For You Firefox Users

[FawltyTowers]

I guess this is one smart kid

 

[kongHorn]

The February issue of Wired has Blake Ross on the cover. Haven't read the corresponding article yet, hopefully it will be a good read.

 

[wherzwaldo]

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[Aragorn]

Decided to post this here instead of starting another thread on Firefox. If I am already running IE 6.0 on my system with plugins such as Acrobat Read, Flash Player, Quick Time, Jave, etc., do I still need to download the plugins for Firefox or will the plugins I already have work for both browsers?

 

[TheSheriffIsNEAR]

You'll have to download them for Firefox still.

 

[Aragorn]

Hmm...Did a little research. It seems you have to download the new plugins for Flash and Shockwave, but not for Java, Adobe, or Quick Time. Not sure about any others.

 

[TheSheriffIsNEAR]

I think when you run into a need for a plugin - clicking on a .pdf link, for example - Firefox will offer to download the plugin.

You should get the latest version of Java manually, however. It's Version 1.5.0. The Link (The offline install is recommended.)

 

[badexcuse]

Can I download Firefox and have both IE and Firefox available? I'd like to try it out, but I'm not yet ready to ditch IE.

 

[jumanji]

you can have as many browsers on your system as you would like. opera, icab, mozilla, firefox, etc....

firefox is faster, has a built in google search, better find, support for rss feeds (big plus), and cannot be manipulated like ie so it is safer to use.

 

[badexcuse]

Thanks, Jamanji - i'll be checking it out.

 

[Simon Templar]

You'll want to keep IE for a number of reason: some sites (particularly financial) still run better or only run on IE; you'll want an alternative; good luck rooting IE out of your system anyway.

 

[flaco]

If Firefox is open source wouldn't it be easier to hack once the hacker scum get around to it?