Mozilla Firefox

Originally posted by Mondie
it even seems slightly faster on my XP machine.
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Slightly faster ?

I'd say it's a heap faster ! :D

I've found swapping back to IE (on those occasions I have to use it *sigh*) to be really really slow and painful compared to Firebird.

I've had a number of people at work tell me how amazed they were at the speed of Firebird/Firefox after switching.
 
Sim

Have you checked out the sites that didn't work properly with Firebird?

I tried http://westpac.com.au which never showed the java menu on the left hand side, it works now! I'm happy.

Originally posted by Sim
In Mozilla it's easy to open a link in a new tab by clicking the middle mouse button (ie the wheel on a wheel mouse - which is actually a button as well if you press down on it). Makes it so easy to browse (without having to reach for the keyboard and making it easy to keep track of the pages yet to be visited).
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Ditto

Although I do use ctrl-t on the keyboard fairly often for opening new tabs.

Cheers
quoll
 
Originally posted by quoll
Have you checked out the sites that didn't work properly with Firebird?

I tried http://westpac.com.au which never showed the java menu on the left hand side, it works now! I'm happy.
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Hmm... Westpac is still not working for me (I have complained to them about this). I use a bookmark to get to the online banking site.
 
The Westpac site was developed for IE, with no regard for decent standards. The only thing I use IE for these days is the Westpac site and some of the sites here in the office (no standards here either...)
 
OK, thought I'd give it a run....

St George played up a bit at first, but seems to work now.

It certainly feels faster on normal pages. Java applets etc seem round the same. Harder to tell - depends more on lots of other things - like what you;re attaching to and its varying load......

Scrolling and resizing's heaps faster.


Hmmm... might just run with this one....
 
I wouldn't expect any real differences with Java applets - unless you moved to a new JVM which improved performance over the (rather lame) Microsoft JVM.

I'd been running Mozilla Firebird for probably 7-8 months now, and from a speed and stability point of view, it's been excellent. I use it all day long while at work - both for browsing and for web applications as well. I use it for my online banking and just about everything else.

Only occasionally do I come across a site that just doesn't work - I've been surprised at how much I've been able to do on the net without problems actually.

I've definitely seen an increase in the number of users using alternative browsers, Mozilla and Opera being the top two choices. The webstats from all my sites show a growing trend to these browsers. Just in the last month my personal site is up to 17% Netscape/Mozilla users, in November it was less than 6%.
 
Just had an instance with screen debris etc. Wouldn't redraw properly, etc....


Like the old days of out of resources etc....


Fixed up now tho.... I'll keep an eye on it.
 
Just made the switch to Firefox myself.

I used Opera for a while some time back, but wasn't completely happy with it.

Firefox is nice though, and those tabs - can't survive without 'em, and I've only had it for a day.

Thanks for the recommendation guys.
 
I used Opera for a while, but I found it bloated and cumbersome - suffering a little from the same problem that the full Mozilla browser has. That's why I was so happy when I discovered Firebird.

I've just started trying Mozilla Thunderbird for a mail client - it has a fair way to go in functionality to get to the same level as my current mail client (An old OS/2 program ported to Windows called PMMail), but I'm hopeful Thunderbird will get there (I'll be sending a long wishlist of features to the Thunderbird development team).

Interestingly, did you know that there is a team of people within IBM who are responsible for browser technology (usually for embedded systems and such), and they have been directed to funnel quite a bit of effort into development for Mozilla. Mozilla is now our broswer of choice to support our software products (although we also support IE and Opera, and not every product has been fully tuned for Mozilla yet - but it's getting there).

So I'm hopeful that Mozilla and the supporting products will continue to mature rapidly.
 
Yeah, I noticed that some IBM credits appeared in the design notes for FireFox. Good to see them getting behind the opensource movement.

Seems IBM has got a good balanced approach to their business and community projects. I think that they are gaining quite a bit of respect from the web-community at large.
 
Originally posted by Puppeteer
I think that they are gaining quite a bit of respect from the web-community at large.
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That's what we're aiming for.

We had to prove to everyone that you can have open source and a viable business model too. Doesn't mean that everything we do must be open source, but there are parts of the solution which are better served as an open platform.

The OS (eg Linux) and the browser (eg Mozilla) are the first two obvious choices. A slightly less obvious choice is the development platform (eg Eclipse) - not as important from a business user or personal user perspective, but vitally important from a business infrastructure and integration point of view.

For everything else, open standards is more important. That way we can cooperate with the larger community and work together on interoperability and compatibility through standards, and still compete on implementation. J2EE, Web Services, XML, Portlet APIs, etc etc.

It's all about choice for the customer and respecting that the customer doesn't necessarily want to or isn't necessarily able to run everything on a homogeneous platform.

oops... sorry - this is starting to sound like a sales pitch :D
 
Makes sense. Instead of publishing standards, you just release the source. Sure you wear the initial development costs, but you benefit because you've got an instant army of user's and supporter's, and you get to benefit from code upgrades from the open source community.

IBM can still work on their own apps to sit on top of the development platforms or standards, and they keep the community on side.

Oh, and sticking something into the public domain is a heck of a lot cheaper than maintaining patents. :)
 
Learner said:
Also, how can i stop pop-up advert's from coming through????

Its Bl***y annoying.......

Also for those IT gurus out there, i'm currently using XP and am on dial up, i leave the phone cable in the port when not on the net, although when there is an incoming call to the residence it switches the PC on....is there anyway i can disable this feature??? I called my service provider who indicated that i would have to take the hard-drive into a computer shop so that they can play around with it..apparently about $120....its fairly pricey.

Learner

:(
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It'll be a BIOS setting probably. What's BIOS? Read on......

When your computer starts up, before you hit the Microsoft Advertising Page the computer runs on instructions from the BIOS (also called the CMOS). On the screen somewhere it will say hit the 'x' key to enter BIOS, where x = del, F1, F2, F10 or esc commonly.
Once you enter this screen (usually blue) it will take on differing layouts depending on the BIOS maker, etc. What you are looking for is a "wake on Modem ring" setting, this may be named something different but usually similar, turn this off and your computer will ignore the phone.
Failing this on the side of the computer, look at the card that the phone line plugs into, often there will be a little wire going from the card to the motherboard (the largest circuit board that everything else plugs into), pull this wire out at either end and this should stop it as well.

:)
 
Hi all, thanks for all the good info here.

I keep getting pop-ups from Win-Clean.com Who are they? Have checked them out from a google search, but I really don't like their persistent pop-ups, they are like a virus themselves.

I have put Ad-aware on my computer, but its not stopping these ones coming through. Will have to go down the other avenues I suspect.

Cheers

Oceangirl
 
you can download a seach toolbar from google that includes the option to stop popups and popunders.

plus you get a neat toolbar :)

Jas
 
Sad to say "They're baaack!" :eek: Scarey little dudes, very annoying. Now I'm getting popups from GetRipped as well.

Will look at Mozilla Firefox now, hope that does the trick. Thanks anyway Jas, I do like the toolbar regardless.
 
Thanks Jamie, Jas and all for the info.

Jamie, you know how the popups claim that one's computer is being trawled and spied on all the time, and that pornography is sitting on the hard drive for anyone to access etc, is this all true or just rubbish they spout to get you to use their software? Does pop-up stopper also block the ability to get into one's computer?

I will check it out now anyway, thanks again. :)

All the best

Oceangirl
 
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