1. I think speed is rather subjective. I've found Firefox to be more or less equal to IE in rendering speeds, but a friend of mine swears it is much slower than IE.
2. Just out of curiosity, what does the Google toolbar do that Firefox doesn't out of the box. FF blocks pop ups and you've already got the google search right next to the address bar. This is probably ignorance on my part, but there just doesn't seem to be anything else useful in the toolbar.
3. My experience with the FedEx site is limited (mainly just order tracking), but it has always worked fine for me. Don't you just love anecdotal evidence?:)
4. You had to do the same thing for IE, you know. Granted, IE's plugin installation is a tiny bit easier (and that little bit can make all the difference in the average Joe's eyes), but overall there is very little difference between the two browsers.
Your geocaching example seems to render fine for me in FF 0.9.2 on Windows, and I've only encountered the/. problem when using FF in Linux (and I hear that 0.9 fixes that problem, but since I currently don't have a working linux install I can't check for myself).
The second beta and first release candidate exhibited this problem on my PC, but Community was fine (I didn't bother with RC2). I'm assuming that I'll not have problems with 10.0 Official. *Crosses fingers.*
I was one of the unfortunate fools that suffered from the Mandrake issue during the betas and release candidates. It became really, really annoying. I never tracked down when exactly the problem was created, but it was before the installer even formatted any partitions. At any rate, something apparently changed in the Community release since I didn't have the problem any longer then (instead, I had an entirely different one related to KDE--I finally gave up and switched to Gentoo.:)).
This means there might just be hope for my dream of a GBA SP with a huge screen for visually impaired gamers like myself.:) Perhaps I should look into making one myself...
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Sorry, I had to...
Oh, I know! IE is more secure...Oh, wait...
IE is updated often, fixing bugs and vulnerabilities quickly? It can't be that...
Well, I'm out of ideas...
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1. I think speed is rather subjective. I've found Firefox to be more or less equal to IE in rendering speeds, but a friend of mine swears it is much slower than IE. 2. Just out of curiosity, what does the Google toolbar do that Firefox doesn't out of the box. FF blocks pop ups and you've already got the google search right next to the address bar. This is probably ignorance on my part, but there just doesn't seem to be anything else useful in the toolbar. 3. My experience with the FedEx site is limited (mainly just order tracking), but it has always worked fine for me. Don't you just love anecdotal evidence? :)
4. You had to do the same thing for IE, you know. Granted, IE's plugin installation is a tiny bit easier (and that little bit can make all the difference in the average Joe's eyes), but overall there is very little difference between the two browsers.
Your geocaching example seems to render fine for me in FF 0.9.2 on Windows, and I've only encountered the /. problem when using FF in Linux (and I hear that 0.9 fixes that problem, but since I currently don't have a working linux install I can't check for myself).
The second beta and first release candidate exhibited this problem on my PC, but Community was fine (I didn't bother with RC2). I'm assuming that I'll not have problems with 10.0 Official. *Crosses fingers.*
I was one of the unfortunate fools that suffered from the Mandrake issue during the betas and release candidates. It became really, really annoying. I never tracked down when exactly the problem was created, but it was before the installer even formatted any partitions. At any rate, something apparently changed in the Community release since I didn't have the problem any longer then (instead, I had an entirely different one related to KDE--I finally gave up and switched to Gentoo. :)).
This means there might just be hope for my dream of a GBA SP with a huge screen for visually impaired gamers like myself. :) Perhaps I should look into making one myself...
ActiveX Sorry, I had to... Oh, I know! IE is more secure...Oh, wait... IE is updated often, fixing bugs and vulnerabilities quickly? It can't be that... Well, I'm out of ideas...