FireFox Browser tuning

[gnihcraes]

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6210627

[BadShot]

I've been using Firefox for a long time, and it just keeps getting slower. I use the Firebug plugin constantly for work, but increasingly I'm using Chrome for browsing. It's so fast I can often launch chrome and have google loaded before Firefox is done starting up.

H.

I just wish Chrome were completely compatible. That browser like FF doesn't do well with ASP based forms and functions. Outside of it's inappropriateness in a corporate environment, it is a hell of a lot faster. I can't wait to see what their Desktop OS looks like!

[Hoosier]

I just wish Chrome were completely compatible. That browser like FF doesn't do well with ASP based forms and functions. Outside of it's inappropriateness in a corporate environment, it is a hell of a lot faster. I can't wait to see what their Desktop OS looks like!

Uh, this isn't very accurate. ASP (Active Server Pages) is a Microsoft server side technology. The output from ASP (or PHP or Ruby etc) is HTML. The browsers all comply with the HTML spec to some degree or other. Chrome and Firefox both do a better job of compliance than Internet Explorer. If your ASP pages are having a problem with Firefox and Chrome, the problem is the author(s) of that program were too lazy to check their site with browsers other than IE. Much more common in the "real world" is people failing to check that their site works with IE, which commonly chokes on things other browsers are able to figure out.

TL;DR -- IE sucks, avoid it at all costs

H.

PS: Chrome OS will look like Chrome browser

[BadShot]

Uh, this isn't very accurate. ASP (Active Server Pages) is a Microsoft server side technology. The output from ASP (or PHP or Ruby etc) is HTML. The browsers all comply with the HTML spec to some degree or other. Chrome and Firefox both do a better job of compliance than Internet Explorer. If your ASP pages are having a problem with Firefox and Chrome, the problem is the author(s) of that program were too lazy to check their site with browsers other than IE. Much more common in the "real world" is people failing to check that their site works with IE, which commonly chokes on things other browsers are able to figure out.

TL;DR -- IE sucks, avoid it at all costs

H.

PS: Chrome OS will look like Chrome browser

Yup, this is a developer related issue, the problem is that the developer is MS. For Corporate use, IE is the general standard. If you're looking to leverage tools such as SharePoint you have to use IE to get full functionality. Hate on Microsoft as much as you like, Reality is the real bitch. This is what bugs be about folks who want to just rail against MS. They are neck deep in the business world, that pesky place so many of us make the money to fund our EBR addiction! Yeah, I get annoyed daily with MS products, but as long as they keep making shit products, I keep making a good paycheck getting them to actually work..