[olug] Phoenix

[Jonathan Warren]

I switched to konqueror because of the sorry state of mozilla/netscape/communcator for a while.  A guy I worked with was talking about mozilla so I began using mozilla 1.1 and have found it to be a very good browser.  It is nice to see the opensource work finnally pay off.  I keep up with there beta releases and have not been unhappy with it for the last two months.  Very nice.

-Jon

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:21:08AM -0500, Nick Walter wrote:
> 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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