i did it!!!

i finally peeled myself away from ie and moved onto mozilla
i was using ie and netscape, but i really didnt like the newest version of netscape
it only took one really fucking annoying peice of spyware to make me switch
now those FOUR peices of spyware removal ive got on my machine will hopefully be useless

the only thing i dislike about it is having the scroll wheel open a link in a new window when clicked. i liked having it scroll the page quickly. oh well, ill get used to it

 

I switched to Firefox myself a while back. The only draw back I find is that it seems to be much slower than IE

 

much slower doing what?

 

just browsing in general. sometimes I have a hard time getting private messages to go through with firefox in this forum and hotmail has a hard time working.

 

i switched to mozilla a while back. but mine runs faster than IE.

the only time mozilla opens a new link with the scroll is when you click on a link with it, but otherwise it should open the scroll wheel like normal...thats the case for mine anyways.

 

the scroll wheel works when rotating it, but in ie if you clicked it and moved the mouse, that would move the page aswell. MUCH faster scrolling for long pages that way

 

yea, thats what i do, i click and move the mouse down

 

damn. what version are you using???
maybe its a setting i can switch?

though i guess that would get pretty annoying when accidently clicking on a link

 

hmmm, there actually is a setting for the wheel, but only for scrolling it, not for clicking it :S

 

I can still click-scroll with Firefox...mess with the settings under Control Panel -> Mouse.

Firefox is much faster than IE, even when you don't mod it...but I think someone (Ellis, maybe?) posted instructions for speeding it up. Search the forums for "firefox speed up" or something (it was only a page or two back, I believe).

 

control pannel gives me the same options as mozilla did. nothing to do with clicking, only scrolling

 

i copied it down,

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

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2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.


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3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

 

I have none of the problems and all of the perfection w\ firefox, the scroll, the speed, it is perfect......

 

I'm waiting until they get the Bugs worked out in Opera. Opera 8 beta is almost VOICE controlled web surfing.
It's gonna be GOOD!

 

this did indeed seem to speed things up some. I wonder why these values aren't set as defaults to begin with

 

so we geeks can always be just that much faster AND COOLER*!







*if by cooler, I mean...sob...such a nerd...

 

Those registry tweaks Trotsky311 posted could lead to some websites not rendering correctly, but i have been using them for about 4-5 months with no problems, just a warning.