I've been using the free, opensource browser FIREFOX in place of IE for a few months now, and I couldn't be more pleased with it. I downloaded it because while my daughter was surfing with IE one night, she accidentally stumbled onto a porn site (yes, it was accidentially, I was right here in the room with her ) and because of vulnerabilities in IE And XP, a boatload of malware downloaded onto her machine. It's been months, and even after professional removal, we still haven't gotten it all.

In celebration of Firefox's 25,000,000 th download, I'm posting this image.



If you want to check out firefox, go here:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Take Back the Web! Whoo Hoo!

I fairly recently switched over to Firefox for the mac. This is part of the mozilla family of browsers.

Mozilla combines both browser and mail program, so when I retired my trusty mozilla, I also downloaded Thunderbird. I'm happy as a clam with both programs.

I've been using mozilla.org products since they were a fairly disorganized organization of nerds, writing code for netscape and putting their own open source product out for anyone who wanted to help test it. All mozilla stuff is open source and most of the programs cover windows, mac and linux operating systems.

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yes, I use thunderbird as well for mail. I will say that you have to be sure to regularly compact the folders, though, otherwise you suffer some pretty severe performance degradation.

Then again, I have 5000 emails in my inbox. Ya think maybe that's why???

I've been using FireFox too, since it first came out, (october i believe) and I love it.
I've got Thunderbird, but DH used that since we hated Outlook (not express)

I have no complaints with Firefox, though not all pages will open with it -- thought it's only about 1% for me.

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5000emails!?! excuse me while i faint...

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Tabbed browsing is great. I love Firefox and Opera and those are the only ones I use at home.

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Yup. Tabbed browsing rocks! I've had it for years with Mozilla.

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I may need to give Firefox a try. I'm just concerned about the email client that comes with it. I love Outlook Express and the fact that I can use several Hotmail email addys with it. Does Thunderbird support Hotmail?

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Melissa

Firefox doesn't include an email program the way some other browsers do. If outlook express is a stand-alone email app, then I imagine you could integrate it with Firefox. As for Thunderbird, it's like most mail clients, and you can have a number of email accounts. I'm not sure what you mean by "supports" Hotmail. As far as I can tell, you can set most email apps to go get mail from various places if you want.

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I cannot resist joining the celebration as I am a fan of Firefox myself. It's much more reliable, secure and feature-rich than IE. The popup blocker works more efficiently than the one included in IE and the tabbed browsing is a good feature that IE is missing.

I need not worry about email softwares because I like using webmails.. (gmail to be particular )

I downloaded Firefox and have made it my default browser, but I did not get rid of my IE. I'm taking an online class that specifically states it's set up to work with IE or Netscape, not other browswers. The instructor said Firefox know XML merge, whatever that is, that's required in the online website.

Still, so far, I'm happy Firefox. I love the tabs. But I hate that it keeps bringing up a site in a tab that I looked at once. I think it may have been the first site I viewed with Firefox. It wasn't set as my home page, as that is this LCE forum.

I couldn't figure out how to stop it from happening, so I went through and cleared out my cache and messed around with the cookies setting. This is going to take a bit of time to learn. I thought I had it set up and then it wouldn't let me access Medscape. The site said I wasn't set up to allow cookies, even though that box was checked. Not sure what I did, but now it asked me each time if it's OK to allow a cookie. Sometimes it's aggravating, but overall I think it's probably best.

Oh...and like Maggie said, it doesn't have an integrated mail client, like IE. So when I downloaded it, no other mail client tried to make itself defaut. I will probably lose Outlook Express though if I were to delete IE.

Maggie, when I said "supports" hotmail I meant does it have an easy way to allow me to send and receive from my hotmail account? I don't think hotmail gives out its POP3 and SMTP information. OE has a drop down menu where you tell it that you're setting up a hotmail account.

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Melissa

Yup, Firefox takes the cake. I have been using it since last summer, when Microsoft installed an IE update that regularly crashed my computer. (And, since Microsoft makes no mistakes, there was no way to uninstall the update. How wonderful.)

Personally, I don't use the tabs. I disabled that and use the taskbar for open browser windows. That gives me slightly more space in the browser window.

My favorite extensions: ForecastFox (It shows the weather in the bottom corner), ImageZoom (it lets you zoom on an image), and PlainText, which lets you highlight a text link and go to it, when there is no hypertext link available. That last one is very useful if you browse forums and blogs that don't automatically make links in posts clickable.

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Melissa, I see what you're asking now. Wouldn't the POP be mail.hotmail.com? and if you have any SMPT that will do for all accounts. I've never used hotmail. I had no problem setting mine up for earthlink and .mac, though.

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