Ditched FireFox today, back to Mozilla Suite....

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Vegard Krog Petersen

Since I started the thread "Switched to FireFox today..." some ten days
again, I probably should tell why I removed FireFox 1.0RC and switched
back to the Mozilla Suite (1.7.2).

It's simple: I wanted to keep the Mail part of the suite, but the Mail
part and FireFox would not be friends. Even after tweaking, clicking a
link in Mail opened a Mozilla window first and then a FireFox window.
Just to bloody annoying (oh, I almost feels like JC being this rude! :-) ).

And I'm refusing to be forced into installing Thunderbird. I can live
(and surf) without FireFox's extension. And in addition I disliked the
Bookmark UI.

Well, in some years I'm probably end up like todays Netscape 4.x users
and still cling to the old (last Mozilla Suite 1.8?) and whine about how
good the old software was... ;-)

Have a nice weekend all in acf, and without the bickering, please :-)
 
Don't think that Thunderbird works as well with Firefox as Mozilla
Mail and News does with Navigator - it definitely does not! But
Firefox is so much better than Navigator in my opinion it's worth the
annoyance.

* Posted via http://www.sixfiles.com/forum
 
Don't think that Thunderbird works as well with Firefox as Mozilla
Mail and News does with Navigator - it definitely does not! But
Firefox is so much better than Navigator in my opinion it's worth the
annoyance.
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I keep reading this from various people on various groups, so I guess
it must be true. It confuses me. My e-mail and news apps work
perfectly with Firefox, both under Windows XP and under Linux, so I
don't see why these reported problems can't be worked out with
Thunderbird.
 
»Q« said:
I keep reading this from various people on various groups, so I guess
it must be true. It confuses me. My e-mail and news apps work
perfectly with Firefox, both under Windows XP and under Linux, so I
don't see why these reported problems can't be worked out with
Thunderbird.
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In W98SE, FF 093 works fine with TB 071. There is an extension that puts a Mail
icon in the FF toolbar, I click it and TB opens (it was running before). A link in
TB opens FF.

As a long-time user of Netscape Comm. 4.79, to me FF is a much better browser with
a worse boomark system.

TB works, the GUI is not as good as my old Messinger. But Netscape finally had too
many problems with modern websites and newsgroups when I started using individual.net.

Mike Sa
 
ms said:
In W98SE, FF 093 works fine with TB 071. There is an extension
that puts a Mail icon in the FF toolbar, I click it and TB opens
(it was running before). A link in TB opens FF.
Click to expand...

Yeah, for a lot of people, Fx/Tb work well together. But for a lot
of people, under various Windows versions, there are problems such as
multiple Fx windows (or tabs) opening when an http url is clicked
from Tb.
As a long-time user of Netscape Comm. 4.79, to me FF is a much
better browser with a worse boomark system.
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Bookmark management has gotten quite a bit better than the 0.93
version you're using. Fx 1.0 is due later this week, and I think
you'll be happier with it. Might want to wait a while after release,
so that the authors of your favorite extensions have caught up with
new versions.
TB works, the GUI is not as good as my old Messinger. But Netscape
finally had too many problems with modern websites and newsgroups
when I started using individual.net.
Click to expand...

I just wish the Tb people would solve the bug(s) with quoting text.
You don't see it, because you see that vertical-bar display for
quoted text, but there are added blank quoted lines between quoted
sections. Like between ". . . it's worth the annoyance." and "I keep
reading . . . ." up above.
 
»Q« schreef:
Yeah, for a lot of people, Fx/Tb work well together. But for a lot
of people, under various Windows versions, there are problems such as
multiple Fx windows (or tabs) opening when an http url is clicked
from Tb.
Click to expand...

This sounds like an old problem with some older FF versions (and a
regression in some more recent nightly builds too IIRC).
Bookmark management has gotten quite a bit better than the 0.93
version you're using. Fx 1.0 is due later this week, and I think
you'll be happier with it.
Click to expand...

FF's bookmarks aren't worse than other browser's bookmarks IMHO?
(My idea of a good bookmark UI is quite different though.)
I just wish the Tb people would solve the bug(s) with quoting text.
You don't see it, because you see that vertical-bar display for
quoted text, but there are added blank quoted lines between quoted
sections. Like between ". . . it's worth the annoyance." and "I keep
reading . . . ." up above.
Click to expand...

There are _a lot_ of those bugs in TB:
- the vertical bar that's too long (and creates those extra lines)
- you can't quote selected text only (this should be standard behaviour!)
- quoting often results in the less-than-80-characters-line-length setting
to be ignored
- extra space added before or after certain paragraphs (in plain text mode
this should not happen, I want a wysiwyg editor)
- ...

(At least 0.9 doesn't ask for every mail if you are sure you want to send
it as plain text anymore.)
 
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