Why is Firefox so great?

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:29 am

Is that Adblock it was listed on the top page. I could not find Flash Block anywhere. A search for Flash block brought up stuff about Adblock like comments but that's all.

I got Adblock anyway I think. I clicked to install it, several times, nothing seemed to happen, no info boxes opened or anything. Browser looks the same to me, not really sure I even got anythng yet. Modem light icons did flash like 3 times and that's all, but then it was only like 70K file.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:17 am

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

FanTum · Post by **FanTum** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:09 am

Just installed it no opinion yet.

Any plug in recommendations!!

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:16 am

I like Adblock, gmail, weather

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:44 am

Spellbound: Forms spell checker

IEView: Right click any page or URL to open it in IE (for those few pages that don't work right in Firefox)

Sort Bookmarks: Gives you a right-click, sort by name option in your bookmarks like IE does

Image Zoom: If you have a high resolution display with a small screen (like my laptop with a 1600x1200 res on a 15" screen) allows you to zoom any JPG or GIF image in a web page by right clicking on it.

BugMeNot: Right click in the form of any page that requests a subscription account (like New York Times' website) and it plugs in an account from BugMeNot.com's database without you haveing to register.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:07 am

Hey hay
I like that bug me not idea, bugs away!!

Also I checked the home system, Firefox was set for only one days of Urls, that's why that one was losing them.

Thanks for the link to flashblock, clicking it now.

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:57 pm

I use Maxthon at home but I use Firefox at work, simply because it keeps the comp at work clean without hassle, but I much prefer Maxthon. Anyway, tabbed browser extentions for FF rocks my socks.

One thing that really bothers me about FF tho is trying to get fonts to size properly. Either they are too big or too small, tried messing with the fonts in the options a lot but can't figure out why it's like that...

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:04 pm

TUNIS: Just the opposite for me. I have a lappy with 1600x1200 resolution and I thought I'd have a problem getting the fonts to look right (on default size they're TINY) but I had no problem. FF looks better on the lappy than IE does. IE doesn't re-scale the fonts properly in some prompts and SSL overrides your font settings (for instance no matter what you set your font size to in IE, MSN.COM always uses the same font size - the page script overrides your preferences.

You have to go into the Tools->Options->General->Fonts and Colors settings. The secret is to not only change the default size of your Proportional and Monospace fonts but also set the "Minimum Font Size". That forces FF to even override pages like MSN.COM that try to force a font size on you.

Only problem I had was the toolbar - it was tiny and there's no way of making it larger BUT I found a skin with large toolbar icons that did the trick.