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Friends,

Today is the first day of my 30 day experimental use of FireFox as my default browser. I decided to use FireFox as a replacement to IE because my IE has, yet again, become infected with a hijack. IE just has way too many security holes to be considered a viable tool, and yet, is the standard so most of the content on the web is IE compliant.

Still, I finally got pissed off enough to try someting new, again.

So far, so good. Only a few minor issues. For example, my MSN Messenger will not use FireFox when I want to look at my hotmail account. Grrrr.

Also, it has some annoying messages about passwords and such I have not figured out how to shut off.

And worst of all, it does not like the way I try to do FTP. Hmmm, that could be an issue.

But in the plus columns:
- Much reduced exposure to hijacks
- Seems to be a tad faster than IE
- It's open source (and free, like IE)

Anyway, I'll keep you posted on this experiment in case you are considering making the jump.

Regards,
HM Alexander of All Hanover

Firefox has been working just fine as my default browser for a few months now. The most important difference for me from IE is the lack of popups.

I've been using since version 0.2, when it was still called Mozilla Phoenix... even then, no problems.

I love firefox. I've been using it for some time, it kicks IE in all but integration with other microsoft products and accessing FTP sites. But I have found that the pluses, ie. no Hijacks so far, outway the negatives. The only time I now use IE is for FTP sites.

Sir Keiran,

Quote:The only time I now use IE is for FTP sites.

This is my current experimental stage as well, and as irony would have it, my installation of IE still suffers from a hijack and I'm reminded of this everytime I need to FTP.

Regardrs,
HM Alexander of All Hanover

I've downloaded it too, and I love the tab feature, and all the themes are cool..



Now, since I was reluctant to set it as my default browser at first when it asked me, I have to find out how to do that.. but I will~ no doubt about that.

Edit: Did it.

This is one thing I find happening when I use some STUPID servers.

[dohtml]
[/dohtml]

hmm, never encountered that. What website?

on the topic of open source, does anyone use OpenOffice?

Kieran,

This specific error is in a proprietary employement database I can't get you access to. But I've seen similar things elsewhere.

http://www.flipdog.com has a similar problem.

Regards,
Alexander

I love Firefox, I haven't had any trouble with it. Then again, I use a separate client to FTP stuff.

I tried and was not overly fond of Open Office. It was okay, but as soon as I got my hands on a free copy of Office, I was back to Office.

-Rob