Mozilla - which version?

which version of mozilla should I get?

[webgirl]

Hi,

If I was to download a version of Mozilla, which one should I download? I've never had a verson on my computer before but the more I read here I'd like to have a copy (I usually test on IE, NS & Opera).......I've found a browser archive site and it's got about 15 versions! Any favourites/most stable etc?

Cheers for your help,

[Reflection]

1.4 is the latest non-beta version so go with that one.

[mat_bastian]

I like firebird .6 which I guess is mozilla lite

[photon]

I just downloaded Firebird in the last week. I hadn't had much experience with Mozilla before this, so I can't tell you how much difference there is between Firebird and other flavors of Mozilla. I just know that I like it much better than the plain vanilla Mozilla I had before, and it may replace Opera as my default browser. There are some pretty good add-ons for it, including one that I think is amazingly cool: pie menus.

You can find out more here in msg #27:
[webmasterworld.com ]

[Reflection]

Mozilla has a lot of tools that really help in web development(Javascript console, DOM inspector etc.) and I assume firebird is stripped down and lacks these?

[wkitty42]

yes, firebird is very stripped down... it doesn't even have any type of installer so you have to create your own links and shortcuts to it...

[john316]

I'm very impressed with firebird.

[MonkeeSage]

Ps. Just a general FYI, both Mozilla and MozillaFirebird both use the exact same rendering engine (Gecko)--so if you are only installing for design / testing purposes, either one will suffice.

Jordan

[wkitty42]

MonkeySage wrote:

Well, kind of...

[downloads.mozdev.org...] (latest release)
[downloads.mozdev.org...] (nightlies)

interesting... i went to mozilla.org and on the left was a download link that just got me the MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-win32.zip file... hummm... wonder why they don't link it to the installer version?

[MonkeeSage]

wkitty42:

It's a MozDev project, not directly affiliated with the Mozilla Group. I didn't post the info URL 'cause I didn't want to violate the the terms, but I guess the situation warrents it--I don't want anyone thinking I'm linking to virus infested files or anything (you can never be too cautious after all).

[seb.mozdev.org...]

Jordan

[john316]

I recommended firebird to two people this week who couldn't get the popups/scumware/spyware to stop on IE, I used to recommend the adaware/spybot routine, but found it much easier to just replace the browser instead of fixing it.

Both were very happy.

[drbrain]

The links above are not updated every day.

Zipped nightlies are here:

[ftp.mozilla.org...]

Archives of past nightlies are here:

[ftp.mozilla.org...]