Posted on 12/18/2004 6:19:26 AM PST by mathprof
FIREFOX is a classic overnight success, many years in the making.
Published by the Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit group supporting open-source software that draws upon the skills of hundreds of volunteer programmers, Firefox is a Web browser that is fast and filled with features that Microsoft's stodgy Internet Explorer lacks. Firefox installs in a snap, and it's free.
Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9. Just over a month later, the foundation celebrated a remarkable milestone: 10 million downloads. Donations from Firefox's appreciative fans paid for a two-page advertisement in The New York Times on Thursday.
Until now, the Linux operating system was the best-known success among the hundreds of open-source projects that challenge Microsoft with technically strong, free software that improves as the population of bug-reporting and bug-fixing users grows. But unless you oversee purchases for a corporate data center, it's unlikely that you've felt the need to try Linux yourself.
With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too. (Your children in college are already using it.) It is polished, as easy to use as Internet Explorer and, most compelling, much better defended against viruses, worms and snoops.
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LOL poor Xerox. They invented Ethernet too.
Tools->Options->General->Fonts & Colors.
See that little 'star' (FR logo) in the URL window? Drag that to your desktop. Instant link to this thread.
Can it enlarge graphic images as well as text as does Opera?
Just simply download and install Firefox. It will even allow you to import your existing IE Favorites.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
I'm running XP without the SP-2 (due to the horror stories). So far, I haven't had any significant problems with XP. I do run ZoneAlarm and nearly a dozen various spy-blockers and virus checkers (lol). Some catch things that the others miss.
Yesterday some evil got a pop-up from gator.com on my pc, but I think I got Ad-Watch to kill it. I haven't seen it this morning---so far.
I used to work in Oracle some time ago. Oracle praises web-enabled applications and is very much anti-Microsoft. However, to my amusement, Oracle web-enabled apps were running on IE only. The only thing, that came to my mind was "Oracle web-enabled apps run ony any OS and on any browser, as long as this OS is Windows and the browser is IE". Yuck. (that has changed as of now)
So, I have run an experiment. I have put SuSE Linux Desktop Edition plus Mozilla, plus Star Office on my PC and just tried to push on with what I was doing on Windows PC. Frankly speaking, I was able to cover nearly 80% of what I was normally doing. However, any web apps that had MS javascript and ActiveX component did not work.
I bet, when Mozilla/Firefox supports MS javascript extensions and ActiveX, it will rock and roll, it will kick the ... out of MS IE. (accidentally, MS did not release the new version of their browser for a veeery long time).
I am using Mozilla at work (despite that IE is the corporate standard) for simple reason - I do not want all of the junk (like spyware) landing on my PC. At home I mainly use Firefox (it is a tad lighter and faster than Mozilla). I have been using Mozilla since version 1.0
Post scriptum: RSS bookmarks rule! If only FR supported RSS, it would be much easier to navigate. Take a look at del.icio.us for RSS stuff.
I like Firefox but does anyone know of a way to get the bookmarks to list in alphabetical order?
Bookmarks | right-click on anyone of them and choose sort by name
I don’t follow this stuff with a passion, but I hear Apple “ripped off” the window concept from Xerox labs in Palo Alto in the early 70s. Everything is built on something else. If what Gates “stole” from Apple was copyrightable, Apple would have pursued it in court.
Would you mind explaining how to get it to work?
Apple stole their's from the Xerox PARC several years before. Great innovations often follow an evolutionary track adding to the ideas that came before. Revolutionary ideas are few and far between. Like the guy who figured out that if you put a rough running motor in piece rod shaped piece of plastic, it could pleasure to women.
BTTT
You are young. The Mac's networking was one of the reasons we gave up MS in the 80s.
No offense, but I wouldn't risk using that for a door stop. Win 95 S-U-C-K-S. Why MS even allowed pc mfgs to have USB ports with that OS is beyond me as it didn't support them. My old pc had 2 USB ports and they would NOT work with WIN-95, I had to reformat my HD and install 98, THEN they worked. So NO, don't attempt a download.
btw, I was told by my SIL who's an Authorized MS network administrator that Win 95 is/was nothing but a 'tricked up' version WIN 3.1. However, WIN-98 2nd Edition was one of the most stable Win OS's. Win 2000 is stable too, but he prefers Win 98 and still uses that on the pc's he makes for friends.
I like WIN ME, but 'everyone' seems to detest it. And XP (to me) has too much JUNK. My daughters new laptop has it and I hate using it. I could go to Cancun for a vacation during its boot up process. /sarcasm
I also have a problem with Yahoo groups Chat (which is java based). The problem is poor coding on Yahoo Groups Chat. It will lock the browser many times (IE and Firefox).
With IE, I simply CTRL+ALT+DELETE, bring up the Windows Task Manager, select Application (IE) and End Task, and reload IE.
With Firefox, I can't do that. Firefox seemingly closes, but it doesn't show up in the Applications list. Even though it appears to be closed, Firefox refuses to reload. I have to reboot to get Firefox to load.
If memory serves it was IBM.
Gates 'scammed' IBM into a software deal, took their OS and .. ah.. 'modified it'.
(again, going by memory)
Microsoft is going down. The DOD has switched to Apple. Who wants to spend 90% of their computer time cleaning, repairing, innoculating and playing around with weak software?
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