The Best Alternative to Internet Explorer

wirm

see here

lol

tony-s_9

Firefox gets my vote

Tony.

wirm

Yup, I've only have it for a day and I'm loving it!

sra

when you see a link you want to load in a tab, hover over it and push down the scroll key (as if it were a button) and the link loads in the background.

Sorry if that seems obvious but I went for months right-clicking and selectind 'Open in new tab' ::)

When I'm looking through this forum I just middle-click about a dozen threads from the index and they're all loaded for me in the background to read one at a time

wirm

Thanks, that'll come in handy! ;D

david78

I have installed FireFox SR 1 today. I'm only just getting to grips with it. I notice that when I have multiple browser windows open, and then select File->Exit, all windows close. Is this the right behaviour or have I found a bug? I believe IE just closes the current window.

Love the tabbed pages.

Strange too that it seems slower than IE on my PC.

sra

On the file menu there are is a 'close' option which will close a window and 'exit' which exits the program

peter_the_piper

Hi David 78, to tune up Firefox go to http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650
This link gets you to a set of speed tips which mostly are found in about:config.(type this in the address bar) treat them with care, not all will speed you up.

david78

Thanks ssra, I've found the close option now. Too used to having it at the end of the menu on IE.

peter_the_piper, I will have a look thanks. It seems to be working a bit faster now. So I might have just been unlucky and got a poor connection.

One more question. I plan to use firefox for all my browsing but in particular I want to use when I log in to my Rpoints account. I am accustomed to periodically deleting my cookies on Rpoints because it helps when building up points from pricerunner etc. In IE when I clear the cookies, I stay logged in. But in firefox deleting the cookies logs me out. I had a look at the cookies and there is one from https://www.rpoints.com which firefox deletes. Is there any way of ensuring it doesn't get deleted other than by deleting the other cookies one by one?

sra

you could try this extension

Haven't tried it myself but seems to have very good reviews

homepage with faq here