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Mozilla and Firefox

The Central Scrutinizer

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Are they the same thing? I go to the website and see that there is Firefox, of course, but also a browser named Mozilla. I have heard of Mozilla before, but are they now saying Firefox is something different? Does Mozilla=Firefox?

Also, there is mention of a Mozilla Suite, which seems to include an email client and maybe an HTML editor(?), but then on the home page there is a link to Thunderbird, which is also an email client! So is Thunderbird=Mozilla Suite Email Client?

It's all quite confusing!
 
Firefox was spawned from Mozilla, which itself came from Netscape, which is now piggybacking on Mozilla.
I think.
 
0rz said:
Firefox was spawned from Mozilla, which itself came from Netscape, which is now piggybacking on Mozilla.
I think.
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IE was spawned from Mozilla, was it not?
 
Firefox is only the web browser. Mozilla is the whole suite, which comes with email client, irc, and whatnot. Firefox is a little bit more experimental, too.

They all come from Mosaic. Mosaic spawned Netscape, which got bought by AOL, I think after it lost the browser wars with IE.
 
I've been using a mozilla browser for a good while now, and I'm going to get firefox as soon as I have some time.

Tabbed browsing is great. I can't stand using IE at work. It's such a clunky dinosaur.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Downloaded Firefox this evening and it's cool so far! Pages definitely render faster, which is one of its claims.
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yes, way cool. Just for keeping out the spyware and pop-ups it's worth it.
 
Installed it a couple of days ago. I disabled the popup blocker, since I have PanicWare's Popup Stopper already installed, and it's easier to toggle off and on than Firefox's.

I really like the tabbed web pages - it's nice to not have to open three or four instances of the browser to keep multiple sites going at the same time.

Also like the phishing protection that turns the address line yellow when you're in an encoded site.
 
Does anyone finds that it loads slower (initially running the program, I mean) since they went to the official 1.0 release? I'd like to see the "keep resident" option like Mozilla. IE's one remaining advantage is that it comes up instantly (though that's not enough for me to use it).

David
 
Yes, Firefox takes some time to load initially. Not sure why - they could easily pop an immediate splash-window, like Acrobat Reader does, to make it appear it has started quick (keep dumb user happy mode).

IE starts quick because most of its useful components are already loaded as part of the Windows OS anyway. Same reason why you can switch Windows to a "web-based look" easily. That is, IE's underlying technology is still built into Windows, by and large.
 
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