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A website with tons of information of why we should all stop using IE. Useful for friends who seem unconvinced that IE is evil. Well… at least they have a reason.. unlike antifirefox.com lol.

The Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software should devote an entire section of their website to help demonstrate how Evil IE really is. Why have they did not come up with the concept yet. They should have done this before to kick start THE second great browsers war.

I personally use Firefox (and love it), but I don’t think there’s a need for this site. IE can be locked down (almost) just as tight as Firefox, and people have personal preferences (although I realize that most only use it because it comes with Windows). Frankly I like having it being so widely used. It makes it more appealing to exploit, thus keeping me safer. If the internet switched to Firefox, Firefox will get targetted by attacks, and I’d rather not have that.

I would very seriously doubt that anyone will care about this after IE7 is released. The only thing that the end user would care about here is tabbed browsing, which IE7 should be much better at after Beta 2 (there is very little in there right now, the really compelling features vs. Firefox will not be there until Beta 2).

What is IE good for? Windows updates.. Wow.. Impressive! Look, firefox has patched up alot of what IE isn’t patched up with already. That’s why you don’t see IE exploits working on firefox as well. It’s not that IE is exploited because its popular, but because its extremely vulnerable. Try finding an exploit on IE, you’ll find hundreds.

Look at each and every one of those exploits and tell me if it can be modified to work with firefox.. You won’t find any. If your thinking that IE7 will be more safe, yea it will be a bit more safe, but not as safe as firefox, plus IE7 is just a copycat of alot of features from firefox and other web browsers(For example, tabbed browsing). Not only all of this, but firefox has hundreds of great extensions. The more people that switch to firefox, the more great extensions there will be to come.

This site is so cool that it covers all of the useful extensions a human can have in his Firefox. Worth a look!! This has many extensions I love that I didn’t know about. Why aren’t some of these on the Mozilla Extension site? It looks like not all the extensions are compatable with the current version of firefox.

I’ve been using Mozilla FireFox almost exclusively now for over a year. As I’ve been using it, I’ve run across a number of really handy extensions that I feel really turn it into a real powerhouse. I use it not only to surf the web but, I use it to help in my job, check my e-mail (GMail), and read my RSS feeds.

This has to be the easiest way to get around the WGA check, and you can do within Internet Explorer. It’s great that MS gives you a way to get around their own devices.

Someone bothered to come up with javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’) when you can simply disable WGA itself… Just turn it off in the manage add-ons thing. But rather then ignoring the nag bubble you should click on it (the bubble not the icon) and it will never come up again. No need for elaborate scripts or registry hacks.

To be more accurate, they are redesigning it. It will be back, probably more difficult to bypass. They didnt scrap WGA as far as I am aware, they just told the developers to go back to the drawing board and make a better version.

This is an excerpt from the ExtremeTech book, Hacking Firefox: More Than 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations. In this chapter you’ll learn how to recognize the difference between “old” and “new” extensions, why some extensions from web sites won’t install, how to hack the Extension Manager, and more.

Let’s say you are the administrator of one or more installations of Mozilla Firefox and you want to lock certain settings/options, so users cannot edit them. For instance you may want to prevent people from changing the proxy setting, the homepage, the ability to save passwords, etc. You can make it so.

This is good info. There really needs to be more info out there about doing enterprise deployments of Firefox. I haven’t tried it, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Perfect for schools and private institutions.

Browsershots is an open-source system for distributed automatic production of browser screenshots. View screenshots of web pages in different browsers, at different screen resolutions and with different plugins.

Really slow site but it seems pretty cool. It would be cooler if there were a p2p network of webmasters who could download an application and test their website in a service such as this one.

I just noticed that its an open source DISTRIBUTED project. With 4500+ jobs in the queue I suppose how else would they get the job done. The screenshots are very good quality, showing the whole page in sections and not just the ‘top half’.

Another similar service that had been down for aaages I see is back up, which takes screenshots of your site in a few browser on a mac. Thanks to those who submitted Google, I’ve also wondered what it looks like in Firefox 800x600…

Processing may take a while. Usually the first screenshots will be available two minutes after submitting, and the last will be finished within half an hour. If the job queue is exceptionally full, you may have to wait a few hours or longer. Too bad you cant download the app to your own server for testing.

If anyone really needs this service, use browsercam. You have to pay, but it’s fast which is important if your debugging a website.

If you are a web designer, you should just have each browser you are testing against available locally. They all offer free trials/versions. And as a serious web dev, even buying them should be part of your budget!

Guess where the link goes. LOL!

hehe.. I don’t like IE now that the internet is so full of security issues, but if IE had that all resolved, it wouldn’t be a bad browser. It’s just that nothing can come close to competing with Firefox. LOL..

The security problems are pretty bad, but the way they just refuse to follow accepted standards is just arrogant and annoying.

I don’t mind IE, it is just that I love Firefox because…

• + It keeps all my passwords protected with a master one.
• Has Adblock
• Has Foxytunes
• Has GMail Notifier.
• Is fast at loading pages.

A few things that I don’t like…

• Takes forever to load.
• People don’t know what the heck you are talking about if you say Firefox
• People can’t say the “Mozilla” part of it. (They say Mazilla)

I don’t hate IE, I just really love Firefox. When I used IE I had to download a bunch of little programs that made it operate like Firefox does right out of the box (popup blockers, tabbed browsing, Google toolbar, etc..).

I just hate ActiveX which is IE’s main flaw. It’s not needed. People can’t be that dumb not to know how to install a program. And as the Windows Update Extension on Firefox proves, you don’t need ActiveX for that either.

Other than that, IE is actually a very powerful browser… It’s just dripping with arrogance and stubbornness.

BTW, here’s that site’s Registrant:

Michael Fagan
P.O. Box 24556
Clearwater, FL 33765
US
727-726-8749

You know those annoying flash popups…Well you can say goodbye to them now. Asa Dotzler (one of the actual developers of Firefox) described this solution.

I would think this should already be taken care of if you’ve got FlashBlock as I was just thinking today I’ve been getting a lot more popups in Firefox lately. If it blocks flash popups it will also block pop ups meant for accessing websites that you need to get to. Anyways the next version of Firefox will have exceedingly stronger pop up blocking. In fact, this is already the default setting on Deer Park Alpha.

This may block some sites like for example movie sites with embedded flash movie trailers. I have a flash extension that blocks them but, I have to click the tab to block. Nice tip if you dont mind blocking the embedded flash you want to keep.

If there’s more than one site you always visit after starting up Firefox, you can set your homepage to open several tabs of different web sites at once automatically.

I never even considered this to be possible but great feature! It tells you which buttons to press to achieve the same effect. (It doesn’t mention the use of a pipe, which is the manual way to do it).

And everyone thought you couldn’t do this….even a recent PCMag arcticle on browsers said it wished you could….well you can!

A lot more tips on the page… don’t get consumed as there are tons of tips.

This hack shows how to upgrade Firefox toolbars and use the new features added. There are many extensions that can be usefully put on toolbars, but currently few extensions do this automatically. This hack focuses on two example extensions that benefit from toolbar icons: InfoLister and Gmail Notifier.