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What do you like about Firefox?

dsnort said:
Yeah, it has a lot of extensions which a lot of people value highly. Personally, I don't miss the extensions in either Safari or SeaMonkey. Firefox to me just feels "heavy" and non-agile, and has a Windows look to it.
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I agree with you completely - these are the same reasons why I don't use it as my main browser.

I really like the extensions that are available for Firefox, but there's little consistency from extension to extension so the interaction changes slightly with each one - which results in a clunky, incoherent feel. Mostly, I have small apps that can do the job just as well and aren't there when I don't need them.
 
I love the extensions and themes support in Firefox, but I have one question: I can totally understand why some themes should be platform-specific. However, I don't understand why some extensions are platform-specific.

I'm also a fan of the transparency in development Firefox practices (though you can't really fault the WebKit team either in this respect). I do wish the developer information was more centralized, though, and easier to locate.

If I could request one change be made to Firefox 4, this is what I'd request: A choice of 2 default themes, one that blends in with the host platform, and one that looks roughly the same across platforms.
 
This little box here is what keeps me on FireFox...

I love the Wikipedia, Google, ebay, Amazon, etc. :cool:

If only I could figure out how to get MRoogle in there. :( :confused:
 

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I like Firefox because it's a product that's stimulated the browser market and killed off Microsoft's monopoly on browsers - at least on the PC.

Otherwise, I would probably use Firefox but I have a lot of RSS Feeds and Firefox freezes at launch when updating them. :confused:
 
I would use Camino in a heart beat if it weren't for a couple of things:
  • Lack of smooth scrolling
  • Score of 73/100 on Acid3 Test
  • No tracemonkey (Gmail / google Maps is not very smooth)

Other than that, I'm fine with using the extensions for it.

If you want a more OS X look and feel try using Aronnax's themes although they're missing favicons and the UI feels slow with it.

Lately, I can't stand Safari. I would absolutely love to use Camino if I could get smooth scrolling and knew that it had Tracemonkey coming to it.
 
amabo said:
If you want a more OS X look and feel try using Aronnax's themes although they're missing favicons and the UI feels slow with it.
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Hi,
you can add nearly everywhere favicons ... to take a quick look at the GrApple theme customizing page http://www.takebacktheweb.org/CaE.html

And the default theme is as well only a theme .. a third part theme is not faster or slower than the default .. and these for sure as well.

Cheers
 
clevin said:
[*]awesome bar far superior than anything out in the market now in helping me reach the website, it save more time than you imagine
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Superior than Opera's URL bar. I personally don't see it. It is practically the same.

clevin said:
[*]automatic update, with user consent, there are 85% of firefox users are using latest version thus getting protected against latest security threat. Less than 53% of safari users is using latest safari, and only 23% of opera users are up to date.
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Opera 10 is coming with autoupdate but yes it has been lacking before.


clevin said:
Firefox uses less memory than any other browser out there, especially for longer period of browsing.
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Er you have made this claim before but just as before it is not especially true. It really depends on a lot of factors but to simply make a blanket statement that Firefox is better than all browsers out there is wrong. Firstly in my experience it uses about the same as Opera, sometimes better, sometimes worse.

A lot of those items you described are present in Opera and debuted there.

Firefox is a very good browser and lots of people like it, it is just personally not for me.
 
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