Firefox 1.5

[Jerome Scuggs]

:bigups:

The blazing speed almost makes up for the fact that I can't use mouse gestures [yet]. But that's ok, because they're also redesigning the extension system

[Jason]

i'm still using deer park alpha 2

i should probably switch back and give 1.5 a try

but i'm laZy (so lazy i had to spell it with a capital 'Z', although the extra effort required to capitalize the 'Z' via the keys on the keyboard actually completely contradicts my whole lazy defense. go figure.)

[DoTheFandango]

Jason, 1.5 is just Deer Park Beta right now.

[Jeenyuss]

i'm still using deer park alpha 2

i should probably switch back and give 1.5 a try

but i'm laZy (so lazy i had to spell it with a capital 'Z', although the extra effort required to capitalize the 'Z' via the keys on the keyboard actually completely contradicts my whole lazy defense. go figure.)

and that explanation didn't help your case either

[DoTheFandango]

I lost some CSS1 support!

Crap.

[za gophar]

if i download this does it keep my favorites, themes, and extensions?

one other semi-off-topic question: why does everyone like tabbed browsing so much? isnt using the start bar on windows and opening more than one browser exactly the same thing as using tabs? and it keeps the page viewing size at a maximum too.. why do people prefer tabs over opening multiple browser windows?

[Troll King]

When you open links in a new window, that new window becomes the active one. With tabbed browsing you can open multiple links but the page you were on remains your active window. For example, if you wanted to open several forum threads at once, the new window method would need you to alt-tab back to the thread listing again and again. Tabbed browsing is better if you want to open a link but want to finish reading the page the link was on while the new page loads. That means you can open and load other pages while you're still looking at the other links. Tabs are also more organized than having multiple windows open. I have 7 tabs open as I'm posting this and they're all easily accessible, while if I had that many browser windows open, they'd all be clustered on the toolbar. If I alt-tabbed between those windows, it'd be harder to keep track of the order they were in. With tabbed browsing, newer tabs open to the right. That's not to say that opening new windows doesn't work well too; but when you have a lot of pages opened up, the benefits of tabs are more obvious.

[Jason]

i'm still very high

it's most enjoyable

[hogo]

i'm still very high

it's most enjoyable

welcome to the fucking club...

[ZeUs!!]

The fucking club

[Mulkero]

I just installed the beta just to find out how incredibly slow firefox is (again). Been using Opera for some time now.

[ogron]

ive used opera and mozilla and i don't really notice much of a difference.

if someone wants to point them out for me ill delete the inferior of the two.

[Jason]

firefox has 238428348235824582 times the developer support

what more do you need to know?

[geekbot]

http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthread.php?t=20568 already has a discussion of firefox vs opera

The instructions for installing Deer Park on Mac said to save my profile before I installed because otherwise you can't go back. But it imported bookmarks, etc. as expected. I eventually reverted back to regular Firefox.

TABS:
Opera saves closed tabs. So since I rarely shutdown I have access to any tab I have ever closed. Like when you go, "Oh crap, I shouldn't have closed that." Or "What was that page I was looking at last week?" I go back and reopen the page.

Opera saves sessions (all open tabs). Firefox has an extension to save sessions as well. So if I do close the browser (accidentally, on purpose, or a crash) I get back everything that was open. The 4 sites I was comparison shopping on. Or the 3 news sites I was reading. Or everytime you launch a browser you can open a session (multiple pages) rather than just one home page.

[Arikel]

http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthread.php?t=20568 already has a discussion of firefox vs opera

The instructions for installing Deer Park on Mac said to save my profile before I installed because otherwise you can't go back. But it imported bookmarks, etc. as expected. I eventually reverted back to regular Firefox.

TABS:
Opera saves closed tabs. So since I rarely shutdown I have access to any tab I have ever closed. Like when you go, "Oh crap, I shouldn't have closed that." Or "What was that page I was looking at last week?" I go back and reopen the page.

Opera saves sessions (all open tabs). Firefox has an extension to save sessions as well. So if I do close the browser (accidentally, on purpose, or a crash) I get back everything that was open. The 4 sites I was comparison shopping on. Or the 3 news sites I was reading. Or everytime you launch a browser you can open a session (multiple pages) rather than just one home page.

A discussion of firefox vs opera? Is there any discussion at all?
Mozilla will never be able to keep up with Opera. Mozilla is a browser in raw shape... this means you need to install lots of features and extensions to make it look close to Opera. When i had my firefox with a set up close to my Opera set up it was so heavy it wasn't worthwhile. The thing is you only start to feel the diference between Opera and any other browser after you start using its special features. As a side note even with the extensions non included fire fox's file size is larger than Opera's non java version... :grin: