Fans of Firefox

[Glen Miyashiro]

Firefox 1.0

Internet Explorer has dropped below 90% of the browser market, mostly due to the success of Firefox. But does this mean that virus writers will start targeting Firefox as well as IE? Keep your software updated, folks!

[adrian]

Re: Firefox 1.0

I just hope that portable firefox will be updated as well.

[adrian]

Portable firefox

Yes folks, the best browser available is now available for your USB flash drive for firefox anywhere there's a computer, a USB port, and an internet connection.

Portable Firefox is a .zip file that is available at the link, and you just have to unzip it onto your USB drive and you can now use it anywhere you go.

That site also has link to Mozilla's Thunderbird, its open source email client to allow you to check your email (if you know how).

The best has gotten better!

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: Portable firefox

Cool. So if you use this on a public machine, do you leave cookies behind? Or are they all kept on the USB drive also?

[adrian]

Re: Portable firefox

Cool. So if you use this on a public machine, do you leave cookies behind? Or are they all kept on the USB drive also?

It looks like it doesn't, but if you check the website, then it'll show that some things does get written to the local hard drive (but it looks harmless).

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: Fans of Firefox

I just discovered the extremely useful BugMeNot extension to Firefox. How great is that?

[adrian]

Re: Fans of Firefox

I just discovered the extremely useful BugMeNot extension to Firefox. How great is that?

Thanks for reminding me to install it.

[cezanne]

Re: Fans of Firefox

Would I be able to still do online banking stuff via Firefox? I have no idea what it means but you know how sometimes its a requirement to have that 128-bit encryption deal on your browser.

Also, I remember when for some reason I switched my default browser from Netscape to IE, the mess I made of converting my email folders to be read by IE.

Is it easy to convert to Firefox?

[Linkmeister]

Re: Fans of Firefox

It's a snap to convert. It'll import your old bookmarks, too.

And I don't know about other banks, but I've had no trouble with online banking at BOH.

[Konaguy]

Re: Fans of Firefox

Its a snap to convert and I can easily do my online banking through Firefox
too .

[cezanne]

Re: Fans of Firefox

Thanks. I went to the links provided earlier in the thread and I guess Firefox is just the browser. Did anyone convert to their email client too (Thunderbird)?

If I'm thinking of going with FF because of the popups, spyware, etc associated with IE. Would it make sense to use the FF browser and keep Outlook Express?

[Konaguy]

Re: Fans of Firefox

Yes I have converted to the Thunderbird mail client. It is really easy to use
Highly recommended to switch from OE to Thunderbird .

[cezanne]

Tabbed browsing?

The Firefox install went without a hitch and it was pretty automatic. It really cleaned up my browser screenspace... I like the "little" space that the google search box now shares on the toolbar.

Anyway, what is tabbed browsing? Do I have to activate it? I saved some of my main bookmarks to the toolbar... is that what it is? I was thinking that it was more of a per session feature.

Also, I'll be checking out the extensions. I'm confused, are they made by the makers of Firefox or by fans of the browser?

[Konaguy]

Re: Fans of Firefox

The tabbed browsing does not be activated, nor its the bookmark toobar. Just right click on the browser window
and select new tab.

The extensions are made by individuals not necessarily affliated with Mozilla. Hence the term Open Source.

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/ex...ation=firefox/
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650
http://forums.mozillazine.org/
http://themes.mozdev.org/xml/themeli...erbird&num=all
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/ex...n=thunderbird/
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/
http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/...oxtweak/4.html

[Miulang]

Re: Fans of Firefox

Three more bugs have been discovered in Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7.5, the latest releases from the Mozilla Foundation. The bugs have been fixed, but you can't download a patch, and the next release of Firefox, which was scheduled for March, has been delayed until June.

"The flaws, all of which involve some user action, can be used by hackers to drop code onto a PC, muck with the about:config element of the browser, or steal cookies that, for instance, provide instant access to protected Web sites.

"If you create a hybrid of a .gif image and a batch file you can trick Firefox," claimed the German researcher identified only as "mikx" by Danish security firm Secunia, in his original warning of one of the bugs. ..."



Miulang