[AccessD] OT: New Browser

hi John,

as a browser, firefox is as good as feature complete and will allow a full
web experience without any of the addons. i use only one add-in for improved
security concerning cookies, the cookie culler.
if you start comparing with other browsers such as opera, yes then you would
need an addon to be able to use mouse gestures for example.

the bug you're referring to was a very old shell exploit that has recently
been rediscovered and patched within a few hours(!) of rediscovery with the
newest version 0.9.2
but every version can also be manually patched by creating/setting the
boolean network.protocol-handler.external.shell configuration to false in
the about:config page of firefox or donwloading an xpi addon.

in short, for the moment firefox is pretty much exploit free, and providing
an excellent and stable browsing experience. also, afaict the mozilla people
have learned from the somewhat problematic upgrade from 0.8 to 0.9 and this
will be improved accordingly  in the next release, no doubt.

my advice, get it and don't look back.

greetings, pieter.

-----Original Message-----
From: jwcolby
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: New Browser

To all the firefox users...

The two reasons I decided against that browser were that reviewers said you
had to find and install add-0ns to make it fully functional and that
upgrades hosed those add-ons and made you re-install them.  Also some kind
of bugs just recently (in the last month) making it flaky.

Any comments on that?

John W. Colby 
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart McLachlan
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: New Browser

On 16 Jul 2004 at 23:43, jwcolby wrote:

> I downloaded Opera today, to start evaluating alternative browsers.  
> I'll be downloading mozilla next.  Firefox appears from what I am 
> seeing to be still in beta.
> 
> Anyone care to answer a poll:
> 
> Of those who use an alternative browser (not IEX) what browser do you 
> use?
> 

Firefox.  I love it, especially the multiple tabs and the download manager.

WRT it's beta status, there seems to be a developing trend, especially in
Open 
Source, for software to remain "in beta" for years. 

In the case of Firefox, it's because they have a very clear roadmap  with 
milestones.    In their case, beta doesn't mean "buggy", it means "not all
the 
planned features of ver 1.0 are in place yet".   

I've certainly found it to be very stable.