June 19, 2003

FireBird: I'm converted

Well, Arcterex converted me this morning back to a Mozilla environment. I have stayed away from Mozilla, as it has had HUGE issues with file associations with a multi-user system such as XP's fast-switching services.

My wife likes IE and when I installed Mozilla it would keep fighting with her to become the default browser, did weird things to her account to a point I was screamed at to uninstall it. Of course I complied, but with it went my Mozilla.

Today I have been working on my company web pages and need to test it in other browsers. Arc was getting bored with helping me with screenshots in Galeon, and gave me a download link to FireBird.

A single click and I was able to install Mozilla Firebird into my user dir without the need of a Windows system dir, and it's working flawlessly. So good in fact I am blogging with it :) Now I get tabbed windows, popup ad-blocker etc all back, without my wife fretting about Mozilla issues.

Just to stress test it I took a few moments at lunch to check out if QT worked. It does. See for yourself..... and enjoy this new Tomb Raider trailer. Can't wait to see that in theaters!

Posted by SilverStr at June 19, 2003 12:09 PM
Comments

Please tell me you at least installed a pop up blocker in IE for yer wife.... and are going through an ad blocking proxy of some sort. I don't think I'd survive this ugliness they call the www w/o those things.

Posted by: Arcterex at June 19, 2003 02:34 PM

And so starts his slow path back to the side of good.

I say this while typing on my XP laptop :-(

Posted by: raskal at June 19, 2003 08:58 PM

I switched over to using Mozilla when I started working at my new job. We are converting a product over to web based and utilizing Mozilla with Venkman is the way to go for debugging JavaScript. Since then I have totally converted over to Mozilla and haven't looked back!!

Posted by: scoobyd at June 19, 2003 09:59 PM

I switched all my IMAP email from Outlook 2002 to Mozilla Mail and didn't look back. Now I'm running both at the same time, because $$client runs Exchange for their internal mail :-(

I haven't tried Mozilla/Ventman for debugging since Mozilla doesn't support XML databinding, but on the IE side, Visual Studio / Interdev should be able to debug as well.

Posted by: Wim at June 20, 2003 12:28 AM

Has anyone else noticed any weirdness with the Tomb Raider Link? In IE the link actually comes on the sentence Can't wait to see that in theaters! and the same in Opera, In Galeon there is no link at all. And in Mozilla 1.3.1 there is no link either.

Posted by: Bear at June 20, 2003 11:19 AM

Fixed. My bad. One thing I lost with FireBird is the nice HTML toolbar MT provides, which I normally use for setting URL links. I forgot the '>' symbol, and it put browsers outta wack.

Posted by: SilverStr at June 20, 2003 11:23 AM

No Problem. I never thought to check the page source. I just thought it was some weird browser quirk.

Posted by: Bear at June 20, 2003 02:46 PM

I'm running both Outlook and Mozilla mail. Both of them when they start nicely ask "do you want to make me your default email program", so I select the "don't ask me again" checkbox and hit the Yes button. I've done it every single time, and yet it always asks "make me your default??" ARGH.

Posted by: Wim at June 21, 2003 02:09 PM