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Mozilla Firebird 0.6 clips remaining wings of IE 6.0

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flap:
Why use opera for the multi-tabbing when firebird and mozilla have it?

Laukev7:
Opera has mouse gestures (Mozilla only has it as an add-on, and is copied on Opera), fast forward and rewind buttons (similar to Safari's snapback, but in both directions), customisable interface (you can place the address bar, navigation bar, tab bar, etc. at the top or the bottom), can import bookmarks from Konqueror, Explorer and Mozilla/Netscape, and has more skins available for it than Mozilla. Also, it's just as fast as Mozilla.

Xenoran:

quote:Exploder does not even come close to any other browser, it is complete and utter shite and yet, go try and convince a Window$ user to at least try another browser and they are like "Oh no, I like Exploder, I don't want to change and besides everybody else uses it.". What a loadyshite. I still find it hard to convince people away from Exploder and Lookout. What is wrong with them ?
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I've learned one secret that will keep just about any idiot away from IE... tell them about the security exploits, THEN translate it into plain english - "If you browse porn and warez sites with IE, you may get a virus or worm or have a hacker get into your system." After that, converting them is easy.

I've found the browser that flows the easiest with them is Firebird, it's extremely slim and fast and it also resembles IE ever-so-slightly. Now, if they really can't stand change, I usually find that Mozilla with a spoofed IE startup screen and the Internet Explorer 5 skin will work wonders.

Oh, and one other tip for converts... even if they are well aware that it's not IE, use TweakUI to remove the IE icon from their desktop (in Win2k and below) and give Firebird/Mozilla's shortcut the IE logo. Somehow they just can't seem to associate icons by name, only by appearence.

jasonlane:
IE is a standards breaking pile of steaming crap that ain't worth the man hours or disk pace it steals.

I have one machine with IE on for  testing work, othet than that I won't allow it infect my net work.

istruthfull:
Being one of those people who are in the process of converting I ran into a problem using mozilla and mozilla firebird and a dislike. The problem was I couldn't log on anywhere unless I excepted cookies. Whether I excepted them all or only for a session they stayed with me after I went off line. Having IE makes me look over my shoulder all the time. And the dislike is that I couldn't customize the tool bar the way I wanted to. Reading the post here gives me the idea to try opera. Shame about the cookie problem(probally operator error) cause firebird was fast..real fast compared to snail IE. Is there away around the cookie problem and will my system go haywire if I remove IE and outlook express completely(don't trust miscrosoft at all, trust microsoft=oxymoron)

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