Firebird question

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Since I use other apps for mail and usenet, I wanted to try Firebird
instead of Mozilla. Will it reduce the amount of resources needed to run a
browser? Is 0.7 fairly stable on WindowsME?

TIA,

Chakolate


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Whence cometh this silly notion that every electrical circuit must have a
ground? Speaking as a scientist, I blame electrical engineers. Science is
pure and holy. It's when engineers put science into practice that things
get messed up.
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Since I use other apps for mail and usenet, I wanted to try Firebird
instead of Mozilla. Will it reduce the amount of resources needed to run a
browser? Is 0.7 fairly stable on WindowsME?

Firebird is highly stable. I cannot speak directly to WinME as I
never use it, but on my custom WinXP install it is bulletproof.
Additionally, you can get versions optimized for your OS and CPU
platform here (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23).
Read the threads and I strongly suggest aebrahim's builds when they
are available!

HTH...
 
Chakolate said:
Since I use other apps for mail and usenet, I wanted to try Firebird
instead of Mozilla. Will it reduce the amount of resources needed to run a
browser? Is 0.7 fairly stable on WindowsME?

TIA,

Chakolate
Is anything really stable on Windows Me?
 
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Firebird is highly stable. I cannot speak directly to WinME as I
never use it, but on my custom WinXP install it is bulletproof.
Additionally, you can get versions optimized for your OS and CPU
platform here (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23).
Read the threads and I strongly suggest aebrahim's builds when they
are available!

HTH...

Thanks, I'll give it a look.

Chak
 
Chakolate said:
Since I use other apps for mail and usenet, I wanted to try Firebird
instead of Mozilla. Will it reduce the amount of resources needed to run a
browser? Is 0.7 fairly stable on WindowsME?

TIA,

Chakolate
I'm on a WinME system now, using Firebird. I find it much faster and
less buggy than the Mozilla 1.5 suite. Try it.
 
I'm on a WinME system now, using Firebird. I find it much faster and
less buggy than the Mozilla 1.5 suite. Try it.

Okay, that's good enough for me. It's dl'd, and as soon as I get off the
net, I'll install it. Thanks!

Chakolate
 
Since I use other apps for mail and usenet, I wanted to try Firebird
instead of Mozilla. Will it reduce the amount of resources needed to
run a browser? Is 0.7 fairly stable on WindowsME?

I run it every day on ME. It works great but there is still an annoying
memory leak that rears it's head when the program has been minimized for
awhile.

Also, don't expect instant opening ala IE. IE runs in backgound, Firebird
doesn't. It takes a few seconds to load up.

All minor issues compared to the user friendliness and inherent security of
Firebird.
 
I'm running Firebird on Win ME, works great! In a lot of ways superior
performance to and LESS crash prone than IE6. So far, I haven't run into
ANY websites that don't like Firebird, even ones created with FrontPage (of
which I am a fan. I know, I know! That's equivalent to Satan worship, but
it does exactly what it claims to do), so I feel comfortable recommending it
(Firebird, that is).

To those looking for something that doesn't run well on Win ME, try just
about anything by McAfee. Especially the pathetic Internet GuardDog. Even
McAfee recognized a bad dog when they saw it and put it out of its misery.
 
I'm running Firebird on Win ME, works great! In a lot of ways
superior performance to and LESS crash prone than IE6. So far, I
haven't run into ANY websites that don't like Firebird, even ones
created with FrontPage (of which I am a fan. I know, I know! That's
equivalent to Satan worship, but it does exactly what it claims to
do), so I feel comfortable recommending it (Firebird, that is).

Is there a way to open a group of tabs in the background? I have several
groups bookmarked, and if I try to open a group, Firebird deletes the tabs
I already had open. It works fine if it's only one tab that I'm opening,
but a group of them, no.

Mozilla gives you a choice of adding to or replacing the existing tabs, but
I don't find such an option on Firebird. Also, is there a way to add an
item to the toolbar to open a new tab?

Mostly, I like it fine, and I really appreciate how much less resources it
takes up.

Chakolate
 
Not that I know of, Firebird doesn't do a lot of things that Mozilla or IE6
does. But I rationalize it in my mind by reminding myself that Firebird is
faster and doesn't eat up much in the way of resources.

It is all those convenient little extras that make the other browsers big
and crashprone. A complex program is hard to write and even harder to test.
I don't recall Firebird ever crashing or inexplicably locking up on me.
 
Is there a way to open a group of tabs in the background? I have
several groups bookmarked, and if I try to open a group, Firebird
deletes the tabs I already had open. It works fine if it's only one
tab that I'm opening, but a group of them, no.

Mozilla gives you a choice of adding to or replacing the existing
tabs, but I don't find such an option on Firebird. Also, is there a
way to add an item to the toolbar to open a new tab?

Try using an extension , TBE.
Chakolate



Aaron (my email is not munged!)
 
Try using an extension , TBE.

I just found it before I read your response. What an excellent extension!

Chakolate



--
Whence cometh this silly notion that every electrical circuit must have a
ground? Speaking as a scientist, I blame electrical engineers. Science is
pure and holy. It's when engineers put science into practice that things
get messed up.
--SDSTAFF Chronos
 
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