Your opinion: Firefox+Thunderbird or Mozilla Suite?
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Another vote for the suite.
The only feature that I really like in Firefox and miss in the suite is form auto-completion, but that's hardly enough to make me switch. I prefer the way the suite handles tabs, the address bar, prefs, the sidebar and so on. In fact, I even find the Firefox installer to be annoying, as it makes parallel installations more difficult (but that's really nitpicking).
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The only feature that I really like in Firefox and miss in the suite is form auto-completion, but that's hardly enough to make me switch. I prefer the way the suite handles tabs, the address bar, prefs, the sidebar and so on. In fact, I even find the Firefox installer to be annoying, as it makes parallel installations more difficult (but that's really nitpicking).
Prog.
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Dunderklumpen wrote:Get Multizilla - you then can have a button that will create a new tab for you in the toolbar.
With FireFox no extension is needed to get this. Just right-click on your menubar or one of your toolbars and select "Customize". You will then have the option to drag n drop a "new tab" icon onto your menubar or one of your toolbars.
Personally, I have only the main menubar visible and I have hidden all of the toolbars.
Being able to move the "back" "forward" "refresh", "stop", and "new tab" buttons, as well as the address bar, onto the main menubar made this feasible. With all of that on the menu bar, the toolbars became redundant and I could thus hide them. I did the same sort of thing in Thunderbird.
This is great for me because I only have a 17" monitor and I don't want to waste valuable vertical screen space with all of those stupid toolbars. With Mozilla, this is not an option because toolbar and menubar customizability is essentially non-existent.
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Rob_Stow wrote:Dunderklumpen wrote:Get Multizilla - you then can have a button that will create a new tab for you in the toolbar.
With FireFox no extension is needed to get this. Just right-click on your menubar or one of your toolbars and select "Customize". You will then have the option to drag n drop a "new tab" icon onto your menubar or one of your toolbars.
This is great for me because I only have a 17" monitor and I don't want to waste valuable vertical screen space with all of those stupid toolbars. With Mozilla, this is not an option because toolbar and menubar customizability is essentially non-existent.
That was one function, among many that you get with multizilla.
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Dunderklumpen wrote:http://multizilla.mozdev.org/features/index.html
Thanks.
BenoitRen wrote:Only a 17"-inch monitor? Why the hell is that small? I have a 15"-inch monitor and it's big enough.
Oh, once you get a... say 21" monitor, you will say that a 15" and probably also a 17" monitor is small.
What will happen next? You never know.
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I prefer the suite.
I used Mozilla until Phoenix 0.4 came out. I changed because of loading times and other speed issues. When Firefox 0.8 came out, the Download Manager made the browser unusable. I went back to the suite to find that all the speed issues had been resolved and the browser was just amazingly awesome. I'm using 1.8a right now and I'm really loving it.
I used Mozilla until Phoenix 0.4 came out. I changed because of loading times and other speed issues. When Firefox 0.8 came out, the Download Manager made the browser unusable. I went back to the suite to find that all the speed issues had been resolved and the browser was just amazingly awesome. I'm using 1.8a right now and I'm really loving it.
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Mezziah wrote:Oh, once you get a... say 21" monitor, you will say that a 15" and probably also a 17" monitor is small.
That's not my point. It's as if you're saying that a 15" monitor is small and shouldn't be used, and that having toolbars on your screen affects how much the toolbars bother you or not.