11-02-2004 11:18									#91
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Got them in Word 97...

	11-02-2004 11:20									#92
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quote: There's a bugzilla bug for Firefox to implement most of TBE's features natively for improved performance

I like TBE so far. It is really nice. I enjoy the 'load bar' showing you how much has been loaded.

Now I just have to bring up a .pdf to see if Firefox has fixed that.

	11-02-2004 11:20									#93
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I didn't really like Word 97, but it was better than 2000

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	11-02-2004 11:21									#94
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I have Word 2002 installed, but that is just for compatability

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	11-02-2004 11:22									#95
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Most people who use Word don't know how to use it, and would be better off using WordPad.

	11-02-2004 11:26									#96
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I usually use Latex. (and WinEdt)

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	11-02-2004 11:54									#97
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui Now I just have to bring up a .pdf to see if Firefox has fixed that.

I never had any problems with .PDF files even with Firebird 0.7 on Linux. Oddly enough, the implementation of PDF reader is very stable.

	11-02-2004 11:55									#98
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quote: Originally posted by Jon Miller I usually use Latex. (and WinEdt) Jon Miller

Isn't Latex a set of macros for Tex?

	11-02-2004 12:11									#99
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basically Latex and Tex are the same thing, you can do some things easier in Latex though.

WinEdt is a frontend that I like.

Jon Miller

	11-02-2004 14:35									#100
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I always install "Flash Click to View." What is does is to render all Flash stuff into grey buttons that you can view by clicking on them. It saves me a lot of annoyance.

God, there's something I've been wanting for years. Flash? No fvck you.

	11-02-2004 14:39									#101
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Most people who use Word don't know how to use it, and would be better off using WordPad.

Yea, I have always used the quickest dirtiest word processor available. Word suffers from the same problem as Word Perfect did. The vast majority of people aren't law office workers or doctoral candidates and don't need a word processor designed for such people. I'm sure Word is a wonderful program for those who need it, but to me it's slow, big and the sheer number of features make finding out about the few simple ones I need much more time consuming.

	11-02-2004 19:44									#102
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Firefox is brilliant!

I'm using it now.

	11-02-2004 20:45									#103
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word is great. so is abiword. openoffice writer would be good if it didn't take so ****ing long to load (well, by so ****ing long i mean not instantly)

as far as firefox: the compiling isn't from cvs--it's a gentoo ebuild, which means it downloads the official release source, and then compiles it using settings i've set beforehand. it's, i've found, a much better package management system than apt, rpm, or tgz, because a lot of it is automated, fire-and-forget, with easy install and uninstall.

its only drawback now is that there are few binaries put into the system (there's nothing preventing more from being inserted other than the community's inertia/philosophy), but i don't mind spending the time to compile what i need. if it's too big, i can live without it (openoffice, kde).

firefox itself is fine, but i haven't found a reason to move to it from opera.

	11-02-2004 20:49									#104
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quote: I never had any problems with .PDF files even with Firebird 0.7 on Linux.

It always crashed my browser... and does the same for Firefox it seems . Oh well, guess I'll have to use IE for them.

	12-02-2004 00:42									#105
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What version of Acrobat Reader do you use? I use Acrobat Professional 6.0 and it doesn't crash it.

	12-02-2004 01:02									#106
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6.0

Come to think of it, the last version didn't crash on me. Maybe I have to reinstall Acrobat Reader for some reason.

	12-02-2004 14:59									#107
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quote: Originally posted by Sikander God, there's something I've been wanting for years. Flash? No fvck you.

Same here. Flash is so annoying 95% of the time. Stupid worthless splash pages.

	12-02-2004 23:26									#108
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Well, I've been using both Opera 7.23 and Firefox 0.8 and both are very good browsers.

Good things about Opera = Small, full of features (and you don't need to install extensions), the Wand feature, better implementation of tabbed browsing and mouse gestures, M2 email client (it's wonderful, even if it needs to improve).

Bad things about Opera = It's slower than Firefox

Good things about Firefox = Fast. Fast. Fast. Did I say it is fast? It feels less bloated than Opera, more flexibility wrt popup blocking, and I like Gecko rendering engine (though this is totally subjective, of course).

Bad things about Firefox = the vanilla package is too slim, you have to install extensions in order to add features (and sometimes these extensions conflict with each other or with the browser code), and it is less polished than Opera (although this is to be expected, after all it is still a beta software). But, boy, how it is fast!

All in all, I think that Opera still wins over Firefox over a small margin... But this is just my opinion, and some things I mentioned above are entirely subjective, so...

	13-02-2004 01:56									#109
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Hmmm I'd say that Firefox is better by a reasonable margin than Opera, and Opera by a big margin over IE. Bare in mind that 0.8 is just a preview release so the 1.0 release is going to be amazing!

I like the original mozilla idea of having an integrated html editor etc with it, a firefox implimentation would be cool, or maybe they'll just swap the old mozilla browser with firefox .

	13-02-2004 01:59									#110
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The current idea is to still allow integration between all of the "new" lightweight components (Firefox instead of Mozilla Navigator, Thunderbird instead of Mozilla Mail, Calendar, etc) via extensions. I'm not sure about how the HTML editor works though.

Firefox 0.9 is expected to more tightly integrated with Thunderbird if you install that extension, with mail buttons and whatnot.

	13-02-2004 02:00									#111
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Same here. Flash is so annoying 95% of the time. Stupid worthless splash pages.

Please wait (146K/2048K......)
Please wait (2041K/2048K.....)

Welcome to......
(skip)

	13-02-2004 08:57									#112
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quote: Good things about Firefox = Fast. Fast. Fast. Did I say it is fast?

Indeed!

The speed is the one reason I loved Firebird and Firefox is even FASTER! Incredible!

	13-02-2004 08:59									#113
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You should see what it's like on a custom build.

By default, it's for i386, so it doesn't use MMX or anything like that.

You can get Firefox builds with special optimizations and use of MMX, SSE, and SSE2 extensions and it's even faster, provided you have a CPU that supports them.

	13-02-2004 09:02									#114
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Also, for those that don't know, virtually every night a new build of Firefox is put online. I've been using 0.8 for months now really, before it was official. Of course, the interim builds are somewhat buggier, but when you find a bug and report it you can actually watch it get updated. Developers will post patches and it may be fixed a couple days later.

There's a website called The Burning Edge which posts the changes (bugfixes/new features) each day, as well as known bugs: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/

	22-02-2004 09:28									#115
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Just downloaded this...

I. Am. In. Love.

I think Opera may be headed to the scrap heap once I get all the extensions I want loaded and figure out a way to transfer all my passwords...

I may never use IE at home again.

	22-02-2004 09:48									#116
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Meh, I've used it for a while now and I'm just not impressed enough to switch from opera.

Opera 7.5 which I just got last night.

edit: goddammit, this is ixnay

	22-02-2004 11:01									#117
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I didn't like Firefox either. Opera

	22-02-2004 11:18									#118
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It so kicks Opera in the ass .

	22-02-2004 11:22									#119
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I'm trying out firefox...

I'd like to see mouse gestures... but everything else is very cool

	22-02-2004 11:36									#120
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Froz, you can DL an extention for mouse gesures.