Sweet Browser
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Posted on Feb 13, 2004 05:34 am
Loki
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Member Since: Apr 07, 2002
Alright I've been playing around with browsers and have found one I think I'll stick to for a while. I was using Neoplanets but that got boring kind of so I switched to Mozilla, I then found their new app, Mozilla FireFox, and man is this sweet. It has tabed browsing (which means you can open multiple sites in one window on different tabs) and the ability to start multiple pages when it loads. So when I start FireFox it automaticly loads Yahoo, Hotmail, HRC, and Ebay in their own tabs, and all I have to do to change what site I'm looking at is press alt + tab. Great! And best of all it's free!
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Feb 13, 2004 06:04 am Well jues will be happy to hear of another Mozilla user. ;-)
Almost every browser except IE and NeoPlanet has had tabbed browsing for quite a while now. I still favor MyIE2 and NetCaptor myself. I do use Mozilla on occassion if I need to validate that something works in it like it's supposed to. I have not tried FireFox yet tho.
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Feb 13, 2004 06:17 am I'm like a kid with a new toy... FireFox is pretty sweet, it's got a bunch of cool extensions, like Deepest Sender which runs LiveJournal straight from Mozilla... so I don't have to log into livejournal when I wanna update, just start the program.
Feb 13, 2004 08:23 am did this used to be called phoenix or something? did they change the name?
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Feb 13, 2004 09:08 am Maybe, I know it had another name but I think pheonix was a different browser.
Feb 13, 2004 09:20 am Firebird.
juesContributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002
Feb 14, 2004 10:16 am Yeah it was originally called Pheonix, then they changed it to Firebird, and then, with the most recent edition (0.7) the name was changed to FireFox due to copyright issues.
And yes, FireFox is pretty sweet, as is Thunderbird, their email client.
jues.
Feb 14, 2004 10:19 am Not many of the third party spam filter application work with some of those lesser know email clients tho, which is really a bummer. Most work with Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and the more common ones like those...however, some of the lesser known also have their own built in spam filter features as well. Never used Thunderbird, and probably never will, so I can't speak for that one in particular.
juesContributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002
Feb 14, 2004 12:21 pm Thunderbird has it's own spam filter - and it's pretty damn good!
jues.
Feb 14, 2004 04:49 pm Yeah, Outlook 2003 has it's own too and has proven incredibly effective.
Feb 14, 2004 06:11 pm hey, didn't Red Foxx used to drink Thunderbird?
olddogMember
Since: Jul 02, 2003
Feb 14, 2004 10:37 pm I waiting for SP2 for XP, IE is getting some major new features that many already have but I haven't found any of the other browsers work as reliably and well, so I stick with IE. :)
Dan
Feb 14, 2004 11:32 pm i think i like it. these tabs is nifty. i like having five homepages too.
Feb 15, 2004 02:13 am I'm not cutting on anyone cause I use IE too, but it's funny I've seen this sarcastic little campainge going around that goes something like "Support Internet Worms, Use Microsoft Internet Explorer"
Feb 15, 2004 06:20 am SP2 will not contain multi-tabs for IE as I recall, the only things it will contain are things like pop-up blockers and such.
However, Jamie is right (or the campaign he speaks of) many worms can target IE and not other browsers simply because of how closely the browseris tied to the OS that other browsers are not.
As of late, what used to be the biggest strength of IE (being the close relationship with the OS itself) is now the cruz of it's biggest problems that go way beyond the worm issue or legal battles.
I don't use IE, and never will again, but I do use IE's rendering engine with one of the hundreds of IE-using front ends such as MyIE2 which essentially IS IE with multitabbed browsing and popup blockers. Netcaptor is the same way.
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Feb 15, 2004 06:53 am yeah forty, I've got four homepages. It's sweet
juesContributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002
Feb 15, 2004 07:33 am Guys, have you pressed CTRL+B yet? It brings up a nifty little side pannel where u can place all your bookmarks.
Oh and also, middle mouse button on a tab closes it :)
jues.
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Feb 15, 2004 08:30 am COOL!!!! hehe my newtoys did more things thand I knew...
Feb 15, 2004 04:58 pm rock!
if you press ctrl+!, the browser somehow even does your taxes! i've never seen anything like it!
