Good Grief! I've just stumbled onto Firefox by mistake...

[Inghouls2]

and Mumsnet looks like a completely different website!

I had no idea
there's a whole new world out there...
it's got blue and white stripes

really?

[Goes to download firefox]

yy it does
Am I missing something good?

oh yes, so it does.
(ppssssst halloween is over you can stop being ghouly now)

it's much BETTER

it's not MP, it's like scrolling your way down a buntastic deck chair!

I like Firefox, it's far better than internet explorer anyway.

I have no clue what you are talking about but I really do wish I did .

much better than safari. and IE is terrible,

what colour is this on safari?

Firefox is great

gimp is hideous though !

It doesn't have to be blue and white stripes - you can customise it (or at least go classical).

That's weird - I used to access MN from firefox at home and explorer from work and they both looked the same.

Admittedly I am on maternity leave and have not accessed explorer for a few months, but it certainly used to look the same on either browser?

Are you sure it's not just that you are using MN classic on one and modern on the other, or summat?

Leonie - another open-sourcer here. So much so that I have de-installed windows and now operate entirely in unbuntu. I love open-office. It's so much more versatile than Word.

Safari looks exactly the same on my Mac

Only ever use FF.

What is Safari?

Firefox and Thunderbird here, do have Gimp - but rarely usely. Still using word though.

Looks fine to me.........

My active convo's page on safari is loverly...
black and white, no thick blue boxes, nowt!

i dont know what i use

i just type in mn and up it comes.

Are you talking about internet browsers? How do I know what I've got [dim emoticon] please?

bbhat what do you click on to get online?

bbh - if it's the one that came with your machine it's almost certainly explorer, because that's what's installed by default on windows.

But you can find out by clicking on help, about on your browser, or by hovering over the launch icon.

Ingles - I've just gone to customise and selected "sober workplace"

and it's now all black and white - sounds like you've just got it customized differently on safari

An e with a circle round it like a planet.

How do you "stumble" on to Firefox? Don't you have to download it or install it?

Why is it better than what I've got?

Tia

that's explorer.

Principally firefox is more versatile (it has add-ons so you can customise it to how you want it more easily) and it's open source - so completely free.

It's also supposed to be less prone to viruses as most viruses are targetted towards explorer.

It's often a bit faster, especially on slower machines.

Some non-technical info here

You have to download it, it can be done here

you can even get a spell check add-on for it - that underlines the dodgy words in red just like in word