Firefox Poll

[alexander]

What do you think of Mozilla Firefox?

Please answer honestly, and if you choose "I still use IE" or "I use another browser" it would be great if you could share with us which browser and your reasoning behind the answer if you can/want.

[Stargazer]

It's my current main browser. I started out with Netscape in the mid-90s, continued with IE3-6, then Opera and now Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is great but it's memoryhungry for some reason, and don't seem to release memory right away after I close a few tabs, so I sometimes have to close it down and restart it altogether. I have too little RAM anyway...

[Freethinker]

Well I started with Mosaic. Didn't have a choice, it was all there was at the time. Was a Netscape user from their first one. Very sorry to see AOHell buy them. Very glad to see Mozilla rise out of the ashes. Never used IE except when forced to. Have used Mozilla for years now. (FYI Firefox is a Mozilla product). I have installed Firefox and intend to play with it. But as mentioned, like Opera (which I play with) it is strutured towards Tab browsing. I prefer multiple windows, which is Mozilla's orientation. But they do both, just a matter of the interface layout.

We ahave steared most of our customers to Netscape or Mozilla, though now towards Firefox. I prefer to stear them to Netscape or Mozilla because of E-mail client integration. Got to get users away from Outlook/Express. Though the easy of virus infection in M'soft garbage like Outlook and IE do generate many billable hours for us.

NOTE: my "Other" vote did not register.

[Freethinker]

It did that time.

[GAHD]

Lol, I won't get too far back in history, but my old browser was telnet. Ahh the jois of dial-up BBS.

Nowadays Firefox is the way to go.

[Tormod]

Firefox gets my vote, both on PC and Mac.

[alexander]

if you want to go back to command line, use lynx displays everything in text, no mouse, gotta tab through things, comes standard with linux!

I used netscape until IE 5 came out, than that was the bomb until i got sick of microsoft and went to mozilla, now Firefox is the way to go.

Opera is another cool browser, then there was talk of Dillo, if you have little resources i'd recommend checking it out! (its like 743K)

[Freethinker]

Originally posted by: GAHD
Lol, I won't get too far back in history, but my old browser was telnet.

Telnet is a process or defined standard, such as ftp is. Telnet was for working remotely (tel"e"...) in a network (...net) Yes there are telnet programs, (terminal emulation) just as there are ftp programs. While "browser" does define a specific type of software.

browser - Short for Web browser, a software application used to locate and display Web pages.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/b/browser.html

Yes one could use terminal emulation to log into a web server and view the text. This was common in early shell accounts into the Net.

Ahh the jois of dial-up BBS.

Yes I ran a number of them back in the day and had the world's largest in my backyard. Sure wouldn't want to deal with an accoustic coupled dialup today!

[alexander]

using telnet to view a website
Follow these 10 easy steps.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type 'cmd'
4. Press Enter
5. Type 'telnet www.hackthissite.org 80'
6. Press Enter
7. Type 'GET /index.html HTTP/1.0'
8. Press Enter
9. Press Enter
10. View Web-Page

or

1. Start, Run, type "cmd" , then hit Enter
2. Type "telnet" and hit Enter
3. You will have a prompt showing Microsoft Telnet>
4. Type in set "localecho" then hit Enter
5. Type "open" and hit Enter
6. Type "www.hackthissite.org 25" and hit Enter
7. Type "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0" and hit enter
8. View the page

And lynx is a very good browser for servers! (since servers arent supposed to be running GUIs), its small, open-source and freely available for everyone who runs a real server (and that excludes any MS based product).

[alexander]

From wiki:
By extension, telnet is also the name of a program that a user can use to invoke a Telnet session to a remote host; the telnet program provides the client part of the protocol. Telnet clients have been available on most Unix systems for many years, and are available for virtually all types of computers.