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Giving Firefox a shot as well...

Following Jason Alexender's suggestion to give Firefox a shot, I figured why not. I like a fast, light weight web browser. IE had never really bothered me though. Our internet connection is pretty fast, so things always came up quickly. I never had a problem with any security holes and never worried about them. And memory footprint was an afterthought since I have a gig of RAM and there is always enough free.

Though I must say that I do like Firefox, if only for the tabbing support! It is kind of nice, like last night when I had two Visual Studio sessions open, Enterprise Manager, an IM window, Remote Desktop, and had 4 browser tabs in one window. Able to minimize the clutter on the taskbar, somewhat.

It also has a nice download manager and has a status bar pop up when downloads are completed like with Outlook 2003 when new email is recieved. Though I just noticed that the textbox for posting in .Text is not the fancy one you get in IE. Doesn't matter though, I hated that thing. :) Ahh! But it means I have to put in manual line breaks!
Posted: Feb 18 2004, 09:02 AM by qgyen | with 2 comment(s)
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Aki Björklund said:

I guess it's the rich edit feature that is missing from .Text on Firefox. Mozilla browsers has it too under the name of Midas, but the usage is a bit different. Anyway, .Text coder is to blame, not Firefox, since at least one free implementation of a cross-browser rich text editor does exist.
# February 18, 2004 1:53 PM

Jason Alexander said:

Oh dude, use Blogjet (http://www.blogjet.com) to post to your blogs. It's super pimp.
# February 18, 2004 5:40 PM
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