[dba-Tech] MS patches Scroll out of IE

F:

Thanks for the rundown.  I did load it on machine #2 and it looked quite
good.  SO maybe I'll go over and also load Pegasus and K9.  Do you know if
you can you import your address book from OE to K9?

R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francisco H Tapia" <my.lists at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS patches Scroll out of IE


> For starters, *Security* I mean if that "IS" a priority.
>
> Next... automatic (non-third-party) popup killer blocking.
> Tho it's not an automatic default, I added the scripting (copy & paste)
> needed for disabling ad-banners in web pages.
>
> before the scripting, the browser loaded fast.  In fact I notice that it
> loads in many cases faster than IE.  After the adjustment w/ the no
> ad-banners, it loads even faster (pages) than IE.
>
> Next, Tab browsing.  Default tab browsing is awesome, kinda like in
> Opera if you've ever used that.  The neat feature he is you can open
> multiple tabs w/ difrent content.... This is handy if you ever wanted to
> open another page (follow a link) and keep your old page open w/o
> opening another instance of the browser.  Let's say ebay, you can open
> multiple items but keep the initial search page.
>
> Enhance that Tab Browsing w/ tab extentions and now you're really
> cooking :D.  You can UNDO a closed tab, you can save your web session.
> Say you get called into a meeting, you can close your browser save the
> session and return to it w/o having to bookmark the page you were
> reading. Additionally you can "duplicate" pages so you can follow
> diffrent links or what ever other reason you'd want to have a duplicate
> of a page.
>
> And the most awesome feature I like... it's got the best compatibility
> than any other browser and yup I'll throw in IE in there too.  I'm
> plauged w/ a ton of ActiveX scripting errors when I open IE. of course
> it depends on what page I visit but I'll get these errors even when I
> visit MS content.  To that I say phoey... I use Firebird cuz it'll
> render "Just about any page" out there.  Sure some don't render, but
> that's a rare occasion, and usually it depends on some mis-written tag.
>   But you hardly run into that problem...
>
> The newest plugin faq setup allows your firebird setup (registry keys)
> to be updated to recognize real, quicktime and flash (to name a few) so
> it's not like you have to do a-lot of setup. and yes it's still RC I'm
> using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b)
> Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+ (aebrahim)
> But I like to keep up w/ the latest and the greatest cuz there really is
> nothing wrong w/ .6
>
> lastly I liked how all my favorites were easily imported to firebird.
> :)  and while I Don't like that the favorites are now centerilly
> organized in firebird, I do like easily getting to my book marks via the
> customizable toolbar (yes just like in IE).
>
> if you like skins for your browser to make it look more XPish just load
> that particular skin :D.
>
> You really don't have to use it Rocky, but I do think that if you give
> it a chance you will be impressed, and you might acctually say good bye
> to IE. and you'll probably get a good chuckle the next time you see
> another IE security vulnerability patch :). (like I did today).
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> -Francisco
>
>
> Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software wrote:
> > Loaded it, ran it.  Looks functional.  Why is it better than IE?
> >
> > Rocky
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Francisco H Tapia" <my.lists at verizon.net>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS patches Scroll out of IE
> >
> >
> >
> >>http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
> >>
> >>Load it, Try it... and say good bye to IE :)
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>-Francisco
> >>
> >>
> >>John W. Colby wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>So that's what's causing it!
> >>>
> >>>8-(
> >>>
> >>>John W. Colby
> >>>www.ColbyConsulting.com
> >>>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> >>>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
> >>>Tapia
> >>>Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:12 PM
> >>>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> >>>Subject: [dba-Tech] MS patches Scroll out of IE
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>For those still doing windows update, and only visiting for CRITICAL
> >>>updates for IE, here is something to consider....
> >>>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12698
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>
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