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Offline IceFire

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Interesting article: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116848,00.asp

They say that Mozilla Firefox and Netscape are gaining on Internet Explorer.  Its a paltry 1% or so...but thats evidently a huge shift in comparison to whats gone on for the last few years.  Thats good...if it goes a little further it'll give Microsoft a nice kick in the pants to get things going again.  They can do some good if they are forced to innovate.

If you haven't switched...consider it.  Firefox is working for me very nicely.  Its not perfect, but nothing is...
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well they don't have much any were else to go :)
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Offline Knight Templar

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Which is the one that's like IE with tabs?
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Offline Liberator

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I guess you mean Firefox, I use it exclusively.  Never been a big fan of Netscape, probably because my only exposure to it was as a 3.0 version on a College comp.  I only remember it being slow, clunky and being unable to do things with it that I could with IE 2 machines down the row.
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Offline Knight Templar

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Yeah sure, Firefox. Tabs look cool, though... despite whatever I told Thorn the other day.
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Offline Fineus

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I wanted to like FireFox but I just find alt-tabbing between IE windows to be much more simple. That and I really don't have any issues with it... it works fine, fast and generally problem free for me.

 

Offline Knight Templar

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But doesn't the tabbing save resources? THINK OF THE SYSTEM RESOURCES!!!1
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Offline Fury

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Call me weird but I prefer seperated windows over tabs any day. :)
I still use Firefox though, there just is no better browser at the moment.

 

Offline Col. Fishguts

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<- still using Opera 7.21 and happy with it.

And yes....tab browsing pwns joo
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Offline WMCoolmon

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I like the tabs...having them there is a lot easier than alt-tabbing through ALL the system windows or searching for the right one on the taskbar.
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Offline Ace

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Opera 7.23 here :)
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Offline Ryx

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Originally posted by Kalfireth
I wanted to like FireFox but I just find alt-tabbing between IE windows to be much more simple. That and I really don't have any issues with it... it works fine, fast and generally problem free for me.


Ctrl + tab to cycle tabs. ;)

At least in Moz. Not sure about Firefox.
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Offline Tiara

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Originally posted by Ryx


Ctrl + tab to cycle tabs. ;)

At least in Moz. Not sure about Firefox.

Same in FireFox :D
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Offline aldo_14

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Tabs kick arse.  In my humble opinion.

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Offline Fineus

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Ctrl/tab works eh? Nice to know - maybe I'll take a second look.

 

Offline Tiara

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Originally posted by Kalfireth
Ctrl/tab works eh? Nice to know - maybe I'll take a second look.

Ah... another potential follower! :D
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Offline Fineus

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Maybe ;) At the moment though I'm thinking about buying ObjectDock Plus which seems to be my every answer to a GUI in one handy little £20 application. Firefox can wait.

 

Offline Ashrak

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i really dont care ... as long as it works :)
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You know, you can still open new windows in Firefox (well in v0.9 atleast) if you refuse to drop your alt-tabbing ways.
Use tabs and windows for teh ultimate internet experience!!!!1

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