[olug] Phoenix

[Eric Penne]

The thing I have now with Mozilla that I wonder how I got along without
before is TABBED BROWSING.  So nice to work with.  Less clutter on the
Win or KDE tray.


--- Jonathan Warren <thechunk at cox.net> wrote:
> 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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