greasemonkey (if you know any javascript) can customise how any webpage loads in your browser
I use web developer -- handy toolbar for webby types.
undo closed tab -- what it says on the tin.

Any others anyone?

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 10:09
by emilystrange
yeah the one that lets you set pages to reload automatically after a certain time. not recommended for forums - if it reloads in the middle of you scribing wisdoms, they get lost. handy for other stuff tho

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 10:46
by mh
Customize Google is fairly neat.

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 12:17
by smiscandlon
markfiend wrote:adblock plus -- you need never look at an online advert again. 8)
Gods, yes! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 12:31
by lazarus corporation
My choices:

for general browsing:
Adblock plus
Fasterfox
Sage (for RSS feeds)
Tab Mix Plus

for web geekery:
Firebug
Greasemonkey
Web Dev Toolbar
YSlow

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 12:45
by emilystrange
anyone help me with my sound disappearing on firefox? it works everywhere else...

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 13:01
by Bartek
those addons, pasted by Mr. Fiend are graet, thank you very much :notworthy: :kiss:

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 13:14
by James Blast
some Uber Geek on another forum wrote:These are all the extensions I currently have installed: -

Application: Firefox 2.0.0.13 (2008031114)
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)

April 16, 2008

Total number of items: 55

- Aardvark 2.9
http://karmatics.com/aardvark/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
Utility for cleaning up a page prior to printing, and for analyzing a page.

- abcTajpu 1.6.2
http://lingvo.org/abctajpu
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3
a` b\ c^ ---> à β ĉ (http://lingvo.org/abctajpu)

- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3
http://www.pierceive.com/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0b5
Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G

- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4
http://adblockplus.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Ads were yesterday!

- Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.2
http://adblockplus.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Helps you create element hiding rules for Adblock Plus to fight the text ads.

- Add to Search Bar 1.7
http://maltekraus.de/Firefox/search-tools
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
Add any search on any page to the Search Bar.

- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.4
http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b4
Sidebar control with award-winning user experience!

- Anonymouser 0.3.1
http://anonymouserplugin.blogspot.com/
Firefox 0.7 - 3.0a1
Open link anonymously with anonymouse.org

- Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.6.3
http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.*
Helps you find, move and remove duplicate bookmarks. It also notices you when you are adding a bookmark already in your Bookmarks.

- Brief 1.1
http://brief.mozdev.org/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
A feed reading extension.

- British English Dictionary 1.19
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre

- ChromaTabs 2.0
http://www.mozilla.org/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0a4
Colors browser tabs based on contents.

- CLEO 3.3.1
http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
Create multi-addon install package (Cleopack)

- CustomizeGoogle 0.71
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0.*
Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.

- Download Statusbar 0.9.6.1
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar

- DownloadHelper 3.0.3
http://www.downloadhelper.net
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
Download videos and images from many sites

- DownThemAll! 1.0
http://downthemall.net/
Firefox 2.0.0.8 - 3.0pre
The mass downloader for Firefox.

- Extension List Dumper 1.13.1
http://sogame.awardspace.com/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
Dumps a list of the installed extensions.

- FaviconizeTab 0.9.7.5
http://espion.just-size.jp/archives/06/308085916.html
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
The width of the specified tab becomes small up to the size of favicon.

- FEBE 5.3.1
http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
FEBE - Backup your Firefox data

- FireFoxMenuButtons 1.5.3
http://www.addonzilla.com
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a1
Adds 41 Buttons (duplicating of Firefox menu strings) on the browser's toolbar

- Flagfox 3.2.3
http://flagfox.servehttp.com/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Displays a flag depicting the location of the current server

- FlashGot 0.9.5
http://flashgot.net
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Enables single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (dozens currently supported, see Extension's Home Page for details). FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page from serial contents originally scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all".

- Flat Bookmark Editing 0.8.1
http://bluweb.com/chouser/proj/mozhack/
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Edit bookmarks in the bookmark organizer, without opening the properties window.

- Googlebar Lite 4.6.4
http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/googlebarlite/
Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.*
A light-weight Google search toolbar for Firefox.

- GooglePreview 3.10
http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Inserts web site previews in Google and Yahoo search results.

- IE Tab 1.3.3.20070528
http://ietab.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0a5
Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox.

- Image Zoom 0.3.1
http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Adds zoom functionality for images

- ImgLikeOpera 0.6.15
http://imglikeopera.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
Allows load only the images that you want

- Linkification 1.3.3
http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a3
Converts text links into genuine, clickable links.

- Locationbar² 0.9.1
http://en.design-noir.de/mozilla/locationbar2/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0a4
Emphasizes the domain name and decodes URLs for better readability.

- Make Link 3.0.2
http://www.soylentred.net/projects/make-link
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a1
Make HTML or ForumCode links via the context menu

- mid 0.8.3
http://mid.mozdev.org
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Mozilla Internet Dictionary

- More Tools Menu 1.0.8
http://trac.arantius.com/wiki/Extensions/MoreToolsMenu
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Unclutter the "Tools" menu by moving new items to a "More Tools" menu.

- NoScript 1.5.8
http://noscript.net
Firefox 1.5.0.4 - 3.0pre
Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality... Experts will agree: Firefox really is safer with NoScript :-)

- Options Menu 1.5
http://james.istop.com/OptionsMenu
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Quick access to Extension Options

- PDF Download 1.0.1.1
http://www.pdfdownload.org
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer or view it as HTML.

- Print Hint 0.3
http://www.ruadesign.org/firefox/
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Helps you to quickly find printer-friendly versions of webpages

- QuickRestart 1.1.1
http://es.geocities.com/jucarlosa/quickaddons/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
Adds a "Restart Firefox" item to the Tools menu.

- Random Theme Switcher 0.2.2
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
This extension switches skin at random.

- ReloadEvery 3.0.0
http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3
Reloads webpages every so many seconds or minutes

- Resurrect Pages 1.0.8
http://trac.arantius.com/wiki/Extensions/Resurrect
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
Resurrect dead pages, by finding their ghosts.

- RichScrollbar 0.1
http://dafizilla.sourceforge.net/richscrollbar
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
Add to scrollbars some buttons to simplify common scrolling operations

- Session Fix 0.3.1
http://www.defector.de/blog/categories/ ... Extensions
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0a2
Extends the close dialog with a session check.

- Show Picture 1.0
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3
Displays the selected image.

- Smiley Xtra 4.1.1
http://www.smileyxtra.co.uk/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
Insert smilies from an online database into forum posts, blogs and more!

- Stop Autoplay 0.7.2
http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/sap/sap-en.html
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
Disable the autoplay of the embedded music and movie.

- StumbleUpon 3.18
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
StumbleUpon Toolbar

- Tab Clicking Options 0.6.9
http://twanno.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Assign tab related actions to clicking events on a tab or the tabbar

- Taboo 0.1.5
http://runningfrombears.com/taboo
Firefox 2.0b1 - 3.0pre
The cure for tabitis

- Tabs Open Relative 0.3.1
http://jomel.me.uk/software/firefox/tabsopenrelative/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Tabs open to the right of the current one.

- TinyUrl Creator 1.0.4
http://mozmonkey.com/
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
Convenient tool to create small url redirects from longer ones.

- Toolbar Buttons 0.5.0.3
http://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
Adds toolbar buttons.

- Update Scanner 2.0.15
http://updatescanner.mozdev.org
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Monitors webpages for updates

- YouPlayer 0.9.7
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
Advanced video-site player and download tool
that should keep yous busy ;D

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 13:29
by Andy TG
James Blast wrote:
some Uber Geek on another forum wrote:These are all the extensions I currently have installed: -

Application: Firefox 2.0.0.13 (2008031114)
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)

April 16, 2008

Total number of items: 55

- Aardvark 2.9
http://karmatics.com/aardvark/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
Utility for cleaning up a page prior to printing, and for analyzing a page.

- abcTajpu 1.6.2
http://lingvo.org/abctajpu
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3
a` b\ c^ ---> à β ĉ (http://lingvo.org/abctajpu)

- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3
http://www.pierceive.com/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0b5
Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G

- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4
http://adblockplus.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Ads were yesterday!

- Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper 1.0.2
http://adblockplus.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Helps you create element hiding rules for Adblock Plus to fight the text ads.

- Add to Search Bar 1.7
http://maltekraus.de/Firefox/search-tools
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
Add any search on any page to the Search Bar.

- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.4
http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b4
Sidebar control with award-winning user experience!

- Anonymouser 0.3.1
http://anonymouserplugin.blogspot.com/
Firefox 0.7 - 3.0a1
Open link anonymously with anonymouse.org

- Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.6.3
http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.*
Helps you find, move and remove duplicate bookmarks. It also notices you when you are adding a bookmark already in your Bookmarks.

- Brief 1.1
http://brief.mozdev.org/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
A feed reading extension.

- British English Dictionary 1.19
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre

- ChromaTabs 2.0
http://www.mozilla.org/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0a4
Colors browser tabs based on contents.

- CLEO 3.3.1
http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
Create multi-addon install package (Cleopack)

- CustomizeGoogle 0.71
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0.*
Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.

- Download Statusbar 0.9.6.1
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar

- DownloadHelper 3.0.3
http://www.downloadhelper.net
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
Download videos and images from many sites

- DownThemAll! 1.0
http://downthemall.net/
Firefox 2.0.0.8 - 3.0pre
The mass downloader for Firefox.

- Extension List Dumper 1.13.1
http://sogame.awardspace.com/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
Dumps a list of the installed extensions.

- FaviconizeTab 0.9.7.5
http://espion.just-size.jp/archives/06/308085916.html
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
The width of the specified tab becomes small up to the size of favicon.

- FEBE 5.3.1
http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
FEBE - Backup your Firefox data

- FireFoxMenuButtons 1.5.3
http://www.addonzilla.com
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a1
Adds 41 Buttons (duplicating of Firefox menu strings) on the browser's toolbar

- Flagfox 3.2.3
http://flagfox.servehttp.com/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Displays a flag depicting the location of the current server

- FlashGot 0.9.5
http://flashgot.net
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Enables single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (dozens currently supported, see Extension's Home Page for details). FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page from serial contents originally scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all".

- Flat Bookmark Editing 0.8.1
http://bluweb.com/chouser/proj/mozhack/
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Edit bookmarks in the bookmark organizer, without opening the properties window.

- Googlebar Lite 4.6.4
http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/googlebarlite/
Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.*
A light-weight Google search toolbar for Firefox.

- GooglePreview 3.10
http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Inserts web site previews in Google and Yahoo search results.

- IE Tab 1.3.3.20070528
http://ietab.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0a5
Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox.

- Image Zoom 0.3.1
http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Adds zoom functionality for images

- ImgLikeOpera 0.6.15
http://imglikeopera.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
Allows load only the images that you want

- Linkification 1.3.3
http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a3
Converts text links into genuine, clickable links.

- Locationbar² 0.9.1
http://en.design-noir.de/mozilla/locationbar2/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0a4
Emphasizes the domain name and decodes URLs for better readability.

- Make Link 3.0.2
http://www.soylentred.net/projects/make-link
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a1
Make HTML or ForumCode links via the context menu

- mid 0.8.3
http://mid.mozdev.org
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Mozilla Internet Dictionary

- More Tools Menu 1.0.8
http://trac.arantius.com/wiki/Extensions/MoreToolsMenu
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Unclutter the "Tools" menu by moving new items to a "More Tools" menu.

- NoScript 1.5.8
http://noscript.net
Firefox 1.5.0.4 - 3.0pre
Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality... Experts will agree: Firefox really is safer with NoScript :-)

- Options Menu 1.5
http://james.istop.com/OptionsMenu
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Quick access to Extension Options

- PDF Download 1.0.1.1
http://www.pdfdownload.org
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer or view it as HTML.

- Print Hint 0.3
http://www.ruadesign.org/firefox/
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Helps you to quickly find printer-friendly versions of webpages

- QuickRestart 1.1.1
http://es.geocities.com/jucarlosa/quickaddons/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
Adds a "Restart Firefox" item to the Tools menu.

- Random Theme Switcher 0.2.2
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
This extension switches skin at random.

- ReloadEvery 3.0.0
http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3
Reloads webpages every so many seconds or minutes

- Resurrect Pages 1.0.8
http://trac.arantius.com/wiki/Extensions/Resurrect
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
Resurrect dead pages, by finding their ghosts.

- RichScrollbar 0.1
http://dafizilla.sourceforge.net/richscrollbar
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
Add to scrollbars some buttons to simplify common scrolling operations

- Session Fix 0.3.1
http://www.defector.de/blog/categories/ ... Extensions
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0a2
Extends the close dialog with a session check.

- Show Picture 1.0
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3
Displays the selected image.

- Smiley Xtra 4.1.1
http://www.smileyxtra.co.uk/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
Insert smilies from an online database into forum posts, blogs and more!

- Stop Autoplay 0.7.2
http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/sap/sap-en.html
Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre
Disable the autoplay of the embedded music and movie.

- StumbleUpon 3.18
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
StumbleUpon Toolbar

- Tab Clicking Options 0.6.9
http://twanno.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
Assign tab related actions to clicking events on a tab or the tabbar

- Taboo 0.1.5
http://runningfrombears.com/taboo
Firefox 2.0b1 - 3.0pre
The cure for tabitis

- Tabs Open Relative 0.3.1
http://jomel.me.uk/software/firefox/tabsopenrelative/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
Tabs open to the right of the current one.

- TinyUrl Creator 1.0.4
http://mozmonkey.com/
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
Convenient tool to create small url redirects from longer ones.

- Toolbar Buttons 0.5.0.3
http://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5pre
Adds toolbar buttons.

- Update Scanner 2.0.15
http://updatescanner.mozdev.org
Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
Monitors webpages for updates

- YouPlayer 0.9.7
Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
Advanced video-site player and download tool
that should keep yous busy ;D
@ James - cheers Mate - your a star - I might well install a few of those - Thanks

as my PC is rather old (LOL) I do not want to overstrech it - it might throw a fit etc.

I hope one day soon to upgrade the whole thing and do the things that I actually want to do (like play Quake 4 / Half Life 2) ;-)

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 13:39
by smiscandlon
Andy TG wrote:@ James - cheers Mate - your a star - I might well install a few of those - Thanks

as my PC is rather old (LOL) I do not want to overstrech it - it might throw a fit etc.
Yeah I got two or three new ones out of that list, so cheers.

@ Andy, in the scheme of things these are fairly small program add-ons to Firefox, they're unlikely to cause any performance issues to be honest.

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 15:58
by emilystrange
i've added one or two. very nice work!

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 16:09
by James Blast
I'm great me ;D

Posted: 27 Apr 2008, 16:27
by robertzombie
That Ad-block ad-on's a gooden! :notworthy: