Your Firefox Switch Stories

Firefox ROCKS! I can't live without it. Microsoft is so bad at making Internet browsers. 

i could not live without firefox. I was lost before I my freind Jordan showed my firefox,Since then I was hooked on fire fox. You Guys are doing a GREAT JOB

Mike Schmid 

hi guys, for one, i love using firefox, have been for the last 2 years, however i've noticed a few things... both good and bad...

1, for the good side, firefox does protect you from the spyware and bull that decides to annoy you every day of your life... can't say the same from msn obviously lol...

2. they did introduce the tabbed idea. great for alot of reasons... do i even need to explain why?

3. been the most smoothest experience i have ever had in 6 years of using the net... and that says alot :P

bad though...

1 and by far the biggest, cus it follows IE with it... lost bookmarks.. i don't have them at all, and this isn't the only time as the heading first suggests..

2, it still locks up like IE.. i can't expect the program to be perfect, but even with upgrades, it's temperamental, and my system can handle what i do to it so it should handle the firefox well :P

sadly i count the bad side of 1, as 2 points, cus firefox has always been better, and yet they found a way of following good old bill gates... wonder if they bribed him... i had alot stored away, and i'm in a very bad mood cus i cannot remember 9/10ths of what i had in the favourites...... oops........ bookmarks folder........

 i wanted a better experience, and i seem to have found a double edged sword.... i don't expect it to be perfect. it's still my favourite explorer, but why follow good old bill gates????????

at least get it right where the bookmarks are concerned.... i really hope i can find mine...
 

3 months ago, i never use firefox, for no one use it during my classmate and friend.

When i graduate , and work at a e-commerce company  ( www.uxcell.com ) all of computers use the Linux system and firefox, at the beginning , i feel unaccommodated with firefox. 

3 months have gone, now i can't leave firefox, and not like to use IE,  i think firefox more convenient with IE, such as book mark and can open many pages in one interface.

I never considered myself a computer wiz, which my be the reason why I like the K.I.S.S. Method (keep it simple stupid) The other day like any other day I happily logged on to my comp and started up firefox. The first thing I notice different was it did not take me to my home page. instead it started asking me to set a default user. Hmmm i thought to myself...is this some kind of up grade? Well I did what I was told ...BAD IDEA! now I have a brand new firefox without the 120 bookmarks I spent the last three years collecting and organizing. Just a few bookmarks that lead me to buy cool stuff for mozilla that I don't need or want. (kinda like the new firefox or whatever it is that happen that dreadful morning) Thanks mozillia for every day I'm without those bookmarks I loose bucket of money and now I have pleaty of time on my hands to do more fun stuff; like restore my computer, try and hunt down all of my contacts  and bookmarks and most importantly look for a NEW WEB BROWSER!

You have know idea what sort of pain and suffering one can cause by not leaving well enough alone or not thinking through your upgrades properly. If anyone has any idea of what happen , and How I can get my old firefox back with my bookmarks please please I beg you, let me know.

thanks

VA

I help set up a computer for my computer illiterate uncle 3-4 years ago and did not have contact with it again until last Friday.  When we bought the computer, I installed Microsoft defender, spybot, and spyblaster on them to help keep away spyware.   However I knew that these programs would eventually become impotent because I knew he wouldn't take the time to update them regularly.  I just told him to click on the firefox icon whenever he wanted to use the net instead of internet explorer to hopefully cut down on spyware infections, until the next maintenance session with me. 

 Just last Friday I took a look at his computer for an unrelated problem.  This was the first time I touched his computer in 3-4 years.  I checked his Firefox version and it said version 1.08!!! ( I imagine that I installed an earlier version of 1.0 series and it updated itself until 2.0 was released) Wow, thats was a long time ago wasn't it?  To my surprise after running larvasoft ad aware for spyware.  I found none, just ALOT of tracking cookies, but no unauthorized programs.  Granted he wasn't the type of person to visit porn site or what not, but I said that 3-4 years of holding down the fort against spyware is simply amazing taking into account all anti spyware programs including Windows Defender Beta stopped working a long time ago.  I must also note that his Norton 2003 stop updating because of subscription status a LONG time ago also.

Thus, when Firefox said no to spyware, it meant it, even with an old versions of Firefox.  I think his computer would have exploded from spyware without my maintenance for 3-4 years if he used IE though..LOL    Go Firefox!!!
 

I like friefox, but I do not like there home page.  Maybe, I am doing something wrong...... I do not know.  I am used to Yahoo home page.  Is there something like that for firefox??