OT: Firefox

David E. Gervais · #1 July 5th, 2004, 08:15 PM

Well, when I instaled Mozilla, I did a custom install and did not choose the e-mail, newsgroup reader, or chatzilla modules. just the browser. So I guess I should uninstall Mozilla and install Firefox. Especially if it's just the browser and an updated Version to boot.

Sounds good. Mind you this Mozilla seems to be working very well, and I'm hesitant to change a good thing. (yes I can be paranoid sometimes.)

Cheers!

Aiken · #2 July 5th, 2004, 08:40 PM

Quote:

http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html
"Note, though, that Firefox is not just the standalone Mozilla browser. The user interface in Firefox differs from Mozilla in many ways. For example, Firefox has customizable toolbars."

Interface and...? What, no more differences?
However I have to agree that this question is purely academic. Both programs are great (not excellent, but great).

Fyron · #3 July 5th, 2004, 09:53 PM

Maybe try a google search for a real comparison... most of the differences are minor changes here and there.

Aiken · #4 July 5th, 2004, 10:23 PM

Found the Firefox roadmap at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html and as I see they're going to add an ActiveX installer into the 1.0b Version.
Isn't the ActiveX support is the biggest source for security holes in IE? I can't understand why they're so interested in this "feature"?

[ July 05, 2004, 21:29: Message edited by: aiken ]

dumbluck · #5 July 5th, 2004, 10:50 PM

no thanx

Installed Firefox to see how it worked. Went ahead and made it the default brouser. Then I turned Trillian on. Then trillian told me that I had a new hotmail email. So I clicked on the trillian MSN icon, clicked on Chech Hotmail...

And my computer came to a sudden, violent stop.

One safeboot later, Firefox was uninstalled....

David E. Gervais · #6 July 5th, 2004, 11:48 PM

I aslo installed Firefox to give it a run, it felt funny, like wearing a left-handed glove on the right hand. I can't explain why I got this odd feeling, but I uninstalled it and will stick with Mozilla.

Cheers!

Kamog · #7 July 6th, 2004, 01:54 AM

So far, I haven't had any problems with Firefox. I like how it prevents pop-ups and I like the 'tabs' feature that lets you open multiple web pages under the different tabs. Also, while I'm downloading stuff, I can still surf around, which is nice! With IE while I was downloading something, the browser was more or less locked up and I couldn't do anything else.