Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows |
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| Organization | VPEA |
| Message-ID | <crugf5$6cd1__44654.0141049356$1105381019$gmane$org@ripley.netscape.com> |
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Ed Mullen wrote: > >> In a world of 1+ Gig processors, 512 Mb of RAM and standard 120 Gb >> drives, the disk and memory footprint differences are not functionally >> significant. > > > Nonsense! Or at least it's been my experience that people who think in > such a way are of two varieties: Either they don't use their computer > for much or they are constantly complaining how slow their computers are > and/or rebooting. Actually, I think that way, I use my Computer every day (including Sat and Sun). I don't think my computer is slow (G4-500 with 1.5GB system RAM). (I use think it was slow when I was using ppp on Dialup.) And I rarely reboot if ever reboot. In fact since switching to OSX3.x I've rebooted once. and that was the first day I switched, because of an out of date control panel which was updated as soon as the problem was found (the same day). Most days I turn computer on at about 7-9 in morning and remains on until 9 at night. For me FireFox and Mozilla take no more time to boot up and get started that I can discern. To me except that .001% of the time, I miss the features in Mozilla when using FF. The biggest problem I have with the FireFox/Tbird combo is that if you click a mailto: link in FireFox it opens Mozilla to a Blank URL in Mozilla's Navigator section then switch to mail and news and opens a blank email page. If you click a URL in Tbird it opens Mozilla. There should be a preference setting in the preferences that says "all mailto: links should open the the following mail client" and Tbird should be one of the choices; in FireFox. and in TBird there should be in preferences "All URL links email text should be opened in" and FireFox should be the choice. If those two changes were made I would consider the possibilities. Right now this makes using FF/Tbird combo a PIA. Both programs should allowed to override Systems settings as related to their actions. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[email protected], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:[email protected] <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm> <http://home.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm> <http://vpea.exis.net>