Posted by BrendaTX on 12/15/04 3:23pm
Msg #13711

Foxfire

Is anyone else using it?

You can get it from www.mozilla.org .

Comments, anyone?

Reply by Nd_WA on 12/15/04 3:54pm
Msg #13713

Foxfire was on the national news either from CNN/MSNBC about a month ago. Foxfire was developed by a group of computer student from some universities with a quest for an internet environment user friendly. The news also mentioned they are slowly taking a chunk out of Bill Gate's market share on MS Explorer.

I'm checking them out as we speak.

Reply by PAW Notary Services on 12/15/04 4:51pm
Msg #13715

I've been using Firefox for about 6 months now. It was recently released (ver 1.0) and is pretty stable and complete. It has some nice features and missing some things I used in IE, but it certainly has kept the junk (pop-ups, etc.) from invading. I have found a few sites that do not support the Mozilla Firefox environment. For that, there is an extension to allow you to open the site in an IE window (and vice versa).

Since it's release, I have made Firefox my primary browser. It's a great piece of work.

Reply by Jon on 12/15/04 6:41pm
Msg #13722

Paul,

I just downloaded Firefox and don't see the extension to open a page in IE. Could you please tell me where to find it?

Reply by Jon on 12/15/04 7:18pm
Msg #13726

What about Thunderbird??

Since we're on the topic, anyone have any experience to relate regarding the Mozilla e-mail client Thunderbird???

Reply by BrendaTX on 12/15/04 7:35pm
Msg #13729

Re: What about Thunderbird??

My son uses it and likes it.

He's the one that finally got me to it and switch.

Reply by BrendaTX on 12/15/04 7:36pm
Msg #13730

Correction

Use Firefox and switch.

Reply by PAW Notary Services on 12/15/04 8:52pm
Msg #13745

You will need to install the extensions. On the menu, select TOOLS -> EXTENSIONS -> GET MORE EXTENSIONS. From there you can pick and choose which ones you like.

Reply by BarbaraL_CA on 12/16/04 1:57am
Msg #13779

I've been using Firefox as my primary browser for a couple of months. Like Paul, I find a few sites that don't work with Firefox. One is vmpdelivers for vmp e-docs.... need to use IE.