Posted on 06/19/2004 5:44:40 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
Web-browser built for 2004, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.
Tabbed browsing gives you a better way to surf the net. You no longer have to open one page at a time. With tabbed browsing, open several pages at once with one click. And now your homepage can be multiple tabbed pages.
Popup blocker
lets you surf the web without intrusion. Advanced popup blocker notifies you when popups are blocked. You can also block pop-ups on a site per site basis.
Image Manager lets you block images to block offensive images or to speed up the rendering of web sites.
Find as you type gives you another way to navigate a page. Just start typing to jump from link to link or to find a word or phrase within a page.
Plus all the features a modern browser should have including: Advanced security settings; Password, Download, and Cookie managers; Themes; multi-language and multi-platform support; and, the latest in Web Standards.
Junk mail controls helps you take back control of your e-mail from spammers. Mozilla's adaptive junk mail control gets smarter with use and is personalized to the e-mail that you receive.
Manage your mail with customizable Labels and Mail Views. Color code your e-mail to help you prioritize. Sort your mail with views to help you through your e-mail much faster.
Mozilla supports Multiple Accounts to help you manage all your mail through one interface.
Mozilla Messenger includes Enterprise ready features such as S/MIME, return receipts, LDAP support, and digital signing.
Mozilla's HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your simple documents and website projects, Composer is all you need.
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I can check my account, but the bill pay feature doesn't work - I've already talked to tech support at my bank. I have to use IE, which means spy ware, which means a session w/Ad-aware. Kind of a drag.
Firefox is great, been using it for a year. Theres only a few Java applets it seems to have trouble with, so I stll have IE installed, just don't use it often at all.
That is just about the best extension for this browser (perhaps Adblock, too), and I sorely miss it. I'm tempted to revert back to 0.8 just to get that extension back...
Even without it, though, Firefox is still the best browser on themarket, and MS is gonna wish they had kept up development of IE.
Once you have downloaded a Firefox installer or compressed archive, follow these instructions to install:
First, for these preview releases it is strongly recommended that you uninstall any previous version of Firefox first. Installing over the top of an older version may cause unpredictable problems. If you install over the top of an older version and want to file bugs, please do a clean install into a fresh directory before doing so.
Double click the FirefoxSetup-0.9.exe installer to start the install.
NOTE - Do not install Firefox over the top of another Firefox installation. If you want to install Firefox 0.9 into the same folder that you had Firefox 0.8 in, uninstall Firefox 0.8 first. Upgrading will be fixed in a future release.
Double click the Firefox Compressed Disk Image to mount. Your browser may have already uncompressed the image and mounted it for you. Double click the Firefox 0.9 Disk Image and drag the Firefox application onto your hard disk. Drag the icon to your Dock if you want it to appear there.
Extract the tarball and run the installer like so:
tar -xzvf firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
cd firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft/
./firefox-installer
Extract the compressed archive and run firefox
To uninstall Firefox, follow these instructions:
From the Start menu, choose Control Panel. When the Control Panel appears, double click Add or Remove Programs. Find "Mozilla Firefox (0.9.)" in the list and click Remove to uninstall.
Drag the Firefox application to the Trash.
Remove the firefox folder.
These instructions leave your profile in place in case you install Firefox again in the future. If you wish to remove your Firefox profile folder, follow these instructions:
Locate your Application Data folder, this is usually under Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data. You may need to make hidden files visible in Windows Explorer, since the Application Data folder is hidden. If your username is "Joe", and your Documents and Settings folder is on C:\, your profile folder is here: C:\Documents and Settings\Joe\Application Data\Firefox. Delete the Phoenix folder to remove your profile data.
Open the Library folder in your Home folder, and remove the Firefox folder. (~/Library/Firefox/).
Remove ~/.firefox.
What's the difference between Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox/Thunderbird?
Try MyIE2, a shell for Internet Explorer. Once you use this you'll never go back to plain IE. Too many features to list including mouse gestures.
Not quite as good but still excellent is Myweb4net and Avant Browser.
Been using Moz since 1.1.
1.7 is very nice. One extension to add is bugmenot, especially for Freepers. Allows you to go to login sites without having to use your own email address or provide any personal info, (real or not). Used it for both the Wash Post and NYT with no problems.
That must be why I can, using I.E., run my work desktop from home with only a slight degredation in screen performance.
I'm trying Mozilla.
Mozilla is everything, browser, email, chat, composer all in one package. It's also the base reference for the technology used in all other Mozilla products. Firefox is the browser only, and Thunderbird is the email only. But Firefox and Thunderbird are also a bit more advanced in features over their Mozilla counterparts.
I'm not sure how the install under Windows works, as I run Linux, but it does work fine. I'm using 0.9 now, and only have one minor irritant--one of my favorite extensions is not yet ready for 0.9. Once that is in place, though, Firefox will be impossible to beat as a browser.
Thank you for the information. I'm using Netscape for my e-mail, but I think I'll switch over to Thunderbird so I won't have to load the entire suite every time.
I'm thinking of switching over from IE to Firefox for my browsing, too, although I need to keep my IE updated, because of my web design business. For obvious reasons, I design for IE primarily.
For obvious reasons, I design to W3C standards for the Internet, but I hold back from using the stuff that's too complicated for IE's little brain. Sometimes for specialty or "geek" sites I'll throw it all in to make a point (get a real, W3C compliant browser if you want to view this right).
But in latest news, seems Mozilla and Opera have had an effect. Microsoft is apparently reconstituting its browser division. Time for Microsoft to steal ideas from free software some more!
I'm viewing this on Firefox. So far, so good. I like the idea of tighter security for my browsing.
I've downloaded Thunderbird, but haven't had the time to change over from Netscape (father's day, you know.)
There is a "windows installer" as well, and it's all pretty easy to do..
You DO have to uninstall 0.8 before installing 0.9 however.. ( unless you install to a NEW directory )
Use the program's uninstall, NOT the MS change/remove programs.. ( it will remove stuff you don't want removed.. )
Did you see this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1149061/posts
Not remotely possible? Or doesn't apply.
Opera is my main browser also. But 7.51 has introduced a goofy glitch. About once each day, mine will get confused about mouse clicks and act as though they occurred in a different window. I didn't have this problem with 7.50 or any of the beta versions.
Just absolutely idiotic.
Not remotely possible you're saying?
Just plain stupid. Remember, Mozilla is the American Netscape without the branding. AOL placed the new Netscape (6) codebase out in the open with a foundation and some startup money to continue work on the project it didn't want to do anymore. Funny though, although Mozilla comes from Netscape, now any new version of Netscape is really just a rebranded Mozilla.
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