Marvel Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Firefox 1.0.2 Who needs the rich text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olorin Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Ken thinks it has some worth. I don't use it myself, but I wanted to illustrate that IE is not really a prereq for the stuff after all. Back on topic, since I forgot to mention my version number, it's 1.02 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 Suprising to see so may firefox users. After seeing so many firefox posts last night I decided to download it and give it a try... Whats the the big whoop? Only thing I could see that it had over IE was the tabs. Downloaded the new Netscape beta as well. A little more glitz and bling bling. IE 6 myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfyr Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 IEv6 (as many sites do not display/function well with Firefox - ie Yahoo email! no rich text!) Firefox for the sites that are not IE dependent (despite plugins). I prefer Firefox, if for no other reason then IE's brain dead bookmark (favorites) file management and the inability to print out the urls of the links! And Safari...and the day is moving closer to moving back to the Mac as a single platform that offers full UNIX native compatibility (as that is where I normally live), as well as offereing Windows compatibility both from a file reading perspective to concurrently running Windows on the machine when I am feeling like a crash test dummy. I sure wish IBM would more quickly address the heat issue with the G5 and get that sucker - or the new cell technology ;-) into a Powerbook! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernmart Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Like many Mac users, I'd love to use Firefox over Safari--it's faster and less buggy--except for three important Safari featuers: first-rate autofill for online forms; really excellent, hassle-free adblocking; and excellent bookmarks management. Somewhere along the line, though, the original Safari lost much of its speed, and must be tweaked and played with in most un-Mac like fashion. Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customsteve01 Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 IE V6.0 Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 m00n, On a technical level, Firefox and Mozilla adhere more strictly to HTML standards. In other words, you can write sloppier code and still have it work on IE. Firefox doesn't use any activeX controls, so you rcomputer is far safer with it. You can download a plugin for FF that will allow the use of activeX controls if you want to. Maybe for those sites that require their use. I can do weeks of browsing with no spyware on my PC, and I haven't had a Windows box be a crash test machine for years. No more than OSX anyway. Marvel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 ---------------- On 3/31/2005 4:41:08 PM Marvel wrote: m00n, On a technical level, Firefox and Mozilla adhere more strictly to HTML standards. In other words, you can write sloppier code and still have it work on IE. Marvel ---------------- Yes, I know. Microsoft does add some Microsoftisms into their browsers and yes, you can write sloppy html. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grateful11 Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Firefox on 2 Macs and Firefox on 2 Windoze machines. Camino is not bad on the Macs but I don't like the tab style very much. Grateful11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champagne taste beer budget Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Up until about halfway through the replies here, I was using IE6. I tried loading Fx, install failed, went to the doc, came back, did some work, remembered the Fx thing, and tried loading again. Just got it up and running, been on it maybe 5 minutes, no huge difference so far, though I do like how when you reply to a message here, the original message appears outside your reply box automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champagne taste beer budget Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Ok, something I didn't notice 30 seconds ago... when I hit the reply button in IE, it always opened in a new window. Fx doesn't, so when I do my reply, I still have only one window open, the one with the full thread showing. Is there an adjustment to make a left click on the reply button cause it to open in a new window, or do I have to right click it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 ---------------- On 3/31/2005 6:36:49 PM Champagne taste beer budget wrote: I do like how when you reply to a message here, the original message appears outside your reply box automatically. ---------------- Champagne taste beer budget, I could be mistake, but I don't think that is necessarly an IE, Mozilla thing, I suspect that is something programmed into the application. Now, rather or not IE can implement the feature is another question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champagne taste beer budget Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 That could be, all I know is that the way my IE was configured, it wasn't there, and when I started with the Fx, it did it all by itself. I like it. On second thought, as I was about to hit submit, I do recall seeing that button up there labeled "Show/Hide" the topic you are replying to. I tried it once with IE and it showed it, but never tried it again. Apparently, it just defaults to that in the FX software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 Champagne VERY COOL! I had never noticed that before. Good find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champagne taste beer budget Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 HEY!!! I done something good again!!! Beers all around! Where's Max? Let's roust him out of bed and get the keys to the Horns Bar and start Friday out right!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Champagne taste beer budget Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 GGRRRrrrrrrr.... My first problem with Fx. I was out to lunch today with the Mayor (well, actually I was out to lunch, he just happened to come in and sit down next to me, ordered the special and a Hienekin) asked him about the sign ordinances as we are thinking of doing some new signage. He said they were available online, and sure enough, they are, in pdf, finally found the ones I was looking for, pages 165-173, tried to print them, and got an "Unable To Print" message after I'd specified the pages to print in the print pop-up. What do I need to change in Fx to let me print a pdf out of it? HEY MAXXX!!!! I could sure use that beer now!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkrop Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Netscape 7.? , IE takes forever to load a page with a dial up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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