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By Mark on Monday 9 February 2004 at 09:57
A while back I posted this about Mozilla FireBird; a new version has been released.
The guys building it have had a few problems with the name, and so it's been changed to FireFox, but it's still the same quality product. I'm using it as my main browser both at home and at work, and I think you should too, because:
- It's faster
- It adheres to the W3C web standards reccomendations (which might not mean a lot to you now, but just wait till all us web designer types start building pages in XHTML and CSS)
- It has tabbed browsing, which is a life-changing experience in terms of the way you use the web
- It has lots of useful features (like a built-in download manager), but doesn't install loads of pointless rubbish onto your computer
- I said so
So there you go. Click the “Get Firefox” button above to go and download it.
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3 comments:
On Monday 9 February 2004 at 10:22, Matt said:
I concur: “open in new tab” is the best idea since the internet started.
I'm glad they've made a proper version - have you noticed in FireBird there are notes to the programmers? (For example: Tools, options, privacy, download manager history - “XXXben-blake, we need at the very least a toggle here, probably a retention window as well”.)
And are you sure I won't be the subject of outrageous amounts of spyware or adware, as happened when I originally installed FireBird?
On Monday 9 February 2004 at 10:50, Mark Bell said:
Yeah, I suppose I should make it clear that this isn't actually a finished product: there are bound to be bugs like the one you mention! However, when you find a bug you can post it on the forums, and it's likely to get fixed within a week (try doing that with Microsoft)!
I'm surprised about the adware thing though... I've never had any problem, and as the project is open-source it doesn't have any reason to try and get away with stuff like that.
Plus, Firebird as it was didn't even have an installer (you just unzipped it to a folder), so there's not really any way it could have put spyware onto your machine... are you sure it wasn't a coincidental install with something else (like Kazaa, that's the worst EVER)?
On Monday 9 February 2004 at 11:42, Matt said:
Hmm, no installer eh? The copy I got came as an .exe file, but I seem to remember downloading it off a mirror site. That'll probably explain it. But I narrowed it down to FireBird - nothing else was installed that day. Yeah I've heard many bad things about Kazaa too.
I didn't realise it was open-source. How very public spirited.