Mozilla Firebird

[GamesCreation]

I was just wondering if and who anyone else used this browser. I switched to it from IE and I've been happy with it's better security and extensions and features. I love tabbed browsing, and the web developer toolbar and the adblocking extensions I couldnt live without

 

[HS Nick]

I just stick with IE, you know i have used it before as well as tons of others, but i am use so acustom to IE that it feels wierd using anything else.

 

[GamesCreation]

I know what you mean, which is why I got the IE skin for firebird. Turned on a few toolbars, downloaded google toolbar then felt right at home

I still use IE too though, for testing purposes and sometimes I prefer it. Just wish I could keep the favourites synced

 

[HS Nick]

Can you post a screenshot of firebird with the IE skin?

i am curious what i looks like.

thanks

 

[GamesCreation]

I dont have the IE skin at the moment (upgraded computer) but firebird looks pretty similar to IE. See the screenshot

My links bar (same as IE) is blurred though to protect my privacy

 

[gooooogle]

I use the apple produced Safari application.

 

[GamesCreation]

Can you post a screenshot of what that looks like?

 

[BlackStorm]

I really like firebird, thats what i use most of the time
have a few problems sometimes so use IE too

 

[gooooogle]

Even though you can't see it on this screen shot it also supports tabbed browsing.

 

[HS Nick]

I figured out what make me like IE so much!

I decied its the icons for the buttons. Like the back/forward/stop/home/refresh/favorites

i just like the look of the icons

 

[GamesCreation]

Firebird doesnt seem to like Java much, even with Sun Java installed. That's my main problem with Firebird

 

[GamesCreation]

You can get new skins for firebird here if you dont like the firebird icons:

http://texturizer.net/firebird/themes/

 

[HS Nick]

Yea i could but..... why bother when IE does what i need? what did Firebird have that made it better?

 

[GamesCreation]

Just look at all these extensions:

http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/

Some of them make browsing so much nicer

For example. since moving to firebird, I havent seen a single ad or popup

 

[HS Nick]

Wow theres alot of them..

 

[GamesCreation]

And some of them are really good.

The adblock one I couldnt live without.
Advanced tabbed browsing is good too.

 

[HS Nick]

can you please explain to me what tabbing browsing is?

Thanks

 

[GamesCreation]

Where you can browse all in the same window, and each tab is a different page. Makes going through pages a lot easier

 

[HS Nick]

OH i got it. Well its kinda like that with IE i think.

Because you can have multiple windows open at a time and just click "Tabs" in your taskbar.

I am understanding the concept right?

 

[GamesCreation]

Not as good though. For example, yuo can create tab groups, middle click links to open them in a new tab (IE open all the topics in tabs then reply to each one easily), it doesnt take up taskbar space when multiltasking, and there are loads of options you can set, IE block all images on this tab, block CSS on this tab, block refer on this tab, stop activeX etc.