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Adam
"FireBird" sounds appealing and powerful, yet, without proper image, it gets watered down.
Can't access the site.
I like FireFox better than FireBird. Firebird makes me think of a crappy old Pontiac sports car.
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Firefox makes me think of the crappy Clint Eastwood movie
Yup. Do we now have to "think in Russian" to use it? :)
Yup. Do we now have to "think in Russian" to use it? :)
Yes, and you have to browse at the North Pole.
Sorry for the spam. Anyway, I hope they fixed the crappy Firebird Password Manager which didn't work nearly as well as the Mozilla one (only signed me in to about 75% of the sites that Mozilla or IE would).
Tom
Won't this confuse people?Yes, but if the WWF can pull it off, so can we. Besides, in six months you'll forget there ever was any other name.
But I hate the new name. It's stupid.
Our editors are trying to figure out whether this is a question.
Anyway, it sounds like they had sufficient (read: legal and political, rather than sensible) reason to change. See the FAQ
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I use it on Windows, it really is indispensable for browsing - makes the internet a friendlier place.
Tom
Too cute, a firefox:
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Better security, pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing are all good. The new download and bookmark managers are also nice.
The thing that clinches it for my folks, though, is the ability to change text size. CTRL+ and CTRL- increase and decrease text size regardless of CSS instructions for fixed font sizes. It sometimes looks ugly and breaks the layout, but at least they can read it.
Once that obstacle is overcome though, it's a big step forward. Noticeably faster (firebird already wasn't slow), and a wonderfully practical tool to get the job done.
Does not work in firefox and I hate that. Anyone knows a workaround?
Otherwise it does look nice and speedy, yes.
I have a habit of typing search words into location bar in mozilla, then hitting "tab", "enter" to search for them in google. That is "Ctrl+L", keywords, "tab", "enter".
"Ctrl+l", "tab", keywords, "enter" works for me. Do you have the google search item on your navigation toolbar?
Adam
Does not work in firefox and I hate that. Anyone knows a workaround?
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Yes, firebird has had that for a while, hit cntrl + k and it puts you in its google search bar, type in your search, hit enter, there you are.
Well, I tried it for about 20 minutes then dumped it. Everything looked awful. Images looked bad, poor CSS support at major websites, ugly looking interface. Too many negatives for me to enjoy the afore mentioned amenities.
Images looked bad, poor CSS support at major websites
Hmm, I just used it to check out the CSS Zen Garden and ESPN.com - the CSS and the images looked fine. What sites are you having problems with?
Jennifer
Everything looked awful. Images looked bad, poor CSS support at major websites, ugly looking interface.
There's no way images will look any different, unless it was installed badly, or something is wrong with the internet cache, etc.
As for "poor CSS support" I've never had a problem with the Gecko engine (that Firefox and Mozilla use) at any major websites. It's a simple fact that Gecko has superior CSS support than IE, so it's the web that needs to catch up. Any designer worth employing should be coding well enough that their code has no problems in any major browser. The only problems tend to occur when IE-specific Javascript is used.
I've used Mozilla for over a year myself and found it more than capable. Sure, some sites don't like it, but they tend to be amateur ones (probably made in FrontPage) rather than any major sites, which can't afford to let their sites look bad.
Can you give examples of the sites that had "poor CSS support"?
You sure this wasn't IE6 you installed? ;)
But seriously, your criticisms don't seem to reflect reality -
Images looked bad - as Hester said this isn't really possible
Poor CSS support at major websites - I've been using firebird as my default browser for more than 6 months and I have yet to come across a single site that did not display CSS correctly. If you're talking about sites (badly) coded specifically for IE bugs then I guess that is a different issue, although I've found this to be extremely rare.
>>ugly looking interface
Again this is a strange comment. If you're comparing it to IE, the differences are barely noticeable (and easy to change)
If you don't like/don't want to use Firebird then that's entirely up to you. It would be nice if your criticsms were rather more constructive however.
In any case, thumbs up from me for Firebird. The only real problems I've found are with javascripts on some sites that have only been tested in IE. I've yet to recommend this browser to anyone who was disappointed with it.
That's hardly limited CSS support, it's just following the damn spec...
Of course you are all correct, how silly of me not to like it.
In Firefox, I noticed that for toolbars-->Bookmarks Toolbars, FireBIRD is still listed, not FireFOX. Is that there for everyone or is it there because I never uninstalled Firebird?
Jennifer
They all say Firefox on mine.
