This extension is just awesome, adds a “View this page in IE” to FireFox for all those pages that are not FireFox friendly.
-James
IEView for FireFox
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Have you been using Firefox over IE? Are you finding that it handles most IE pages ok?
Most pages seem to work just fine, but there are some that only seem to work in IE. Most the IE only pages are ones that include some sort of rich funtionality, some of the MSDN treeviews are a little funky. Overall it is worth the switch, try it out!
-James
Never thought I’d see a plug for Firefox on MSN: http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/
I’ve used it for over a year, and I cannot remember any pages where I’ve had trouble and had to resort to IE.
Firefox is awesome. I haven’t upgraded to the latest, but Mark did and the new theme (or skin?) looks really nice.
Increase the size of your Google search bar:
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/archive/2004/05/13/13510.aspx
I submitted a feature request to make this easier to do, and I still get emails from Bugzilla as various developers argue for and against the feature. At least they are committed!
There’s also one called ChromEdit http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#chromedit , but it only works on the older version of Firefox. It makes editing the chrome and userprefs files easier.
Try TabBrowserPrefs, adds functionality to tabbed browsing http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/TheOneKEA/tabprefs/
And my favorite page, Firefox tips and tricks. http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html
Try ad blocking (it’s a CSS stylesheet that blocks 90%+ ads) and the one that changes the cursor to a crosshair for links that open in a new window. Invaluable!
Somewhat amusingly this page doesn’t render properly in IE but does in Firefox. If I shrink the window from full size, the links in the right hand margin don’t honour the separation between the central grey section and their right white border. If you see what I mean.
Firefox renders the page as I’d expect to see it.
Trying to convince my friends to switch from IE to firefox, they adduce that the main web site they visit (www.clarin.com) does not visualize correctly many times on Firefox, therefore they are not ready for the switch yet. This is the page of the main argentinian newspapers, ann, in fact, many times the flash images on the page superpose the headlines, which is very annoying. You have to reload the page in order to fix it for a while. Is this because this page uses IE-specific features, or because there is something wrong with the Flash plugin for Firefox? I am using Firefox 1.0
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