Mozilla FireFox 0.8 Out!

[straubs]

Originally posted by: Milkyman
slightly offtopic but does anyone who uses thunderbird know of any kind of conduit that will work for syncing mail with a palm os device?

Thunderbird 0.5 is out and has palm syncing now. I havent used it (dont have a palm), but I know that it's been added.

 

[straubs]

There is a fix for this error upon launching Firefox:

"Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser"

Follow these instructions


Here is another guide on reasons to use Firefox over IE.

For all other support questions, please see *the* mozilla resource, MozillaZine Forums

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: Drujb
I just can't live without my Yahoo! Companion Toolbar in IE. I doubt it's supported on any other browsers? :|

Here you go. Ain't a huge community of Mozilla fans great?

Google bar is here. both have screenshots available.

This ends my posting spree on this thread. It's just so easy to open a new tab in the background for everything I want to reply to without losing my current place in the foreground page... hehe

 

[Milkyman]

Originally posted by: straubs

Originally posted by: Milkyman
slightly offtopic but does anyone who uses thunderbird know of any kind of conduit that will work for syncing mail with a palm os device?

Thunderbird 0.5 is out and has palm syncing now. I havent used it (dont have a palm), but I know that it's been added.

If i'm not mistaken, the palm syncing is only for the thunderbird address book

 

[Tiembo]

Originally posted by: straubs
I've used MyIE2 to see what it was about and I've never seen a program so cluttered with options, but that's personal preference I guess.

I second that.

 

[fenderking]

I had problems importing favorites and it crashed a couple times loading large pages; otherwise a fine browser with a lot of potential. Another very fast, small (1.03Mb), tabbed browser with a lot of features if the free Advanced Browser. Very similar to My IE2 or Avant Browser but pages load extremely fast. It can be downloaded at http://www.advancedbrowser.com/

 

[Redviffer]

Originally posted by: jester79

Originally posted by: Mak0602
wtf, what happened to my scrollers?

Try resetting your theme to the default theme, click FF, then reopen it. I noticed that my themes caused my scrollbar to go away (my wife lost her navigation buttons).

:beer:

Thanks, worked for me also.

 

[TekDemon]

Originally posted by: weepul

Originally posted by: emagius

Originally posted by: ChoppedBroccoli
Anyone have detailed review between Opera and Mozilla FireFox?

I love Opera (and mouse gestures), but it seems FireFox has these feature too.
Which browser do you guys think is better?

Opera is superior unless you subscribe to the "free is always better" mindset.

Opera: Faster (by a huge margin), more compatible, more featureful (before extensions, at least), more stable, better platform support
Firefox: Cheaper (free!), more extensions and themes (although none work/look as good/well as Opera's), free, consistent with other Gecko products, open-source, free.

i'd like to challenge the more compatible. i've heard opera has trouble opening a lot of webpages which loads fine in mozilla and ie.

//krunk (^_^x)

As would I...Firefox supports pretty much everything WC3 says it should, while Opera is very spotty on that.

Opera might be faster though, but by far I think Firebird is the superior browser. I've used Opera before, and the only times it's really worth anything is on older computers where other browsers won't run usably. But after a while(and a couple PC upgrades) I got sick of it and went back to IE, and it wasn't until Phoenix became Firebird that I finally stopped using IE as my main browser.

I don't like the constant name changes though, but I will check out firefox anyway.

 

[TekDemon]

ooh I think there might be a noticable speed boost over firebird! I just installed firefox...

 

[slunk]

Originally posted by: wallsfd949

Originally posted by: slunk

Originally posted by: mattbta
Downloaded this when i saw the post and have been running it since. Thanks! Only hassle was redownloading the extensions that I used in .7. Thanks again!

I uninstalled .7, rebooted, installed .8 without a change to my extensions or other profile settings, including bookmark order. I wonder why you had to reinstall extensions.

If you install in the same directory 'over' the old 0.7 it seems to keep browser settings, plugins, cookies, bookmarks..... you get the idea.

I didn't install into the same directory. Not only did I delete the firebird directory, firefox installed into a directory called firefox. I know all of the profile information is kept in the Phoenix folder in application data, but, when you uninstall firebird through the uninstall, it only asks to remove the firebird directory. Unless he removed his Phoenix directory manually, I don't understand why he would have to reinstall his extensions, etc. Although, I used the installer for .7, not the zip file. Maybe the zip does not create the Phoenix directory in the application data folder.

 

[Bad Dude]

This browser is awesome guys. Very fast too.

 

[catrats]

Originally posted by: douglassirk
i would use this if it could do one thing....

- this - click here for the thing

unless i am an idiot i can't figure out any way to make a links bar like this with weird icons.....

i would die if i couldnt get to like 25 of my most used websites just by seeing the weird recognizable icon out of the corner of my eye and clicking on it.... is there any way to do this in firebird?

I may be mistaken but you should be able to continue using the exact same "Links" toolbar as long as you've setup Firefox as the default application for "Internet Shortcuts".

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: Milkyman

Originally posted by: straubs

Originally posted by: Milkyman
slightly offtopic but does anyone who uses thunderbird know of any kind of conduit that will work for syncing mail with a palm os device?

Thunderbird 0.5 is out and has palm syncing now. I havent used it (dont have a palm), but I know that it's been added.

If i'm not mistaken, the palm syncing is only for the thunderbird address book

I looked it up and it would appear that you are correct. Sorry for any confusion.

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: fenderking
I had problems importing favorites and it crashed a couple times loading large pages; otherwise a fine browser with a lot of potential. Another very fast, small (1.03Mb), tabbed browser with a lot of features if the free Advanced Browser. Very similar to My IE2 or Avant Browser but pages load extremely fast. It can be downloaded at http://www.advancedbrowser.com/[/q

From Advancedbroswer home page:

Is Advanced Browser a secure browser?
Yes, Advanced Browser is secure. Since it's based on Internet Explorer, Advanced Browser is as secure as Internet Explorer.

Aren't those two sentences contradicting each other? First they say it's secure, then they say it's as secure as IE.

 

[Flair]

How is the compatibility of FireFox with pages written for IE? Firbird refused to work with launch.yahoo.com, a cool streaming music site.

 

[laugh]

firefox sure does not support IE proprietary tags, but it'll be a nice feature if it supports in next release. then more people will use it for sure if no compatibility concern.

 

[straubs]

Originally posted by: Flair
How is the compatibility of FireFox with pages written for IE? Firbird refused to work with launch.yahoo.com, a cool streaming music site.

I just tested this.

The site comes up but the "launch media player" refuses to work. It then says "To use this application with Netscape, you must use a 4.7x version" which we all know is like saying "We don't support any OS except Microsoft and any web browser except IE."

They also don't support ANY media type except windows media. How, er, convenient.

Apparently they don't care if they turn away some of their audience. The only thing to do is to write to them and politely ask them to support standards, or choose to load IE for that specific site.

 

[douglassirk]

not sure what you mean?

you mean have it launch firefox when i click on the ie links bar with my little icons? that seems nuts..... and no wouldnt really work

or do you mean something else?

 

[sxr7171]

Firefox is awesome! I tried a couple of alernate browsers before but this is the first time I could see my self give up using IE6. Does anyone know how to move toolbars? I like to have just one row of toolbar (with address bar and everything though).

Edit: figured it out. Just drag individual items between toolbars.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: emagius

Originally posted by: ChoppedBroccoli
Anyone have detailed review between Opera and Mozilla FireFox?

I love Opera (and mouse gestures), but it seems FireFox has these feature too.
Which browser do you guys think is better?

Opera is superior unless you subscribe to the "free is always better" mindset.

Opera: Faster (by a huge margin), more compatible, more featureful (before extensions, at least), more stable, better platform support
Firefox: Cheaper (free!), more extensions and themes (although none work/look as good/well as Opera's), free, consistent with other Gecko products, open-source, free.

I can't say anything about Firefox, but I feel Mozilla is more compatible, more featureful, and more stable than Opera.

Awesome browser! So much zippier than IE. Now if I could just get Roboform to work with it I'd be happy.

Anyone recommend another password saver that works with this?

Doesn't it have a built in password saver?

Not exactly. Refer to the Firefox FAQ for that answer.

Odd this page doesn't display in Netscape 7.1 (Mozilla 1.4).
Strange that this page (towards bottom) seems to put down Mozilla in a way.


As far as saving your session, I was thinking Mozilla did that out of the box, but I guess it was Tab Browser Extension that does it. That and more.

So why is Firefox so much better than Mozilla?

I've never used any of the IE based browsers because I can't stand the IE interface, and especially everything about it's favorites. Avant, myie2, etc still have the same format for bookmarks dont they?

Firefox emulation. Also search here.

 

[huesmann]

Firefox IS Mozilla, dude.

 

[CyberZenn]

Originally posted by: huesmann
Firefox IS Mozilla, dude.

Actually they haven't merged the codebases yet. They were originally supposed to have done it by now, but they have put it off for a few more versions.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Firefox is more of a Beta version of the next Mozilla, the version 0.8 kind of gives that away...

 

[bsRaven23]

I've been using Firefox (or Firebird) for about 1.5 months now, and I definately prefer this over IE6 or Opera. Rock on Mozilla and keep up the good work

 

[vfrjim]

anyone else having a problem opening links from email? I tried both outlook express and Thunderbird, No links open from OE and when I click on a link in Thunderbird, it only opens a local file and not the URL.

Jim