no, this isn't interesting.
4 years after va linux going to what. $200 a share... nothing happended. No body in the desktop world really uses linux. Corel Linux is gone. Last time i checked Red Hat Linux Pro is $100.
there is no RAD tools in Linux. Kylix hasn't been pursuasive and frankly no body really develops under it. firefox is okay but the Browser was is over. The paradigm over browser has been shifted to distributed networking applications.
There isn't really that much you can do with the browser right now. Having a tabs, themes, and few others really ins't evolution. they are just gold plating and illusion of having done something that's not signiicant.
Until, Next Windows OS, we all just have to wait. Even then, there really wouldn't be any "new" technology that will enhance browser greatly.
by the way, Firefox doesn't not effectively block pop ups. Just go to drudgereport.com. you will get popups.
Only with Internet Explorer, you can blocked all popups.
Wrong. You can get Mephis Linux for $25 and the rest of the software you can download for free from Debian repositories all over the web. Today Linux is better than Windows and you don't have to worry about spyware, worms, and viruses. And best of all, its super-stable. No more "blue screen of death."
Don't lie to people. I use Firefox. Drudge is my home page. Every time I go there, it says "Firefox has blocked a popup." And I don't get any popups.
It's blocking them for me at drudgereport.com.
you can't cause plain with nothing to something.
OpenOffice + Firefox = nothing.
people who doesn't pay for the software will not pay for the software, period. they are still using Office 97 and Windows 98. But that's fine because that's all they need.
but OpenOffice + Firefox ?= Office XP + IE? not even close. Linux packages do not do what Office XP+IE can do. Not even close. IT world doesn't evolve around typing some memos and browser internet on google. Else, everybody be using Microsoft Works.
You can do so much with Office XP+IE, OpenOffice+Firefox is a joke. Office OCX/OLE automation with IE, SharePoint,InfoPath, ect... GreatPlains, ect.. I can go on and on.
Most today's browser applications are built around OCX/IE technologies, just simply switching to Firefox is irresponsible and downright idiotic. VS.NET application does not display properly in firefox, no grid layout.
Firefox is either behind on CSS or downright can't do the CSS that's implemented by Microsoft. When Microsoft had problem with WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and Harvard Graphics, Microsoft made sure that all Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and Harvard Graphics users can do everything they did in WordPerfect in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. What does firefox do? They do the opposite.
Duck, Microsoft: Mozzila is coming to Retail Store (Linux Offering OpenOffice & Mozilla together) 2001?
Fedora ( Redhat is a free download!)
"There isn't really that much you can do with the browser right now. Having a tabs, themes, and few others really ins't evolution. they are just gold plating and illusion of having done something that's not signiicant."
I guess if you don't think that drastically increasing efficiency and managability is really an important trait in your software, then you could say tabbed browsing isn't a significant advancement.
Until, Next Windows OS, we all just have to wait. Even then, there really wouldn't be any "new" technology that will enhance browser greatly.
Now you are just being genuinely silly.
"by the way, Firefox doesn't not effectively block pop ups. Just go to drudgereport.com. you will get popups. "
I just went to drudge and got the usual banner I get when it blocks popups: "Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window. Click here for options..."
What are you talking about?
Only with Internet Explorer, you can blocked all popups.
Haha, I'm glad they are finally beginning to catch up with opensource.
Google blocks the Drudge popups.
IMO, Netscape 7.2 is a superior product...fast and utilitarian, it blocks all popups.
by the way, Firefox doesn't not effectively block pop ups. Just go to drudgereport.com. you will get popups>>
pure horsesh!t. I am in Mozilla right now, drudge is my first hit of the day. NEVER any popups.
"Corel Linux is gone"
Actually Corel Linux is now known as Xandros. Great program, comes with a built in utility that makes programs load as easily as Windows, and lets you use windows programs.
Nope. Firefox not only blocks pop-ups in 99.9% of the instances that a pop-up is attempted (I have actually had TWO pop-ups since I switched to Firefox), it saves you from dozens ofinstances of spyware per internet surfing session. A friend and I did an experement about 3 mos ago where we took two systems, installed a fresh version of Windows XP (Scv Pk 1) and installed no programs on either, except for Firefox. We then launched IE on one system, and Firefox on the other, and started surfing. We went to exactly the same sites, and spent as close to the same amount of time on each site as we could. Our next move was to install Lavasoft AdAware, and Spybot. After running both programs, AdAware found 8 tracking cookies on the Firefox system (easily removed), but the IE machine was laden with over 38 instances of Spyware, as well as TWICE the number of tracking cookies that Firefox picked up. IE sucks, and won't be launched on any system I own ever again, except for the occasional ActiveX app that I MUST run. I removed all references of IE on all the workstations on my work network, as well as my three systems at home.
I switched to Firefox about two months ago.. nary a popup since.
Is that you, Bush2000?
How about not being broken at its core, not being the main conduit for spyware because of the architecture, and properly rendering CSS? The problem is that most people think the mediocrity that is Internet Explorer is state-of-the-art in Web browsing.
Just did it. What popups? BTW, does Drudge have ads too? I didn't see any (thanks, AdBlock!).
Firefox blocks popups just fine. go to 'tools-options-webfeatures' and check off 'block popup windows'.