mozilla is nice

[kermalou]

another question -

for some readon, mozilla took over as my mail program and now everytime I want to send some mail, it brings up the mozilla program, but I still want outlook to be my program, how do i change it back?

 

[bonk102]

are there any security issues involved with mozilla? i've been trying out mozilla all day and it loads much much faster than IE. I just wondered if there were any issues with online ordering since i do a lot of online purchasing

 

[randomlinh]

kermalou, go to internet options, then the programs tab. select OE as your default mail program.

 

[bmacd]

no reason to switch from IE. It handles all the pages i browse without problems. I hate quicktime. Realplayer is even worse.

-=bmacd=-

 

[manly]

This site should help answer plugin questions.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: bonk102
are there any security issues involved with mozilla? i've been trying out mozilla all day and it loads much much faster than IE. I just wondered if there were any issues with online ordering since i do a lot of online purchasing

Netscape invented SSL, which is the encryption technology used for secure transmissions with web sites. Open-source Mozilla has had SSL support for a long time now. The only remaining glitches are banks that stupidly "sniff" the client, and refuse to communicate with Mozilla. Technically, there is no reason for that. Such bugs are filed by the Mozilla project as tech. evanlegism, which essentially means marketing: somebody has to convince such sites to get their content team to fix their incorrect client sniffing.

Sometimes that can be easier said than done w/ IE commanding a 90% monopoly of Web usage.

Now from a general security standpoint, IE and friends have a horrible track record. Arguably, even on Windows systems, using an alternative browser besides IE (whenever possible) should expose you to fewer security vulnerabilities. That isn't to say IE cannot become a secure browser; just that its long and short term history is very problematic.

 

[20_MuleTeam_Borax]

Using bookmark a keyword bookmark and "%s," I can type "google <query>" in the url bar, and mozilla makes it so. The javascript controls are super mega awesome.

 

[UNCjigga]

I like the fact that unlike the last Netscape I tried to use (4.6??) it doesn't randomly ask me to reassociate crap, load new crap, upgrade crap, or takeover crap--it coexists quite peacefully with IE6. It also has those cool Opera-like features of tabbed browsing, a task pane, popup control etc. Oh, and its FAAASSTTT!!! (now browser of choice on my 850mhz notebook pc!)

 

[CraigRT]

I love the new Mozilla 1.0

I find IE still has the dominance in the "it works" category.. there is nothing it can't run properly, but I like the way the new Mozilla operates, and the tabbed browsing is freaking awesome! there are just a few little things that still need to be fixed, but it's a great browser!!