Firefox 0.9 Released

UO Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 524 Location: Atlanta

Man, I just finished the download (god bless 3mb cable) and so I'm gonna check it out. Let us know what you think in the comments section Wink

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:21 am

i just got 0.8.. Razz

well i hope that bug is fixed that it leaves out a few characters when you downlaod some files.. that sucks..
/me goes to download

Guest

i have to say mozilla is by far the best browser out there, IE doesnt even coem close

you have to be stupid not to download

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 5:17 am

im running it right now (0.9) but i dont see much differens, a few things, but nuthign major.

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

I've been using Mozilla now for quite a while. Switched from Opera, which I switched from Netscrape. Never liked IE all that much.

Anyway, I had downloaded Firefox a long time back, but never loaded it for some reason. I think I may have to do that. Mozilla has been very good to me, but from what I hear, firefox is lighter, faster, stronger. (We have the technology, we can rebuild him.)

I encourage all out there to check out either Mozilla or Firefox and check out the extended features like mouse gestures and tabbed browsing.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:51 pm

the mouse gestures is not nessesary i say, i never tryed em, but i dont think i need em, go on, try to convince me if you like.
and whats the deal with that tabbed browsing, whats the advantage?
if its room on your toolbar, my toolbar is sideways on the left hand side of my screen, so i got plenty of room, my windows media player 9 is in there (the toolbar version) and i got loadsa quick launch stuff, and tons of open programs, and it never filled up.. well now im lying, it did once.. no twice.. once i got a popup attack, and once.. well it involves.. lets say.. no i cant say it here, 'people' will get mad, but lets say 18+ stuff...

no damnit, not horror movies!

anyway, i think 0.9 is better, but 0.8 works fine to.

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:56 pm

Some people actually enjoy having a clean looking taskbar, so yeah, tabbed browsing helps there, especially when I've got on average about 10 tabs open.

As for mouse gestures, I don't use the typical gestures, but mouse rockers I cannot live without anymore.

Hold down the right button, click the left, go back, and vice-versa to go forward. No need for some mouse which has buttons for everything, and much more comfortable than clicking a back button in either the main screen or the context menu.

It's a personal preference, but that's the power of FireFox, the ability to surf how you want to. I could go on all day listing the features I like out of FireFox, but that would mean very little to most people, as that's not the way they want to surf. But again, that's FireFox's power, the ability to surf the web how you want to, not how some company tells you.

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

Yeah, the Mouse Rockers rock! I dont' even know any of the other ones.

I dont' use a bar on the left, I like to have every posible inch of browser for displaying images.. uh, I mean webpages....

The tabbed interface is also something I like as I can easily see all loaded pages right in the brower window without cluttering the taskbar.

Back to Rockers... Just hold right mouse down and press the left button. Try it. See how easy it is? That goes back one page. Do the reverse and go forward a page.

In Opera, you can hold the right button down and just click the left numerous times to go back several pages. In Mozilla I have to let go of the right button each time, but it's still nice. You get used to it real easy. no more moving the mouse up to the button on top or right-clicking and hunt for the back option.

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:53 pm

yes, i got a logitech mouse that has like 8 buttons, so i got my forward and reverse buttons on there to, and i got em on my keyboard.. Confused

but the going back and forward diddent work, i guess i need to instal em first..
and yes, i have my desktop set up for large wallpapers and images, i dont even have desktop icons, ccouse they block my field on my wallpaper. and my taskbar is small and on the left, i had it that it slided in the side, so it was completly gone, but after a year i dropped that, it wasnt good for photoshopping etc.
that way when my taskbar disapeared, youd just see my desktop and it just had the wallpaper on it, so it was like one big picture or screensaver or full screen spplication.

Crazed Fan Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 268 Location: RC MI

I'm not sure about firefox, but Mozilla's mouse gestures have to be downloaded separately. After a reboot, the back and forth browsing should be on by default.