Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:
> 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.

I am no Mac expert, but doesn't it reboot when you turn it off and back 
on?  Didn't know they rom'ed the OS in the G4....

> 
> 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.

Make Firefox your default browser, and this will be corrected.  Also 
make Thunderbird your default mail/news program.

> 
> 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.