Firefox is crap with vista...
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Fixed!to suggest using ie7 to a firefox user and vice versa is laughable. that is all.
Installed FF3 the other day, all i can say is CRAP.
Literally takes more than 4x more ram and 10x longer to load. Some pages just pause for like 15 seconds, THEN decide to slowly download. And visually?... diabolical.
A bloated mess IMO.
Caporegime
Using FF2 with Vista; no problem at all. It's lightning fast and totally secure.
8 million users can't be wrong.
Then there is something wrong with your install, or just your system in general.
I've used firefox and IE on several machines, ranging from an 800MHz Athlon to a Core2Duo, with various 32 bit and 64 bit Operating Systems.
And there isn't a single case where I've seen either IE or Firefox use anywhere near 4x more RAM than the other, or be 10x slower than the other. And I've certainly never seen either of them 'pause' unexpectedly, apart from on my oldest system, which isn't surprising, as most applications suffer from cpu load on such an outdated system.
From the various combinations I've tested, just in terms of speed and and response, I'd rate them in the following order:
FF3 > IE7 > FF2 > IE6...
But that being said, the differences are marginal. If you're seeing anything worse than about a second to startup, or to load a page, then you've either found a very extreme case (with a specific bug) or you've just got something else wrong with your install imo.
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I still prefure IE7 to firefox. IE7 is more secure and generaly faster at opening pages (especially 64bit version) firefox had its moments with fancy plugins, but ive found I can live without em. Personaly I think 8 million downloads is more for sticking the finger to microsoft rarther then it being any better as a browsing experience .
.I suspect that your problem is vista, not FF as such.
Doubtful, given so many other people are using the same combination without problems. It's probably just a bad Firefox installation.
Personaly I think 8 million downloads is more for sticking the finger to microsoft rarther then it being any better as a browsing experience
Hardly. I'm sure some people have that sort of attitude, but the vast majority are going to use and stick to Firefox purely because it's what they prefer. If IE7 was actually better, I'd be using it. Firefox and its add-ons make web browsing a far better experience though.
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PicLens is primerily an IE plugin though ??? not that I found it particuarly useful 
PicLens is primerily an IE plugin though ??? not that I found it particuarly useful
AH well there you go. I just assumed it was for firefox. But it does indeed support most browsers. Even osx.
How can you not find it useful.
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Just uninstalled Firefox 3, just don't find it as nice as IE7.
Going to try the IE7 Pro add on now.
Going to try the IE7 Pro add on now.
Soldato
firefox 2 is really awesome im yet to upgrade to firefox 3 is it that bad ?!?!
Soldato
FF3 is excellent so far. Butt ugly with default skin, but fast and to the point. Just make sure all your addins progressed to v3 support. I found a lot stopped at v3a stage.
Not at all, in my experience anyway. It's been absolutely fine.
By that logic, the several hundred million IE users certainly can't be wrong
nah they just haven't installed ff yet
nah they just haven't installed ff yet
What, like the millions of firefox users who haven't installed opera yet
See, I can make random statements too, it doesn't make them any more meaningful. FF is a reasonably good browser, it's not the second coming that some people seem to want to make it out to be. A quick look at some of the coverage of the FF3 launch proves a serious lack of substance and an awful lot of hyperbole.