Slimy Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 What made you decide to try, and then keep Firefox as your main browser? Was it a specific feature or something that your previous browser did or did not do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Tabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green_Eye Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Tabs. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted October 27, 2007 Veteran Share Posted October 27, 2007 Partly the tabs (back in the days of IE6), partly because I prefered hwo it rendered most pages (when I needed to test a design, things often rendered better "first time" in Firefox than in IE6. Also, IE6 before SP2 was a complete nightmare security wise :(. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morebaker Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Themes and extensions :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted October 27, 2007 Veteran Share Posted October 27, 2007 Tabs, extensions and flexibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
semifamous Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 I had tried Opera before, so it wasn't just the fact that it had tabs. It was the ease of using the tabs. Middle-click on a link to open a tab in the background. Middle-click on a tab to close it. The last version of Opera that I had tried, I had to either CTRL+Click to open a tab in the background, or right-click and select "Open in background tab" Either way was more work than it should have been. (I've been using Firefox since Phoenix 0.1.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe P Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Seems to run faster, more efficient in terms of add-ons and such, looks cleaner, less popups, I get the feel it's more secure, things look better in FireFox often also. It's strange I changed to FF, I used to be a very firm user of IE, a couple of years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuciferCraze Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 tabs and ad-block Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 The plethora of extensions available. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygar Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 My horrible experience with IE6, ease of use, tabs, extensions and overall ability to customize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Little development with IE at the time, No Tabs, No extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night_stalker_z Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Liked the name and logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonick Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabs, what else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duntkno Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Tabs, extensions and flexibility. +1. in functionality it has no equal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedom Phantom Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 I started using Pheonix mainly because of IE6 many failures as a browser, and I didnt really like the bloat of Mozilla at the time. Phoenix was clean, simple, fast and flexible so I adopted it and I havnt changed browers since '02. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldgunner Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 tabs and having my favourites organised better. also didn't load pop-ups designed for IE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trixx Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Mainly the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead.cell Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 At first, it was just the tabs and some of the options. I recall even being one to say,"Wtf, who needs extensions?!" Boy was I wrong! :p See now, using Opera, I love it! But the lack of extensions leaves it sitting there as I have no use for it other than to "browser faster". The Firefox extensions save me time by making certain procedures to be a one-click process though. So overall, I think speed can be more of a toss up. As for functionality, it's a hands down no-question for me. There are also a lot nice themes for it, but that's just a perk, not a reason. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?AK Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Tabs and customization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctomer Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Once I learned that it was a tool to promote Windows only, proprietary technologies (activeX, VBscript etc). Also, every web developer knows that it's the lowest common denominator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Symons Veteran Posted October 27, 2007 Veteran Share Posted October 27, 2007 Tabs and Themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miden Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 My horrible experience with IE6, ease of use, tabs, extensions and overall ability to customize. also the how faster the pages loaded :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orien Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Tabs, Usability, NoScript :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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