Re: [ossig] Firefox anyone

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:09, Imran William Smith wrote:
> I have tried Mozilla as well as Firefox and Thunderbird.
> 
> The trouble with Firefox and Thunderbird is that they break
> the tight integration between browser and email client,
> unless you are willing to hand-edit some scripts.
> 
> This is important in 2 places:
> 
> 1) URLs in emails
> 2) mailto: links in web pages.
> 
> I didn't find Firefox significantly faster than Mozilla, on Linux
> with a decent spec machine (Athlon 2000+, 512Mb or more
> of memory).
> 
> One thing I tried recently is the 'adblock' extension -
> it's fast to install, and if you have a dialup connection,

I would recommend Flashblock as well (check Extentions page on the
Firefox website). It does not load those .swf files and allows you to
selectively choose which to load.

simos


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