firefox vs mozilla

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Mike Henley

Hi all,

I'm curious if there are many people who prefer mozilla like i do. The
reasons i prefer it are that i'm used to it, having been an early
user, and that i like the different, original mozillaesque-ness of it
rather than the IE-ness of firefox. I'm also quite used to optimoz and
multizilla, which have been superior in my opinion to similar
extensions for firefox. Also, i like the sidebar with the what's
related tab especially and also the other ones. Also, I absolutely
must have those folding toolbars that mozilla has and firefox doesn't,
i just like them. Occasionally i find composer handy to get WYSIWYG
html source for those html boxes, and sometimes i may find use for the
irc to access some help channel linked to from a website. I also love
modern chrome/theme; it jsut feels comfortable and familiar; it feels
very mozilla!

I have firefox on my machine, up to date, but never really managed to
get myself to use it for browsing. I almost exclusively use mozilla.
 
Mike said:
Hi all,

I'm curious if there are many people who prefer mozilla like i do. The
reasons i prefer it are that i'm used to it, having been an early
user, and that i like the different, original mozillaesque-ness of it
rather than the IE-ness of firefox. I'm also quite used to optimoz and
multizilla, which have been superior in my opinion to similar
extensions for firefox. Also, i like the sidebar with the what's
related tab especially and also the other ones. Also, I absolutely
must have those folding toolbars that mozilla has and firefox doesn't,
i just like them. Occasionally i find composer handy to get WYSIWYG
html source for those html boxes, and sometimes i may find use for the
irc to access some help channel linked to from a website. I also love
modern chrome/theme; it jsut feels comfortable and familiar; it feels
very mozilla!

I have firefox on my machine, up to date, but never really managed to
get myself to use it for browsing. I almost exclusively use mozilla.
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I, too, am a long-time Mozilla suite user and enthusiast, yet within
the last month I have started using Firefox exclusively. Mozilla's
development efforts are now going into Firefox first and it's starting
to show. The 1.0PR is very solid and fast and I find that it correctly
renders certain pages that cause the suite to crash. Also, new
web-based applications are changing the way I use the internet: I've
switched to Gmail, so I no longer need an email client; I've switched
to Google Groups beta, so I no longer need a newsreader; and if I do
need Chatzilla or Composer, I can get them as Firefox extensions. I do
miss the greater configurability the suite offers through menu options,
but that's about the only thing.
 
Blue Dragonfly wrote:
I do
miss the greater configurability the suite offers through menu options,
but that's about the only thing.
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Well if you can remember the strings to change, by typing about:Config,
you can do almost as much as in mozilla suite.
 
There is a technical element to this, and it is the resources
used by the applications.. I think Mozilla being a much bigger
app. will use more memory, so, if you are tight on system memory
then it is always better to use single function programs.
 
(e-mail address removed) (Mike Henley) wrote in
I'm curious if there are many people who prefer mozilla like i do.
The reasons i prefer it are that i'm used to it, having been an
early user,
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I used Mozilla from sometime before 1.0 up until Firebird 0.6, when
I switched.
and that i like the different, original
mozillaesque-ness of it rather than the IE-ness of firefox.
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I /don't/ find Firefox to be IE-ish. I can barely use IE
effectively anymore. (There's an IE-only machine at work I
sometimes have to browse with.)
I'm also quite used to optimoz and multizilla, which have been
superior in my opinion to similar extensions for firefox.
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I used Optimoz for a while, but I switched to All-in-One Gestures at
some point and liked it better. It's been too long for me to
remember why. All-in-One is available for Fx as well, so that part
was seamless.

I have to agree with you that MultiZilla is better than the Fx
extensions for handling tabs. Tabbrowser Extensions is the only one
that does what I need, and TBE is bloated and buggy. (Even though
the latest version of TBE was supposed to have fixed this bug, it
still is interfering with my popup management. For the two sites on
which I need popups, I use a profile without TBE installed.)
Also, i like the sidebar with the what's related tab especially
and also the other ones.
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I never used the sidebar in Mozilla, and I don't use it in Fx except
when I need to search my bookmarks, which is rare.
Also, I absolutely must have those folding toolbars that mozilla
has and firefox doesn't, i just like them.
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I strongly dislike them and was happy to be rid of them.
Occasionally i find composer handy to get WYSIWYG html
source for those html boxes,
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I have no use for Composer. I do use the DOM inspector extension
and the HTML Tidy extension in Firefox, but I don't like wysiwyg
editors.
and sometimes i may find use for the
irc to access some help channel linked to from a website.
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I've got a few IRC clients lying about that I like better than
ChatZilla, so I'm happy to do without it.
I also love modern chrome/theme; it jsut feels comfortable and
familiar; it feels very mozilla!
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I used the Pinball theme with Moz, and I kept using it when I
switched. It's gotten to the point at which it's the only theme I
like, so they'd better keep developing it.

It looks like your tastes and mine are very different, and that Fx
seems to be a nearly perfect fit for me as Moz is for you.
 
I'm curious if there are many people who prefer mozilla like i do.
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I don't know whether "prefer" is the right word, but I've used the
so-called "browser-only" installation of Mozilla (win98) since fairly
early-on with the preferences bar and multizilla extensions, add-ons or
whatever they're called. Simply never tried the standalones, although, I
did take a look at the old "Phoenix" browser; I figure that as long as
the "suite" is under development, it will be the source for performance
and usability improvements.
 
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