<p>Can someone tell me why firefox is so much better than internet explorer? I use the new internet explorer with tabbed browsing and it works great for me... just wondering what the hype is over firefox..?</p>
<p>p0rn - free version</p>
<p>Firefox is more customizable, less prone to attacks (IE users make up a majority, so hackers concentrate on IE. Much like how OS X is safer), supports more web pages (a lot of time in web design is spent just getting it to work in IE...Firefox rarely poses problems), popup blocking, keywords, and probably some other things I'm forgetting.
And that's after only a few months of use.</p>
<p>I personally use Camino on OS X. It's the same engine as Firefox, but optimized for OS X.</p>
<p>Also, for BitTorrent: if you're using a PC, uTorrent is superior to Azureus. It takes up much less memory and works just as well.</p>
<p>for the FREE office 2007 I have to put in my credit card info for a $1.50?</p>
<p>Hell I'll double it to 3 to have someone else type out my 16 digit number</p>
<p>I use TvTorrents and TorrentSpy for Bitcomet.</p>
<p>as a side note, dont DL Office 2007 with a download manager, it'll say you arent authorized.</p>
<p>i learned the hard way. i actually did have to pay $3. </p>
<p><<in a="" whisper="">> i suck :(</in></p>
<p>additionally, anyone who has something against firefox also has something against me! firefox is gods gift to man, dont be a communist.</p>
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<p>Definitely. I would make a detailed post about all the cool stuff that can be done with firefox right now but I've done that way too many times on the internet. I need a break from propagating firefox.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's how good it is CBA321. I basically advertise firefox out of love.</p>
<p>firefox
gaim
xmms
geneious
gkrellm
open office
flauxtext</p>
<p>Stuff I use that hasn't been mentioned:</p>
<p>-Google Earth (with the roads layer turned on it's better than mapquest)
-Winamp (I can't believe no one else uses this!)
-Mozilla Thunderbird (MUCH better than Outlook)
-Weather Watcher (probably the only weather bar program without spyware)
-avast! Anti-Virus (everyone who wants free virus protection should get either this or AVG)
-Torrent Searcher SA (great p2p program)
-nircmd (lets you do lots of interesting things with your computer)
-CSS (only for nerds :) )</p>
<p>If you need to make a lot of figures for papers or what-not, Adobe Illustrator is awesome (once you learn it)!</p>
<p>But as for my must-have programs...</p>
<p>Microsoft Office package (duh, you can get this cheap from your uni)
Firefox (free)
Thunderbird (free)
FTP protocol (varies as to what I can get at the time, but normally free; right now using SmartFTP)
Print to pdf format program (can be free if you know where to find it, very handy for large, image-intensive files)
Acrobat Reader
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
ArcGIS (very necessary if you need to make maps, good for science and geography students, normally free or extremely reduced site license with your unt)
AIM (truthfully, I rarely use it anymore)
OpenAFS (free, great for getting programs off your unis server)
ACDSee Pro (image program, very stable)</p>
<p>As for webdesign programs, I don't use them. It's much easier to edit my webpage using html in notepad than learning a webdesign program. Well, at least it was easier for my fiance to teach me to edit the html he created in notepad.</p>
<p>Of course, I also have (but don't use often)
AdAware (not needed often using Firefox)
Symantec
Spybot
PerfectDisk
iTunes
Endnote (I need to learn this program, but very handy if you have to write a lot of papers)
WinRAR</p>
<p>If you're a hardcore audiophile and deal frequently with FLAC files, foobar2000 is by far the best music player. It requires quite a bit of work to get used to, but it's very customizable, and in the end, worth the work.</p>
<p>ozym: no one told you to download office 2007 with a download manager. don't know why you had to pay. you get e-mailed the serial numbers and the rest of the installation just runs.</p>
<p>What are the following programs for:
xmms
geneious
gkrellm
flauxtext
endnote</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Google them?</p>
<p>I've found zipgenius to be better than similar programs.</p>
<p>other progs i recommend:
VLC media player
Limewire
PG2</p>
<p>For P2P programs, Soulseek (<a href="http://www.slsknet.org%5B/url%5D">www.slsknet.org</a>) is by far the best.</p>
<p>Antivirus program of some kind....McAfee or Symantec.
Lavasoft Ad-aware...to catch spyware.</p>
<p>Of course you would avoid this problem if you go with mac.</p>
<p>xmms: open source audio player
geneious: bioinformatics sequence homology tool (also free)
gkrellm: open source system moniter stack (tells me how much battery is left, changes my wallpaper every ten minutes, etc)
flauxtext: open source text editor my boyfriend wrote in python and pygtk, located on sourceforge</p>
<p>All used in gentoo linux.</p>
<p>Ahh thanks. i think we should state when the apps are for windows, mac, or a linux distribution.</p>
<p>balmes: i like using downthemall! you can stop and pause dl's it's nifty. except if u use flashgot, you get burned by microsoft</p>
<p>i'm not going to cry over a 1.50, just that's what i normally use for exceptionally large files</p>