MonTemplar's Journal: I have seen the light! (at home, at least...)

I think I can safely say that I am now a convert to the Mozilla way, having used Firefox and Thunderbird in anger for about a week now. Still using IE at work, though, mainly because I will just confuse the hell out of people if I put a different browser on there, and someone needs to use my PC when I'm away.

I'm particularly happy that I have threaded e-mail once more - mailing lists are actually manageable now! That was one of the things I liked about Forte Agent, but I lost the installation plus registration for that, and the new v2 doesn't have enough new features to tempt me, and is still missing multi-server, multi-account support.

Mozilla

[Deamos]

I use Mozilla almost exclusivly these days.

Once I adjusted to tab browsing I wondered how I survived without it.

I must say though the only problem I have with Moz. is that I can't open movie files directly to WM9 like I can in IE. So IE gets some use still, and there are those pesky websites that require IE. I hate those.

Still, Mozilla has come a very long way even in the last year or so.

I don't use the mail client though I have been thinking about it lately since Outlook seems to be slowing down mor

Re:Mozilla

[dubiousdave]

I can't open movie files directly to WM9 like I can in IE.

Can't you just configure it as your helper app for movies? I did that with mplayer under Linux. I haven't looked at the Windows version of Moz in a while, but I think it has the same setup.

Re:Mozilla

[Deamos]

Probably can, I played around with a while ago, but have been lazy about figuring that out really. Its more of a nitpick kind of thing than anything else.

I am quite happy though with Mozilla. Now that I have adjusted to tabbed browsing, I wonder how I managed for all the years before I started using it.

Nothing like having 12 different websites open and simply bounching through tabs in a single window. Now if I could find a solution for Windows and SSH that allows the same sort of thing to go on. Or Te

Re:Mozilla

[ncc74656]

I must say though the only problem I have with Moz. is that I can't open movie files directly to WM9 like I can in IE.

Copy c:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\np*.dll to c:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\Plugins\. That should fix your problem.

Re:Mozilla

[Deamos]

Really? Excellent!

I'll be sure to do that as soon as I finish writing up this reply. Thanks!

Question

[GeckoFood]

I used Mozilla for a long while, and I do indeed like it. I have not bothered to redownload it since the untimely demise of my computer's hard drive, but that's another story... Anyway, I had one big gripe with Mozilla -- it would not render Slashdot correctly. Pages from Slashdot were more or less scrambled and looked horrible, to the point that I would not use Mozilla when on Slashdot. Has that been fixed?

(Personally, I like Opera.)

Re:Question

[Deamos]

I am using Mozilla 1.7 and the page renders fine, just thought I'd let you know.

Re:Question

[bofkentucky]

You are on a modem right? Moz at work does fine (A dedicated DS-3 to the intarweb), but at home on the 56k (28800-45333) it sometimes craps out. I've found that shift+reload (or maybe ctrl+reload) will fix it at times. I think it tries to render the tables as the page is downloading, but /code is so screwy that it can't do the math properly. I've considered posting a bug, but I'm getting 1.5M/768K ADSL soon at home so it shouldn't be a problem for too much longer

Re:Question

[GeckoFood]

Did not matter in my case. Was on modem at home and on DSL at office, and I had the same problem on both access points.

Re:Question

[ncc74656]

You are on a modem right? Moz at work does fine (A dedicated DS-3 to the intarweb), but at home on the 56k (28800-45333) it sometimes craps out.

I have the same problems over a 1536/512 cable-modem connection at work. I had to reload several times just to post this reply.

/. wasn't always like this. It almost makes you wonder if they even bother testing with Mozilla, or if they just use IE for everything (which would be hypocritical, given their anti-"M$ [penny-arcade.com]" bent).

Don't forget

[Safety Cap]

To add the following to your user.js:

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 200);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per -server", 100);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-conn ections-per-server", 10);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-conne ctions-per-proxy", 50);

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequ ests", 100);

(Thanks, slash-code, you ignorant slut!) Please remove spaces in quoted items.

That will make pages render faster in Firefox than in IE.

My beef with IE-only sites is when web page designers (and I use the term loosly), think it is cool to have links open a new window. I'm perfectly capable of right-clicking, opening a window myself, and would like to NOT HAVE A BROKEN BACK-BUTTON, thank you very much. Under Firefox, the javascrap that opens the new window doesn't work properly.

Re:Don't forget

[WIAKywbfatw]

See, under Opera that JavaScript to open a daughter window works fine. Just one more reason to choose Opera rather than Mozilla/Thunderbird/Firefox/whatever.

Re:Don't forget

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Are you talking about those annoying target="_blank" new windows?

You can disable that behavior in Firefox by typing about:config in the address bar and setting dom.disable_window_open_feature.status = true

(That won't stop new windows opened by JavaScript, however.)

But..

[aridhol]

mainly because I will just confuse the hell out of people if I put a different browser on there

I thought that was a reason in favour of changing!

Day late and a Dollar [US] short.

[spumoni_fettuccini]

Well, OK, couple weeks late and a few Euro short :P I've been a recent convert as well, been mucking about with 'Zilla for about a month now and really diggin' it. I only use IE to browse Technet [MS help groups] and the like as I don't get the "preview pane" for the news groups.