Simviation Forum - FireFox?

Nov 2^nd, 2009 at 9:14pm

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I use IE8 but need to go to FireFox. Since I don't know it well, is there a way to port all my addresses and passwords over?

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Reply #1 - Nov 2^nd, 2009 at 9:28pm

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What's wrong with IE8? I prefer it over FF actually, especially after moving to W7.

Anyways, when you install FF, I believe it asks you whether you want to move all that stuff over from IE to FF.

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Reply #2 - Nov 2^nd, 2009 at 10:06pm

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SubZer0 wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2009 at 9:28pm:

What's wrong with IE8? I prefer it over FF actually, especially after moving to W7.

Anyways, when you install FF, I believe it asks you whether you want to move all that stuff over from IE to FF.

Indeed it does Wink

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Reply #3 - Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 1:43am

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SubZer0 wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2009 at 9:28pm:

What's wrong with IE8? I prefer it over FF actually, especially after moving to W7.

Anyways, when you install FF, I believe it asks you whether you want to move all that stuff over from IE to FF.

IE8 is more CPU intensive and usually pretty slow at loading up website details such as CSS, Javascript and all that. There are benchmarks out there comparing the major browsers and IE8 doesn't do that well.

I'm not sure about passwords, but most other information can be transferred, yes.

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Reply #4 - Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 6:16am

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Try this Jordan.

I installed all of the 'big name' browsers, lived with each one for a week, and kept the one that pissed me off the least.

I'm running FireFox. Wink

And this was after I had been running IE for 2 years quite happily.

Safari was quite interesting, but just hard for me to get used to. I didn't care for Google chrome at all. IE8 gave me nonstop fits of CTD or CTRB and would wipe all of my login data clear making me have to go back and sign in everywhere I went. Angry

After a month with Firefox now, that's not occurred once, and it's the most similar to IE, so I don't ever find myself searching for a feature. Lots of cool plugins too. Wink

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Reply #5 - Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 6:25am

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After reading about problems with IE8, including a conflict with files used in FS, I decided not to install it. I'm quite happy with Firefox which I've been using for a long time with no problems at all.

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and it's the most similar to IE

That's because MS included a lot of Firefox features in IE8.

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Reply #6 - Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 8:19am

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You should just be able to import settings, bookmarks etc straight into Firefox.
I wouldn't use any other browser Wink

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Reply #7 - Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 1:16pm

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nuff said.

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Reply #8 - Nov 4^th, 2009 at 12:40am

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nuff said.

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I didn't even know something like this existed. Shocked

It looks awesome. Will try it but I see a downside is that I can't get Google ToolBar. Sad

EDIT: Never mind...found the toolbar. Time to play with it some more.

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Reply #9 - Nov 4^th, 2009 at 2:33am

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Opera 10 FTW. Many IE and FF features were originally from Opera, for example, integrated web search, tabs, zoom, sessions / continued browsing, mouse gestures and perhaps more, like an integrated Mail and chat clients that nothing else has. Wink

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Reply #10 - Nov 4^th, 2009 at 7:49am

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...as well as "Internet Explorer 7", and "Mozilla Firefox" on my Desktop, I also have "Opera" as well....

Its interesting to try them all out, now and again, especially if there are any problems with one, or another.... Wink

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Reply #11 - Nov 5^th, 2009 at 12:16am