Firefox with Google Toolbar

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:17:04 Post Subject: Firefox with Google Toolbar

Pardon the minor pimpage...

I am not sure how or why, but Google is promoting Firefox downloads with their toolbar, and will throw the site a few coins for every new download/install through the link we have... Check the front page, just below the "Site Links":

http://www.bigbruin.com/

Firefox really is becoming a solid browser... I didn't like it at first, as many things didn't seem right on sites, but now I have no big beefs.

If you haven't tried it yet... Now's a good time! Grin

Thanks!

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

Generally the visual problems that you saw in some sites with FF were due to the site programmer writing code for some other old, broken, non standards compliant browser.

I installed it BTW, was I the first?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:34:48 Post Subject:

It says 5 have, but that they are all apparently freebies... Laughing

I can't DL it here due to a firewall... what version of Firefox is it pushing?

Version 1.5 is out now! Go get it! Grin

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

It's pushing version 1.5.

If you want to really make some cash you could pull something like this.

Ok, maybe thats a little extreme... Laughing

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:58:13 Post Subject:

Yeah, consider this a more tame version of that.

But, what is interesting is how high Firefox is getting in the percentage of users here at Bigbruin.com... Used to be low, and here are the past weeks stats:

1. Internet Explorer 55.26%
2. Firefox 36.63%
3. Opera 3.91%
4. Safari 2.03%
5. Mozilla 1.22%
6. Netscape 0.64%

Maybe more interesting... Mac beats Linux in the OS battler:

1. Windows 94.70%
2. Macintosh 2.76%
3. Linux 2.25%
4. (unknown) 0.18%
5. SunOS 0.06%
6. FreeBSD 0.03%
7. OpenBSD 0.02%

edvallie · Posted: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:56:34 Post Subject:

Who's the one person who comes here in Open BSD?

Razz

HackaX0rus · Posted: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:46:09 Post Subject:

firefox gets too many popups and isnt near the quality of opera...personally i use firefox for certain things like maps.google.com where it works better but for general surfing opera is way better...

edvallie · Posted: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:52:28 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:03:43 Post Subject:

I used the link to download Firefox for my laptop... It got version 1.0.7 which I thought was odd. So, I then downloaded 1.5 directly and during installation it pointed out that Google Toolbar was incompatible with the new version... Laughing

edvallie · Posted: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:38:38 Post Subject:

Just a warning to users on firefox, when you store a password with it, it is viewable by anyone else that you let on your computer.

Tools>>Options>>Privacy>>View Saved Passwords>>Show Passwords

Definately not a feature that I was happy to find on my computer, expecially since it is the browser our school has switched to on every single PC in the network.

(I didn't want to make another topic about Firefox, So I appologize about the off-topicness)