FireFox?

[cicer]

All right, I'm just about ready to cave. I know, I know, everybody who's anybody uses FireFox already, but I have held out because I like my comfort zone and am afraid of having figure out how to work a new browser. But I'm almost ready to think about switching (mostly because the new version of IE is heinously ugly and I refuse to update, which kind of leaves me out in the cold). So tell me, is FireFox really all that and a bag of chips? Is it hard to use? Should I just suck it up and make the switch? Tell me what to dooo.

Comments

[katmaxwell.livejournal.com]

Yes, it really is all that and a bag of chips! I didn't want to switch over either when everyone else was, because all I could think was "but I hate tabs! D: And IE works!" and then I figured, just download it and give it a go.

I've never looked back. If nothing else, the add-ons make it golden. I couldn't live with LJlogin, a widget that lets you log into any LJ account without going through the page -- it's all through a click of a button! I use the del.icio.us plugin religiously, and am in love with my downloader and Adblock Plus (which helps block popups/ads/etc).

I also fell in love with tabs; I thought I'd hate them, but once I discovered that I could cycle through tabs with ctrl+page up or ctrl+page down, I fell in love. I'm one of those people who doesn't like to have a bunch of items in my taskbar, so the fact that I could have one window open with 20+ tabs, all showing me what they were and easily go-through-able? (My phraseology is amazing!) Golden. It's wonderful.

Downsides are, of course, that it can crash sometimes when you're doing something strenuous -- especially if you have a bunch of add-ons like I do. But even then, Firefox automatically saves your session so that when you restart it, all your tabs load back up where you had them! (I have no idea if the new IE does this. The new IE makes my blood boil. I try to avoid it as much as possible.)

... but yes. I could keep going. It's simply a better, more efficient browser in my opinion. If nothing else, I base this on the fact that it takes forever for IE to even load pages -- and I've never been able to discover why. But yes. Firefox is love, and totally worth the strange "culture shock" you experience when you switch.

... WOW TL;DR

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Iiinteresting. Yeah, one of the biggest things that has been holding me back is the tabs thing. Haet tabs. That's also mostly what's kept me from updating to IE 7, ironically. But faster browsing would be a big, big plus. IE is so slow. I think I shall try it.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

No one waves a gun at you and makes you use the tabs, you know.

[cicer.livejournal.com]

I knew that, but I didn't realize how easy it was to circumvent them! I can see it's simpler than I thought, though. Oops.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Heee.