Lady72nRob71

Okay, I am going to try installing firefox 4 when i get home to see if I can actually get on CO at home again.

Installation appears "easy". It can't be - it is software...
Can anyone give any forewarnings, tips, or tricks before installing this thing?
I downloaded the program and also adblock - a mandatory addon, IMO.
I am running win XP with no future plans to change this and currently use IE6, SP2.
I am feeling adventurous, I know...

I had plans to go to IE7 but my neighbor did this and is now dominated by microsoft, msn, and all it's bing-a-ling crap. I tried it and hated it.

TripDeuces

I've been using Firefox for years and love it. I'm currently running Ver. 4.0.1. It works just as well as all the others so nothing new to report about it. Icons may be in different places but not a big deal. I'm using Window7 atm but was on XP up until about 3 months ago.

George

455man

I love it. Of course I'm a geek that tweaked firefox 4 for speed.

oldzy

You get an orange quick link drop down at the top left... kinda like the 'search' box in vBulletin that this site uses. I think you can switch to the old style menu, have not tried though. tabs are up top by default

MDchanic

On my Mac, I just dragged the icon into the Applications folder...

- Eric

citcapp

I use firefox as well and its great just upgraded to 4.0.1. Runs faster then anything else with a lot less junk to wade through

oldzy

Google Chrome supposed to be good/fast as well.

MDchanic

I usually use Chrome, sometimes Firefox. Both work well, neither has seemed noticeably faster.

Explorer is one of the first things I usually "deselect" when I take over a WinDOS machine - it's buggy, slow, and a portal to pestilence.

- Eric

Lady72nRob71

Say no more! - I'm IN!!

This thing is FAST - and adblock works great!!!!!!!!!

OLD SKL 69

Another vote for Firefox, been using it now for a while and very happy with it.

Indy_68_S

I flip between IE 8 & FF 4.0.1 on Vista64 on my primary surfing/posting machine. I typically have 2-5 instances of each running.
I've not seen a dramatic difference in performance using FF.
Some sites work better with IE...some w/FF.
FF crashes a little less than IE, but still chokes on some sites with certain types of graphics/media/content.
FF also seems to want to update itself more often than I'd like. Seems like its often telling me it updated and needs to restart. I suppose this can be turned off somehow. After these updates I usually need to de/re-install add-ons like Google toolbar as they go wonky.

Also, there's no one click to history like IE and the when you do get the new window with history, its not laid out as nice as IE's

Joffroi

Firefox with adblock is really all you need. As mentioned above google chrome is also nice. IE is just a huge piece. Some of my work computers still have IE6 on them! I don't know what they are thinking....