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Having read many posts on here recommending firefox i have downloaded it and trying it out Confused

What are the advantages of using this ? I hav,nt really noticed any improvement apart from the spell checker Rolling Eyes

It does,nt open pages on ebay of items i have for sale......Bookmarks are a bit tedious Rolling Eyes

Emocoticons don,t describe what they are when running the curser over .

Does,nt really seem to load any quicker .......... i am on site with a 468.0kbps connection at the moment..........am i missing something here ?

Cheers Mark

sallytrafic · Southern Rally Co-ordinator

Take alook here (a bit slow to load)

Brock

Firefox is rarely attacked by virus vandals because it is more secure than MS IE. It does take some getting used to to understand all the messages it generates.

I use it with McAfee virus checker and find both are great at providing relatively secure internet browsing.

artona · Moderator

Hi Mark

On my setup in the van it is miles faster than IE

stew

spykal · Moderator

Hi Frank

I followed your link.. the webpage article comparing the two was Published: 11 Nov 2004... both Firefox and IE have moved on a bit since then

There are several uptodate surveys one of which is

dreamcatcher

Hi all,
I love it; it looks like there's more than panel vans being converted on this forum.
The only time I use IE, is when I have to access Microsoft website, and they insist on IE.

Bob

sallytrafic · Southern Rally Co-ordinator

ricec

For those of you new to Firefox I thought I would point out a couple of things that are extremely useful.

1. Use the tabs feature - This allows you to view on one screen different pages in multiple tabs. Each page is on a different tab. The way to achieve this is by clicking File (from the menu at the top of the screen) and then New Tab. (A shortcut is Control+ T). Now you can type in the address of your required page in the address bar at the top. Clicking between the tabs allows you to have different pages available at the same time.

2. Changing your home page - This is very useful because you can set up your screen to have multiple pages being displayed on different tabs ie.
Tab 1 may have Motorhome Facts
Tab 2 perhaps bbc.co.uk
Tab 3 your preferred search engine google.co.uk

Any number of tabs can be created and shown. When you are happy that you want this information to open on starting Firefox you can set this configuration as your home page. The way to do this is:

Tools ==> Options ==> General tab

Now in the Home Page section click the Use Current pages button.

When you next close and reopen Firefox all of the tabs will be opened and all of your chosen pages will be loaded in the background. This is a great feature and well woth checking out.

Colin

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