M.Firefox is the best i have tested yet, and I started using it over IE even on XP. I have tried several times netscape and mozilla over linux and windows. So – are we really ready for 1.0 release? So what version do I run? And why user is not automatically notified of newer version/fixes? It offered me some “security” fix, I downloaded it, but About/help shows me no evidence, what version I am using – just “preview release” text is there. So I went and manually tried to check for updates.

IMO it should not happen in the first place! Product infrastructure should NOT allow usage of incompatible skins and if such is found, it should be disabled and FF should automatically switch to default skin!Ģ) What is with “automatic updates”? I expected that running FF RC1 will offer me to upgrade to RC2. The only way for me to correct the situation was to delete entire profile! FF started, but instead of menus, dialogs, I got only white windows with plain text messed texts. So I went and found FF profile, deleted dir for Pinball theme, edited prefs.js changing “skin” entry to “default”.

I think that typical user here is cutt-off from using FF. Still no luch – skins are stored in user profile dir. OK, I choosed to uninstall and install FF once again. After starting FF dialog box appeared, telling me something about missing XBL binding. Tne I installed newer version of FF (RC1).

So what actually happened to me?ġ) I installed few skins. I am not sure current versions deserve to be marked as RCx, as for me – RC shoudl work, as far as functionality is concerned, as final product. This is really not hard: View -> Toolbars -> Bookmark Toolbar. How do you get rid of the wasted space called ‘Bookmark Toolbar’ ? It will not work with Pegasus Mail. On Linux, Firefox blends very nicely with the GTK theme. And the crude GUI is probably once again a Win98SE problem. along with java’s vaunted speed.ĭo you think that Firefox is written in Java? It isn’t. I guess this is still a major problem with java…. Firefox can be a lot faster on dialup if you use Adblock.įor a ‘modern’ browser the GUI is rather crude and bland. Most probably this appears because you’ve visited the sites which appear to be slow on Firefox before with other browsers, so the other browsers can use the cached versions of all graphics of the site, while Firefox has to pull them all. You shouldn’t be able to see any speed difference beteween browsers on dialup. Green Browser runs rings around it for speed and looks and Opera 606 simply leaves it in the dust. which is what most of the rest of the world still uses. And Windows 98SE is basically nothing but DOS.

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