I just discovered Firebird

[fastguy94416]

Mozilla Firebird=The shiz

I love every little quirk about this browser, if you don't try it you are only depriving yourself

[|JuiceZ|]

Originally posted by fastguy94416
Mozilla Firebird=The shiz

I love every little quirk about this browser, if you don't try it you are only depriving yourself

*smack* welcome slow poke! :p

[fastguy94416]

Tru Dat, Eh?


just try to get royalties out of me

[MUYA]

Originally posted by fastguy94416
Mozilla Firebird=The shiz

I love every little quirk about this browser, if you don't try it you are only depriving yourself

Welcome to the club! :D

Only if they would relase .08 ver right now :D

[The Baron]

you mean .8, .08 came out like the second week after the project started :p

[MUYA]

Originally posted by The Baron
you mean .8, .08 came out like the second week after the project started :p
Doh!
erm ya v0.8 :D

[vampireuk]

I switched over quite a while back, the latest nightly is a tad irritating for downloading however. If you download a file that completes before you select it's location the download manager won't open and you have to get the file manually. It's only two clicks away but I still find it a bit annoying:cool:

[|JuiceZ|]

We're really close to an RC .8 build:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-0.8/

[saturnotaku]

Originally posted by |JuiceZ|
We're really close to an RC .8 build:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-0.8/

I wonder what core it will be based on because Mozilla 1.7 is already in alpha while 1.5 is still the primary download on the main page.

[sytaylor]

By far the best forum browser in history, its just a lot of websites have years of IE plumbing in them which causes some bad blood. I'm on a dual browser system for the first time in about 5 years.

[serialdave]

I like the Mozilla over the Firebird. Some of the controlls seems better - like simply clciking on the tab icon in the left ot open a new tab.

[eL_PuSHeR]

FYI: Mozilla 1.6 final is out, not 1.5

[serialdave]

I have been running 1.6b on Mandrake for a little while but this web page here has my interest.

http://www.thehaus.net/AltOS/Linux/ht-compilemozilla.shtml

You are supposed to be able to enable more features like antialiasing fonts or something....

[Nephilim]

Originally posted by serialdave
I like the Mozilla over the Firebird. Some of the controlls seems better - like simply clciking on the tab icon in the left ot open a new tab.

That feature can be enabled in Firebird as well. You have to install the Tabbed Browser Extentions, then it allows you to put a "new tab" button on the toolbar.

[saturnotaku]

I just switched over to Firebird from Mozilla because of one of the tab extensions - the one where left-clicking on a link opens it in a new tab instead of a new window. I love it. Plus it's definitely faster than Mozilla. :D

[serialdave]

Originally posted by Nephilim
That feature can be enabled in Firebird as well. You have to install the Tabbed Browser Extentions, then it allows you to put a "new tab" button on the toolbar.

There were several tab extensions but I have been using Mozilla for so long I guess I have gotten use to it and like it moer than Firebird

Center click with the mouse wheel opens link in new tab.

I like the download manager a little better in Mozilla but basically they are one in the same

One just has great taste and the other is less filling :)

[|JuiceZ|]

Everyone go pull down the lastest build of 0.8.0+:

http://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-trunk/

Running that w/ the tabbed browser & cute menus v0.3 and I'm in heaven. The new dl mgr is sweet & they've squashed quite a few bugs from 0.7

[vampireuk]

Just installed the latest version, is there anyway to turn off the automatic tabbed browsing when you select another site from the drop down menu? I'm not really a fan of that.

Edit: adblocking seems to be broken.

http://www.ngemu.com/index.php#item1572

Then click the link entitled screenshots, a add window pops up for me:(

[|JuiceZ|]

Originally posted by vampireuk
Just installed the latest version, is there anyway to turn off the automatic tabbed browsing when you select another site from the drop down menu? I'm not really a fan of that.

Yes there is, did you d/l the tabbed browser extensions?



Edit: adblocking seems to be broken.

http://www.ngemu.com/index.php#item1572

Then click the link entitled screenshots, a add window pops up for me:(

Adblocking seems to work fine for me but I'll have to wait till I get home to try that link since I'm at work. Is it a flash ad or reg html pop-up?

[vampireuk]

Regular html popup, I think its the adfirm that has worked a way around the adblocking. The ads you get at that site are the worst I have ever seen.

<vampireuk> although one of their popups is horrendus
<vampireuk> it asks if you wish to install their crap
<vampireuk> you click no
<vampireuk> it then brings up a box saying click yes to install
<vampireuk> and there is only a box that says ok
<vampireuk> so click the x
<vampireuk> it asks if you want to install again
<vampireuk> I select no
<vampireuk> then it says you are almost there
<vampireuk> i click cancel
<vampireuk> and attemps to download
<vampireuk> so i had to press cancel to stop ie downloading it

:rolleyes:

[|JuiceZ|]

Dang if that aint frickin' annoying, I'll take a look tonight...

[Nephilim]

You could try this http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html

I just tried it, and it seems that the adblocking is back to normal now.

Note: Even before downloading this latest trunk build I would occationally get those "download aborted you must click yes" windows, but I would just click the 'x' and it would go away....nothing like Vamp described.

One thing about the extention I linked to, make sure, once you have it installed, to check the options for it and set them accordingly, if you don't the adblocking features don't change from what they were. Also as an added feature of this extension, it puts a link in the status bar at the bottom of the window that you can click to pop up a window telling you everything that was loaded when you went to the current page and allows you to block things selectively....pretty cool IMO. :cool:

[Moled]

open "about:config"

search for "pipe"

change all to true

set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some reasonably high value

change "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" to 0

this is the time in ms before mozilla starts to render a page if my memory is working

hope that speeds things up a bit

you may also want to look at

"about:plugins"
and esp
"about:mozilla"
:p