Chekhonte Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I'm not sure if anybody else experiences this but Gmail loads a lot faster with FF3 than with 2 using windows. about 1 second as opposed to 6 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted June 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 FF2 was never exactly known for being speedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojnihs Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 eh, i still prefer safari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzziguy Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 eh, i still prefer safari Luddite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ojnihs Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Luddite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Hmmmm... I'm not completely enamored with it. I don't like the downloads section as much and also the previous links that pop up from the address bar almost show too much information now. I'm a simpleton, what can I say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceboy Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I'm not sure if anybody else experiences this but Gmail loads a lot faster with FF3 than with 2 using windows. about 1 second as opposed to 6 seconds. I didn't try Gmail yet, but I read somewhere in an article that Firefox 3 did improve on web based email speed like Gmail and Yahoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Anyone use Thunderbird? I've never tried it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted June 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Yeah I've used Thunderbird it's ok, it has decent IMAP support which is more than I can say for a lot of e-mail clients. They are in the process of completely redoing it though so you might want to wait till the betas for 3 start coming out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceboy Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Yeah I've used Thunderbird it's ok, it has decent IMAP support which is more than I can say for a lot of e-mail clients. They are in the process of completely redoing it though so you might want to wait till the betas for 3 start coming out. X2 on what Tkam said as well. I've also used Thunderbird, but I would wait for the betas for 3 do come out as well. I do like Thunderbird a lot more than Outlook Express. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 My issue with Thunderbird is that once you start using it you can't go back to anything else. The database file that they use cannot be converted back to use Outlook again. I was going to switch back to Outlook earlier this year and discovered the transfer incompatibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted June 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 My issue with Thunderbird is that once you start using it you can't go back to anything else. The database file that they use cannot be converted back to use Outlook again. I was going to switch back to Outlook earlier this year and discovered the transfer incompatibility. Thats part of the reason to use IMAP if it's available to you, everything is kept on the mail server making switching e-mail clients a cinch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I use Thunderbird on a daily basis at work. It's fine: It's an email client, and it's not Outlook, and that's good enough for me. Todd -- that reasoning doesn't work on me -- they don't like me to keep my email on the server; they haven't upgraded that server in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Because of the volume of emails that I receive with large attachments for work there's no way I could leave it all on a webmail server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted June 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Ah that makes sense then, I actually got sick of running our company mail server and convinced the powers that be to make the switch over to google apps premier. No more space concerns with each acct having 25gigs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 I'm not sure if anybody else experiences this but Gmail loads a lot faster with FF3 than with 2 using windows. about 1 second as opposed to 6 seconds. Yeah Gmail is super fast now. Hmmmm... I'm not completely enamored with it. I don't like the downloads section as much and also the previous links that pop up from the address bar almost show too much information now. I'm a simpleton, what can I say? I like the extra information since I can type in "s" in the URL bar and see the names of all the SH forum threads I've visited rather than just the thread URLs. Makes finding things faster for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvdunhill Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 yummy firefox 3 bugs.. first one posted here: Full Disclosure: Coming soon : Firefox 3 Release overflow I have one myself ready Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 In addition to the transparent images made by dragging an image to the address window, select all (and dragging) generates a screen capture. You cant drop it into Photoshop, so I'm not sure what the point is, but it looks purdy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 I like the extra information since I can type in "s" in the URL bar and see the names of all the SH forum threads I've visited rather than just the thread URLs. Makes finding things faster for me. deepak, can you explain what you mean by the above? Sounds convenient, but how do you do it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 deepak, can you explain what you mean by the above? Sounds convenient, but how do you do it? Sure, I'll try and explain it better. This is the Windows version of Firefox. For example if I type "st" (without the quotation marks) in the URL bar it looks for all the previous URLs with "st" in them as well as home page or thread names. So it basically makes it a lot faster for me to find websites or threads I've read. So I don't have to type out a lot of the name of a website to have it pop up in my URL bar. It's sort of like an "intelligent" search feature in the URL bar. an example: Searching for "st" it brings up a thread with "West Germany" in it and "Acoustic Sounds" I can basically two or three letter search 90% of the websites I go to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitz Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 FF2 was never exactly known for being speedy Despite the fact that (years ago) the project was originally supposed to be a very lightweight and speedy alternative to the Mozilla suite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessingx Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 I agree this release is much better on OS X (though lack of services support may in the end keep me from using it), but strangely it kills my mouse pointer on screensaver recovery every time (in 10.5). Previous version, Safari, WebKit and Opera (which also has a new release this last week) does not. Have to guesstimate pointer/use keyboard to kill FF to bring back. That was a fun game once or twice, but... As for Gmail (and Google Reader and SqueezeCentral) I use Fluid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhonte Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 what the fuck is up with the spellcheck? I doesn't seem to be engaged in text boxes like the ones found here when writing a post. I've tried to google it but I can't come up with any solution that works. Have any of you figured this out? Believe me, you want me to have spellchecking enabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 It works for me in the quick reply box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chekhonte Posted July 11, 2008 Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 are you using a osx or windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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