Mozilla 1.5, Firebird 0.7, and Thunderbird 0.3 is out!

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Check out the offical Mozilla site at

http://www.mozilla.org.

I also have mirrors on my site at

http://www.koldark.net/archives/000126.html

iSeriesCodePoet
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[clarkin]

I heartily endorse this product and/or service.
Using Firebird 0.7 as default now.

Couple of w3.org pages to show you how badly IE is dropping the ball:

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/inline-alpha.html

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html

Try on IE & one of the above to see the difference

add in no ad popups and we have a winner

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[bcastner]

clarkin,

I see both test pages perfectly with IE.

 

[bcastner]

Okay, tried it, and can see the difference.

 

[polymath5]

The

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html

looks better in Opera than Firebird.

In Opera I see a menu across the tope of the page to other areas of the site. In IE and Firebird & Mozilla, I don't.

Interesting.

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[clarkin]

Yeah, position:fixed (as seen in the Style/Examples link) is pretty useful. Imagine a world where you no longer need to suffer frames

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[clarkin]

Been using Firebird as my default browser for the last two ish weeks.

I won't be going back to IE 6

More useful features:
- try middle-clicking on an interesting link in the middle of an article you are reading. Nice.
- extensions (user-made bits & bobs) are VERY easy to install/remove. Currently using one to spoof my UA string when needed (eg, your internet banking site claims IE is required while actually pretending you are using IE is enough X-P)

Some other improvements that are just direct side effects of not using IE anymore:
- signing into hotmail doesn't pause the PC for 5 seconds while the MS Messenger client is loaded into the system tray


Will post more if I think of em.. what about u folks?




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[iSeriesCodePoet]

Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, and stability. I love it.

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[clarkin]

Not to mention all the nasty browser hijacking stuff that comes up in this forum seems to be IE only.

Then again, the type of people who are using Firebird/Mozilla probably don't get their IE hijacked either..

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[philote]

Another link where IE shows how it's lacking:

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html

I can't live w/o my Moz. I've been using it since before the 1.0 release.

Now if we could only get more web developers to make their #@%!ing sites work in something other than IE.

Kevin
A+, Network+, MCP