dlowan wrote:Oh - and I could take my favourites over from EITHER OPera - or IE - not both.
I imagine the reason they don't allow you to do both at the same time is because you may have confliting settings...e.g. your home page (Firefox imports more than just your favorites). Can you import from both browsers if you do them one at a time?
Although I have Opera, Firefox & IE on my system as well, firefox only lists IE as an option to import from...dunno what's up with that but I don't really care either...but it means I can't test importing from Opera just now.
But yeah, go ahead and click 'File -> Import' in Firefox & see if you can bring the other browser's settings over.
As for my personal take on Firefox, I consider it better than IE in most ways, but it won't be my primary browser for now. I like to see pages as they were designed to be viewed ...although once Firefox gets more market share undoubtedly there will be more Webmasters testing their pages in Firefox. I also consider IE slightly faster (testing at Maximum PC backs this up) & IE supports a greater number of advanced Web technologies (though you could argue that Firefox supports standards more accurately & completely).
Thing is, if Microsoft had only kept up development & innovation for IE after whipping Netscape's booty, well, I doubt it would be all that hard for them to match Firefox's (large number of) modest improvements. It'll be interesting to see what Microsoft does with their browser come Longhorn time.