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new favourite browser - firebird

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I was keen on Opera for a long time but Firebird has recently walked way out in front. Mainly due to the Adblock plugin that lets you selectively block frames/images/paths from specific servers with wilcards (and firebird blocks popups of course). Mind you Opera has the "continue from last time" function that Firebird doesn't have. Yet...
 
I've been thinking about going to a different browser for a long time now.

I use IE simply because it's convienient. Can you tell me any other reasons why I might make the switch?

I've never tested any of my web sites in firebird.


Anything I should know?
 
heath said:
Mind you Opera has the "continue from last time" function that Firebird doesn't have. Yet...
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This will do the trick for you - it automatically saves your session and restores it in the next program start.
 
I've been on Firebird for about six months, both at home and at work, specifically to stop pop-ups. And Firebird does this VERY nicely indeed. So far, very few other problems at all, at least there's nothing I can't do yet. There's perhaps a few user-friendly changes re management I would suggest, but in just about every respect, it is much preferred to IE.
 
mickky said:
I've been thinking about going to a different browser for a long time now.

I use IE simply because it's convienient. Can you tell me any other reasons why I might make the switch?

I've never tested any of my web sites in firebird.


Anything I should know?
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MSIE is the least standards-compliant of the major browsers. Opera and Firebird are both based on newly written engines, while MSIE still has traces of the old Mosaic code - my preference is for Opera, which I've used for several years, but Firebird is good, too - although I miss the convenience of Opera's mouse gestures!

Both Opera and Firebird can be downloaded fairly quickly: Opera is less than 4Mb and Firebird around 7Mb.
MSIE is somewhere up in the 90Mb area ...
 
How about Firebird vs Mozilla 1.5? I like the e-mail application included in the latter. I know there's Thunderbird, but I'm used to the convenience of only having to click on one icon. Does Firebird have compensatory advantages?
 
Well I thought I'd try it out (firebird). Er . . .wow! this text is bold! Anyway, it seems I might have to alter the text size everytime I launch this browser because the default is little bit smaller than I'm used to. Doesn't it keep the same text size that you change it to? Certainly can't be a*sed to keep changing it everytime I launch the browser.

Oh damn, and it doesn't open a new window when I just opened my browser just now! :mad: Think I'll get rid of it.
 
Mind you, the tab browsing is excellent! But I can't stand having to alter my font size all the time! :mad:
 
Interesting Ian said:
Mind you, the tab browsing is excellent! But I can't stand having to alter my font size all the time! :mad:
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If it's anything like Mozilla you should be able to set up a style sheet.

edited to add: I found out how on the MozillaNews forum. Have to go back and look up the procedure again every time I want to make changes or do it on another machine though.
 
wayrad said:
If it's anything like Mozilla you should be able to set up a style sheet.

edited to add: I found out how on the MozillaNews forum. Have to go back and look up the procedure again every time I want to make changes or do it on another machine though.
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Style sheet? :confused: Anyway, if anyone can help me on this it would be much appreciated. I rather like this firebird browser apart from this huge drawback.
 
Interesting Ian said:


Style sheet? :confused: Anyway, if anyone can help me on this it would be much appreciated. I rather like this firebird browser apart from this huge drawback.
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WOW! If you put the font size to maximum it's absolutely huge. This "e" is one inch in height! :eek:
 
Try ->Tools->Options
Then under Web Features there is a button for fonts and colours. You should be able to set a minimum font there.

Note that under General Features you can Use current pages for your home page. This will set all your current tabs to open as default.

I like using the third mouse button for opening links in a new tab. I click a bunch of links on a page and they all load up on seperate tabs. Great for viewing images.
 
Interesting Ian said:


Style sheet? :confused: Anyway, if anyone can help me on this it would be much appreciated. I rather like this firebird browser apart from this huge drawback.
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Yes, you make a file called UserContent.css with appropriately formatted commands and put it in your profile folder. It's a royal pain, but once you have it set up, it stays put.

Sounds from what Jim says as though Firebird is different from Mozilla in that regard, though, so my comment was probably irrelevant.

Here's a good forum for Firebird/Mozilla-related tips: http://forums.mozillazine.org/
 
jimlintott said:
Try ->Tools->Options
Then under Web Features there is a button for fonts and colours. You should be able to set a minimum font there.
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Yes, brilliant! It seems to have worked. Thanks :)

Note that under General Features you can Use current pages for your home page. This will set all your current tabs to open as default.

I like using the third mouse button for opening links in a new tab. I click a bunch of links on a page and they all load up on seperate tabs. Great for viewing images. [/B]
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Yeah, it's great. :D
 
Re: Re: new favourite browser - firebird

joyrex said:
This will do the trick for you - it automatically saves your session and restores it in the next program start.
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Well there goes Opera into the bin then. Thanks Joyrex.
 
Oh well, back to IE

I had loads of problems trying to get it to be like IE. It started loading a blank page instead of my homepage and wanting all the time to install this software everytime I opened the browser. Didn't make any difference whether I said yes or no. So got rid of folder and reinstalled it, but it won't work at all now. ie I doubleclick the icon to open up the browser and nothing happens. Did a system restore, but that hasn't helped either.

A waste of time.
 
wayrad said:
How about Firebird vs Mozilla 1.5? I like the e-mail application included in the latter. I know there's Thunderbird, but I'm used to the convenience of only having to click on one icon. Does Firebird have compensatory advantages?
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If I read the Mozilla site correctly, the Mozilla browser has two major components: the browser (offered separately as Firebird) and the email client (offered separately as Thunderbird). You simply pick one, t'other, or two-in-one, as you prefer!
 
Re: Oh well, back to IE

Interesting Ian said:
I had loads of problems trying to get it to be like IE. It started loading a blank page instead of my homepage and wanting all the time to install this software everytime I opened the browser. Didn't make any difference whether I said yes or no. So got rid of folder and reinstalled it, but it won't work at all now. ie I doubleclick the icon to open up the browser and nothing happens. Did a system restore, but that hasn't helped either.

A waste of time.
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Do a proper software uninstall first via the Control Panel, then it will reinstall properly.

You can set your home page easily enough at Tools > Options > General.

What software was it trying to install? That is unusual...
 
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