FireBird is a great browser !!!

flexy

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yeah, nothing else to say.

It rocks !!! Faster 'feel' and etc....cool !

Btw.....i never saw the 'quick reply' feature ever since i am on AT using IE, and with FireBird i all of a sudden have that feature...



greets

(using XP Pro btw.)



 

xSauronx

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love firebird and thunderbird

didnt like IE that much, and always hated outlook. was using pegasus mail until i got a hold of thunderbird
 

flexy

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actually i like FB that much that i just changed my sig :)
Especially how you can configure and expand FB with all that extensions...great !
Just wish that google toolbar extension (not the one already integrated) for FB would be in the SAME row like the adress bar (DUH !!), a MUST.....and maybe a bit better integration of FlashGet.
Otherwise i am very happy with it !!

Spread the word :)

 

flexy

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why is outlook bad ?
I never tried ThunderBird btw....does it also do newsgroups ?

greets

 

Doh!

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Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Whatever you do, don't use the firebird tab extension, it makes it slow to a crawl.

I've never experienced any slowdowns w/ TBE installed. Are you using the latest? (Oct. 2 version).
 

FriedToast

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I was liking FB a lot, but the yesterday and today, it's been having a serious case of the jitters and it annoyed me to the point of going back to IE 6. But I couldn't do w/o tabbed browsing, so I went w/ Mozilla 1.4. It's not perfect, either, but it'll do until they get FB straightened out.

 

ClueLis

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Originally posted by: flexy
actually i like FB that much that i just changed my sig :)
Especially how you can configure and expand FB with all that extensions...great !
Just wish that google toolbar extension (not the one already integrated) for FB would be in the SAME row like the adress bar (DUH !!), a MUST.....and maybe a bit better integration of FlashGet.
Otherwise i am very happy with it !!

Spread the word :)

You can move around objects on the toolbar by right-clicking it and selecting "customize." I don't know for sure if it works with the Google Toolbar, but you could give it a shot.
 

CTho9305

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Originally posted by: flexy
why is outlook bad ?
I never tried ThunderBird btw....does it also do newsgroups ?

greets

Why is Outlook bad? Did you miss what happened to the source code of Half-Life 2? Using Outlook gets your computer hacked and all your secrets stolen. Yes, Thunderbird and Mozilla's mailnews do newsgroups.
 

Antisocial Virge

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I have Opera, firebird and thunderbird all installed :) I use Opera mainly just becuase there is no easy way to get Opera bookmarks over into FB.
 

crapito

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hmm... i am going to have to check out Firebird once it goes live (ie 1.0 version). looks nice. i've used Mozilla, which is good, but not enough to replace IE.
 

CTho9305

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Originally posted by: capybara
is it a leaner + faster version of mozilla browser?
gotta try it !!!

It's slightly leaner. It's actually slower now because it lost QuickLaunch.
 

thornc

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CTho9305, have your tried one of the custom builds like aebrahim's?? This are quite fast!!
 

CTho9305

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Originally posted by: thornc
CTho9305, have your tried one of the custom builds like aebrahim's?? This are quite fast!!

I build my own because I test patches in bugzilla before they get committed. Still, I don't perceive it as being faster than Mozilla for browsing. Can you post the contents of "about:buildconfig" (copy that to your address bar) for his build?
 

ClueLis

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Originally posted by: CTho9305
Originally posted by: thornc
CTho9305, have your tried one of the custom builds like aebrahim's?? This are quite fast!!

I build my own because I test patches in bugzilla before they get committed. Still, I don't perceive it as being faster than Mozilla for browsing. Can you post the contents of "about:buildconfig" (copy that to your address bar) for his build?

He supplies various optomized builds, including -O6, -O7, SSE, SSE2, and many other combinations thereof. If you have a relatively recent computer, chances are one of his buillds will fit your system.
 

CTho9305

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MSVC builds don't go beyond "-O". I was under the impression that above -O3 produced a lot of horked builds with gcc anyway.
 

capybara

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works great for windoze, too. im using it right now with win2k.
and none of the security flaws that internet exploder has.
dont believe it? use internet exploder, run netstat -a.
then use firebird, run netstat -a. youll see the difference !