What prompted you to switch to Firefox?


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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 :(.

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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.)

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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