Firefox Or Internet Explorer?

POSTED BY: Haze
UPDATED: Saturday, February 25, 2006 20:03
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NOTREAL

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 9:10 PM

Firefox Definitely
I would go crayze without tabs

DC4BS

Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:47 AM

I would use firefox except for ONE thing.

I don't see any way to move the cache directory.

I have a separate partition that I mount as c:\temp

I changed all my temp & cache paths to point in various subdirectories in there.

This makes it so I almost never have to defrag the C: drive as all the little trash files that come and go can make their mess in their own little playground. (Also means I never waste space backing that crud up either)

Untill firefox allows the cache dir to be changed, I'm sticking with mozilla... bloated and slow, yes. But it does what I want it to do. I suppose I could just partition off another small slice and mount it where firefox hides the cache dir by default but I hate doing that. Shouldn't have to...

I don't like IE and only keep it around to run windows update and for those RARE occations I can't get a website to work under mozilla. Mostly, though, if a website is setup for IE only, I just take my buisness elsewhere. I only use those sites if there is absolutey _NO_ other choice available as they are obviously not really interested in MY buisness.
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EDIT: (2/2/06)
OK. figured out how to put the firefox cache where I wanted it last night... ;)

I have a 5 Gb partition mounted as C:\temp

I added a 2nd mountpoint for that same partition (XPpro allows this insanity... )

I simply moved the last 4 directory levels leading to the cache onto my tmp partition and after adding the extra mountpoint, firefox doesn't know the difference between the following.
C:\temp\Firefox\default\xxxxxxx\Cache
C;\Document and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\mozilla\Firefox\default\xxxxxxx\Cache
(mountpoints in italics)
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dc4bs

BEATLE

Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:55 AM

I tried Firefox but just went back to IE. Now that IE7 is out I like it even more.

THATWEIRDGIRL

Thursday, February 2, 2006 2:56 AM

Heh, I was gonna say, "have you tried Opera?" But you brought that up so I don't have to.

And there's another one that's cool. Crap, what is it. Starts with an M. Maxthon, or something like that. I'd use it before IE. I only fire up the Firefox when I edit my site. Safari doesn't support a lot of extensions. Anyway, yeah, Firefox beats IE.

Wasn't tab browsing a Safari thing? I know I've been tab browsing for years. I've been known to be wrong, so I'm prolly wrong here too. Eh, doesn't matter.

www.thatweirdgirl.com
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HAKEN

Thursday, February 2, 2006 3:08 AM

As dated as it is, I still prefer IE. Something about the way other browsers render a page irks me on a subconcious level.

Besides, FFF.NET looks best with IE. :)

FOLLOWMAL

Thursday, February 2, 2006 3:25 AM

I use Firefox for lots 'o stuff, but not when I browse here, I use IE, 'cuz Haken's right, FFF.net looks best with IE.

But Firefox is a good browser and you don't lose IE when you download and use Firefox.

Thanks, Haken for making FFF.net so shiny.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

HAZE

Thursday, February 2, 2006 7:43 PM

Well im running Firefox now. I isn’t bad.

Can anyone recommend any extensions?

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Who do you suppose is in there?

KHYRON

Thursday, February 2, 2006 8:50 PM

Firefox is overhyped. Opera is sweet! Sometimes there are some websites that one can't open properly, but that's because the web designers made the site for IE or Firefox and bugger all the other browsers (lazy programmers suck). But since the first time I tried Opera I never at any stage considered using another browser unless I absolutely needed to.

In fact I downloaded Firefox once to see what all the fuss was about and I had to laugh at how amateurish it seemed by comparison. Maybe later versions of Firefox are better, but frankly, I don't care.

LADYSHELLEY

Saturday, February 4, 2006 3:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haze:
Well im running Firefox now. I isn’t bad.

Can anyone recommend any extensions?

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Who do you suppose is in there?

Customize Google (if you use Google and/or have a gmail account)

AdBlock

Lady Shelley
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http://www.redhawke.org

SNAP

Saturday, February 4, 2006 4:46 AM

You can move the firefox cache directory by editing the user.js in the profile directory

Add or edit this line:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","C:\\Temp\\Cache");

Pretty much anything can be changed in firefox. =)

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