Mozilla?

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 28 Jun 2004 7:58 am

I'm not real keen on changing computer stuff--being pretty clueless, I've had near catastrophes and major frustrations after mucking around with my systems. But the latest IE security issues have finally gotten me to want to get safer.
Anything I should know about Mozilla Firefox 0.9? Can I confidently just go and download & install it (on my Home XP)? Or is there something else I ought to try instead?
I'm itching to go....hoping for a quick & simple answer.

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 28 Jun 2004 8:40 am

I used it for my default browser instead of Internet Exploiter until I traded my PC for a Mac. It's a good browser with the ability to stop popup windows. The only problem I encountered with it is that occasionally the bookmark icons (like the Steel Guitar Forum has) would disappear.
It's worth the download in my opinion.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 28 Jun 2004 8:52 am

Jon, I love the tabbed-browsing feature of Mozilla (as well as the security, of course). If you get used to tabbed browsing you'll never want to give it up (IMHO of course).

I don't use a MAC so I don't know how well it functions in that O/S, but it's great in Win or Linux.

Will Holtz · Post by **Will Holtz** » 28 Jun 2004 9:45 am

I love firefox and have been using it for several months now. About once every two weeks I hit I site that doesn't work with Firebird, but otherwise its great. I highly recommend the Adblock and "Click to view flash" extensions.

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 28 Jun 2004 11:07 am

Thanks guys. I've downloaded it and I'm now using it. I'm a little bent out of shape because I'm a creature of comfort and habit and I hate any little change that makes me have to think. I wish I could get the default font size and type back to what I was used to but I'll work this out. Bottom line--there are no doubt cool features that I will gradually learn but more important: I am hopefully clear from the security holes in (and criminal attacks against) IE.

Will Holtz · Post by **Will Holtz** » 28 Jun 2004 11:30 pm

In Firefox changing your font size is as easy as Control+ and Control-.

John P. Phillips · Post by **John P. Phillips** » 29 Jun 2004 1:24 pm

Started using firefox about a week ago as a backup browser, no problems so far. Works real well !

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Will Holtz · Post by **Will Holtz** » 30 Jun 2004 11:00 pm

Mozilla, Firefox, and Camino all use the Gecko layout engine.

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