I’m a sworn and loyal Mozilla user… have been for years. Firefox 1.0 is out. What does Firefox have that Mozilla doesn’t?
Adam
I’m a recent convert, having been in your situation for a long time…I now use Firefox and Thunderbird.
The concentration of development is on Firefox. This means that bugs and security issues are dealt with quicker, but also that more extensions are available. That was my main reason for switching.
It’s also supposedly faster, but I’m not convinced there’s any real-world difference. (Although, while the browser decides to freeze, I can still check my email, because they’re now separate processes.)
I might be missing something, but:
That’s what I see at the top of the screen. I thought they were effectively the same thing, or at least one a part of the other.
‘Mozilla’ refers to the umbrella organisation. The large bundled browser/email client is called by the same name. However, the development is moving in a direction which is splitting these up, so the independent browser is now (Mozilla) Firefox, the email client (Mozilla) Thunderbird, etc.
If your machine is slow enough it bogs under Mozilla, by all means get Firefox. Firefox is smaller because it does less, but it does what it does very well.
If you want to use the browser most non-IE users are using, get Firefox. A large userbase gives developers more incentive to work on it and more feedback with regards to bugs and desired changes.
If you want to, as GorillaMan says, access email when your browser bogs, get Firefox. If you don’t use the Mozilla email client and want to upgrade just your browser, get Firefox.
If you are happy with Mozilla as it is now, there’s no huge reason to switch just yet. Moz is still very usable and can easily fill your browsing needs.
I just downloaded Firefox 1.0, and tried to surf the Dope with it, but it kept deleting my password when I tried to sign in, so the Straight Dope kept telling me that my password was incorrect (I don’t use smileys much, but this deserves a :rolleyes: ). Those of you using it who have obviously posted here, did you have this problem, and do you have any idea how I can fix this?
In my experience, they’re relatively the same. Unlike Mozilla, Firefox does not crash when I attempt to open PDFs, but I think that little quirk may be unique to my system, as I know people who open PDFs in Mozilla with no problems.
Other than that, the only discernable difference IMO is that they changed the mouse-wheel-click function from “Open In New Window” to “Open In New Tab”. I shall never forgive them for that.* I hate tabs. HATE them, do you hear me, Mozilla? Browser pages, like every other application ever anywhere, should be managed in the big ol’ rectangles on the BOTTOM of the screen, not in the ambiguous top-middle by means of a discreet little button-thingy. Grrrr! :mad:
*Yes, I’m aware that I can right-click and open the link in a new window. That’s what I do. But I don’t WANT to click twice, I want to click ONCE, and I loved the original Mozilla for letting me do that, and then they went and messed it up. Bastiges.
I have this issue with both Mozilla and Firefox. Both appear to crash, but it’s actually because Acrobat spends an age loading (does anyone know how to make Acrobat Reader load instead?). Likewise with closing PDFs, but only in Mozilla - I just kill the Acrobat process in the task manager instead.
Can’t you just change the Tabbed Browsing option to ‘new window’?
How? I’ve dug around in every options menu I can find, and I haven’t seen a way to do this.
I don’t know if there’s a menu option for it, but you can go to about:config* ( i.e. type that into the address bar) and change browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick to false (double-click it).
- no underscore, the underscore you can see was inserted by the SDMB’s software
I’ve been using Mozilla a long time, and every time I try to switch to FireFox I get some annoying problem that sends me back to Mozilla. For example, I prefer that clicking a bookmarked group of tabs adds the new tabs to existing tabs, not replace them. I fix this with that tab extension, then I find I can’t make it so when I click a link in an email that it opens in a new tab, instead of replacing an existing tab. I realize that with a shitload of digging I’ll likely find the answer, but then I realize I can just go back to Mozilla.
Until there’s really compelling reason, I’ll stick with Mozilla.
Why is that? That’s extremely odd.
Nearest I can figure, it’s to prevent people from posting links that might do nasty things to the computers of the unsuspecting. It will also munge things like javascript:foo (see how it added all those underscores?), which could actually contain nasty code.
I don’t know why an about: link would be targeted for mangling, however. Probably some exploit I’ve never heard of was based around a malformed about: link.