[J m HofMarN]

I just edited the site a bit, and I hope you guys like it. I made the links a bit less numerous and I might do more, I've been experimenting with some HTML.

[floppydisk]

Nice. I like that the links are less confuddling, but I'm still having the problems with the back button. I'm using FireFox, if that helps any.

I guess you still can't make the font slightly bigger?

[J m HofMarN]

I really cant help the links font cuz it wont let me change that, but I can do the regular page font. I have no knowledge of firefox though.

[Ninja Duck]

Speaking of Firefox and text sizes, the keyboard shortcut to increase text size is Ctrl+

I'm having the same problem with hitting the back button, but it only happens if I wait for the page to fully load.

And as a quasi-member of spreadfirefox.com, I feel obligated to tell you to Get Firefox.

[SimeSublime]

I had it, hated it, and switched back to IE.

[floppydisk]

Why? I think it's much better than IE. Faster, prittier, and the ability to make multiple home pages.

[SimeSublime]

It looked mostly the same, I found the 'tabbed browser' thing to be really really annoying. It didn't show alt tags properly, it wouldn't load pictures in other windows properly and the download protocol made things more difficult. It's supposed to be more security aware, but with the winxp service patch IE blocks popups and so on just as well. All in all, IE was easier to use and seemingly more efficient.

[Ninja Duck]

A topic about rearranging links turned into a debate about browsers? Hey, why not.

About alt attributes- the standards say that text displayed when a mouse hovers over a image should be labeled TITLE, not ALT, so IE is actually wrong on this one. If you want Firefox to copy IE's mistake, there is an extension for that.

IE may have improved its pop-up blocking, but that's not the same thing as security. As of today, Secunia has 18 security advisories listed for Firefox, while it has 65 for IE. That's why IE gets so much spyware.

As for efficiency, if IE seems faster, that's because it's tied so closely into Windows Explorer. That means when IE crashes, it's much more likely to bring down your whole system than when Firefox crashes.

I apologise, but the inner geek compels me.

[Kirby]

Sime: You are right on how FireFox downloads things, it does clutter your desktop quite needlessly. But hey, thats why I still keep IE around.

[SimeSublime]

When I was using firefox, it would show alt tags, but would cut them short. So if there was a particularly long one(for example, Dinosaur Comics often does) it would show the start and then ...

Really annoyed me, and was actually the final straw which caused me to throw up my hands in frustration, yell fuck it, and uninstall the damn thing.

Edit: Oh, and you can change where Firefox downloads to, it's somewhere in the options. I just didn't like the window that came up with all the things I'd downloaded. There was no point to that.

This post has been edited by SimeSublime: 11 June 2005 - 04:54 AM

[floppydisk]

Anyone know a shortcut key to change between tabs? That's the only thing about FireFox that annoys me.

[Chyld]

Contrl + Page up/down

[SimeSublime]

What's the point of tabs? It just seems to be more difficult, having to select the browser from the task bar, then the tab that you want to view. Much easier to just have a list of browsers at the bottom of the screen, so I can do it in one click.

[Ninja Duck]

Faster loading time, easier to minimize, much less clutter for those of us who have 7 pages open at once while we have 7 programs running at the same time.

On Windows XP where it will group all the IE windows in the taskbar, it can be inconvenient to move the mouse down, then click on the group, then figure out which window is the right one. Since Firefox shows all the pages open at the top and shows their favicons as visual cues, the simple act of switching to a different page is less of a pain.

[SimeSublime]

Fair enough. I hated that grouping thing, so I turned it off. I prefer to have 13 small IE links on my taskbar. I just find that easier to sort through. And I usually only have a max of 5 or so things running at once anyway, and that's fairly rare.