[olug] Phoenix

[Nick Walter]

Well, I'd like to tell you that Mozilla is a replacement for IE, but
that isn't quite true.  It's an upgrade.  

I switched to Mozilla a few months ago to check it out, and now it's my
only browser on my Win98 and Red Hat systems.  Pop-up blocking, good
privacy controls, image blocking, it's all there.  And believe me,
tabbed browsing is like a wheel mouse.  When you first see it, it looks
funny.  Two weeks later, you wonder how you ever got along without it.

In terms of functionality, all the plugins and javascript support needed
are available for Mozilla.  Also, Mozilla can generally run any Netscape
6/7 plugins without a hitch, so that expands the available plugin pool
considerably also.

The only downside I've ever seen to Mozilla relates to fonts, especially
in a linux system that doesn't have a good set of fonts installed.  Some
sloppy web page designers target their pages at the set of IE fonts (and
apparently only test with IE) so when Mozilla attempts to render some
pages without those fonts available things look a touch off.  That's a
minor issue and doesn't happen very often though.

If you haven't tried Mozilla yet, I recommend downloading it.

Nick Walter

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 08:59, Joe Catanzaro wrote:
> I'm always in the market for an IE alternative and have been using Opera 
> 6.04 for a while now. I have been very happy with its speed and 
> configuration option. I have been disappointed with its lack of support for 
> some JavaScripts and some ASP pages. Does Mozilla handle these well both on 
> Win32 and RH?
> 
> 
> At 10/25/02 07:09 AM Friday, you wrote:
> >I use the phoenix browser exclusively in Windows (work).  It is Mozilla
> >without the mail, newsgroups, and html editor.  It disables popups by
> >default and tells you when it does it with a little ! in the lower
> >corner.  It has been super stable (better than IE 5.5 was on WinME).
> >That machine also has RH8 on it, which is pretty nice and very easy to
> >install.  2.4 GB install in less than 1 hr 30 min to get an almost
> >fully functioning machine.  Would've been fully functioning but I
> >forgot to add some of the devel packages.  Bluecurve is nice and
> >definitely what is needed on the desktop for the average user.  Good
> >looking and easy to use.  Beautiful icons.  I need to get KDE3
> >installed at home to compare.
> >
> >Eric
> >
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