Alternative to Firefox?

braz2kuk

braz2kuk

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Hi,

I have recently been getting more ****** off with firefox, is there an alternative that it as good or better?

Thanks
 
Opera is not crap. Its very good. Its faster to load up than Firefox, for me at least.

A lot of Firefox features that you needed extensions for are there in Opera as standard.

Just give Opera a go and see what you think. :)
 
yeah no denying FF has high mem usage, but who cares unless you have a really poor PC, not like it causes any slowdown.
Crashing is probably down to a bad combination of extensions or an unstable PC.

Opera UI is a mess, just like IE7.
 
hmm i stand corrected, only used it for a very minimal time for dev purposes. Seems ok actually, but the tab bar above the address bar is bizarre.

What can this do as standard that firefox needs an extension for then?
 
Clarkey said:
hmm i stand corrected, only used it for a very minimal time for dev purposes. Seems ok actually, but the tab bar above the address bar is bizarre.

What can this do as standard that firefox needs an extension for then?
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Well, the address bar/tab panel thing is easily sorted. I have mine as it should be!

As for features without extensions, the only one that comes to mind is the speed dial page (I'm not really a big FF user so I'm not that into available extensions)

As already mentioned, I also find Opera faster than both FF and IE6/7.
 
If you can be bothered, try running through this - most Fx crashes aren't the result of the app itself, but extensions (for example, FasterFox causes more problems than it solves) or plugins (Flash, WMP et al) - making sure you're running the latest versions can help.

Does Opera have a match for adblock plus yet?
 
tolien said:
If you can be bothered, try running through this - most Fx crashes aren't the result of the app itself, but extensions (for example, FasterFox causes more problems than it solves) or plugins (Flash, WMP et al) - making sure you're running the latest versions can help.

Does Opera have a match for adblock plus yet?
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Nothing really automated, but I find the "right click > block content..." method works fine - at least for frequently visited sites.

You could manually add known add servers (I remember reading that there was an up to date compiled list that could be imported but I can't remember for sure).
 
Well Opera blocks ads for me. But any frames they were in say. Lifehacker.com is quite annoying for example. What I did was to run Firefox, use the DOM inspector, then write up the frames and elements I didn't want into a txt file using Notepad. Saved it at Lifehacker.css for example and then went to Lifehacker.com.

Press F12 to get to menu, go to edit site prefs. Then under Display tab, change the style sheet from the default to the Lifehacker.css. Press OK and its all sorted.

Granted its a bit more manual than AdBlock but I'm pretty much there in terms of blocking stuff on the sites I use regularly.
 
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