My first posts with Firefox...

[grim_tales]

Hey,
I downloaded the Firefox browser last night and am using it now..
Seems to work better than IE but I dont understand how you can do things like opening up multiple windows Everytime I want to open a new window I have to go back to the desktop and click the shortcut again.

[IronMonkey]

If you want to click on a link to open a new tab, just hold the Contrl key when you click it. A tab will appear at the top of the browser window, just under the navigation buttons.

Firefox is very good, although not completely universal at rendering Web pages, although that's usually down to wrong coding on the pages themselves, rather than a problem with Firefox...

[Mordib]

in fact firefox in its latest revision has greater ability to render web pages than ie does, over the coming months you will actually start to find websites that dont show properly in IE but do in firefox... before I removed the dud menu buttons this site was in fact one of them

m.

[gasteropod]

To make websites incompatible with IE is foolish.

[IronMonkey]

Exactly.

Apparently 97% of the world's Web pages are accessed using Internet Explorer, so making pages that are not compatible is ridiculous!

[bradavon]

Firefox has 10 percent of the browser market share. MS are worried and are fighting back with IE7 later this year.

They never planned to do this until Windows Vista (end of next year) but we all know how much MS hate to lose. They've got to be the best. Visa btw is going to be the successor to XP.

IE6 used to hold something like 98% of the market share. The only reason people still use it is because it's part of the OS NOT because it's any good.

Hey,
I downloaded the Firefox browser last night and am using it now..
Seems to work better than IE but I dont understand how you can do things like opening up multiple windows Everytime I want to open a new window I have to go back to the desktop and click the shortcut again.

LOL you are funny.

How do you do it in IE? It's exactly the same:

File
New Tab or if you like the IE way New Window.

Firefox is very good, although not completely universal at rendering Web pages, although that's usually down to wrong coding on the pages themselves, rather than a problem with Firefox...

Vert true.

Many sites are encoded wrong technically because IE prefers them that way.

Apparently 97% of the world's Web pages are accessed using Internet Explorer, so making pages that are not compatible is ridiculous!

It's more like 90% now

The thing is IE6 SP1 is 4 years old. The web can't staty in the past forever. Still IE7 is out soon.

in fact firefox in its latest revision has greater ability to render web pages than ie does

Is that RC1?

Is anyone running RC1? I'm running 1.07 the latest official release.

[EvaUnit02]

Middle-clicking (works the same as Ctrl+T) on links opens them in new tabs. Middle-clicks can also be used to close open tabs on the tab bar.

I recommend downloading the extension "Tab Mix Plus", it greatly increases the capabilities of tabbed browser. AVOID the extension "Tabbrowser", it's bloated and buggy as hell - the Firefox dev team says to avoid it like the plague too.