Hi Peter,
My experience has been just the opposite. I keep IE around for use
with a couple of websites, but otherwise find Firefox faster and less
glitchy. Neither is perfect, and I absolutely agree with your
suggestion that people keep at least two browsers on their
computers. One of the areas in which I feel IE has the edge is in
bookmarking. I find the favorites menu and the ability to manipulate
it in Windows explorer to be highly superior. to Mozilla's bookmark
system. Luckily, one does not need to use bookmarks in Firefox if one
does not want to. There is a Firefox add on called Plain Old
Favorites that I have been using for many years now. It adds the IE
Favorites menu to the menu bar of Firefox and makes the bookmarks
menu moot. The only drawback I have found is that sometimes the menu
takes a couple of seconds to open in Firefox while it opens instantly
in IE, but I have a massive Favorites collection when you add all of
the links in all of the subfolders, so that may be the cause in my
case. Also, unless the creator has added something I missed in recent
updates, in order to sort the Favorites you have added by name, you
have to open IE and do it there. But, those are the only two minor
annoyances I have found with this add on and it seriously beats
dealing with Firefox's bookmark system.
HTH,
Chris
At 06:20 AM 1/18/2010, Peter Wolfe wrote:
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Peter Q. Wolfe, A.S.
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I'm having Mozilla Firefox issues that are severly making me
reconsider replacing Internet Explorer on my computer. I would like to
note to everyone to make sure you always have two web browsers on your
computer. Anyways, I tried to add a book mark with control+ d and wnet
into all folders and arrowed around to the top, then out of no where
it froze. My computer window-eyes voice completely and utterly froze.
The mouse would move, but window-eyes was mute. I'm talking two-five
minutes of waiting till I just manually rebooted my computer. When I
started up Mozilla Firefox again to continue my session it again
froze. This process happened three times separately from one another.
Then, I reinstalled Mozilla and it happend again with the continued
session. The page a secure by the way due to it coming from a major
university.
It's my opinion that Mozilla is slower than Internet Exploerer
in doing features except for search engine optimumizations. This
throws a bone into the frey because I might seriously look into Opera.
I've stated this to the list multiple times in the past, however, it's
not a major browser for supports. Perhaps the language support is more
sound in Opera as opposed to the two giants. The thing that appealed
to me about Mozilla is also the thing that I hate. The features of
Mozilla are great but the price is that they aren't perfect. Mozilla
has a tendency to crash much more frequently than I.E from my
experience. The other thing is on Blindmicemart.com to the movie vault
the downloads then you have to go through a step unecessary in I.E to
change open to save in a combo box. Then, in bookshare.org I.E cannot
find the correct focus of the edit box on the quick search unlike that
of Mozilla. However, I have grown to dislike daisy book readers due to
the Human Ware company trying to blend blindness with other
disabilities making blindness a priority. The book reader of
HumanWare's is very slow because of the need for learning disabled
individuals to reader the line like fourty-five seconds per lind where
as my reading level is much higher than theirs unfortunately for them.
So, I cannot in short support this continued path without some
symbolence of answers from folks like you on this fine e-mail list.
Thanks for any and all suppport on suggestions to remedy this issue as
soon as possible. By the way, if you know of any Daisy book readers
that aren't commercial.
cordially,
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