More IE Goodness....

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by Merve
To an ordinary Joe, another browser is just a waste of hard disk space.

Heh, they're worried about hard disk space and they're using Windows? 😃😃
Sorry. I guess that one was kind of obvious....

[ajdegans]

lol, when you pay some attention when installing win, you could save some space. but in the end its a enourmous program and growing every day...

Linux seems to be better with that? i heard...😕 😕

[Travis]

Hmm the only way I see to import bookmarks is 1 by 1... oh well. Also I have another question. Is there a way to make it so all things that automatically open up in a new window, just open up in a new tab instead?

[ajdegans]

i imported my favs on install....

only thing is the start > favs folder is not updated with firefox ? and the url in start > favs give errors about shortcuts that are missing?

kinda weird!

Also i looked for a thing to open all links in a new tab, didnt find it! 🙁
you can (as you probably know) open links in a tab by rightclicking the link and select 'open in new tab', works for me 🙂

[Travis]

Yea but a lot of pages automatically open in a new window. Also, this <textarea> is all small and theres borders here and there that werent there in Avant ( IE with tabbed browsing and pop-up blocker. Oh well. Time to uninstall Firefox.

Another nice thing about Avant is that you can click the X at the top and it puts it into your task bar. Also, it saves your tabs automatically.

[goldbug]

Originally posted by Travis
Yea but a lot of pages automatically open in a new window. Also, this <textarea> is all small and theres borders here and there that werent there in Avant ( IE with tabbed browsing and pop-up blocker. Oh well. Time to uninstall Firefox.

It's funny that you blame the browser and not the website author. 😃

[BuzzLY]

I like Firefox, and any tables that show up with strange borders are probably using tags that only IE knows. That's not Firefox's problem, it's bad HTML.

The problem I am having is that I am getting serious lag (delays) every time I try to do something, like clicking Submit. I don't have a seriously fast machine, but I should think any browser would work reasonably fast on any but the most ancient of boxes. It's more than a little frustrating.

The strange thing is that seems that if the button has current focus, it will click immediately. But when it doesn't, it takes almost a full second to get focus before it depresses. I might be inclined to blame Windows XP, but at the moment my resources are 97% free, and I don't have this problem in other programs (including IE).

[ajdegans]

im using win2k and firefox now... i have no problems with lagging submit buttons, just as fast as IE

only one thing.... where do i set the downloadmanager to download more than 2 objects at the same time :S i cannot seem to find it :queasy:

[LordShryku]

Here's a good article pertaining to the original subject of this thread. The Department of Homeland Security suggests that you stop using IE. 🙂

[ajdegans]

well im finding firefox lame aswell, and to have 2 lame browsers is just to much

uninstalling firefox

Unlike i said i thought its quite good it offers me nothing but crap... Bookmarks are not working right, downloads slow my internet down so much i cant even open a chatroom on irc (yes i have fast internet, 2240/420kbps DSL), many programs still open IE even when i set firefox to be the default browser...

just lame, can as well use IE then 🙂

sorry guys M$ beats firefox :evilgrin: hehe maybe on linux firefox is god but not for me on windoze ...:glare:

[LordShryku]

Hrmm....in one hand you have a "lame browser" which you can't get to work the way you want. In the other hand you have a "lame browser" which is ripe with security holes.

Well, yes, IE would be the obvious choice :rolleyes:

[ajdegans]

lol i prefer a less secure browser above one that is not working right at all 🙂

but if you have good alternatives shoot😃

[LordShryku]

Just because you can't get it to work "right", doesn't mean it's broken. Works just dandy for me :p

[ajdegans]

did i say its broken?, hm maybe i did in a way.....

:evilgrin:

[Travis]

You see heres the thing... I dont care who's fault it is. All I care is if my webpages show up right and my browser has the features I want.

[goldbug]

Originally posted by Travis
You see heres the thing... I dont care who's fault it is. All I care is if my webpages show up right and my browser has the features I want.

See, here is where you are probably mistaken. You are assuming that what IE shows you is "right".

what you expect !== what is "correct"

[Weedpacket]

I'm not using Firefox - still sticking with Mozilla (because of all the other bits it has) - and I'm wondering where the "lameness" is. It's faster at rendering; it renders PNGs accurately and progressive JPEGs progressively; manages about a dozen concurrent requests (as opposed to IE's four or so); doesn't give up as "bad" requests that are still waiting to begin download (unlike IE, which seems not to realise that the reason the response hasn't come back is because it hasn't even made the request yet); three different download displays (dialogue box, download manager, nothing at all) with multiple concurrent downloads assumed; control of where links are opened (new window, new tab, or current window) and at least four choices of how to configure that (I like being able to run down a contents page or index and open in a new tab a whole slew of pages - piling up thirty-odd tabs in the background - and then reading through them as they load: these forums are an example); in-page search for text and links; and basically more control over pretty much everything.

Off-hand I can't think of any sites I visit with any regularity that it renders badly. Certainly none that I've had any hand in developing.

It's looking like the people who think IE is preferable are those who already think IE is "best of breed", rather than "lowest common denominator" (stress lowest).

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by Travis
All I care is if my webpages show up right...

For whom?

[ajdegans]

ok lets get one thing right here 😉 im not saying IE rocks...

But atleast i get my pages without problems on screen...
and my bookmarks work alright, i at that point i prefer IE (for now)

but i said that earlier

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by ajdegans
But atleast i get my pages without problems on screen...
and my bookmarks work alright,

Same here.