Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ntl customer
Indeed. It takes too bloody long to start up! 
And you can't tinker around with any of the options to customise them to work like IE but with the features of firefox (e.g. when you click a link whilst holding down shift it opens in a new window - I want it to open in a new tab!  ).
Apart from that, less crashy than IE. Not crashed on me ... yet 
If it was more flexible then perhaps I would consider ditching IE .... but not yet I'm afraid. |
*ahem*
Richard steps forward... 
Firstly, the reason why IE starts up more quickly is because the majority of it is loaded when the OS boots, the load time is mostly the creation of the GUI.
Don't believe me?
Double click on My Computer then type an URL into the address bar.
SHIFT + click will download the link target in Moz (opens a new window in FF), to open a link in a new tab you use CTRL + click or the middle mouse button (scroll wheel).
If you want something even more stable and faster then you should use Mozilla 1.7RC2 - it's a lot faster because Firefox 0.8 is based off the 1.4 branch of Mozilla and won't be optimized for speed until version 1.0.