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just installed mozilla, wats are some things i should do now?

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Originally posted by: DrVos
I had to associate ctrl+scroll down with back, but thats good enough for me.
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Might want to try out Optimoz from Mozdev. Its a plugin that gives Mozilla gestures support (if you have played Black & White, you know what gestures are).
 
Originally posted by: nord1899
Originally posted by: DrVos
I had to associate ctrl+scroll down with back, but thats good enough for me.
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Might want to try out Optimoz from Mozdev. Its a plugin that gives Mozilla gestures support (if you have played Black & White, you know what gestures are).
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BRILLIANT! It works great! Thanks.
 
back button? i have that and i dont' even use it... just right click then flick my wrist... its not hard at all...

also... ctrl and - or =(+) is awesome.
 
Originally posted by: nord1899
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Scripts&Plugins. Clear the first four or five checkboxes and never deal with popups again.
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Beat me to it. But that's all Mozilla is good for in my personal opinion.
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Tabbed browsing is the other big thing I love.

Set tabs to load in background. Middle click (push down on the wheel), load up the thread in the background while you scan for other threads to read. Very nice.
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yep. I just LOVE that feature. it's awesome when you read a website, come upon an interesting link, you just open it in the background and keep on reading the original page. In IE, it would pop up a new window over the original one, distracting me.

And I just love the pop-up blocking, banner-ad blocking... I haven't yet tried the mouse gestures, but I loved them in Opera, so I would love them in Mozilla as well 🙂

Mozilla 0wnz j00!
 
If Mozilla is like Netscape, it uses only one file, COOKIES.TXT for all cookies. If you make that a zero byte read only file, and set it to accpept all cookies, you can go to almost any site that requires cookies and never get any. 🙂
 
Lots of good things about Mozilla/Phoenix, it's still got some quirks/downsides but it's a MUCH better browser than it used to be, IMO.
 
Originally posted by: Harvey
If Mozilla is like Netscape, it uses only one file, COOKIES.TXT for all cookies. If you make that a zero byte read only file, and set it to accpept all cookies, you can go to almost any site that requires cookies and never get any. 🙂
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Actually Netscape is like Mozilla and of course the trick with setting cookies.txt read-only works. Also,
Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy and Security -> Cookies -> Limit maximum lifetime to current session
does the same trick. There is a Tools -> Cookie manager that may be useful if you want to keep some cookies and refuse others (of course to certain extent this can be done by editing cookies.txt).

Edited: Try different themes: View -> Apply theme -> Get new themes.


 
Hmmm, makes me want to try Mozilla......should I go for Mozilla or Netscape? Or are they virtually the same thing?

EDIT: Oh, and what version of Mozilla is better? :\
 
Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Originally posted by: jliechty
Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Uninstall it. Install Phoenix.
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*Ahem*
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leeching bandwidth and acting like a tool, all in a few keystrokes *applause*
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Neffing multiple times and offering no valid reasons why the author should try an alternate program that s/he is probably not even interested in trying. *applause*

To make this post useful, I will suggest that the original poster go to Edit > Preferences > Navigator > Tabbed Browsing and uncheck "Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open" - this will keep the height of the web page display area from bouncing around unnecessarily as you open and close tabs. I also find the download manager quite annoying, and prefer to check the "Open a progress dialog" option under the Navigator > Downloads instead.
 
Originally posted by: MrCraphead
Hmmm, makes me want to try Mozilla......should I go for Mozilla or Netscape? Or are they virtually the same thing?

EDIT: Oh, and what version of Mozilla is better? :\
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I was under the impression that Netscape uses the Gecko part of Mozilla to render web pages, and I suppose (due to the visual similarities) that the projects share other code as well. Netscape, however, is owned by AOL, and the last time I installed Netscape, I think it put plenty of unnecessary AOL icons on my computer (or was that Winamp that loaded those icons?). Mozilla is my favorite, because it does seem to be a little less bloated than Netscape. Note well that I haven't tried a new Netscape since version 6 - the latest 7.x series might be better.

Edit: To answer your question that you edited in, use the latest stable version of Mozilla. Some of the must-run-the-absolute-latest-bleeding-edge-alpha-version geeks here will try to convince you that the nightly builds from CVS (Code Version System?) are best, but if you just want easy, trouble-free, and crash-free browsing, stick with a stable release (which at the moment happens to be 1.2.1).
 
Originally posted by: Harvey
If Mozilla is like Netscape, it uses only one file, COOKIES.TXT for all cookies. If you make that a zero byte read only file, and set it to accpept all cookies, you can go to almost any site that requires cookies and never get any. 🙂
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ln -s /dev/null cookies.txt
😀

That middle-click to close a tab doesn't work for me though?!?
 
MrCrapHead: About the only "advantage" with NS 7.0 is "Netscape Radio" IMO. Was nice for a week, but not nice enough to prevent me from going to Mozilla.
 
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