9 Responses

1. Daddy Yankee

   18|Jan|2006 1

   Firefox is a truly great browser. The more time pases the more firefox is going to grow in popularity.

2. Web AddiCT

   19|Jan|2006 2

   As a Web Developer the extensions make life alot easier, now you can even FTP from Firefox

   What extensions do you use?

   Nice Read…

3. Ladislav Kocbach

   19|Jan|2006 3

   Indeed, Firefox is a very good browser, in the Mozilla tradition. The “Composer” used by many people in Mozilla(s), has been dropped. It should be mentioned whenever possible, that those who need the “Composer” can have it, now as a stand-alone NVU. For a “Many computer” user, who switches between several offices and several other stationary computers, both Firefox and NVU (on the microsoft platform) are made Portable, i.e. can be caried e.g. in a USB memory stick or on a pocket disk. The site http://portableapps.com/ tells more about this (both Firefox and NVU are made portable).
   In nearly all browser discussions the text browsers are usually not even mentioned. As far as I know, none of them is yet supporting JavaScript, and that might precisely be their great advantage for entering not trusted web areas in the times of WMF-like disasters. A longer article should be written about text browsers. For short, on Linux links (elinks) and lynx come mostly as standards. Their ports (versions) for microsoft platforms seem to work, but are not particularly easy to install. In the LWN great article “Living without desktop” one could perhaps add a section about “Living in text based webuniverse”.
   One last observation: I could have entered this comment from my “links session” to LWN, if it were not for the authentication picture (you are supposed to type what you see on a small image). So much do we make ourselves dependent on the usual browser scenarios! What about people with reduced sight? Well, they might not be able to comment here.

4. Quentin

   19|Jan|2006 4

   Thanks Ladislav,

   Yes, I’m sorry about the need for the ‘enter this code’ picture, but the blogs and other sites that I’ve run without it have been so plagued with spam comments that it’s unavoidable.

   Anybody who has trouble reading them can certainly contact us with their posts; that’s standard for this type of procedure. I’ll try and add a comment to that effect at some point soon!

5. Philip

   24|Jan|2006 5

   I’ve been using Firefox for a while. Although a good browser, the only real plus is tabbed browsing. As soon as IE7 comes along, I’m switching straight back. Why? Because I can’t manage without a decent bookmarks/favourite system. And Firefox’s is useless, as are all the add ins I’ve tried. As my office’s resident computing expert, I’ll be telling everyone else to do the same. Once you’ve used Powermarks you’ll see exactly what I mean. (and no, I have no connection with any software company at all).

6. manuel martins

   28|Jan|2006 6

   Hi Philip.
   respect your options, but let me add a few more items where i think firefox is better than IE:
   1) tag browsing - as you mention - is a leap forward, not a simple advantage.
   2) bookmarks - you can arrange your bookmarks and get a hold on them via apps like the ones described on this webpage, while you are travelling and not using your desktop.And what about a Bookmark Toolbar and a Bookmark manager that both work seamlessly?
   3) Search engines - i use about 25 of them, including a personalized one (rollyo.com) whilst tag browsing, so i won’t be loosing the webpage i am working with.
   4) extensions and themes - they get better by the day, especially when it comes down to visually impaired people.
   Give it a try with the Clusty search engine,featuring tag-browsing, with a go via the clusty extension from mozilla
   and IE is an application from the stone-age of the internet.
   The feeling is that you leap-frog from the stone age into the digital age.
   5) Mail tools, to your e-mail application (try Mozilla Thunderbird and you get a Ferrari instead of a donkey like Outlook Express) and to your on-line e-mail (gmail, for example) boxes via a simple bookmark
   6) Tools/Options
   No comments towards IE. They simply do not exist there. Now have you any security concerns with your office computers? Bet you must have, like we all do. Take a closer look at them, and start to learn what internet security is all about. Personalized, incidentally.
   7) Costs
   If your office uses a Windows Operating System, try and account for your costs of purchasing, usage and working days off-line, plus the costs of updating and keeping it tinely secure. If you work your maths out (and about right), especially if you compare those costs with the Open Office suites and apps, maybe you realize how much money you could have, and still can, save.
   8) advise to other people.
   You are free to advise and to inccurr in any decisions, You are an adult, and adults respect others decisions. But at least base your decisions on a modicum of study and costs control, not just because you entitle yourself with some rather fancy resident expert title. Remember, big, larger than life titles make do for great disasters.

   9) All of the best, especially because we have different ideas.
   manuel martins

7. raindog

   07|Feb|2006 7

   Philip, Powermarks is available for Firefox too.

   (And Mozilla, and Opera…. and even IE.)

   I personally use the Enhanced History Manager extension, because I haven’t found a bookmark sync extension that I’ve liked (all the popular crossplatform ones seem to want to get into “social bookmarking”, and I already use digg.com for that.)

8. Kripesh

   24|Mar|2006 8

   BTW, Firefox 2.0 Alpha version is availabe now.
   Download it from here
   http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/pacifica-mozilla1.8/firefox-2.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe

9. wzeapptnwg

   03|Jul|2007 9

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