Mozilla Gains Popularity over Inernet Explorer and Outlook

Monday, November 17, 2003 by ScoobyWRX STi 04 | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Mozilla has recently been taking over the Internet scene with its producs, Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird, both gaining in popularity. More and more users have been finding that their easy to use interfaces, and advanced features such as Tab-Browsing to get rid of having multiple IE windows open at a time (My personal favorite), and a flawless pop up remover. There are many themes, plugins, and extensions available for these programs. I suggest you head over to www.Mozilla.com and check them out for yourself.

You can read why you should switch to these programs:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/why/ For Firebird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/ Also for Firebird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ for Thunderbird

You can also read some great online articles from Joel and also Jon Udell
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20030601.html Joel
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/06/02.html Jon Udell

There are many other programs that Mozilla has to offer, I have begun to switch over to them and have never looked back! I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
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BtEO
Reply #21 Monday, November 17, 2003 10:25 PM
I dunno why people complain about the interface in opera. It's so simple to customize everything. and the myopera community has some damn fine skins there

kthxbye
Reply #22 Monday, November 17, 2003 11:20 PM
Something about the overall 'feel' of Opera always had me running away from it after about 10-15 minutes of using it. I can't quite explain it. Firebird, however, is sheer browsing bliss (especially when you turn on pipelining (well it helps w/servers that support it,) and disable the default delay before rendering a page.

Firebird's all of the good of Mozilla, without the general crappiness (bloaty crashiness,) of it.

BtEO
Reply #23 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:21 AM
eh... I found firebird to be too light.. but as a proof of concept one of the opera dev team came up with this
http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/huginmunin.html

ScoobyWRX STi 04
Reply #24 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:34 AM
how do u turn on pipelining, and disable the delay rendering?

Spire
Reply #25 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:11 AM
Firebird is amazingly stable and robust for a 0.7ver release.

I have been using it for about 2 months and have no reason to return to IE.

newbie boy123
Reply #26 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:35 AM
hey... what SKIN is that in the picture ?... could someone tell me cuz it looks cool

XX
Reply #27 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:17 AM
It works well, but how do I fix ultra-choppy side-scrolls and slightly choppy up/down scroll?

ScoobyWRX STi 04
Reply #28 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:38 AM
They have a plugin for that, go to tools, options, extensions, get extensions and i think one is called smooth scroll... and my theme is stylexp eclipseosx.

theatricallotus
Reply #29 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:05 AM
ok, so....what is the difference between Mozilla Firebird, and Mozilla Thunderbird??? Same functions as IE? ( I gather means Internet Explorer?)

ScoobyWRX STi 04
Reply #30 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:56 AM
Firebird replaces the need for Internet Explorer (webbrowsing(, Thunderbird replaces the need for Microsoft Outlook Expresss (email)

Orion
Reply #31 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:45 AM
" hey... what SKIN is that in the picture ?... could someone tell me cuz it looks cool "

That's the default "Mozilla Firebird" skin. Most of the skinning you see is WindowsBlinds with some Aqua type skin.

ScoobyWRX STi 04
Reply #32 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:54 PM
Ya the Aqua type skin is EclipseOSX, by style xp, www.tgtsoft.com you can dl it there, Firebird and Thunderbird take that skin perfectly...

ImStein
Reply #33 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:05 PM
I've been using Firebird for about 3 or 4 months now, and absolutely love it!! For me the best part is that I don't have those annoying popups anymore. I find that the pages do load faster,and I love it that I don't have to find browser themes to match my currant WB theme. This is by far a much better browser than IE ever thought to be. I give it more than 2 thumbs up!!

digital_trucker
Reply #34 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:17 PM
What 'bloated crashiness' in Mozilla? I'm using v1.5 and have absolutely no problems with it whatsoever. The only thing I can't use it for is Windows Update. I've tried Firebird and Thunderbird, and while they both work well they don't have that 'polished' feel that Mozilla has.

craeonics
Reply #35 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:25 PM
The only bloat is Firebird's memory foot print, but as far as I know Mozilla is till to undergo performance optimisations (they want to fix the bugs before they start tweaking) and Firebird still has lots of unused theme bits ad pieces leftover from Mozilla.

Anyhow, been running Mozilla and its offspring for years now, so I am completely biased in favour of it.

ScoobyWRX STi 04
Reply #36 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:59 PM
Whats the difference between Mozilla, and Firebird broweser?

John Price
Reply #37 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:15 PM
I have been a fan of Mozilla and Firebird for some time. Tried Opera. Didn't like ads and why pay for it. Mozilla 1.4 is the same as Netsacpe 7.1. 1.5 is only slightly different. The difference between Mozilla 1.4 or 1.5 and Firebird is that Mozilla has the mail client built in and the options setting menus are more modern with icons in Firebird. I don't know about the internals. Not to worry about the not builtin mail client. Thunderbird is the mail client and is a separate program. That is not problem because you can get extensions for each program to put icons on the toolbar for any outside programs! We need a section in Wincustomize for the skins of Mozilla and Thunderbird.

Tecumseh
Reply #38 Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:45 PM
Mozilla & Thunderbird look and sound great. I've also been looking at the Avant browser which also looks kinda spiffy.

http://www.avantbrowser.com/

One of these days I will take the plunge and go thru the agony of massive re-tweaking.

craeonics
Reply #39 Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:22 AM
As John said, Mozilla has mail, irc, composer and a lot of other stuff build in. Firebird is a lot like the Mozilla plus and minus some features. I use them interchangeably, so I never pay too much attention to the differences.

craeonics
Reply #40 Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:23 AM
*cough* What I meant to say was: Firebird is a lot like the Mozilla browser.

Fingers seem to be waging war against my mind again.

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