I’m having to use IE to read the forums because I’m at my parents house at the mo, and I’m really struggling with it. All those damned windows! On autopilot I started middle-clicking threads to open them as tabs, but instead it starts trying to scroll up and down! And then when I finally get used to the hideous chore of right click -> down a bit -> open as new window, I now have loads of separate windows! But it gets worse… I open another, and it removes them all from the taskbar and puts them into one entry with a menu in it… how am I meant to keep track of what order I opened them in now?! AAARRGGGHH!!!
This is doing my head in. I might have to secretly install mozilla on this computer, because I can’t cope with this until sunday.
However, I congratulate IE users for being some of the most tolerant people in the entire universe. If the world consisted entirely of mozilla users armageddon would have happened long ago and we’d all be extinct by now. A blessing indeed.
Phil
Aaargh! Mouse gestures don’t work either! I tried to go back a page but it just started scrolling randomly instead. MAKE IT STOP!!!
Another nice thing about Firebird, it doesn’t install. It’s all self contained in one simple folder. Easy to “install” on someone elses computer for a bit. I love it, I think it’s the best browser out there.
And yes, IE users are the most tolerant people. Perhaps IE is really some odd psychological case study?
Which is unavoidable as it’s integrated into the OS and always loaded into memory.
I use IE only as a last resort… which shouldn’t be surprisng since I don’t even have Windows or Mac operating systems (It is possible to run IE under Linux… but why bother?)
The problem with the funky characters and text over the page has less to do with bad people “coding” html than with the crappy html composers… Frontpage is awful. Not only does it put in those funky characters (which are out of HTML specs) but it also allows users to do really dumb things like add WMF pictures (Windows Meta File, and no, that is not a net standard either.)
Frontpage is not the only culprit. Mozilla composer (which I used to use) puts out horrendous code as well. I finally learned HTML last spring, and redid my web page by hand. It took just as long to re-write as it did to write it originally, and the filesize is smaller (the code is less obfuscated) so it loads on slow connections faster. Also easier to read/edit.
My html editor of choice: vim.
But I digress… my browser of choice is Firebird, and my mail/news reader is Thunderbird. The big difference between these and Mozilla is that Mozilla is one honking program. You load Mozilla, and you’ve also got mail and html editing software loaded, thus Mozilla takes longer to load and has a larger memory footprint. Firebird only does browsing. Thunderbird only does mail/news.
Considering how many security holes are in IE & Outlook, I wonder that anyone still uses them (I told my roomate that if she used IE on the computer I built for her and something went wrong, I’d “fix” it by installing Linux ;))
First, add the site to your favourites. Open your favourites thingy, and click on the 2nd small icon at the top, ‘Organize Favourites’. Then ‘move’ the site you want to the ‘links’ folder. It should then be displayed above the bars at the top.
I used to use crazy. I found it let a lot of stuff through (Popups). I have been using Firefox for a few months now and it is the best. No problems yet. You can set it up to use tabbed windows. If you actually play with it there is a ton of customization you can do.
Mozilla Has tabs, Just click on a lik with your little mouse scrolly button, The middle mouse wheel… and It’ll open the link in a new tab, I use it all the time, or just right click and select open in a new tab, Duh…
For those of you without a scroll wheel, the middle button works too. For those of you with a Mac… <Shakes head and sighs… unless its got a multi-button mouse and Linux :D>
and another opportunity for phil to do his mozilla thing
i’m sudenly not able to see pictures in my crazy browser
i’ve checked the advanced internet options and the ‘Display Pictures’ box is ticked
any other thoughts?
I think I’ll stick with Camino and Safari. They use the real standards of HTML and CSS style. I only use IE for making sure that my web pages comform also to Microsoft’s un-standard. Anyhow, switch to Mac, get the new $500 Mac Mini =D
Plus a keyboard, plus a mouse (with at least two buttons), plus a monitor, plus some speakers.
Not that I’m complaining. The Mini has about the same specs as my laptop for a lot less money, though of course my laptop has all those things, plus a wireless card, bluetooth, firewire 800, etc.
I think the fun thing with the new Minis will be having people look at your computer setup and say “Where’s the computer?”
I tried crazy browser, and it has a lot of nice stuff, but it doesn’t seem too different from Mozilla. And I’m used to the Mozilla controls right now… Maybe sometime I’ll get used to crazy browser, if I feel like it…
The thing that really makes firefox/bird powerful is the extentions.
If you go the the firefox homepage (which you can get to by clicking the circly thing under the X at the top right of the screen) you can get to a page where you can download all sorts of extentions. These can do all sorts of things, here are some that I use:
-you can get weather your toolbar thing
-you can get google to put little previews of the pages in it’s search engine
-you get it so when you open a link that would normaly open in a new window it opens in a new tab
-you can get it to give you the option to zoom an image when you right click on it
-and (although I hate to admit I have this one) you can add the option to open a page in IE when you right click on the page(used strictly for when pages dont work in firefox)
