People that use IE...are just....

[dighn]

nooo another convert 🙁

 

[simms]

While I'm at it any plugins i should install?

 

[ElFenix]

damn, looks like they took out the search sidebar. i really liked that. its view menu, sidebar

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
damn, looks like they took out the search sidebar. i really liked that. its view menu, sidebar

i have 0.6.1 and the search bar is right next to the url box

 

[simms]

Hmm. One more problem - I have Logitech KB software that I use, so when I press a button it loads up AT. However when I now press the button it does nothing - so how do I make it work with FBird? If I change it to run the executable, how would I pass variables in the command line to run FBird with the URL forums.anandtech.com?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: simms
While I'm at it any plugins i should install?

the plug-ins faq link in the links bar tells you how to install flash/pdf

and the "extensions" page under preferences has a link to the exnteions you can download.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: ElFenix
damn, looks like they took out the search sidebar. i really liked that. its view menu, sidebar

i have 0.6.1 and the search bar is right next to the url box

thats not the sidebar. in mozilla 1.3 if you search google it opens up up a sidebar on the side that has links to all the results from the first page of your search, so you can go between them without going back to google.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: simms
Hmm. One more problem - I have Logitech KB software that I use, so when I press a button it loads up AT. However when I now press the button it does nothing - so how do I make it work with FBird? If I change it to run the executable, how would I pass variables in the command line to run FBird with the URL forums.anandtech.com?

i tried mozillafirebird.exe http://www.google.com and it worked

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
thats not the sidebar. in mozilla 1.3 if you search google it opens up up a sidebar on the side that has links to all the results from the first page of your search, so you can go between them without going back to google.

heh that's kinda neat. can't find that in firebird.

oh well doesn't matter to me b/c i'm sticking with ie

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: simms
Hmm. One more problem - I have Logitech KB software that I use, so when I press a button it loads up AT. However when I now press the button it does nothing - so how do I make it work with FBird? If I change it to run the executable, how would I pass variables in the command line to run FBird with the URL forums.anandtech.com?

i tried mozillafirebird.exe http://www.google.com and it worked

thanks. 🙂

 

[simms]

Ad-blocking doesn't work with Proximitron and Fbird! 🙁 I get the advertisement banner on the left side again. :|

 

[dxkj]

heh, I just decided to download mozilla FB because of this thread.... someone gave me the link and I overcame my laziness

 

[SyahM]

I hate mozilla, it takes an awful slow time to create its instance plus the interface is dull. I've used IE mainly cuz it support CSS the best but now I'm an Opera fan. Faster browsing, faster neffing here with the quick reply, pop-up blocker and pretty interface. I use Opera on both WinXP and Linux.

Now i'm off to compile new 2.6 kernel .

 

[Kilrsat]

Dumb or not, they're still the majority, at least from my webstats.

July 2003 -

1 14484 30.37% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
2 3752 7.87% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
3 2387 5.00% PHP/4.2.2
4 1919 4.02% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1
5 1797 3.77% FAST-WebCrawler/3.8 (atw-crawler at fast dot no; http://fast.
6 1504 3.15% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
7 1396 2.93% Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/cat; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi
8 1374 2.88% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
9 1199 2.51% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Vacation R
10 1144 2.40% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; YComp 5.0.
11 804 1.69% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
12 665 1.39% Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/si; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.
13 485 1.02% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
14 455 0.95% Mozilla/3.01 (compatible😉
15 434 0.91% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 8.0; Windows NT 5.1)


August 2003 -

1 8781 14.31% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
2 8593 14.01% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
3 8369 13.64% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
4 8322 13.57% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BTopenworl
5 2255 3.68% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Hotbar 4.3.2.0
6 1847 3.01% Mozilla/5.0 (Slurp/cat; slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi
7 1664 2.71% PHP/4.2.2
8 1426 2.32% FAST-WebCrawler/3.8 (atw-crawler at fast dot no; http://fast.
9 1024 1.67% Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)
10 984 1.60% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
11 930 1.52% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; YComp 5.0.
12 884 1.44% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
13 863 1.41% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
14 767 1.25% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
15 739 1.20% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
really dumb....

anybody else noticed this trend? 😕

You must be l33t

 

[Zenmervolt]

Correlation is not causation. Remember that IE captures not only the market of techies who know what they are doing and want to be running IE, but also the market of people who can barely turn on the computer. Since the other browsers require more knowledge to acquire them, they weed out the basic users from their user base. If Firebird or Mozilla or whatever were included in the basic build of machines then you'd see a lot more idiot users of those browsers.

ZV

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Correlation is not causation. Remember that IE captures not only the market of techies who know what they are doing and want to be running IE, but also the market of people who can barely turn on the computer. Since the other browsers require more knowledge to acquire them, they weed out the basic users from their user base. If Firebird or Mozilla or whatever were included in the basic build of machines then you'd see a lot more idiot users of those browsers.

ZV

Bingo. The only dumb person in this thread is Nuclear, as usual.

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: simms
Ad-blocking doesn't work with Proximitron and Fbird! 🙁 I get the advertisement banner on the left side again. :|

Use this page to help set up your own ad blocking scheme. The only thing is that you have to create the UserContent.css file yourself.

While I'm at it any plugins i should install?

If you still want the google bar, despite the search box included, try this. It's a ported version of the bar.

I'm also a fan of Tabbrowser Extensions.

 

[krackato]

Googlebar for Mozilla Firebird

 

[LAUST]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Correlation is not causation. Remember that IE captures not only the market of techies who know what they are doing and want to be running IE, but also the market of people who can barely turn on the computer. Since the other browsers require more knowledge to acquire them, they weed out the basic users from their user base. If Firebird or Mozilla or whatever were included in the basic build of machines then you'd see a lot more idiot users of those browsers.

ZV

Bingo. The only dumb person in this thread is Nuclear, as usual.

I 3rd that and 2nd the other 😉

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: ClueLis

Originally posted by: simms
Ad-blocking doesn't work with Proximitron and Fbird! 🙁 I get the advertisement banner on the left side again. :|

Use this page to help set up your own ad blocking scheme. The only thing is that you have to create the UserContent.css file yourself.

While I'm at it any plugins i should install?

If you still want the google bar, despite the search box included, try this. It's a ported version of the bar.

I'm also a fan of Tabbrowser Extensions.

Where is the userContent.css file?

Also, try the mouse gestures for FB, it's pretty damn cool.

 

[Indolent]

Autoscroll is useful. It's the same thing IE has with holding down the middle mouse button to scroll faster on the page.

And SmoothWheel is self explanitory. Makes the page scrolling less jerky.

 

[Descartes]

Firebird is my primary browser, but there are many sites that simply refuse to function without IE.

 

[krackato]

What sites refuse to work without IE? I know Buymusic.com, some of the Microsoft sites.... I use Firebird 99% of the time. But even with IE I kept Netscape around just in case IE wasn't working.

 

[ClueLis]

Originally posted by: OulOat

Originally posted by: ClueLis

Originally posted by: simms
Ad-blocking doesn't work with Proximitron and Fbird! 🙁 I get the advertisement banner on the left side again. :|

Use this page to help set up your own ad blocking scheme. The only thing is that you have to create the UserContent.css file yourself.

While I'm at it any plugins i should install?

If you still want the google bar, despite the search box included, try this. It's a ported version of the bar.

I'm also a fan of Tabbrowser Extensions.

Where is the userContent.css file?

Also, try the mouse gestures for FB, it's pretty damn cool.

You have to create the file from scratch in your profile folder (although there is a "userContent-example.css in the folder that you can just rename).