Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 Features And Their Firefox Equivalent

By: Incurablegeek

Incurablegeek — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:59:36 +0000

I’m really sorry to be negative but I DO try to keep an open mind. After years of using every iteration of IE, I found Firefox with all of its so very convenient add-ons. Well, I was told to try the “new” IE 8 with its plethora of add-ons. Quite simply put, this abundance of add-ons for IE8 reminds me of a department store in a “developing country”, only with even fewer choices.

By: Rimher

Rimher — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:03 +0000

Well i use Kallout as a Accelerator equivalent in Firefox and it seems to be working pretty good for me

By: TheKman

TheKman — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:35:52 +0000

You didn’t mention IE8′s Domain Highlighting. For this, you can use the Firefox Extension “Locationbar2″

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014

By: Core

Core — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:22:47 +0000

I watched videos on IE8, alot of stuff they introduced looked like stuff on FF3 or something you can get on FF using extensions.

Their “Development Tools” looks almost exactly like Firebug on Firefox. (And when I mean exactly, I mean it has the same layout as firebug with a few more menues/options). Still good to see it on there, though. A well needed tool for sure.

It’s kind of sad that they act like they are *brand new*, in my opinion, but im glad they are improving it.

Also like that they are improving there web-standards compatibility.

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By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:10:21 +0000

Nice reference. Although I will try never to use the IE, it’s nice to remind people about how powerful and flexible is Firefox :)

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By: -=Ben=-

-=Ben=- — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:43:37 +0000

Awesome article Martin… Thanks!
It is good to know that Firefox can hold it’s own!

By: What is XSS?

What is XSS? — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:04:00 +0000

Can NoScript be configured to prevent only XSS issues? I’d like to use it for that purpose, but it’s standard settings are way too agressive for me.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:26 +0000

Nice reference, thanks Martin. I’m copying it to my ScrapBook, that is if you don’t mind.

I’m trying (to try) Ubiquity. ‘IE8 Activities for Firefox’ seems more obvious yet with lesser potential, I’ll wait for IE8 to try it there before, perhaps.

Things are moving fast, gosh, go man go!

By: joshua

joshua — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:41 +0000

Martin, out of interest whats the comparison like between IE8 and Firefox with all these these extensions running?

Incidentally, the best new feature IE8 has, has to be the way a tab can be isolated and crash independently of the browser…