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I really hope I'm posting this question to the right NG here. Basically,
I'm trying to find out the functional difference(s) between Mozilla (the
browser portion) and Firebird. Why would I want to use Firebird instead of
Mozilla?

Any help is appreciated.

--Mark

In article <iflcrralpg09$.24rvx5xqk3ts$.>,
says...
> I really hope I'm posting this question to the right NG here. Basically,
> I'm trying to find out the functional difference(s) between Mozilla (the
> browser portion) and Firebird. Why would I want to use Firebird instead of
> Mozilla?
>
MozillaFirebird is cuter, smaller, faster, better.
Also shinier, better smelling and just plain nice!

I should know, I use both.
Actually, I rarely use mozilla (proper), since firebird
does all I want, except I miss the composer.
I especially like many of the available extensions for
firebird: I couldn't live without adblock, nuke-image,
and flash-click-to-view. Great stuff.

Gunther

Gunther wrote:
>
> MozillaFirebird is cuter, smaller, faster, better.
> Also shinier, better smelling and just plain nice!

I'd disagree. Firebird is a major PITA.

> I especially like many of the available extensions for
> firebird: I couldn't live without adblock, nuke-image,
> and flash-click-to-view. Great stuff.
>

Hem. I've wondered what the point of adblock is. The ads still
download and display, then they disappear and ruin the page's aesthetics
in the process.

In article <wSy2b.633$>,
says...
> Hem. I've wondered what the point of adblock is. The ads still
> download and display, then they disappear
THIS >>-------------------->>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
is the point.

> and ruin the page's aesthetics
> in the process.


The kinds of ads I'm talking about appear on
web pages where aesthetics play a very minor rôle.
I particularly hate any that move/blink/thrust
or otherwise distract my eye.

G

Keith Bowes wrote:

> Gunther wrote:
>
>>
>> MozillaFirebird is cuter, smaller, faster, better.
>> Also shinier, better smelling and just plain nice!
>
>
> I'd disagree. Firebird is a major PITA.
To each his own, its my default browser.
>
>> I especially like many of the available extensions for
>> firebird: I couldn't live without adblock, nuke-image,
>> and flash-click-to-view. Great stuff.
>
>
> Hem. I've wondered what the point of adblock is. The ads still
> download and display, then they disappear and ruin the page's aesthetics
> in the process.

I've never used adblock. I do use Flash click to view, to get rid of the
annying flash ads jumping around, and I wouldn't be without it. I also
set animated gifs to loop only once, which is enough to let me know a
gif is animted, and the it stops bothering me.

I'm curious, you call FB a PITA, but give no specifics as to why. Its a
little hard to discuss a problem if you don't let us know what it is.

Lee

I became curious as a result of this post an downloaded Firebird and
installed it. It works fine so far, however I detected trouble with the
print function. Firebird would not allow me to print certain pages.
That a known bug?
d.


"Mark" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I really hope I'm posting this question to the right NG here. Basically,
> I'm trying to find out the functional difference(s) between Mozilla (the
> browser portion) and Firebird. Why would I want to use Firebird instead
of
> Mozilla?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> --Mark