Mozilla Firefox

Etienne d'arden · Post by **Etienne d'arden** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:39 pm

Recently a friend of mine suggested me to change the browser from IE to the newest version of Mozilla - Mozilla Firefox. I must say it's better and everything, blocks pop ups, ads and spyawares. But when I browse your portal, I get a weird problem. Note, that when I visit the other sites which also use a phpbb2 portal thing, I dont get the problem.

Anyway, here you have my d.net main page:

Devil fish · Post by **Devil fish** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:47 pm

I have received the same problem a few times but it is not a big deal actually...

Dodgy · Post by **Dodgy** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:26 pm

Actually Mozilla and Firefox are different things even if they are developed basically by the same people. Mozilla offers email client, IRC client and so on while Firefox is only a browser. Anyway, it doesnt really matter to this. Your problems happens with normal Mozilla also. Just click refresh (F5) and it looks normal again if you need to read the front page...

Sir fragile · Post by **Sir fragile** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:10 pm

I have Firefox, and get the same thing.

Darkprincess · Post by **Darkprincess** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:52 pm

I use Firefox and the same thing happens to me. (only in windows though - the Linux version is better behaved). Try refreshing the page, that usually fixes it. Compared with the crap that is Internet Explorer, this is a very minor problem indeed.

Mildly irritating, but thats all

Etienne d'arden · Post by **Etienne d'arden** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:14 pm

Yeah, no doubt I can live with that. And I'm glad It's not something more serious

Oloth · Post by **Oloth** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:21 pm

Just refresh it and it will be ok. Its a minor problem and by now the only one I have also experienced with firefox. no big deal!

Anaryin · Post by **Anaryin** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:47 pm

Yeah, it's kinda boring but "usually" (not always) the refresh works. By the way, when reading/sending PM's, beware, sometimes the Mozilla browser crashes

Use IE to do it

Anaryin

Post by **Sneaky** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:23 pm

I use Firefox and don't get that problem. Are you sure you have the latest version? They've fixed up a bunch of those problems.

I much prefer Firefox, but it annoys me that I don't get my PM and Reported Posts popups.

Post by **Sneaky** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 10:24 pm

Dodgy wrote:Actually Mozilla and Firefox are different things even if they are developed basically by the same people. Mozilla offers email client, IRC client and so on while Firefox is only a browser. Anyway, it doesnt really matter to this. Your problems happens with normal Mozilla also. Just click refresh (F5) and it looks normal again if you need to read the front page...

The full name for the Firefox broswer is in fact Mozilla Firefox. He didn't make a mistake.

Vampire master morph · Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:52 pm

I think Mozilla firefox is great!,i downloaded it..its much better than IE...

Morph

Darkprincess · Post by **Darkprincess** » Fri Aug 13, 2004 11:59 pm

Firefox is the latest in a long line of browsers from Mozilla. They used to go under the Mozilla name, but since they started producing other software, such as the Thunderbird email program, they've used the Firefox name for the flagship browser. You can still get the older Mozilla browsers which work well on older computers. Firefox is functionally equivalent to IE6, and a bit of a resource-hog - although it will run happily on systems that won't even install IE6 (like this one

)

The Mozilla software is based on Netscape, and anybody who has ever used Netscape (as I did in the days when IE didn't exist and Bill Gates branded the internet as a "passing fad that will never catch on"), will be right at home with Firefox.

It has excellent pop-up blocking - far better than any third-party blocker that I've seen, is resistant to browser hijacking, most spyware won't work with it and it doesn't integrate into the OS, making it inherently far more secure than IE.

Without a doubt the best browser I've ever used (and I've been on the internet for over 12 years now). There's even versions for Linux (so I don't have to get used to using different browsers when I boot-swap the OS) and I believe a mac version too.

Post by **Sneaky** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:44 am

Mozilla is originally a Linux browser, darkprincess, that's why there are "versions" for it. It is a fully open source browser, so anyone who can code and wants to fix bugs are free to do so.

By the way, I disagree on the resource hogging point (although I'm on a pretty good machine: Athlon 2500 processor and a ATI Radeon 64 MB graphics card = :mrgreen:

), but I disagree mainly because my MSIE has a tendency to freeze up after a few minutes of websurfing (even on Hotmail.com,

).

Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Firefox. It is the l33t br0ws3r :mrgreen:

!

Anaryin · Post by **Anaryin** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:27 pm

Sneaky wrote:Mozilla is originally a Linux browser, darkprincess, that's why there are "versions" for it. It is a fully open source browser, so anyone who can code and wants to fix bugs are free to do so.

By the way, I disagree on the resource hogging point (although I'm on a pretty good machine: Athlon 2500 processor and a ATI Radeon 64 MB graphics card = ), but I disagree mainly because my MSIE has a tendency to freeze up after a few minutes of websurfing (even on Hotmail.com, ).

Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Firefox. It is the l33t br0ws3r !

Well, you can always go to the options and add www.druchii.net to the allowed popup sites

However it seems to fail once-in-a-while

As for my version, yep, it's the latest. It happened again right now, that thing of PM's.. the thing just crashes... oh well.. but the browser is very good actually

Post by **Sneaky** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:52 am

It's still in its beta versions, I think, so we can only be patient.

Nagathi · Post by **Nagathi** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 12:51 pm

I believe it is v.0.9.1 or similar. As soon as it hits v.1.0 it is technically not in beta anymore (by usual computing terminology).

- Nag

Post by **Kitrik** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:17 am

I use Firefox as well actually and have been having this problem for some time. I've just learned to live with it as the Home Page is pretty worthless... Once phpBB 2.2 comes out (the group who makes it guarantees a 2004 release...) then I will be programming a new home page so just learn to live with it for a few more months!

Kitrik

Loran · Post by **Loran** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:10 am

Sneaky wrote:I much prefer Firefox, but it annoys me that I don't get my PM and Reported Posts popups.

Go to the Options-menu and there to the Web Features... there you can add sites that will be allowed to open popups. That's what I've done with a few sites

Cheers
Loran

Post by **Sneaky** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:16 pm

Loran: Thanks, I did that, works perfectly.

Kitrik: Glad to hear we've got the support for a REAL browser. Every other site I go to seems to use MSIE or Netscape. *shudder*

Nagathi · Post by **Nagathi** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:28 pm

Well, I did add druchii.net as a "secure" site for PMs, but it still doesn't work. It's no big deal, I've learned to live with notifications long before I got FireFox anyway.

- Nag

Sha'a'alaar · Post by **Sha'a'alaar** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:24 am

I'm just pleased to see that so many of us use Firefox (hope you have their e-mail client. Thunderbird, too).

Sha'a'alaar

Morfeusz · Post by **Morfeusz** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:10 am

I use Mozilla (not Firefox) and have the same problem, though I believe it didn't happen some time earlier. But I'd like to mention another issue a bit annoying - in IE when you put the mouse pointer over text in recent topics, it stops scrolling. In Mozilla it moves anyway, so you have to be quick to open all you want...

Nagathi · Post by **Nagathi** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:13 pm

morfeusz wrote:I use Mozilla (not Firefox) and have the same problem

What part of Mozilla are you using? Firefox is their browser, and if you got the same problem you must be using the browser.

- Nag

Sha'a'alaar · Post by **Sha'a'alaar** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:24 am

@Nagathi

They do a number of software applications. Firefox and Thunderbird are the stand-alone browsers and e-mail clients. BUT they also have Mozilla which is an all-in-one (their description: "Web-browser built for 2004, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple.").

Check out www.mozilla.org for more info.

Sha

Nagathi · Post by **Nagathi** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:08 pm

sha'a'alaar wrote:@Nagathi

They do a number of software applications. Firefox and Thunderbird are the stand-alone browsers and e-mail clients. BUT they also have Mozilla which is an all-in-one (their description: "Web-browser built for 2004, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple.").

Check out www.mozilla.org for more info.

Sha

As far as I can tell, the program "mozilla" is just a package of all their programs (where Firefox would be their browser).

- Nag