IE or Firefox and why...

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Ho hum.

Here I am, back after a major SeaMonkey meltdown. I really should backup my profile a little more often.

Actually, I have no idea where I'd begin, if I used Outlook/IE. They do so little that's useful, I guess it's quite easy to recover some parts and the rest... delving through proprietary format binary files is fun, but just the once.

The SeaMonkey problem actually came from XP. I accidentally booted into XP, so thought I'd update stuff while I was there. One thing led to another, and I broke my Windows version of SeaMonkey... gave up XP as a bad idea, and came back to Linux. Then did exactly the same there. I think I'll go make myself a dunce's cap.

Does anyone else have this problem with Firefox.

I find if I type in an incorrect address, Firefox crashes.

For example, I just tried to access this site, typed www.wr, hit the down arrow for remembered addresses and hit enter.
But the remembered information hadn't come up, and I tried to visit www.wr . Firefox crashed( well -stopped responding), and has done this multiple times with the above problem.
It's my only Firefox criticism, but I don't know if it's just me.
I have version 2.0.0.3.
Any tips?

so...you enter a wrong address, hit the down direction arrow and hit enter?



i think i'm misunderstanding....i tried what you described a few different ways and had no problems. it might be an issue with your cached history and your computer recalling it all.

I've never actually come across the problem you are describing before, I am actually using Firefox v2.0.0.3 as I type this and it hasn't caused any problems whatsoever for me, try reinstalling Firefox and see if that helps

Reinstalled and still crashes. Though it still had the same homepages when I reentered it - does this mean it wasn't uninstalled?

I think my problem is partly from typing too quickly, but it seems Firefox crashes when an address is wrong.

Firefox doesn't crash if I type an address incorrectly... I simply get a "Problem loading page" page that says:

(I tested it by typing a string of random letters.)

I use IE at work (no choice), and Firefox at home. I just like it better. (Yes, I've tried Opera. I don't like it as much.)

I prefer Opera. For me it is the fastest, and I like the way it renders colors. The fact that you can close and open it going to the page it was previously on is really nice too- even if there were multiple tabs open.

But when I have problems accessing a site I usually switch to Firefow and use IE as a last resort.

i'm pretty sure firefox does this as well....mainly because i had it set up to do that for a while before i realized i rathered just a default homepage to start off from (too many times opening up the computer and opening to porn...whoops!)

Just wanted to say two things:
FF Adblocker Plus works perfectly. I haven't seen a single ad on any site since I installed it. Phew.

I have a low-power/speed laptop with Vista, and it runs everything VERY fast, including FF. I am so pleased with it.

haha. i didn't know firefox could do this, but then i switched to opera pretty soon after i switched to firefox.

should explore options and preferences before ditching a program.

yes, but now I am used to Opera. I can find any errors I make on my web page easier. Sometimes I feel like Firefox overlooks my bad codes.

Does Opera have the equivalent of the "Web Developer" extension? I use SeaMonkey, as it happens, but it works on FF as well, I believe.
I have... a dozen dropdown menus (each averaging say ten items) that cover lots of stuff for checking, analysing, viewing, etc. such as running the W3C Validator, outline deprecated elements, edit CSS, resize window, display topographic information...

There are dev'er tools in Opera, but I haven't tried them yet.

http://dev.opera.com/tools/

I had a quick look. The DOM inspector, Java console and JavaScript debugger are built into SeaMonkey to start with. HTTP headers is a separate extension, that I haven't got installed at present. That just leaves Opera's CCS editor to compare with the hundred-odd tools/options in "Web Developer". (I'm sure I'm being rather too critical here. Actually, the one bit I use most often is the bit that it's not hard to do otherwise, anyway - the HTML Validator).

I have heard of SeaMonkey, but I haven't worked with it yet. So I don't know how it compares with Opera.