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2006-11-05 Science & Technology

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I miss Mosaic.

Mozilla has this weird animal name scheme for stuff. There's Firefox, and a mail thingy called Thunderbird. How long before there's a Moonbat?

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-11-05 02:47|| 2006-11-05 02:47|| Front Page Top

#2 How long before there's a Moonbat?

The browser which crashes your computer and burns the HDD when you try to open a conservative website!

Btw, I'm not at all a tech-savvy guy, I used Mozilla/Firefox for quite a while, excellent browsers, especially with all the extensions, the only thing I didn't like was that the saved webpages have their "html" names, but for a little over a year (IIRC), I've been using Maxthon, which I really like.
I've tried Opera after having it promoted here, nice too, but in fact, since I'm stuck in my habits, I only use it to download the odd webpage IE (and thus Maxthon) won't save on my PC, like some php forum threads.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-05 08:52|| 2006-11-05 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 But in no time, I started questioning the old ways why, for instance, was "print" under "file" and not "view"?

Because "print" has been under "file" for the last 20 fricking years.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-11-05 08:56|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-11-05 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 So how do I install it under WINE?

Posted by 3dc 2006-11-05 12:02|| 2006-11-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll take Firefox over that slow memory hog IE any day, especially with the Fasterfox, Adblock,and NoScript extensions.

Posted by Darrell 2006-11-05 12:14|| 2006-11-05 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 If your buttons don't work - its most likely due to the webpage designer using some non-standard 'extension' (read Internet Explorer) then the browser.

Of course the best thing about standards is that there are so many of them!

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-11-05 12:59|| 2006-11-05 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 IE7's biggest flaw to me is not opening new links in new tabs. It does seem to start up much faster than Firefox on my machines.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-05 14:08|| 2006-11-05 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Angie: the latest Mozilla browser is called SeaMonkey :-)

Posted by James">James 2006-11-05 20:05|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-11-05 20:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Angie: the latest Mozilla browser is called SeaMonkey :-)

I knew there was another one, but I couldn't think of it. All I remembered was that it was aqueous in some way.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-11-05 21:26|| 2006-11-05 21:26|| Front Page Top

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