# Firefox Love

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-love/261368>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 25, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-love/261368 "2004-08-25T00:42:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-love/261368/41 "2004-08-30T01:17:11Z")

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> [@Kal](#):
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> Okay, for some reason the board is putting an underscore where I didn’t type one.

Did the same to me. Weird. Apparently, you have to fake it with ASCII codes: about:config.

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**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-love/261368/42 "2004-08-30T04:47:41Z")

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YAY! I just reset everthing to default, and now it works like I want( after I went back along the path I mentioned earlier and set foreign links to open in a new tab ) Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ReBusEniGma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-love/261368/43 "2004-08-30T05:46:49Z")

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Another Firefox user checking in. I tried it when it was still Phoenix and thought it a little cludgey. Since late .8 it’s been a fairly solid product, and I love it.

Although if you’re wanting an IE engine with a Firefox(ish) feel (i.e. tabbed browsing, mouse gestures etc. try MyIE2, recently renamed Maxthon because the release of version 1 was imminent. [http://www.maxthon.com/en/index.htm](http://www.maxthon.com/en/index.htm) ). I used this for a long time before I started using Firefox. 0.9.3 is also very stable with Google’s Gmail.

Adblock is a must have extension IMO.

FTR, I also use Mozilla’s Thunderbird. Fast, efficient, full featured and not Outlook. 😃

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**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-love/261368/44 "2004-08-30T05:58:29Z")

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As a direct result of this thread and the Firefox extensions thread, I’ve downloaded and installed Firefox. I’ve been using it for a day and a half (or so) and am quite pleased. I can see why y’all like it so much. I’d never even heard of it before this. I’m a little disgruntled with how poorly it handles Flash and PDF so far. Both seem to make my whole system hang. I don’t like hanging. Unless I’m on the jungle-gym. Which I’m not.

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**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-love/261368/45 "2004-08-30T07:04:02Z")

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Oh, and did I mention that it seems to start up a wee bit slower and load web pages a bit more than a wee bit (but not by much) slower.

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