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woo i switched to firefox

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Ghst
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after hearing so much about firefox i finally switched,i like it.

are some sites not compatible with firefox?
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Feb 5 2005 3:18AM
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vantownloc
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switched or trying? get back to us after a week with an opinion.
Feb 5 2005 3:55AM
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OpIvy
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There are a few random sites that aren't compatible, but its hard to find the few that don't work.
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Feb 5 2005 8:43AM
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vantownloc
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firefox is a fad.
Feb 6 2005 2:25PM
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3ski6guy0
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is firefox a new browser??
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Jibij Pro Shop
'jibij is the dope steeze. go there for all your core ski needs'
Feb 6 2005 3:47PM
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*cowboy*
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Firefox isn't really new... It was created in November I believe.. there have been over 20 million downloads of it so far! It's huge!

I also just made the switch a few days ago. Since then i have yet to recieve a pop up. And i haven't noticed anything not working..that usually did on IE. My friends computer was bogged down with ads and spyware. You couldn't even surf the internet anymore. I installed firefox, and closed intenet explorer and we were surfing without 1 popup. it's incredible!!

Download.com works perfectly by the way.

-Jason

[www.theonlywarehouse.com]

[www.option5team.com]
Feb 6 2005 4:22PM
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Ghst
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damn im soo happy i switched,the favouite bar saves me time as does the automatic password thing,everyone should have this
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Some say her voice is as beautiful as the sirens from ancient lore, those of us who arent tone deaf just say she sounds like a cat and a broomstick mating.
-aggro_sk8 on ashlee simpson

some people call me the space cowboy
some call me the gangster of love
some people call me scooter kid (woaw waow)
Feb 6 2005 5:15PM
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shibby
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Firefox is great but i beleive IE is so bad only because all (most) of the spyware and popups are directed to it because way more people use it. Ive seen some numbers and IE's user database is huge compared to Firefox's partly because it comes with every PC. So as Firefox continues to grow it may soon become the target of the future. Think about it yo

~Phunkin Phatt Phreeriders~

Feb 6 2005 5:15PM
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*cowboy*
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^Your exactly right.. But until then, we can enjoy the spyware firefox we have now! ;)

-Jason

[www.theonlywarehouse.com]

[www.option5team.com]
Feb 6 2005 6:07PM
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skier04
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i thought firefox was just for mac
Feb 6 2005 6:44PM
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nopoles
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IE has plenty of viruses for two reason. First is cauz it's the most popular, second is cauz it's very badly designed and made. If firefox gets popular it will still be well designed and made, chances are it will be less of a securit insult than firefox.

~Paul
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Feb 6 2005 7:13PM
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vantownloc
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here's the deal with IE and microsoft in gereral (and this is not an opinion): if you keep you MS system upto date on patches you will NEVER have a viral infection period. ALL MS vulnerabilities are built upon anouncements made by MS of a hole or gap in the proigramming which is decreasing daily.

ppl and their MS is unsecure talk are mostly uninformed or don't know how to handle MS based systems properly. if i had a choice i would never run *nix inside the perimiter because there is no comparison on the desktop between MS and *nix. equally there is no comparisson btwn MS and *nix (apache / bind) on th epermiiter where *nix excells. each have a job to do and each has it's place.

i would add that all MS vulnerabilities used to come from outside of MS but all now come from either zeroday or close to zeroday exploits built off of holes that MS has found and announced when it becomes a race between a patch and the sploit.

apples and oranges. each have their place.
Feb 7 2005 12:05AM
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vantownloc
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as nopoles said correctly: this has lots to do with it:
Browser 6/4/2004 1/7/2005 %-pt. Change
IE 95.5% 90.6% -4.9
Firefox 0% 4.6% +4.6
zillas* 3.5% 2.6% -0.9
Others 0.9% 2.1% +1.2

Feb 7 2005 12:14AM
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PowderCanuck
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it's true that if you are smart with windows, you don't have to worry about viruses so much. BUT you get spyware and trojans and shit like none other with IE. I did a test, and didn't run a spyware scanner for a week using IE and scanned it afterwards, and did the same thing with firefox (I was visiting all the same sites etc). IE had about 5 times more spyware than Mozilla. Which is one of the reasons I like Mozilla. Also the new popup blocking system and shit they put in IE recently annoys the SHIT out of me. worst implementation of a blocking system EVER.



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Feb 7 2005 1:00AM
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Itsbackfliptime
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^how is it annoying? It works fine.

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Feb 7 2005 9:52PM
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3ski6guy0
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firefox makes my dialup seem so much faster now that i did those upgrade things in the configuration
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'jibij is the dope steeze. go there for all your core ski needs'
Feb 7 2005 10:41PM
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rebuc2
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^yea, its a lot faster to load, that why i use it.
Feb 9 2005 10:35PM
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*cowboy*
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I have a few things to comment on...

First of all, I also ran Spy Sweeper every night (well morning around 5AM) .. and every morning when i woke up I had around 3-5 things found on my computer. This was a consistent trend for close to 2 or 3 months. A few weeks ago, I installed firefox. After a week of surfing the same website, and running the scan every night... I made it over a week without 1 object found. Since then, nothing has ever been found.

Note: I have, and always have, updated my software (especially IE) to always have the most recent updates as soon as they come out. I would consider myself an educated 'web surfer dude' so I generally have a clean computer and avoid the pitfalls your typical user would fall into. But, in spite of all this, i still got spyware junk.

Moral of the story is, TRY Firefox out for a week and decide for youself. Join the 23+ million people who have made the switch since November 9th. (Source: www.spreadfirefox.com)

-Jason

[www.theonlywarehouse.com]

[www.option5team.com]
Feb 9 2005 11:17PM
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mr.ski
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im just trying it today..i dunno i think i still prefer exploreer.
i usually just type newschoolers.com
but on firefox it didn't work so i had to look for it on google.
You can't get hurt skiing until you fall
Feb 10 2005 8:42PM
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PowderCanuck
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^on firefox all you have to type is 'newschoolers'
you don't even need the .com



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Feb 10 2005 9:51PM
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mr.ski
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really..ill keep that in mind
You can't get hurt skiing until you fall
Feb 10 2005 9:54PM
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*cowboy*
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Yes... if you just type in words without a .com or anything after it, it takes that set of words (newschoolers for example) and does a google 'I'm Feeling Lucky' search. So, this only works for websites that will come up first on google..

Examples:

Comcast
Microsoft
Apple
Adobe
Newschoolers
Snowboard (.com)

you get the idea.

-Jason

[www.theonlywarehouse.com]

[www.option5team.com]
Feb 11 2005 12:09AM
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PowderCanuck
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^I never knew it just did a google 'I'm feeling lucky'... that's why the results came up kinda wierd sometimes.




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Feb 11 2005 1:49AM
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Tosh
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A dangerous spoofing security hole has been found in almost every browser on the market -- except one.

Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, OmniWeb, Opera and Netscape all suffer from the 'moderately critical' vulnerability that allows the spoofing of address bar URLs and SSL certificates, but, incredibly Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer gets a clean bill of health.

Publicized by security company Secunia, the flaw affect the range of browsers using the open-source Gecko browser kernel. Anyone using an affected browser would be able to visit spoofed websites without being aware of it, something that would aid any crime based on setting up bogus websites, such as phishing.

The flaw arises from the way the named browsers resolve web addresses that include international characters in International Domain Name (IDN) URLs. Russian researchers Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher first outlined the potential for such a spoofing issue in 2002, in what was then a theoretical paper, The Homograph Attack. Exploiting the hole could, they reasoned, allow them to register a 'homographic' variant of www.microsoft.com that included Unicode/UTF-8-defined Russian characters similar to certain ASCII characters.

They speculated that some browsers would either resolve these characters in a garbled way or would, as has turned out to be the case, present them as if the registered domain was actually the real Microsoft.com. Users could also be fooled into believing the bogus site was protected by an SSL certificate when it wasn’t
Feb 11 2005 1:51AM
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Bangor
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meh, when NS gets spoofed like that is the day i'll care more than a little bit about that one.

I like firefox. It seems to run kinda slow on my 56k, but I didn't do that mod that everyone's been talking about....... how do you do that?
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Feb 11 2005 11:48AM
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*cowboy*
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see my 'Speed up Firefox' thread in site Discussion. It explains everything..

However, it's NOT meant for dialup connections. I wouldn't use it.

-Jason

[www.theonlywarehouse.com]

[www.option5team.com]
Feb 11 2005 1:58PM
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Dr.Dealgood
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Just saying, I run a totally Window's/MS based system.

I have XP and IE. I run Norton AntiVirus, Win Firewall, Spyware Doctor, Ad-Aware, and Spybot. In the year or so that I've had this computer, I've only crashed twice, both times I fixed it by myself. I have little to no popups. I keep my caches' clean. I scan my computer 'head to toe' weekly. I have basically zero problems. And I experience no lag.

The bottom line is, use what you want, just make sure you know how to use it. Switching browsers or even operating systems won't save you from your own stupidity.
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Feb 11 2005 6:03PM
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3ski6guy0
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jason..why isnt it meant for dial up? i have dial up and i did the 'speed up firefox' thing and it works awesome for me
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Jibij Pro Shop
'jibij is the dope steeze. go there for all your core ski needs'
Feb 11 2005 7:25PM
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a-line
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fire fox is sooo much better
Feb 12 2005 12:51AM
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*cowboy*
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Jon,

That's just what I read on the forum where I found the tip. If it's working great for you then more power to ya! Bangor, give it a try i guess. It can't hurt!

-Jason

[www.theonlywarehouse.com]

[www.option5team.com]
Feb 12 2005 12:52AM
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trickolas
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firefox is faster than safari
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Feb 12 2005 10:33AM
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lanks
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i just switched over. i have used explorer, opera, and now firefox. firefox looks good so far...

-Joel

~Phunkin Phatt Phreerider~
Capital City Rider, DFP
Silent Army

'Everybody calls me a zero. But I'm an internet hero.'
Feb 12 2005 12:42PM
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lanks
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ok, here come the questions. i already downloaded quicktime for ie, but apparently i need to download it again for firefox. is this true? same with shockwave, etc.

-Joel

~Phunkin Phatt Phreerider~
Capital City Rider, DFP
Silent Army

'Everybody calls me a zero. But I'm an internet hero.'
Feb 12 2005 4:02PM
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Itsbackfliptime
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^yes its true.

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Feb 12 2005 5:29PM
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Skipig25
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yea, my dad just got us firefox, and it said i had to get quicktime, and i said i already had it, but u need to do it again


Ski. Eat. Sex. Sleep. Ski.
What else is there?

'never tryed tele, it just looks gay...' Jess-001 (Feschies, better watch your back)
Mar 8 2005 5:44PM
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Frostfired
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i swiched like 2 weeks ago and i made it hella fast
and it was so fast for like a week and now it got slow any1 no y?


pretend you will give the guy head to give back your skis, he probably will accept, then once he whipps his cock out, steal it-SteezePatro

if you want to be a real gangster wear your ski boots to the dance. when he starts shit when youre face to face do a backflip and in your rotation kick him in the face with your boot. something in his face will break for sure. fights over.-seanPISTOL

or just walk away with his chick making him look like a complete jackass in front of a bunch of s
Mar 8 2005 11:15PM
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Tosh
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i hate it
Mar 8 2005 11:21PM
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QuazBotch
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for anyone who makes websites, this thing rules

Web Developer Toolbar

Realtime CSS editing. weeeeeee!!!


Mar 9 2005 12:05AM
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jack_tha_ripper
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firefox is much better, i get no spyware from it and no popups, the tabbed browsing thing is awesum and i cant imagine living without it, plus if u get some off the addons for firefox it makes it evan better, i got this addblocker thing for banners on websites and it allows u to black just the picture for the banner or if its in a frame u can block the whole frame from laoding any pictures EVA, for all u ppl using firfox chek it out
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=10
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Mar 9 2005 2:19AM
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almostaskier
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add bookmark here is so nice as an extension... i switched 2 weeks ago, its sweet, no problems, looks better, works better, tabbing is genious. is there however a thing for foxytunes on firefox? i have it on thunderbird, and does it work for firefox?
-Patty
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Its NS... retards blend in. - J.D._May
Mar 9 2005 6:57AM
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thegreyarea
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every browser out right now is vulnerable to spoofing sites in some way or another. the easiest one is foreign character set spoofing.
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Mar 9 2005 1:51PM
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Ghst
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now everyone in my class uses firefox and loves it
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who the hell takes pictures of themselves with a camera phone?? those are made to sneak pics of girls tits and underwear-lateralis

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