Testing Firefox

[lustindarkness]

OK nerds, I left my comfort zone and I'm trying Mozilla Firefox again for the first time in like 10 years, works fine up to now (3-5 minutes of use) any settings or addons recommended? Thank you.

[derspiess]

I always used Forecastfox as a nice little weather plugin. I dabbled with others but that was the only one I used consistently.  I got a little fed up with Firefox running slow & doing a crappy job with flash video, so I ditched it for Chrome & haven't looked back. 

Chrome is much faster and automatically syncs my favorites & browsing history between my work PC, laptop, and main PC at home.  I can also send links to my Android phone with one click, and supposedly allows for remote printing from my phone though I haven't tried that yet.

[Caliga]

@lusti

Are you testing the new Firefox beta?  I'm running that on my home PC.  I think I like it better (still getting used to all the interface changes), but it does this annoying thing where it blows my hard drive up with activity once ever 2-3 minutes for like 3 seconds... like it's dumping the cache from memory to disk or something.

[lustindarkness]

Not the new beta, v 3.6.15. I plan on trying Chrome also. The wifi here in Kuwait is so crappy, I wanted to see if firefox was a bit better, with adblock it seems to work a little better with some pages, but also seems to time out a bit to quick when a page does not load fast enough, may have to play with it a bit more.

[Barrister]

Give Safari a try.   

[MadBurgerMaker]

I always used Forecastfox as a nice little weather plugin. I dabbled with others but that was the only one I used consistently.  I got a little fed up with Firefox running slow & doing a crappy job with flash video, so I ditched it for Chrome & haven't looked back. 

Chrome is much faster and automatically syncs my favorites & browsing history between my work PC, laptop, and main PC at home.  I can also send links to my Android phone with one click, and supposedly allows for remote printing from my phone though I haven't tried that yet.

This. 

Give Safari a try.   

Not this.

One thing that irritates me way more than it should about chrome though, is that when I scroll up using the middle mouse button, I have to be careful not to release the MMB with the pointer over any sort of links at all.  It treats the release as a click, so opens a new tab with whatever fucking link I happened to be hovering over (usually, it's one of those bigass top of page type things).  I don't know how to make it stop doing this.

[Grey Fox]

IE8 does that too. I got use to it.

[viper37]

but it does this annoying thing where it blows my hard drive up with activity once ever 2-3 minutes for like 3 seconds... like it's dumping the cache from memory to disk or something.

ah! I'm not the only one!

I uninstalled FF 4.0 due to that

[Caliga]

I may well roll it back for the same reason.  But I'll be sure to leave a scathing rant on the "Firefox makes me sad because..." thing first.

[Lucidor]

Fire Gestures is a great addon. Mouse gestures simplifies everything.

[citizen k]

I use the Adblock Plus add-on.

[viper37]

OK nerds, I left my comfort zone and I'm trying Mozilla Firefox again for the first time in like 10 years, works fine up to now (3-5 minutes of use) any settings or addons recommended? Thank you.

• flagfox - tells you where the site is located
  
• Downloadhelper - download Youtube videos
  
• Flashgot - works well with Getright
  
• Fox Tab - 3d Tab switching
  
• IE Tab Plus - for these pesky sites that refuses to load properly in FF
  
• McAfee Site Advisor
  
• Noia 2.0 Extreme - better look
  
• Lastpass - remembers all your password, compiles it in one big secure db
  

[Ed Anger]

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Downloadhelper - download Youtube videos
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This is highly useful.

The Ant Video Downloader also lets you download videos. Especially from those naughty tube sites.

[derspiess]

Give Safari a try.  

Safari for Windows is still a turd, from what I hear.  If you're going to evangelize Apple products, at least try to focus on the good ones.

[lustindarkness]

OK nerds, I left my comfort zone and I'm trying Mozilla Firefox again for the first time in like 10 years, works fine up to now (3-5 minutes of use) any settings or addons recommended? Thank you.

• flagfox - tells you where the site is located
  
• Downloadhelper - download Youtube videos
  
• Flashgot - works well with Getright
  
• Fox Tab - 3d Tab switching
  
• IE Tab Plus - for these pesky sites that refuses to load properly in FF
  
• McAfee Site Advisor
  
• Noia 2.0 Extreme - better look
  
• Lastpass - remembers all your password, compiles it in one big secure db
  

Thank you, I will take a look at those.