Seriously?! No one in your town uses Firefox? For me it's like one out of every two people I meet at school use Firefox. And today at school when we were supposed to be working on a project, a friend and I were messing around with Platypus and Greasemonkey (Firefox extensions), which caught the attention of a lot of people around us. So in those nice couple of seconds, a good three people switched to Firefox just to mess with the extensions. xD


Couldn't you use the nightly tester tools to force compatibility even on extensions that aren't compatible? Of course it's possible that might cause Firefox to crash more often...but that hasn't happened to be so far.

Anyway, I have 2.0...but I've also had all the beta releases before it, so 2.0 really doesn't feel like much of a big leap. Just that it has a nice name on it and lots of publication. Yay for Firefox!


Couldn't many of the elements in Fasterfox be tweaked in Firefox's about:config? If I remember correctly, you type about:config into the url bar, and then change network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to true. Then change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8. (More isn't better I heard, as the max number of requests Firefox will make is 8; it doesn't want to break other people just for you...) Then, right click somewhere and create a bew integer and call it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0. That emulates Fasterfox...though Fasterfox is nicer since you don't have to do it manually.

Apparently, my Linux install of Mozilla Firefox 2 doesn't even let me install any xpis, which is HIGHLY STRANGE AND ANNOYING!!!

SuSE Linux 10.1 (Linux kernel 2.6.18.1), KDE 3.5.1, Mozilla Firefox 2.0

xboxrulz

Personally, I like Opera more than Firefox. It does not crash that often and allows me to disable images for faster browsing with a click of a button. Opera can be controlled using a microphone. It also passes the Acid2 test while Firefox 2.0 still does not pass it.

Well that depends really upon where do you live and what kind of school/college you're attending to. In my classroom if not everyone, 95% of people use Firefox. But that's because I'm taking Engineering, and most of its students have some decent computer knowledge. Also, the University uses Firefox as the default browser since each subject may use different operational systems.
But if you took my old school as a base, probably 90% of the people there used IE, and probably still use it.Beware, Fasterfox is widely known to have evil big memory leaks, actually making your browser possibly even slower than normal. If this has been corrected, it must have been done only recently.
So changing these settings manually is still a better choice.

well, i think firefox really sux
i use Avant Browser and i thing this is THE browser
firefox and avant are much alike but i really love avant much better
but that is only my opinion, not 50 other mil lol

NoMore

lol, that means that you support Internet Explorer because Avant Browser uses the Internet Explorer Engine.

xboxrulz

I use firefox although I havn't tried avant. Where can i see more about it?

http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Go there. I had this browser for a while to use on sites that required IE (or a like browser).
It's has some neat features but it seemed to be sort of bloated. It was slow to launch.