Web browsers

[Greg]

Are any of the Firefox geeks here also using Thunderbird 1.0 as an Email client? Is so, how is it?

 

[hammer]

I use Thunderbird at home to connect to my work e-mail account. It's pretty good, although I have had some problems when typing e-mails where the text I've typed in doesn't appear.

I haven't installed any extensions yet, so I can't comment on those.

 

[bvibert]

I downloaded one the beta versions a while back and it looked nice, but I don't have a need for an email client. Here at work we use Outlook which seems to work well enough for its purposes. For my personal emails I use the web based interface so that I can get at my emails from any computer. I get a 2 GB mail box on Yahoo as part of my SBC-Yahoo DSL so that works out fine for me...

If I do, however , find myself needing a new email client I'll try Thunderbird first.

 

[Stephen]

at least no one on here is using 133t speak, then we might have some real issues

D0n't kn0ck l33tn3ss. 1t's th3 b0mb!

St3ph3n 4k4 ub3r-4lp4h-G33K

P.S. 4ll y0ur b4s3 4r3 b3l0ng t0 us.

Note: Written at 25% leetness.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/leet.php

 

[Greg]

Perhaps Google is interested in Firefox?

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/developer/google-firefox-goodger-39995.html
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=29996

 

[bvibert]

Interesting, I wonder if it means anything or maybe the guy just wanted to work at Google?? A partnership between the two companys would be interesting...

 

[riverc0il]

i tried thunderbird and didn't like it. i used outlook and outlook express and like them A LOT more than thunderbird which has a ways to go, imo.

 

[riverc0il]

P.S. 4ll y0ur b4s3 4r3 b3l0ng t0 us.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

thought i'd seen the end of that.... whatever you want to call it, years ago!

 

[dcarbs]

just got firefox, like it a ton more than ie

 

[MichaelJ]

I made the progression. I gave up IE a long, long time ago when they started doing ActiveX support. That's when I went to Netscape. Then I left the Windows world for Linux and continued to use Netscape. When Mozilla came out I switched over, but it was pretty bloated and so I quickly switched to Galeon as soon as it came out. Galeon was a light wrapper around Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Finally, I switched to Firefox.

What a tale of software woe, though, as they keep reinventing the wheel. I hope that with Firefox they'll just stick with it and not move on to something else.

And the BBCode extension is very, very, very cool!
:mrgreen:

Hmm ... except it doesn't have the same set of smilies... :roll:

 

[ALLSKIING]

I was using IE but changed to Opera six months ago. I will be checking out fire fox soon.

 

[bvibert]

And the BBCode extension is very, very, very cool!
:mrgreen:

Hmm ... except it doesn't have the same set of smilies... :roll:

I've noticed that too... but its still pretty cool!

 

[riverc0il]

ALLSKIING, i switched from IE to opera before switching to firefox... overall, firefox is a better browser than opera, imo, and not having to look at the ads in the free version is a plus too.

 

[ALLSKIING]

ALLSKIING, i switched from IE to opera before switching to firefox... overall, firefox is a better browser than opera, imo, and not having to look at the ads in the free version is a plus too.

You will be happy to know that I just downloaded it.

 

[Greg]

And the BBCode extension is very, very, very cool!
:mrgreen:

Hmm ... except it doesn't have the same set of smilies... :roll:

I've noticed that too... but its still pretty cool!

Yeah - looks like it uses BBCode for vBulletin which is a bit more prevalent than phpBB.

Anyone have problems where the copy function randomly stops working in Firefox? I've seen this happen on a number of machines. Restarting the application clears it. The weird thing is the cut command works all the time... :blink:

 

[bvibert]

Anyone have problems where the copy function randomly stops working in Firefox? I've seen this happen on a number of machines. Restarting the application clears it. The weird thing is the cut command works all the time... :blink:

I haven't noticed any problems, I copy stuff quite often. Are you using the menu, right click, or ctrl+C?

 

[Greg]

Anyone have problems where the copy function randomly stops working in Firefox? I've seen this happen on a number of machines. Restarting the application clears it. The weird thing is the cut command works all the time... :blink:

I haven't noticed any problems, I copy stuff quite often. Are you using the menu, right click, or ctrl+C?

Typically Ctrl-C, but I've noticed that if this starts happening, the Copy command from the Edit menu is greyed out... :blink:

 

[bvibert]

The only thing I could find after a quick search of the MozillaZine forums is a reference to the "Auto Copy" extension causing problems. You don't happen to have that extension installed do ya? Other than that make sure you have all the current updates. If it keeps causing problems you could always post a question on the support forums...

 

[riverc0il]

i haven't had any issues with copying. i use both right click and the key board short cut. hopefully the person that created the extension can add phpBB smileys to the menu.

 

[ctenidae]

I don't know if I' jsut not doing any of the high-level super l33t type stuff online, but I switched from IE to Firfox about a month ago, to see what the hype's all about.
Net difference noticed so far: 0%

Well, except it seems to take about 3 times as long for Firefox to startup than IE, but that's probably my computer. It's old and decrepit.