Mozilla again

Clarence Wilson · Post by **Clarence Wilson** » 5 Jul 2004 3:46 am

7/3/2004

As a person who has had a computer since I built my first one and populated it with 64 m of memory, finally,
and had to learn machine language to use it, before there was a Microsoft, I am interested still in computers
and have two full blown units sitting within 7 feet of each other. One of which I use for music and the other ,
this one, I have connected to the internet.

My thoughts on Internet Explorer. Like most things Microsoft, it was stolen from another browser, and is a pain,
to say the least. I advise every one to go to Mozilla. It is free and does everything that you want in a browser.

Go to Add or Remove programs and go down the list to the bottom and you will find a sizeable list of updates,
which are meaningless to us mortals, but I suspect they are new adds disguised as updates. They are installed
there automatically, so we have no control over them. As long as you use IE, you are at the mercy of these
so called updates.

If you install Mozilla, you are no longer bombarded with the ads. Initially, you will not have all of the Bookmarks
you have under IE , but some will be brought over to the new browser, and the rest will build up as time goes on.

Mozilla is associated with AOL, but forget AOL, if you can. I belonged to AOL long before it was called AOL and
naturally I came over to AOL. As time goes by, I became dissatisfied with it and left right after b0b did and joined
the forum which he started soon after leaving.

Mozilla serves me well. It isn't commercial inspired as yet.

Yours;
CEW

Bill Bosler · Post by **Bill Bosler** » 5 Jul 2004 5:31 am

Opera is another good browser. It's also free.

William Peters · Post by **William Peters** » 5 Jul 2004 6:29 am

Clarence,

When you say mozilla, are you talking about the original Mozilla, or the new Firefox? I switched to Firefox, and love it. I tried Opera too, but you have to pay to get rid of the ads they stick on the tool bars. (at least thats the way it was when I tried it.)

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Bill

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Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 5 Jul 2004 6:49 am

Some observations---there are a few things about IE that I miss. I suspect that in their quest to be user friendly and to own the world they compromised security to that end. Give the people a neat bell & whistle, don't worry about the vulnerability it creates.
I'm not a tech at all so I'm just guessing.
I'm still finding font size to be a minor issue. It doesn't seem to hold settings from one window to another, from once session to another. Not a big deal. A two finger keyboard selection.
I run AdAware frequently. It ALWAYS found stuff to delete before. Now with Firefox there seems to be very little adware penetration! Scans are coming up empty! I didn't expect that. Cool.
I expect that any other comfort issues regarding IE vs. Mozilla will just be a question of old habits dying hard, new ones coming slow. Basically, no regrets (until hackers get bored and decide to go after Mozilla) and for anyone else considering changing over, I was concerned about unforeseen technical problems coming up to make me regret mucking around with my system but in fact it went smoothly and simply--no unexpected pop-up questions that confuse you, not being sure whether to select "OK" or "cancel".

Clarence Wilson · Post by **Clarence Wilson** » 5 Jul 2004 1:43 pm

I use the original Mozilla. Didn't know about Foxfire until recently. Have no reason to change as of now. I still have Opera, tried it, but forgot to erase it, it seems.

I have a rant concerning RealPlayer, which I reinstalled just to download some of the Record
Lady's songs. It will be gone again, soon, too.

CEW

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Bob Lawrence · Post by **Bob Lawrence** » 11 Jul 2004 2:10 pm

Computer users seek options to fight hackers
By Scott Morrison in San Francisco
Published: July 11 2004 20:23 | Last Updated: July 11 2004 20:23

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087373636937

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Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 14 Jul 2004 5:24 pm

After a browser hijack I had to wipe my hard drive and start over, saving the data and re-loading the programs onto a new hard-drive.
And switch browsers to Mozilla.

MSIE is THE portal for crap on the internet. Hackers everywhere hate MS and write their viruses for IE and Outlook.

better days,
Drew

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Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 15 Jul 2004 1:46 pm

A side note----I never did solve my problem of losing my Forum cookie every time I rebooted. Had to sign in and reselect my forum options after rebooting. But now with Mozilla (I wish someone would fix the title of this thread--I keep thinking of Moesha, whoever that is) I have no such problem. The only issue is that my online banking and bill paying doesn't recognize Mozilla so I have to open an IE window for that.

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 16 Jul 2004 3:28 pm

Title fixed.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 17 Jul 2004 6:28 am

Hmmm ... I use Mozilla for my banking all the time ... and have for at least 2 years ... ?

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Gary Shepherd · Post by **Gary Shepherd** » 17 Jul 2004 8:32 am

I just downloaded Mozilla FoxFire and installed it. Because of security issues, I think I'll try it for a little while. I've been getting a lot of viri lately. I just wish there was some way to move the toolbar up like I can do in IE6.

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Gary Shepherd

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