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 | <cs1jtc$ffv3__13173.3722090305$1105482720$gmane$org@ripley.netscape.com> |
Ron Hunter wrote: > 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 out of date control panel which was updated as soon as the problem was 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.... Actually when you start up from a power Off, that's considered "Cold Boot". A restart is where the system for what ever reason restarted with a key combination (such as ctl-alt-delete on PC) get it out of system hang. Or you install software and the software install requires an automatic restart to engage the new file, components, and features. > >> >> 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. w -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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>