Tried Firefox, but...
Nov. 13th, 2004 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagryn...went back to Internet Explorer in the end. My primary reasons were:
1. I like to save documents from the WWW, such as news articles and blog entries, as text files for later reading. When doing this in IE the file name is automatically generated as the TITLE of the page, whereas in Firefox the name of the HTML file is used instead. For example if I were to try to save this page, IE will save it under the title "Winds of Change_NET Firefox Browser v1_0 Released!" whereas Firefox wants to save it as "005870.php". One can manually change the save file name, certainly, but it is a hassle to have to do that for every page one wants to save, and having meaningful file names makes a big difference when you're looking around for particular articles later.
2. I'm still stuck using a 56k modem on my laptop, so I usually surf with images off. From time to time I want to have my browser load a particular image without going through the dance of turning images on, reloading the page, waiting for it to load, then turning images off again. IE has a simple right-click option to "show picture" to do this, Firefox doesn't have the option available at all.
3. I did like the tabbed browsing, a lot. IE deserves to lose market share for not implementing this feature in the SP2 update. I've been experimenting with a program called Switch Manager Pro (http://www.switch-manager-pro.com/) which creates a somewhat-tabbed environment for IE, to see if its a credible substitute.
4. There's a number of IE-specific third-party programs which I use a lot, and which don't have any comparable program for FireFox yet.
I know these are technical issues which a lot of folks don't care about, but in my case they were deal-breakers because of my particular browsing habits and com setup. For what its worth, the Microsoft team in charge of the next IE update (for Longhorn) maintain a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
1. I like to save documents from the WWW, such as news articles and blog entries, as text files for later reading. When doing this in IE the file name is automatically generated as the TITLE of the page, whereas in Firefox the name of the HTML file is used instead. For example if I were to try to save this page, IE will save it under the title "Winds of Change_NET Firefox Browser v1_0 Released!" whereas Firefox wants to save it as "005870.php". One can manually change the save file name, certainly, but it is a hassle to have to do that for every page one wants to save, and having meaningful file names makes a big difference when you're looking around for particular articles later.
2. I'm still stuck using a 56k modem on my laptop, so I usually surf with images off. From time to time I want to have my browser load a particular image without going through the dance of turning images on, reloading the page, waiting for it to load, then turning images off again. IE has a simple right-click option to "show picture" to do this, Firefox doesn't have the option available at all.
3. I did like the tabbed browsing, a lot. IE deserves to lose market share for not implementing this feature in the SP2 update. I've been experimenting with a program called Switch Manager Pro (http://www.switch-manager-pro.com/) which creates a somewhat-tabbed environment for IE, to see if its a credible substitute.
4. There's a number of IE-specific third-party programs which I use a lot, and which don't have any comparable program for FireFox yet.
I know these are technical issues which a lot of folks don't care about, but in my case they were deal-breakers because of my particular browsing habits and com setup. For what its worth, the Microsoft team in charge of the next IE update (for Longhorn) maintain a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
