Posted on 10/27/2004 10:31:15 PM PDT by budman_2001
Blake Ross is lounging at his parents' Florida Keys condo, thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his sophomore year: nothing less than to "take back the Web" from Microsoft (MSFT).
You might think the shy 19-year-old is outmatched. Think again. Ross, a software prodigy who interned at Netscape at age 14, is the lead architect behind Mozilla's Firefox -- a revolutionary new browser that's catching on the way Mosaic did in 1993. In beta for the past four months, Firefox version 1.0 is set to be released in November. With that, Ross will issue the first truly formidable challenge to Internet Explorer that the world has seen in seven years.
"We're hoping for 10 million downloads in 10 days," Ross says proudly.
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,714129,00.html
Have you tried the Autohide extension?
I like the ability to have multiple home pages. I startup with three tabs open to three different web sites now.
Get the AdBlock extension. It allows you to overlay flash animations with a box, and also allows you to block (permanently) any image on the net.
I downloaded it last week and I am impressed!
Huh? I use FireFox and there's a Google search box in the upper right corner of the browser. I enter in something, hit enter, and the search opens in a new tab.
How much more integrated do you want?
I believe that my IE deliberately makes it very hard for me to acess any page that has java on it. That is why I switched to FireFox.
More intuitive? De gustibus non disputandum ... I prefer them on the top ... they look like the tabs on file folders. Or the tabs on the various pages in the Window$ Control Panel. M$Excel and StarOffice spreadsheet have the tabs on the bottom ... not at all my favourite place. Why not put them on the RH side, like some folks do with paper Bibles and dictionaries?
Yep, while MS makes some fine products (Excel is unrivaled IMHO), it does a person good to remember that they are also good enough to insinuate their agenda into most everything they put out.
Not to mention using Firefox, you can type: Dict pusillanimous in the address bar and it looks up the word for you. The word pusillanimous was just an example. Try it, Dict (your word). You can also get an exention so that you can right click on a word and it looks up on Dictionary.com.
Because they should go on the bottom, where God put the OS taskbar also.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Dan
(c;
Did you know that the Task Bar can be put on the top? The "ergonomics experts" at my employer insist that the top is a "better" place for it ... it seems profoundly unnatural to me. Just like browser tabs on the bottom.
This is an excellent article, and details something I've been wondering about for a while. Apple has tightly integrated it's operating system, so that I treat my idisk like a local hard drive. Similarly, many of the applications, such as iTunes, are basically web browsers with additional capabilities. This brings up the question, what is 90% of Windows? Couldn't a web browser access and handle the local hard drive as well as the OS? BTW, the Firefox browser on Apple has better "across the web" compatibility than Safari, although I find the speed and useability to be similar. With Firefox on my Win98 box at work, I have found that my system crashes seem to be down since dumping IE. It could be my imagination, but I don't think so. I know IE crashed a lot more, and I think it took part of the OS with it.
Yes... and men can "marry" men in Vermont.
The "ergonomics experts" at my employer insist that the top is a "better" place for it ... it seems profoundly unnatural to me. Just like browser tabs on the bottom.
So, what you're saying is that you're conflicted.
Leave the Dark Side, end the internal struggle... come over to Avant, and leave the tabs on the bottom, where they belong!
Dan
< / tongue in cheek >
I think you're confusing the purpose of the OS. THe OS is the Operating System of a computer--it's the layer of software that interfaces directly with the hardware. Without an OS, the browser would not be able to access the hard drive, or the network card, or the modem, etc.
A browser can see all those things via calls to the OS, rather than direct calls to the hardware.
On my website IE was consistently over 92%.
I get over 900 people a day average to my site each day.
I just checked it for that last 2 weeks:
IE is down to 87.49%
Netscape is up to 5.55% and then come the others. - Tom
Tabs belong on Top, as the power of this fully operational Control Panel will show you!
< /Vader >
Costco has the 4-DVD boxed set of original Star Wars movies on sale for $59.99, BTW.
Costco-ed on release day, unwrapped, viewed, in constant rotation among our single-digiters.
(c8
Dan
Huh? I use FireFox and there's a Google search box in the upper right corner of the browser. I enter in something, hit enter, and the search opens in a new tab.
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With this search box the google result does NOT open in a new tab. At least for me. Though what you say is true if you highlight and drag a word or phrase into the google search box.... so thanks. Also true if you highlight a few words on a webpage then right click to websearch. This produces google search results in a new tab.
Calling Win98 "Windows" is like calling OS 8.1 a Mac.
Current versions of Windows have almost nothing in common with Win98.
Win98 still runs programs from that era acceptably, but MS is no longer providing security updates. Anyone running Win98 should probably switch to Firefox or something other than IE.
Ahh. That must be my TabBrowser Prefs (extension) kicking in. I have it to set all searches to open in new tabs.
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