I found this cool browser. It is exactly like internet explorer, except…it has tabbed pages (if you type in a new url, it doesn’t replace your current page, but opens up in a new tab)
It has pop-up blockers too.
I’ve been using this for almost a month now and love it!
Just like mozilla, but with added security holes!
Hmm…
Phil
I’m using Mozilla Firebird, and it has the option of opening up in tabs as well. If you have a scroll mouse, click on a link with the scroll button and it will open up the link in a new tab. I don’t use the function much. I prefer the old method. Firebird has Pop-up Blocker, too.
I use the middle-click option almost all the time… when reading this very forum I’ll go up the list middle-clicking on all the threads I want to read, so by the time I get to the top most of them have loaded.
Tabs rock. But tabs, mouse gestures, pop-up blocking, bayesian spam filtering and general shininess in combination rock even more.
Phil
It’s too bad Mozilla’s newsreader isn’t as smart as Outlook Express.
My sentiment exactly! It’s BSD Unix and Mozilla all the way for me!
Sounds like I should give it a try??? I have been using Opera http://www.opera.com/ for a good few months now & it has some similar sounding features although it can be a bit sluggish on PCs with insufficient memory in my experience.
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So those of you using Mozilla, which is better? Mozilla 1.6 or Mozilla Firebird .7?
What are the major benefits?
I’ve been using Mozilla more and more lately especially since Microsoft introduced the scrolling bug in November’s critical update patch. It took February 4th for Microsoft to finally in another critical update patch. That scrolling bug was annoying. IE would scroll by 2 or 3 pages instead of 1 page when you clicked on the scroll bar. There were other scrolling issues too. It was annoying enough for me to start using Mozilla more.
I’ve also been playing with Firebird and I’m in the process of moving my POP3 email to either Mozilla or Thunderbird. Mozilla email and Thunderbird still need some more work to make them more convenient. I have them set to not load remote images in mail, which is handy so I don’t accidentally trigger web bugs in spam, but there is no way to over-ride that for an individual email that you know is clean. You should be able to right-click on a message and say “load all images” and be able to see that message in all of its glory including images. What a PITA.
I need to read the help file in Mozilla to learn the shortcuts and features. I’m not making the best use of it right now. Is there a Mozilla for Dummies guide on the net somewhere?
Some web sites don’t render correctly in Mozilla like one of the news pages for a local TV station. The news articles can be unreadable because the text ends up flowing right over the images instead of flowing around the images.
I’m using IE to read this forum. 
I use Firebird almost exclusively, and I only have a few problems with it.
First, some Java applications I can’t get to work with it. No matter how many times I download the plugins, they still don’t work. But it’s not all Java applications. Just some of them. I can watch most Flash animation, play most games, and work with most Java pages no problem. There’s just a few. That’s when I open IE. But it’s so convenient not having to worry about pop-ups with Firebird.
The other problem is very minor. Every once in a while, a page will load where many punctuation marks have been turned into letters. For instance, commas, quotation marks, and colons change into something else. It’s a bit of a bother, but not that bad.
I actually started because there was a point where Internet Explorer wouldn’t load up certain pages, including Unicyclist.com. It kept telling me that it couldn’t find the pages. So I tried going to Download.com to find a new browser, but it wouldn’t let me go to that page either. Finally someone told me about Firebird, and after searching for it (Google was down as well), I ended up with a program that loads every page I need it to, and I haven’t regretted it yet.
Another thing I am curious about, that one of you may be able to answer. Mozilla says that it allows pages to load faster. How is that possible. I have loaded different versions of IE that have made that claim, but I can never tell any difference. Sometimes it seems even slower.
If I do download one of these browsers is there any compatability issues with IE?
I don’t know all the specifics as to why it loads pages faster (probably less cluttered code), but it does seem be faster to me. Probably because I don’t like Mcrosft (I don’t want them to know I’m talking about them. They have spies everywhere).
Another thing I like about Firebird is that it’s a smaller program, but is still fully functional. You can add plug-ins if you want, but they don’t come bundled with the program, so you can pick and choose. There is even a section which tells you how to changeyour source code if you want to personalize it even more!
As for compatibility issues, the only thing I’ve seen are the things I talk about above. And I think that these are probably compatibility issues that Mcrosft created, like with Mcrosft Word and Word Perfect. Word won’t read Word Perfect documents, which has served to almost kill Word Perfect, even though it is a much superior program and doesn’t come with that stupid paper clip!
Unless there’s some special magic I’m not aware of I think “display faster” is talking about the rendering of the page on the screen; on a slower computer a complicated page may appear a few seconds after the page is actually fully downloaded, or may be sluggish to use.
With anything half recent I think any speed differences will be fractions of seconds, so this isn’t an argument I’d use to choose a browser any more.
Phil
Hey,
I got Mozzila yesterday after IE went mad with me! God knows what happened to it, but Mozilla is great! I love it!
I could even say it rocks! Hell Yeah! 
Thats all.
Joe,
After reading this thread for a while, I decided to use the tab method. It is so convenient! I hereby rescind my previous comment and humbly change my opinion. I really like using tabs now.
IE went mad because it knew you were about to see the light, but could do nothing to prevent it.
Mozilla rocks especially hard with:
A nice theme - mozilla out of the box looks a bit pants, but it can look very shiny indeed… 
More bookmark icons: type in “about:config” (no spaces) to the address bar, find “browser.chrome.favicons” and set it to “true”
Even more icons, this time for all the menus
Mouse gestures - Do stuff by just holding a mouse button down and moving it around a bit.
Shininess indeed.
Phil
The front page renders fine. It’s when you start looking at the individual stories that the rendering gets all messed up. Unfortunately, you have to register with the site to be able to read the individual articles.
Yeah, it’s because the web designers are incompetent. But it’s that kind of incompetence that keeps IE around.
I’ve been playing with Mozilla and Fire[bird/fox]. I have not yet gotten comfortable enough with them to make them my primary browser yet. I’m being lazy and using them without reading the help files and other user information so I don’t know a lot of the nice shortcuts that make them nice to use. Once I read up on how to use them I’ll probably start to use Mozilla or Firefox more.
Re: IE + Mozilla = ‘Crazy Browser’
yeah
i’ve been using it for a while and it’s pretty kewl
just one issue
when i’m on the uni site and the window pops-up to tell me that i have a new private message and would i like to open it in a new window, it doesn’t matter what i click, it doesn’t open it in a new window
is there a setting i need to change?
