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How many people use mozilla? It's been a long time since I've tried a netscape type browser, so I decided to give mozilla a chance this evening. So far I'm happy with it. I find it to be faster then IE when loading pages surprisingly. I think every page i visit looks good, and I haven't had any other problems yet.

Anyone else have weird problems with mozilla 1.0 or any opinions on it?
 
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Handruin said:
How many people use mozilla? It's been a long time since I've tried a netscape type browser, so I decided to give mozilla a chance this evening. So far I'm happy with it. I find it to be faster then IE when loading pages surprisingly. I think every page i visit looks good, and I haven't had any other problems yet.

Anyone else have weird problems with mozilla 1.0 or any opinions on it?
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Have you tried Mozilla with any secure sites yet? (various E-retailers, PayPal, etc...)


 
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Have you tried Mozilla with any secure sites yet? (various E-retailers, PayPal, etc...)
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I don't know about Mozilla, but Opera stumbles on online banking sites. Seems like most financial services sites design for IE 5+ first, Netscape 4+ second, and say to heck with everything else.
 
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I agree. However, Mozilla has worked for all except one online banking/financial site that I have tried, even when they claim it won't (usually referring to Netscrape 6).

The only exception was because the idiot web developer was specifically looking for either IE or Netscrape 4, and refused to give me the option of continuing anyway. :x I ended up using N 4.

Whoops, I forgot that the Australian Stock Exchange front page uses drop down menus that won't work with anything except IE5+. But it doesn't stop you accessing all the parts of the site.
 
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I tried Mozilla but wasn't impressed. Ars has a good review on Mozilla vs. MSIE. Basically, there is no compelling reason to use Mozilla besides the fact that it is open source. When dealing with online banking etc. I'd feel more comfortable using MSIE since those site are probably more 'optimized' for the most mainstream browser (although we know M$ has it's problems with security).

Why is this thread in the B&G?

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Mozilla worked on my credit card site no problem and that is 128 bit secure. However on my bank site it was a little funky, the drop down menus didn't show up, they all have the borken image symbol.

I never had a compelling reason to use mozilla, only curiousity caused me to install it. One feature I miss is that I can't click the scroll wheel on my mouse and turbo scroll the page up and down if you know what I mean. In IE I could click and hold the middle wheel button and use my mouse to scroll the page to the bottom of threads, but it doesn't work in mozilla. I did find however if I click a link with the wheel button it opens the link in a new page.

Why is this in the B&G? I'm a moron, it was late and I thought for some reason that BSing about mozilla wasn't computer related. ;) If someone wants to move it, go right ahead, or I can do it when I get home.
 
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There are compelling reasons to use Moz. My favorite is image permissions, but I can go ahead and mention tabbed browsing (and a better implementation of that than opera!), better cookie-handling, control over certain annoying javascript behaviors, a virus-execution-environment-free mail client, better user feedback when loading pages, better bookmark handling, better saved-password handling, and a themable interface that actually works (unlike XP's).
 
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Mercutio said:
There are compelling reasons to use Moz. My favorite is image permissions, but I can go ahead and mention tabbed browsing (and a better implementation of that than opera!), better cookie-handling, control over certain annoying javascript behaviors, a virus-execution-environment-free mail client, better user feedback when loading pages, better bookmark handling, better saved-password handling, and a themable interface that actually works (unlike XP's).
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Please excuse my ignorance, what are image permissions and how are them implemented? Is this an HTML related function that mozilla detects?

I hadn't even seen the tabbed browsing feature...I'll need to play with it some more.

I didn't install the mail client, I'm hoping to switch to web based once squirlmail is setup on the server. I found the themable interface to be rather nice. I switched it from the default to the modern looking theme and it's pleasing to the eye. I haven't looked for other themes yet. I'm going to try using this browser more often and see down the road which one I like better.
 
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If you right-click on an image, there's an option to "Block Images from this Server" so that they'll never show up again. Tabbed browsing is very handy, and if you middle-click on a link, it'll open it up in a new tab.

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Mercutio said:
There are compelling reasons to use Moz. My favorite is image permissions,...
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Very important indeed for someone who's still downloading files from the Net in Morse code (or similar speed connection) :p
 
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I don't see anything wrong with the Mozilla mail client, except that from time to time on Windows machines it overlaps the start bar like it's not supposed to.

OTOH, I'm not exactly a demanding mail user, as long as it'll load my 200MB mail spool without difficulty. I don't bother with an address book or filtering at the client. Most of the time I read mail from elm (text-only client that basically ignores everything more coplicated than ASCII, which is how things should be) on an OpenBSD machine.

... and Coug, at least my network connection hasn't ever been down for days at a time.
 
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Mercutio said:
... and Coug, at least my network connection hasn't ever been down for days at a time.
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Zing!! Ewwww, that was good! :p Sorry Coug!

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I've been using mozilla for about 4 months now and like it much better than IE or Netscape. The tabbed browsing is really handy, and I like the way the sidebar tucks away when you're not using it. I don't buy many things online, so I can't comment on secure sites, but I haven't encountered any problems with internet banking yet. The themes option is good too, I like to be able to customise the appearance of things.

This is the theme that I use, and I think it makes for a nice, neat little browser.


Things I don't like
1. can't drag and drop shortcuts to desktop
2. sorting bookmarks (they don't go where 'ya put 'em?)
3. the address bar. If you type a url into the bar and hit enter, that's where you'll go. If you click the icon at the end of the bar, it does a search using google or netscape or mozilla or whatever. You can't even add your own search engines. :roll:
 
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