Posted on 11/09/2004 8:20:25 AM PST by 4kevin
The Mozilla Foundation today unleashed its long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser. The release follows hot on the heels of last month's Preview Release, which the non-profit making organisation reports has already been downloaded by over eight million people. The announcement marks the worldwide launch of Mozilla Firefox, with immediate availability for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux as a free download from Mozilla.org. The browser is currently available in over a dozen languages, with "many more on the way". "We are delighted to be announcing this major milestone for the Mozilla Foundation and for the Firefox browser, which has been made possible thanks to the tireless effort of hundreds of community volunteers and developers around the world," said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. The browser ships with features including automatic pop-up blocking, online fraud protection to help users fight off phishing scams and improved search functionality. According to Mozilla, Firefox's Tabbed Browsing facility, which allows many web pages to load within the same window, can boost web surfing speed. The organisation added that the product has been designed to make it easy to switch from Internet Explorer and other browsers by offering support for importing existing bookmarks, passwords, cookies and other data.
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Yeah, I'm openminded to the others; it's just that Avant does the most, best. For me.
I tried myie2, too, and if I recall it kept locking up.
With Avant, the tabs are on the bottom, you can move them around, it doesn't thumb its nose at "incorrect" coding as Ff does... what's not to love?
Dan
I downloaded Firefox 1.0 this morning. Been painless thus far.
Have never had Firefox crash.
Firefox has several benifits over IE; the first is that Firefox is more secure; there are some pages that can install malicisous code (spyware, adware type stuff) merely by visiting said site. Firefox isn't integrated into the core of the OS, so those types of exploits are harder to do. And when problems have been found with Firefox, patches are generally available within a day or so. Microsoft tends to be slower with their IE patches.
The next is tabbed browsing, which allows you to open new windows within the same browser page. This my not sound like much, but it is really a very good way of managing several pages open at once; for example, I can go down the thread list here at FR, and pop open a new tab for each thread that looks interesting, then read them one by one. I can keep things more organised this way - one window with a bunch FR threads open, another window with my webmail, another window containing another message board, and tabs for each thread there. Once you are used to tabs, going back to a tabless browser seems painful.
The next Firefox advantage is the rendering engine. First of all, it is faster than the IE one - pages tend to show up quicker. And, (though is more important to geeks) Firefox follows various web standards, like cascading style sheets & .png graphics, better than IE.
There are lots of very nifty things that can be done with these(things that both look nicer & cut down on bandwidth use), that most websites don't use too much right now, because too many people are using IE, the most primitive of any common browser. On the downside there are a couple of poorly coded sites that won't work with Firefox at all, some of them for no good reason. (Literally - if you tell Firefox to tell webpages that it is IE, the website will normally work just fine.) Of course, since I am a geek, I run into more compatibility problems with IE, then I do with Firefox. The only website that I regually visit that I have had any issue is, ironically, Slashdot.
For me, it's an ergonomic issue. Clicking the go button is faster and more comfortable for me based on the way I sit at my desk.
Thanks y'all I'll have to wait till I get home to learn more about these.
We use:
1: Safari
2: Camino
Alright already! I'll try it,and I won't even bore you with my less than stellar experiance with other MOzilla products.
bookmark
Anybody know how well it gets along with Spybot resident?Its supposed to be an IE helper so hopefully it would just ignore it.
Use Firefox as your default browser and Mozilla's Thunderbird in place of Outlook and you can almost kiss spyware goodbye for ever. Both work great and Thunderbird has a very effective spam filter. No reason to ever use IE.
Not only is there a go button, there's a paste and go option for when you want to paste a URL into your location box. When you right click to paste, you will notice there is a choice for paste and another option for paste and go. Select paste and go and you'll be taken to the URL.
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I use Spybot with Firefox, and they co-exist with no problems.
Thanks for the info. I did DL and install and it's working great on my WIN XP Prof. machine. It does seem to be a little faster. I'll have to spend some more time with it to make use of all the benefits.
Er, I typoed earlier. There's indeed an extension named Tabbrowser Preferences, but I think Tabbrowser Extensions is better.
Sorry about that!
It's not the same, actually - as soon as update.mozilla.org stops getting hammered so badly, it'll offer to update for you ;)
>>And as I always say, www.avantbrowser.com. To me, more intuitive, versatile, and customizable.<<
Very buggy and crashes a lot. I do, however, like the basic features a little better than Firefox.
Do you have the most recent, ver. 10? Mine's not buggy at all. Now, it used to have a major CPU lockup issue with XP, maybe a year or more ago. But that was resolved.
Oh, and I forgot to mention: FREE POPUP BLOCKER.
Dan
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