Ok i tried out I.E 7 yesterday, i used it for about a day and its crap to be honest, was back on Firefox straight away i didn't have any Gmail notifier so if i got email id have to actually go to the website to check it and all my most used websites ive got across the top of the browser i didn't have on I.E because i couldn't place any sites there, and lastly I.E doesn't have an inline spell checker, not that i desperately need it like some people but its nice to have for those really long words you never use etc

So thats the main reasons i use Firefox and will continue to

EDIT another thing i like about Firefox is the smoother scrolling through website pages, although I.E 7 has smooth scrolling its no where near as smooth as Firefox.

 

How does that spell checker work because if I type something wrong it doesn't check for me!

Anyway, definitely Firefox for me.

 

if i type a word wrong or i dont put the ' in the right place it will under line the words in red.
Do you have the lastest version of firefox? mine is 2.0.0.11

 

Yup, got that version with spell checker box ticked.

Would it underline it for instance as I'm typing here in this message body box?

 

Just adjusted your poll mate.

Needed to add my selection

 

Safari. It's standard on Macs.

 

cheers knew id forget something

 

Was more a poll for pc users i guess, ive always used pc's

 

Yeah it should do, although you have typed and spelt perfectly so nothing is even unlined for me when i quoted you, but yeah spell check should work on anything you do on the web browser

 

No, it doesn't want to work for me.

How about this as a test...

Acheivement. Spelt wrong yet not underlined

 

Heres a screenie after i quoted you



Dont know why your isnt working, ill ask some geeks that i know

 

Dam thats abit small, if you right click view image it should be abit bigger and you can make out the red underlines

 

Need to have the British Dictionary add on installed for the spell checker to work on Firefox

I've uploaded the dictionary to here http://www.mediafire.com/?5hd0g1ltxgl

To install it go to File>Open File on Firefox

 

im sure i never did that though mate

 

either way it works now

 

 

Erm, I have a gmail notifier that notifies me of gmail and I don't even have to have a web-browser open

And all my most use websites display along the top of my IE window (below the address bar) as clickable shortcuts to open in new tabs or in the same tab depending how I click them....

Spell checker I don't need, and if I do come across a word I desperately can't spell, it's easily sorted using Google anyway...

True IE doesn't scroll as smoothly as FF, but I can live with that as all the text, icons, and most pictures look ten times better in IE than in FF

 

ooo personally I don't agree with that pictures look better in IE. I look at the same page on IE as FF and FF is ALOT sharper texts etc

 

Thats what makes me say they look better! The text is too sharp and "computer-ish" in FF, and the smiley's look pixelated (IMO). Everything looks more natural in IE (to me at least)

 

Thrush thats another windows process you have running for gmail, i know its not going to take hardly any ram but its still extra resources, when ive got FF open its built in

People will always have their favorite anyway for one reason or other

 

What and you think a plug-in in a window browser won't use any extra resources? Not as a stand alone resourse no, but factor in if you weren't using it, the total resource use of FF would be less than if you are using it.... So really what you have is "another firefox" process you have running for gmail"

Then you say without it you have to open a browser window up and navigate to gmail - well with your FF plug in you can only see if you have new messages by opening FF - I can leave my PC, come back to it and instantly see if I have any mail without even opening anything at all - the envelope next to my clock is either white (no mail) or blue (new mail)

Question tho - how comes you mention FF so many times? This is at least the second, if not third thread I have seen you do about you using FF, and it is in every other post you make (that is reletive to computers) Not a dig, just curious.....

 

Ah right, all down to personal preference at the end of the day