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about 1 year ago Avatar
Good, but somewhat tired

    by TheAlienist

I use Firefox 2.01 on a Mac. The whole tabbed browsing features was great 2 years ago, but all browsers do that now. So what's so great about firefox now? Plugins. If you're a web developer there's really no other way to go.

As for complaints, it's slow and a resource hog. I know it's better on Windows, but on a Mac both Safari and Opera feel much faster.

Don't get me wrong - there's not that much to complain about. I just wish they would evolve web browsing beyond tabs and plugins.

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11 months ago Avatar
A little to learn from usage of end users

    by Prakash

Its a great web browser i have seen so far, there is no doubt about it. But from FF 1.5 onwards, i see very little is done in terms of new "simple" features addition.

By "Simple" features i mean, there should some simple ways of doing routine things anybody would do in their whole day.

For example, i have just tested Opera browser and found few things which are very common for all type of internet user. I saw they have added a ... [More] "Paste and Go" option in title bar, its just a question of pasting the url in address bar and then clicking on return(enter) or Go button. But it feels very good when it saves you from having that extra click or press of button move. Also they have a niche feature that allows you to select any text in page and add it to Notes by a right click and "Copy to Note". Then you can use that note to paste it in other text boxes on different sites. Very useful for bloggers i feel.

Another thing i found is with IE & Opera both. They have better Zooming feature or i would say different Zooming feature than FF. They zoom the entire page along with images and everything which keeps the page layout same through out the min. zoom to max zoom. But FF does the Zoom very differently. It only zooms the text and when you zoom the page to higher value it entirely breaks the layout of the original page.

I am not sure if these are bigger things from coding point of view, but definitely it improves user experience with a great value.

There are lots of things in FF that so good and are not available in any other browser but if they can add a such smaller and simple things to it, they will get a great amount of applaud from users round the world.

Don't take me wrong, i am not from any other browser camp .. but just trying to show some few simple things which would make the browsing experience a lot better and full of fun for every type of user.

So my suggestion to the FF team is to keep doing great things as they have done in past and now doing, but also take care of such smaller things that helps the user a lot.

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2 months ago Avatar
I love Firefox' plugins, not Firefox itself

    by DotMG

With plugins, Mozilla Firefox is the browser I want it to be. I use Fx for its plugins, and especially Vimperator (for my case). No other browser can give me the satisfaction it's giving me, but I'm not that absolutely satisfied.

Firefox evolves much more rapidly than its plugins can do. Almost every plugin developer has to rewrite code with each big release (0.x to 1.0, 1.0 to 1.5, 1.5 to 2.0, 2.0 to 3.0, ...), so now, the plugin I love ... [More] the most (Vimperator) is focused on Fx 3.0, another plugin I really love (FireFTP) is not compatible with Fx 3.0, and I'm not sure it will be compatible when the final version of 3.0 will be released.

So, Fx is great, but it has to try its best to make the life of plugins writer more easier. [Less]

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about 1 year ago Avatar
The best

  by Lars Wesselius

It is the best browser at the moment. Its faster, smarter, better looking, and more free than IE. The ability to install addons and themes are simply genius. This makes browsing a whole lot more fun. I simply cannot think of any browser better than this one, so dont bother looking further - this is your stop.

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about 1 year ago Avatar
A new experience

  by autorama

Faster, better, respect standards, innovative. That's cool software.

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2 months ago Avatar
What about memory leaks?

  by Dustin Hamilton

I love the firefox web browser according to standards.But it's all the more
hateable for its memory leaks.Since it's first version it's carrying this bloatedness in it.Isn't bloatedware banned in Open source?I would prefer it to concentrate first only on its memory leak and continue for other features later

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11 months ago Avatar
Wow, just wow

  by dennis56

I've used Firefox since early 1.5, and I say this is definitely the best browser around, any knowledgeable person uses Firefox, if only it came with windows then Firefox would have well over 75% of the internet

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about 1 month ago Avatar
Web Development, Plugins and appearance.

  by dessus

As a web developer, I am developing XHTML 1.1 pages and moving towards other standards such as SVG. Firefox 3 now supports XHTML 1.1 compliant SVG which is cool.

The large plugin community for Firefox is definately an advantage, personally I like NoScript.

A downside to Firefox is that firefox really requires skins (which there are plenty of) so that it doesn't look ugly in comparison to IE on Vista (ie the themes are ... [More] reasonably matching). Purhaps a suggested theme depending on the OS that its installed on, during the install process. I imagine many users just use the default skin, not bothering to find a better one.

I would like to see a feature in Firefox like in MSN Messenger that trouble shoots internet connections. It has a list of 10 things including things like IP allocation/ Gateway / DNS etc that it checks showing the user where the problem could be. I have had to remotely help people over the phone with various IT problems and these sorts of features i think could be easy to implement. I found that we recommended the webbrowser to users that was the easiest for us to help them with.
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about 1 year ago Avatar
The best browser for me

  by roshan

Well, this is my all time best browser. rendering works well in both windows and ubuntu linux. IE is something full of bugs and opera on the other hand, have a poor rendering engine.

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about 1 year ago Avatar
Firefox...zzZZzzzz

    by lestermo

It's just a browser. Sure, we all use it, but c'mon...it's no big deal.

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