Firefox and Thunderbird

Daddee · Posted: 1/7/2005, 12:25 pm Post subject: Firefox and Thunderbird

For all you fans of Mozilla Firefox:

Firefox is now in official 1.0 release. It is much smoother than the last release. It is most excellent.

Also, if you love Firefox, try their Thunderbird e-mail program. It also has an excellent RSS reader. I just started using it and I'm very happy with it as well. Very quick and simple to use.

Go give Microsoft the finger and download these excellent open-source software programs.
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oriole_scott · Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 166 Location: the cornfields

For once, I have to agree with Jared. Very Happy

Firefox is terrific. Also, if you get the "adblock" plug-in (available on the mozilla website), you never have to see an advertisement again. It automatically blocks most ads, and if an ad gets through, you just right click on it and make it disappear.
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Hnak · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 1766 Location: Prescott, AZ

I've been using both at home ever since they were released. I've had no problems with either... Agree

thesuperstitions · Guest

As I reported to Mike earlier today, the "Quote selected" button for posting to this site doesn't seem to work using Firefox. That's about the only slight negative I have with Firefox though, after using it since its debut. Lots of positives when compared to IE, such as tabbed browsing, built-in pop-up blocker, etc.

ghoster · Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Scottsdale

I have been using them also since they came out, good stuff, works like it is supposed to with no surprises. That was easy.

Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Ok, I know I'm a bit behind the game here, but I just switched over to Firefox last week. About the only thing that seems affected is that I can't highlight text and then use the "Quote Selected" Button.

Is this just a problem for me or anyone with firefox. I can see the lights and the star still so I guess thats a good sign.

GTG · Posted: 12/8/2006, 1:09 pm Post subject:

That's something I'll have to take a look at. It doesn't work in my version of Firefox either.

GTG
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BoyNhisDog · Posted: 12/8/2006, 1:28 pm Post subject:

Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

I didn't know there was a firefox 2, I can just download that. I love Firefox after only using it for a week though.

Daddee · Posted: 12/8/2006, 2:34 pm Post subject:

Firefox 2.0 is great - it fixed quite a few of the little niggling problems I had with 1.x

All hail open source!
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Antares · Posted: 12/8/2006, 3:40 pm Post subject:

I'll agree that Firefox is a decent browser. I prefer Opera myself.

hazard · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Scottsdale

Although not a active internet user I've used Firefox for several years on my laptop and have had no problems at all unlike my experience with IE. Surprised

cakewalk · Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 512

Been using Firefox for about 1 year now, I like 2.0 with the built in spell checker.

Also have IE 7.0 on my vista box. Its not too bad either. I will always go with firefox however as my main browser.

I believe it to be more secure.

evenstar · Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA

Site that I reserve tee time on requires IE, and I use it often enough that Firefox, tho' like it, is too inconvenient. Plus, Installed IE 7.0 a month ago and it has many of the features that Firefox has, ie, tabs.
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PageRob · Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 859 Location: Page, Az.

On my wife's very old Powerbook, Netscape had tabbed browsing back in late 99-ish. I have no idea why it never made it over to PC until relatively recently. I love Firefox, and have been using it for several years now. I used to use Thunderbird until it went "Poof!" and erased everything in it (saved messages, addresses, etc.). Quite aggravating and inconvenient. Now I just used web-based access to my e-mail.
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