How is Firebird "better" than IE?

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: ClueLis

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Ah yeah, can't forget Ctrl+R, Esc, and alt+left/right. I didn't know about the "/" to find text on a page, that kicks ass!

You can also go into about:config so that it always searches text.

Nah, I like it searching for links. The only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to skip ahead to the next match..

edit: Ctrl+G

 

[capybara]

i dont have my link to "32 unpatched security holes in IE"
its probably on my computer at work, where i most use .......firebird, of course!
ps - i recently DL sp1a for IE6. it had the negative result of stopping my mouse from working.
grrrr!

 

[capybara]

http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-040.asp
m$ has just (10-3-03) patched SOME of those holes!

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: capybara
i dont have my link to "32 unpatched security holes in IE"
its probably on my computer at work, where i most use .......firebird, of course!

There was just a story on slashdot about that page going away.

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: fredtam
Also the increase text size is great when my eyes get tired.
Ctrl +/-

Cool! Thanks for that, I too occassionally need to enlarge stuff.

You can also do it by Ctrl & Scroll up/down on the mouse.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: fredtam
Also the increase text size is great when my eyes get tired.
Ctrl +/-

Cool! Thanks for that, I too occassionally need to enlarge stuff.

You can also do it by Ctrl & Scroll up/down on the mouse.

That doesn't work for me, but that might be because I'm using Mozilla and not Firebird.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: fredtam
Also the increase text size is great when my eyes get tired.
Ctrl +/-

Cool! Thanks for that, I too occassionally need to enlarge stuff.

You can also do it by Ctrl & Scroll up/down on the mouse.

That doesn't work for me, but that might be because I'm using Mozilla and not Firebird.

You can configure what the mouse wheel does in preferences.

 

[Ferocious]

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I select world, one minute, and 41 frames.......and IE6 is consistantly 10% faster than Firebird. (cache cleaned)

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: fredtam
Also the increase text size is great when my eyes get tired.
Ctrl +/-

Cool! Thanks for that, I too occassionally need to enlarge stuff.

You can also do it by Ctrl & Scroll up/down on the mouse.

That doesn't work for me, but that might be because I'm using Mozilla and not Firebird.

You can configure what the mouse wheel does in preferences.

Duh! Thanks for the reminder, got it working now.

 

[dukdukgoos]

This list is old, but still relavent. It compares Mozilla 1.2 and IE6. The latest FB is based off of Mozilla 1.5.

101 reasons why Mozilla>IE

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: dukdukgoos
This list is old, but still relavent. It compares Mozilla 1.2 and IE6. The latest FB is based off of Mozilla 1.5.

101 reasons why Mozilla>IE

don't you mean .. the latest mozilla 1.5 is based of Firebird?

 

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: Sid59
don't you mean .. the latest mozilla 1.5 is based of Firebird?

That is how it was supposed to happen, but they couldn't make the change in time. See the updated roadmap.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz

Originally posted by: Sid59
don't you mean .. the latest mozilla 1.5 is based of Firebird?

That is how it was supposed to happen, but they couldn't make the change in time. See the updated roadmap.

ahh ok .. ill go and find it.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz

Originally posted by: Sid59
don't you mean .. the latest mozilla 1.5 is based of Firebird?

That is how it was supposed to happen, but they couldn't make the change in time. See the updated roadmap.

It won't be happening for a long while. The current state is a mess too... some code is partly shared... for example, all the quicklaunch code is present, it just can't be accessed in firebird. Right now, building firebird requires all of the mozilla source code, plus two extra directories.