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starwarsdad

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another Firebird user.

I still use IE6 when I am working. We develop a web app that builds dynamic PDFs. For some reason, Firebird "caches" (for lack of a better description) the PDFs and does not show changes made when a new window is opened.

If it weren't for that, I would not use IE at all.
 

Sanchez

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:light:

Here Another One Vote: Am I a impressive ? yah ! Vote Mozilla Firebird browser

Neat !

Not alike of M.S. IE-6 Duh ? weak security hole !
 

Slickone

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Originally posted by: Sanchez
:light:

Here Another One Vote: Am I a impressive ? yah ! Vote Mozilla Firebird browser

Neat !

Not alike of M.S. IE-6 Duh ? weak security hole !

? :confused:
 

bleuiko

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I just switched to...

FIREBIRD!!!

It is soooo great.... I am a big fan of Opera and just picked up Firebird like a week ago. Now i'm switching my work browser over too. Man, Opera was fast, but it got to feeling a little bloated after a while. Firebird is great, and if you ever want all the other nice stuff, just install a new extension! I have 5 choice extension and now my broser is perfect. I believe firebird is faster than opera too!

bleuiko
 

BoomAM

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Opera 7.23
Fcuking rules.
Especially the ability to use my mouse`s middle click as "open page in background" in Opera, in combination with AutoScroll with the Logitech drivers. Very cool.
 

Kinesis

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I have a hard time choosing. Mozilla or Opera. I love the grouping of several tabbed webpages under one bookmark in Mozilla, but I can' treally hold that against Opera (for not having that ability).

Right now, Opera is definitely on par with Mozilla in my opinion!

 

boran

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Originally posted by: BoomAM
Opera 7.23
Fcuking rules.
Especially the ability to use my mouse`s middle click as "open page in background" in Opera, in combination with AutoScroll with the Logitech drivers. Very cool.

man, I feel stuipid now, never knew about that middleclick open in background thinggie, you made my life just like infinitly easier :D

/me hands BoomAM a :beer: :D
 

BoomAM

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Originally posted by: boran
Originally posted by: BoomAM
Opera 7.23
Fcuking rules.
Especially the ability to use my mouse`s middle click as "open page in background" in Opera, in combination with AutoScroll with the Logitech drivers. Very cool.

man, I feel stuipid now, never knew about that middleclick open in background thinggie, you made my life just like infinitly easier :D

/me hands BoomAM a :beer: :D
As long as its Guiness....lol.

 

screw3d

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Originally posted by: BoomAM
Opera 7.23
Fcuking rules.
Especially the ability to use my mouse`s middle click as "open page in background" in Opera, in combination with AutoScroll with the Logitech drivers. Very cool.

My Firebird also works this way, but I don't know if it is built-in or if it's from the All-in-One Gestures extension :confused:
 

Slickone

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Originally posted by: screw3d
Originally posted by: BoomAM
Opera 7.23
Fcuking rules.
Especially the ability to use my mouse`s middle click as "open page in background" in Opera, in combination with AutoScroll with the Logitech drivers. Very cool.

My Firebird also works this way, but I don't know if it is built-in or if it's from the All-in-One Gestures extension :confused:
My Netscape 7.1 (moz 1.4) does that too. :) Also you can right click then left click to go back a page. Or do the opposite. Also there are some click/scroll things you can do while holding down Ctrl, etc, but I can't remember them. It's got a lot of little handy things like that.
 

sak

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I use MyIE2 althought lots of you recommend firebird. I guess i'll give that a try as see

but MyIE2's pop up really works well does firebird have that?

TIA
 

ClueLis

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Originally posted by: sak
I use MyIE2 althought lots of you recommend firebird. I guess i'll give that a try as see

but MyIE2's pop up really works well does firebird have that?

TIA

Pretty much all non-IE browsers have that feature.
 

Spudd

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I just tried the latest FireBird, and it's nice and all, but it loads pages noticeably slower than IE 6. :confused:
 

Sid59

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Originally posted by: Spudd
I just tried the latest FireBird, and it's nice and all, but it loads pages noticeably slower than IE 6. :confused:

what's the rest of your hardware?
 

Spudd

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Originally posted by: Sid59
Originally posted by: Spudd
I just tried the latest FireBird, and it's nice and all, but it loads pages noticeably slower than IE 6. :confused:

what's the rest of your hardware?

Oops, sorry about that.

Athlon XP 2200+
512 MB DDR PC2100
120 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM w/ 8 MB cache
128 MB DDR Radeon 8500
1.5 Mbs aDSL FastAccess (BS)
Windows XP Pro w/ all updates


Thanks. :beer: