Hello All I have been quite content using "firebird" and am ready to put together a new system. I have read some complaints on the recent release from mozilla (aka firefox). Any special reasons to go to or avoid firefox -- other than it is the newest (which really is not amopng my motivations) ? Thanks ===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/
Stephen W wrote:
Hello All
I have been quite content using "firebird" and am ready to put together a new system. I have read some complaints on the recent release from mozilla (aka firefox). Any special reasons to go to or avoid firefox -- other than it is the newest (which really is not amopng my motivations) ?
Thanks
===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs
The extension API changed for Firefox and for 0.9 release and the new nightlies after the first of May,so some of the old extensions might not work corectly,other than that i dont any serious reason not to update your old version,but if you do so,might be better if you take an April release or just the first nightly release of the May,is this what i use also and i dont have any single problem.In anycase you can always wait for the new 0.9 release,it wont take long,maybe less than 2 weeks or so. The only thing you have to know is that extensions must repacked-rewritten,and maybe some of the authors might not be ready for that. Quote Ben Goodger-Leader of the firefox team. *"The goals of these changes are to make it more difficult for extensions to do things they shouldn't be, while making packaging and installing extensions easier."*
Stephen W wrote:
Hello All
I have been quite content using "firebird" and am ready to put together a new system. I have read some complaints on the recent release from mozilla (aka firefox). Any special reasons to go to or avoid firefox -- other than it is the newest (which really is not amopng my motivations) ?
Thanks
'Firebird' has not been known under this name for quite some time - it is now known as 'Firefox'. And Mozilla is not 'aka firefox' but IS Mozilla. Mozilla is a suite consisting of a browser and a mail client. At some point in time last year (I think), there was a "branching", for want of a better word, of Mozilla into (what is now called) Firefox, the browser, and (now called) Thunderbird, the mail client. The thought at that time was that Mozilla had a limited life span and would be replaced by Firefox and Thunderbird. I don't recall which 1.x release of Mozilla is supposed to be its last version (it's up to 1.7RC1 I think). I've been using both Firefox and Thundebird since they first appeared (in their basic, crude forms) and, apart form minor glitches, they have been OK. I update both on a nightly basis, BTW. However, in the past several days both (nightly builds) Firefox and Thnderbird have developed more than small glitches. For example, tonight's Thunderbird I had to wipe and re-install yesterday's (but it has a minor bug which I know about and can handle). Re Firefox I suggest the following- download the ....gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz file and install this. The standard ...gtk2+xft.tar.gz version just doesn't work as well as the full installer version. In other words, fully installing is safer to use. Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.
Basil Chupin wrote:
Mozilla is a suite consisting of a browser and a mail client.
mail including news, and a web page editor, and an IRC client, and an optional calendar -- "Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity." Colossians 4:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Felix Miata wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Mozilla is a suite consisting of a browser and a mail client.
mail including news, and a web page editor, and an IRC client, and an optional calendar
Yes, you are correct :-). I'll use "including" instead of "consisting" next time. Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.
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