Firefox

Blimus

Im surprised no one has mentioned this excellent alternative to Internet Explorer. Its a free download and is very customisable. One of the best features in being able to open up multiple sites in tabs across the top. I will never use IE anything again after trouble free and in my opinion, faster surfing for about 6 months now.

Derv_2

I use Firefox as my main browser but I still have to use IE to access some sites that don't work in Firefox. This includes one of my own sites developed with FrontPage 2004.

irnbru_2

Im surprised no one has mentioned this excellent alternative to Internet Explorer.

See this sticky topic.

Blimus

Thanks for that I knew this would have to be somewhere, very informative and after reading it, Im going to stick with firefox. About the point that not all sites support it, thats true, my bank never used to (LLoyds) but it does now, so more and more sites are getting there.

shrek101

Whilst I agree the last poster about Firefox not being immune to security issues, its still more secure than IE.

Anyone who puts there faith on a product to give you 100% security is complacent.

One of the reasons why Firefox is now less secure is that it gets targeted by hackers, of course there is always some security flaws like all software has them.

So what's you favourite extensions?

I like

Spoofstick (shows you if the url is a spoof)
!!!!!! Creator (makes short urls)
ForecastFox (shows weather in you area)
Spellbound (spellchecker) Not available now through Firefox web site
Bookmark creator (backups up bookmarks. cookies, passwords)
I have a few others but havent used them TBH

LincsLad_3

Googlebar - the firefox toolbar for Google
GooglePreview - inserts website previews in Google and yahoo search results
Translate - translate web pages or selected text to different languages
Foxy tunes - control media player from Firefox
ImageZoom - adds zoom functionality for images on web pages

sra

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Tweak Network Settings

Did you know that you can have two homepages?.
You seperate them with a "|"

eg. - in the homepage area of 'options' type:

http://www.google.co.uk|http://forum.moneysavingexpert.com

google will be the homepage and the forum will load up automatically behind it in a tab

wirm

excellent tip! i love that sra! ;D

Chippy_Minton

Did you know that you can have two homepages?.

With Session Saver you can effectively have multiple home pages. Session Saver restores your browser exactly as you left it - all the tabs are saved and restored at startup. It even works if Firefox crashes.