This is a comparison of two beta products; things are going to change before either organization suggests the general public try them out. Hopefully some of the problems/quirks will get worked out in the process.
Round 1: Tabbed Browsing
The one feature that got me hooked on Mozilla-then-Phoenix-then-Firebird-then-Firefox (they had some naming issues) was tabbed browsing. For the last few people who haven’t already found out for themselves, tabs are a simple concept that help to keep life (or at least your web pages) organized. For the unfamiliar, tabs essentially let you open more than one webpage in a single browser window and flip back and forth between the various pages using tabs at the top of the browser. For anyone that has more than a few pages up at once this is a very handy feature.
On the topic of tabs, Microsoft has finally done the intelligent thing and copied the Mozilla/Firefox behavior and look (this has been a very effective strategy for Bill and compatriots over the years).
Internet Explorer with tabs? Si, and it isn’t a hack! Snazzy site, no?
The new beta of Firefox adds a slick feature to its tabbed experience. You can now reorder tabs by dragging them around. IE7 doesn’t support this, though they may very well by the time it hits release quality.
Round 2: Look & Feel
IE7 has gotten the more dramatic change in this department, but other than things being moved around it still isn’t anything to write home about. The button icons are a little different and there is a new IE icon. If you are comfortable with how IE6 feels and works, then the final version of IE7 should make you feel right at home.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1
For version 1.5 the Firefox team hasn’t made any made any changes to the way the browsers looks or works. It still looks fine and feels great.
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Thumbs way up for Firefox!!! Tabbed browsing saved my computer from freezing. Instead of loading many different Internet Explorer windows, and it killing my RAM, I just load up one Firefox Window and it is just amazing! My toolbar is a lot more organized too! It was a real bother to have to click through all the Internet Explorer buttons to find the one article I needed at the moment.
I love the extensions that come with Firefox.
I would post more about the beauty of Firefox, but I have to work on a huge english paper due tomorrow. Wish me many blessings on my paper! :-)
Ok, i sufered a HD TOTAL FAILIURE.. so i downloaded firefoz again.... I had to get all the
extensions i got before, to accomodate my neccesities... One of the things a managed to do before,
was putting the "tabs" on the lower part of the window.. The thing is.. i can't rember how i
did it!!!! And now i can't!!! If any one knows how to do it, i'ld really aprecciated..
Thanks!!!...
Hi all, Does anyone know where I can get hold of performance stats on how long Firefox take to open
really large websites (like > 500k of xhtml). I have done some initial tests with a page of around
1MB and found that Firefox just stops for about 5mins while it gets over the shock. I could go
though and test a lot more combinations, but I hoping to find some performance tests that show the
point where Firefox starts to degrade. Cheers, Hoopa...
Is there any way i could add another bookmark toolbar on my firefox browser??i already googled it
and didn't find the answer...i found how to add toolbar but i can only add icons in it and i
cant put bookmark toolbar in it? does anyone know how to do it?answer would be appreciated !...
There are many people fighting over which one is best. So, I think it is best if we clear this idea
up once and for all, lol. Use the poll at top to decided which one is best. Oh and in my
opinion... . GO FIREFOX!!! /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0"
alt="tongue.gif" />...
This has been posted at the MozillaZine Forums by me, but I think that people here will have
different responses as well and I want to see different opinions:
QUOTE("http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=593161") I want to burn a CD with Firefox on
it, but a special version of Firefox. 1. It will only display the HTML files on the CD, and it
shouldn't connect to the Internet. 2. Extensions shouldn't be able to be added, I want to
add the extensions that I want then burn the thing onto CD. 3. Title bar needs to be changed to
something like "Mozilla...
The latest Firefox browser, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6)
Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6, has lots of problems. I find that it does not work well with .asp
pages, crashes often when browsing .jsp pages and when it crashes it deletes your page history.
These are just a few of my huge list of problems. I would use Safari, but it is not very secure.
What is a Mac boy to do?...
Close Tab ctrl+f4 complete .com address ctrl+enter complete.net address ctrl+enter complete .org
address ctrl+shift+enter open the url in a new tab alt+enter increase or decrease text size ctrl +/-
or ctrl+scrollupordown ctrl+tab scroll thru tabs Ctrl+n (where n is a number) Go to the nth tab
U can also use firefox quick search keyword option for easy seraching to get a result from google
all u wouyld need is to type g searchword go to bookmarks click on manage bookmarks and add new
bookmark name the bookmark whatever u want in the location box type the url that u ...
Hi all, I have observed that there's a lot of difference in the rendering of firefox and IE.
The websites designed for IE that involve some sort of DHTM menus or some javascript codes don't
open smoothly in Firefox. I don't kbnow the reason. I have searched google a lot of times but no
clue about what and where does the difference lies in th e rendering engines of Firefox and IE. Does
any one has some information about that?? Thanx in advance. Regards....
I love this Firefox feature. It allows the screen to scroll very smoothly as opposed to jerkily. To
enable it: Go to "about:config" in Firefox (address bar). In the filter box, enter:
general.smoothScroll Double click on the option below the filter box. Restart Firefox and you will
now be scrolling smoothly all over the web! /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D"
border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />...
I seem to be having problems with firefox. I try to open firefox, and XP gives me the default
"firefox has encoutered an error and must be shut down..." Anyway, I tried installing the new
version, and It doesn't make a difference. I uninstalled, and reinstalled it, but it still does
it....
Hi, I just recently downloaded and began using Mozilla's Firefox 1.6 as my web browser, but for
some reason, whenever I try to go to a site that uses a Flash plugin, Mozilla refuses to let me
download the plugin. I mean, it tries, but it never works. Does anyone else have the same problem
with Mozilla or have heard of this happening? its not that big of a deal, because I can still use
Internet Explorer, but Mozilla is just much safer in general, so I'd rather use that. Any
advice, answers or ideas would be very welcome. thanks in advance....
Hi guys, I just stumbled upon this cool tool called StumbleUpon - http://www.stumbleupon.com .
You simply sign-up with them and download their toolbar. They got it for almost all the major
browsers on Win/Lin/Mac platforms. This adds a new toolbar to your browser with a couple of icons
like Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, A page Review editor, Your own Reviews Bookmark, Chat etc...very small
and compact download for Firefox - only 85K. When you browse to any site, you just click on the
thumbs up/down icons to give your rating to a site. If you happen to be the first perso...
Everytime i open my email address with mozilla at hotmail, i get this popup trying to make me
download some dll file? does anyone know what this is and how it can be stopped, because i hit
cancel and it opens up and if i click say another link like compose, the popup comes back again,a nd
its real annoying, pls, any help is appretiated...
there was a useful post pointing vulneribility to the older version of firefox to phising, so i
downloaded the latest one, and it just dont do nothing, (well it loads), cant get on the web and
stuff. I am guess it is not just me?? i tried looking at the help page and a load on nonsense about
stuff and no answers, has anyone had the same problem? chris thank goodness for IE, it never lets
you down or loses your favourites or stops working, just lets a few pop ups in occasionally!...
I love firefox also, but I'm looking for a barebones browser that just basically has an address
bar and favorites. I tend to lean towards simple programs, such as Media Player Classic (
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ackage_id=84358 ) which is a tiny little program that
can play almost any media type (music mp3s, ogg, wmv, etc...video's like .mov, .avi, divX
encoded, etc....images like jpgs, gifs, etc...). MPC is a "barebones" program so to speak - there
is nothing fancy about it at all, but it is a simple program that is extremely versatile. A...
I've noticed how much Mozilla Firefox looks really like Internet Explorer. It seems that the
only thing they did was change the buttons, add RSS, and tabs. What's going on here? Even when
you right click, it looks the same as in IE. What do you know about this? Is this built off of IE
or something? How is that legal?...
This is about a new flaw in Internet Explorer and how it renders one of the most common image
formats in the web, the "JPEG". The code that enables a hacker to exploit this flaw is out to the
public and therefore in a matter of a couple of weeks, we'll be expecting a new virus that uses
this exploit. The GDIplus DLL (Graphic Device Interface plus) or gdiplus.dll is only enabled in
Windows 2000 & XP. So if you're running on an older version of Windows and if you've
upgraded to XP SP2, then you're not vulnerable to this exploit. Read more about it here ...
