Firebird is cool

[Frostillicus]

Since IE was having trouble with the vector library, I decided to try a diff browser -mozilla.  So I installed that and it was good.  Then I saw Firebird, and I installed that one.  WOW I love the themes and the tabs and it just feels much cleaner than IE.  I'm hooked.  I like the different managers, too.

The only weird thing is I can't insert smiley's or any other YABBC tags on this board after I've typed a message they just get placed at the end regardless of where the cursor is - so I either have to go back and enter them manually or insert them as I go.   Not a big deal but weird.

[Jakobud]

I've been using Opera for a long time cause IE sucks so bad.  A couple weeks ago I happened upon Firebird and immediately loved it.  I enjoyed all the Extensions you could get.  Like blocking ad's and stuff was cool.  Mouse gesture's are of course a requirement.  But I had it lock up my Win2000 machine at least twice aday to where I had to do a hard reset  So I went back to Opera.  I've heard lots of people complain about Opera but I can sware by it.  I've never had big problems and its SO fast.  I noticed the page loading was significantly faster than Firebird.  Firebird is a good browser though.  Maybe I'll use it when it gets farther down the line and more stable.

[jerryjanis]

My Firebird has been acting up, so I decided to take Opera for a test drive.  I installed it, and when I first started to run it, it said something about advertising unless I wanted to pay for the browser.  I stopped there - I don't want to pay for a browser, and I sure don't need MORE adverts during my online time.  What gives?

Anyway, it gave me the motivation to reinstall Firebird, and it kept my settings and is working fine once again.  It's cool, though - Firebird is a lot faster than IE.  If Opera's even faster, then that's friggin' awesome.

[Jakobud]

Hmmm... you should at least give Opera a try with the advertising option.  That used to really bother me but now I just don't really even notice it.  Its just a banner that sits in the upper left corner.

[iwillfearnoevil]

i tried firebird after reading a recommendation but it was too buggy for my tastes.

[JoyMonkey]

So am I the only person in the world that uses Navigator? I haven't tried any other Mozilla browsers because Navigator has always given me all I need, and I can't remember it ever crashing on me. Am I really missing anything?

[Edgedamage]

Now it's called Firefox and I have been using it for a week on my win2000pro and I love it.

[zaphod]

I've been using Firebird on my home machine (Win2k) for at least six months and haven't had a single issue with it.  The ad blocking is very useful and tabs make life easier.

[shmokes]

Firebird has been nothing but spectacular for me.  I use it on 2000 pro, win xp, win xp tablet, 2000 advanced server, and 2003 advanced server.  No problems (though the smilies not working on the message board afflicts me as well, but that's no biggie).

Frosty, here's a little feature you will learn to be unable to live without.  If you hit the / key and start typing a word, it is the equivalent of, in internet explorer, clicking Edit, Find on this page, and typing in a word to search.  It's brilliant in web research.

[Harakiri]

Sorry this lame question but isn't IE almost exclusive in some tags and styles inserted in lots of sites around the web?

Since IE was having trouble with the vector library, I decided to try a diff browser -mozilla.  So I installed that and it was good.  Then I saw Firebird, and I installed that one.  WOW I love the themes and the tabs and it just feels much cleaner than IE.  I'm hooked.  I like the different managers, too.

The only weird thing is I can't insert smiley's or any other YABBC tags on this board after I've typed a message they just get placed at the end regardless of where the cursor is - so I either have to go back and enter them manually or insert them as I go.  Not a big deal but weird.

That must be the reason for the failures of my attempts to upload a marquee i have here...  

[Sasquatch!]

Sorry this lame question but isn't IE almost exclusive in some tags and styles inserted in lots of sites around the web?

No, it's a very good question actually, and it's one of the banes of the internet.  IE can do some proprietary (non-HTML-standard, according to the W3C) rendering.  Where it gets messy is that some web designers are lazy/stupid enough to include these in, thereby making their site "broken" in any other browser outside of IE.  So it's partly Microsoft's fault for including the code, and partly the fault of the nincompoops who use said code in their HTML.

[Jakobud]

Anyone have any issues on BYOAC with Firefox how when you scroll down the list of threads, click a thread to read then press the back button after you are done, and it goes back to the list of threads, except the screen is back at the top of the list instead of where you scrolled to before... it doesn't do it on other forums that i've noticed.

[SirPoonga]

I have general issues with Firefox.  I have uninstalled it.  I did have an issue where the main page here, all the text was white, which is very hard to read.