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By HenryGale
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#100575
OK...I just made the switch, but first thing I noticed....Firefox is SIGNIFICANTLY slower than IE when it comes to pages loading. Is this normal, or is there some setting, program ie. that I can run to fix this? Or is this normal?
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By Fumblerooskies
Registration Days Posts
#100577
I've never had the problem of slow loading pages with Firefox.
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By Purple Haize
Registration Days Posts
#100582
Oh I thought you were talking about the book and sub par Clint Eastwood movie
By shukcb04
Registration Days Posts
#100583
i've never had that happen either, but the internet has seemed to have been very up and down the last several weeks in regards to speed, both at home and other places. maybe you just ran into one of the down moments.
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By SumItUp
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#100585
I made the switch to Firefox about 2 years ago. I never had any trouble with pages loading slowly. There are a few sites (usually financial) that require IE and except for those exceptions, I do not intend to use IE again.
By shukcb04
Registration Days Posts
#100586
SumItUp wrote:I made the switch to Firefox about 2 years ago. I never had any trouble with pages loading slowly. There are a few sites (usually financial) that require IE and except for those exceptions, I do not intend to use IE again.
there's an extension called IE tab. all you have to do is click an icon in the progress bar and it will basically turn that tab into internet explorer.
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By El Scorcho
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#100597
Firefox should be faster than IE, under most circumstances. I've not really run into any situations where it's significantly slower. However, there's no accounting for individual computers and there could be a valid reason why it's slow on your machine. It's hard to troubleshoot that sort of thing without being able to dig in.
shukcb04 wrote:the internet has seemed to have been very up and down the last several weeks in regards to speed, both at home and other places.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
By HenryGale
Registration Days Posts
#100611
Is there a way to change the default font? It is really hard to read on some webpages.
By shukcb04
Registration Days Posts
#100613
HenryGale wrote:Is there a way to change the default font? It is really hard to read on some webpages.
is the font too small, or is the font just hard to read in general?
By HenryGale
Registration Days Posts
#100620
It is small, and really light...needs to be "bolded"
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By Sly Fox
Registration Days Posts
#100621
I've been a Firefox devotee for about 5-6 years. I have to use IE at work but its nothing but Firefox at home. It generally loads pages faster on my desktop.
By shukcb04
Registration Days Posts
#100625
HenryGale wrote:It is small, and really light...needs to be "bolded"
well if you hold the control (ctrl) key and use the scroll wheel on your mose the font will get bigger
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By El Scorcho
Registration Days Posts
#100631
HenryGale wrote:Is there a way to change the default font? It is really hard to read on some webpages.
Look in the Preferences/Options for the content tab. You can set the default font size and type there.
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By mrmacphisto
Registration Days Posts
#100654
shukcb04 wrote:
SumItUp wrote:I made the switch to Firefox about 2 years ago. I never had any trouble with pages loading slowly. There are a few sites (usually financial) that require IE and except for those exceptions, I do not intend to use IE again.
there's an extension called IE tab. all you have to do is click an icon in the progress bar and it will basically turn that tab into internet explorer.
Beware of this extension, though... I used it for a while, then all of a sudden it started crashing the browser everytime I used it. I was forced to uninstall the extension and use IE again.
By shukcb04
Registration Days Posts
#100672
mrmacphisto wrote:
shukcb04 wrote:
SumItUp wrote:I made the switch to Firefox about 2 years ago. I never had any trouble with pages loading slowly. There are a few sites (usually financial) that require IE and except for those exceptions, I do not intend to use IE again.
there's an extension called IE tab. all you have to do is click an icon in the progress bar and it will basically turn that tab into internet explorer.
Beware of this extension, though... I used it for a while, then all of a sudden it started crashing the browser everytime I used it. I was forced to uninstall the extension and use IE again.
hmm. it worked for months on me then all of a sudden my firefox wouldnt start right sometimes, so i uninstalled it. i figured it was just my computer since it had worked for so long.
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By PAmedic
Registration Days Posts
#100695
one of the places I worked used it,

hated it, hated it, hated it.

pages would sit and load, load, load and NEVER finish loading.

switched back to IE- presto chango, no more problems.

maybe it depends on the machine- but I've NEVER had success w/ Firefox.

BOO FIREFOX
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By RubberMallet
Registration Days Posts
#100721
PAmedic wrote:one of the places I worked used it,

hated it, hated it, hated it.

pages would sit and load, load, load and NEVER finish loading.

switched back to IE- presto chango, no more problems.

maybe it depends on the machine- but I've NEVER had success w/ Firefox.

BOO FIREFOX
i suspect user error
By thepostman
#100729
firefox has always been amazing no matter what computer I use...on my computer IE is soooo much slower then firefox...I think I switched a couple years ago and haven't been back to IE since...
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By PAmedic
Registration Days Posts
#100737
RubberMallet wrote:
PAmedic wrote:one of the places I worked used it,

hated it, hated it, hated it.

pages would sit and load, load, load and NEVER finish loading.

switched back to IE- presto chango, no more problems.

maybe it depends on the machine- but I've NEVER had success w/ Firefox.

BOO FIREFOX
i suspect user error
:shock:

why sir - how DARE you.

judging by my OBVIOUS computer prowess- you ought to know better than to allege that.
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By RubberMallet
Registration Days Posts
#100739
i'm going to be honest....im surprised you are even able to look into a monitor without flopping around on the floor convulsing...
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By El Scorcho
Registration Days Posts
#100748
PAmedic wrote:one of the places I worked used it,

hated it, hated it, hated it.

pages would sit and load, load, load and NEVER finish loading.

switched back to IE- presto chango, no more problems.

maybe it depends on the machine- but I've NEVER had success w/ Firefox.

BOO FIREFOX
Sounds like a PEBKAC error.
By shukcb04
Registration Days Posts
#100755
IE should burn in a fiery cesspool of lava in the vast deepness of the abyss called Hell.
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By Fumblerooskies
Registration Days Posts
#100756
El Scorcho wrote:Sounds like a PEBKAC error.
BRAVO!

(and I was thinking it was a between the ears error).
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By PAmedic
Registration Days Posts
#100804
RubberMallet wrote:i'm going to be honest....im surprised you are even able to look into a monitor without flopping around on the floor convulsing...
that is why I use THIS model:

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