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So has anyone been using Firefox instead of IE or other browsers? I've been using it for about a month and really like its features. One of the things i like about it is the ability to click on a pic on a website and change its dimensions to a more viewable size. Anyone else have good/bad experiences with it? What about other useful extensions i should know about?
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been using it for a year or two now.
the resize thing should be on ie as well.
tabbed browsing ? (click on a link with the middle mouse button)
plus you can search for words on the page by just pressing '/' and then type the word. f3 to go to the next instance. makes searches faster.
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I use it, but still keep IE as the primary browser because I'm use to the keyboard shortcuts and for some reason my mouse scroll wheel doesn't work in Mozilla.
It seems to be more stable, and the tabs are a nice feature.
IE has the image resizing thing too, and I actually turned it off in Mozilla because the manual override was such a hassle.
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i like the tabbing of different web pages rather than having to launch a new browser window. i might like it more but i don't get much use out of it as ie is the browser i still use on notebook.....my only comp
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I'm all about Opera. Same features and stability of Mozilla with about half the overhead.
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Firefox owns. Way better than IE, I love the extension support too. It's a great product and I'm switching over completely (only using IE for WindowsUpdate)
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I would love to switch to firefox because of all this damn spyware I've been recieving. However, I can't make it launch webpages with my Hotkeys on my keyboard. I have a HP computer, and there doesn't seem to be any way to make the Hotkeys work for Firefox. If anyone could help me, I'd appreciate it.
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Originally posted by red99sesport:
I would love to switch to firefox because of all this damn spyware I've been recieving. However, I can't make it launch webpages with my Hotkeys on my keyboard. I have a HP computer, and there doesn't seem to be any way to make the Hotkeys work for Firefox. If anyone could help me, I'd appreciate it.
Shouldn't setting Firefox as your default internet browser (Control Panel --> Internet Settings) fix the problem?
If not, then delete IE altogether ... oh wait, we can't.  (stupid thing they did, integrating it that far)
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You can reprogram the hotkeys, should be under "HP Utilities"
I have them reprogrammed for other things, don't see why you couldn't use it for FF.
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Yeah you can delete IE but you need to download winXP lite to do it.
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