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91 out of 121 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5
"Much, much, improved...and it was real good already"
Pros: I hadn't used Firefox in along time. I still had the original version and haven't used it in about a year. I use Opera and Avant and kind of forgot about Firefox when I reformatted about 10 months ago. This new version 4.5 really rocks! It is much more secure and faster than any ie browser, Avant included, and just as fast or faster than Opera. The download manager could use a little boost, but other than that, this is one fantastic browser and I recommend you try Firefox 1.5 and I give it 5 huge Stars and Two thumbs way up!
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53 out of 56 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3
"How to make the best better, not worse?"
Pros: Difficult to say the least. Everything I love about the last release of v2 is gone. I found this to be no faster, yet buggy. Poor bookmarks importing, difficulties with java, crashes & no themes, I mean zero! I waited a year for my all in one toolbar, now it's gone & so are all my themes. Getting back to 2.0.0.14 was a pain in the rear. I had to kill it with Revo to. As far as secure goes, thats what I but security software for so essentially, updating to v3 has been a total waste of time for me. The download.com editors review is a joke this time. Bias as any I've ever seen and dead wrong!
Cons: If I had one wish, it would be that I never installed this browser. Thank God for Norton Ghost because it's recovery time! Imagine that.
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81 out of 100 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.5
"Best browser just got better!"
Pros: Improvements from earlier versions
-faster back and forward
-automatically checks and installs updates
Pros of Firefox
-includes must-have features like tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and RSS
-built in search
-safe
-fast
-VERY customizable. The greatest reason i switched to using firefox was because of it's customizability. On addons.mozilla.org, you can download extensions and themes to make firefox look better and have more features. Extensions include the ability to block ads and adframes inside webpages, mouse gestures, and session saving. There's pretty much an extension for every function you could possibly need.
Cons: -Not all webpages are compatible with firefox that can only be loaded correctly in Internet Explorer. However, there is a pretty small amount of webpages like this. Also, extensions like ie tab, ieview, and user agent switcher that give firefox the ability to load internet explorer-only webpages. These can all be found on addons.mozilla.org
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53 out of 76 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3
Pros: It might be me, or it could be this release came to soon for my taste. Nothing I like as far as add ons work with this version. Not one theme, not my Lexmark toolbar, not even the splash screen. Don't get me wrong, I live Firefox but I'm gonna have to stay with 2.0.0.14 until more add one work with this version.
Cons: Hell! This even changed my IE icon to a Firefox icon. Nothing works with it yet. Uninstall & reinstall did not fix the issues. System restore didn't resolve my problem. I had to do an advanced uninstall with Revo, then reinstall the older version to get straight. Sorry, but to me, it's not time yet.
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56 out of 73 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 2
Pros: Mozilla Firefox would have to be one of the best browser out there, I love the new feature of spell checking within the browser as I do enjoy posting on forums and the interface is quite refreshing.
Cons: The only problems is that several themes & extension which are supposts to be compatible with this version of Firefox tends to make the program a little bit buggy, However it must be taken into account that this is the first version of Firefox 2 so as time goes by this problem will be fixed as Mozilla takes the time to continue to update Firefox to make it an even better browser.
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