Mozilla Firebird

If only I wasn''t so lazy...eventually...I promise.

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Wow.

I wanna see a screen of it!

Is it much better than, say, Galeon?

I agree. I downloaded it a couple of hours ago actually, and this browser is staying. It's like Mozilla, but it's FAST. Firebird will replace mozilla as their main browser in a few months time, so Mozilla users may have to switch at some point anyway.

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[edited by - benjamin bunny on May 17, 2003 1:29:50 PM]

Dled it, no install? Anyway, melikes. Now to import mozilla favorites...somehow...

The prefs folder is created when you run it the first time. It''s in Docs and Settings/[your profile]/application data/pheonix. You can just copy bookmarks.html straight over from the mozilla directory. I''m not sure which of the other files are compatible.

are Mozilla themes compatible? if not, are there plenty of themes for it already out there?

Ok, I downloaded it, and I am posting this from Firebird.
The first problem I noticed is that bellow the profile/register/bookmarks/active topics/etc. menu there is a grey/yellow line, under each icon.
Also, if I click on the input form, like now, and then I use the scrollwheel, it doesn''t work, I have to click outside the form first.
A 3rd problem is that, under Windows, the Firebird''s window has no custom icon, so it shows that ugly, windows default icon.
Now, i have to test it and see how much it crashes, etc.

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I get the mozilla icon.

Holy cow, this is a fast browser! Yay!

Remember that you can use about:config in the address bar to fiddle with lots of options (like turning on "find everything" for type-ahead find instead of just links).

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Form auto-complete is still an unstable feature and may lead to crashes.
Disabling of form auto-completion is not working.

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I think I''ll wait untill they work out some of the bugs.

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Original post by Raduprv
Ok, I downloaded it, and I am posting this from Firebird.
The first problem I noticed is that bellow the profile/register/bookmarks/active topics/etc. menu there is a grey/yellow line, under each icon.

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Yeah, it''s there in mozilla too. Its just about the only thing I''ve noticed which doesn''t render properly, and I''ve been using mozilla for a few months now. It could just as easily be a problem with Gamedev.net''s HTML code as a bug in Mozilla/firebird.

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Also, if I click on the input form, like now, and then I use the scrollwheel, it doesn''t work, I have to click outside the form first.

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Works fine with on my machine. The only time I''ve had tempramental scroll-wheel support was before I installed the driver for my mouse. Perhaps this is your problem.

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A 3rd problem is that, under Windows, the Firebird''s window has no custom icon, so it shows that ugly, windows default icon.

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Odd. It looks fine on my machine (see the screenshot).

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Original post by Alimonster
Holy cow, this is a fast browser! Yay!

Remember that you can use about:config in the address bar to fiddle with lots of options (like turning on "find everything" for type-ahead find instead of just links).

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I tried that, but there is no help on those options, and most of them are not that obvious.



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Features/shortcuts for those who''ve not used a Mozilla-based browser before:

CTRL-T opens a new tab (you can also double-click an empty part of the tab area to open another one)
CTRL-W closes the current tab
CTRL-Page Down or CTRL-Tab moves to the next tab
CTRL-Page Up or CTRL-Shift-Tab to go to the previous tab

Remember that you can block images by right-clicking on them and selecting "block images from this server" (and unblock them in the same way).

Type-ahead find rocks -- use it! Just start typing away and it''ll get matched + highlighted (so you can press return to follow it if a link). It only finds links by default but you can change it to use all text in about:config. You can find link text by pressing the '' character and normal text with the / char. Use CTRL-G to go to the next match.

Press F7 to toggle caret browsing. This lets you select text like a word processor and copy it.

You can drag and drop links into the tab area to load it up in a new tab. Get used to right-clicking and selecting "load link in new tab" as well. Tabbed browsing is sooooo good.

Can''t think of anything else at the moment...

Hmm, this default windows icon really looks ugly. Do you have a .ico file, somewhere in it''s directory?
What I did was just unzip it, and run MozillaFirebird.exe

Maybe I did something wrong? *shrug*

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Original post by mittens
The only major problem I have so far, is that the browser doesn''t support the little middle-button scroller thing (you know, when you press the middle button, and a little circle appears, allowing you to move your mouse up/down to scroll). Other than that, I really love Firebird. It''s teh purdy.

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Try this extension: http://autoscroll.mozdev.org/index.html

I''d recommend working your way through some of the other extension available (http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html) to configure the browser to act exactly how you want it as it can really increase your effeciency.

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Original post by Raduprv
I tried that, but there is no help on those options, and most of them are not that obvious.

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Yeah, it's a pity that it's not as easily configurable as the standard Mozilla. However, I think that most of its default settings are fine (note: I don't have a mouse scroll wheel, so I can't comment about that part).

[edited by - Alimonster on May 17, 2003 2:08:40 PM]

tip: set load browser.tabs.loadInBackground to false if you want to actually view a new tabbed page when you middle-click.

Does anyone know how to stop it auto resizing images? That feature really annoys me.

I had the name Firebird first!!!