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LennonCook · 10-16-2004, 11:00 PM

/)eathkiller: It also isn't nearly as bloated as Opera. It thinks of itself as a browser. Not as a browser, a mail client, an IRC client... it also, in the default theme, obeys system policies in terms of its interface. And to top it all off, it doesn't have a "pay or have your content area limited by an intrusive add" deployment policy...

silencer: Gecko is also secure because Mozilla pays people to tear it to shreds to find security holes that need fixing. And ofcourse because it has a good bug reporting system, and good turnover times (the "shell" bug earlier this year, for example, was fixed within an hour of it being verified a security hole).

frudi_x: Forget Tabbrowser Extensions Completely. Uninstall it, go for less overbloated things. It completely replaces alot of Firefox's functions, including the popup blocker, with extremely inferior, and buggy, versions. It's realy useful features are in the Advanced Options of the branch nightlies. If you use the scrollbuttons on tabs, the Scrollable Tabs extension is what you want. All of TBE's other functions are also duplicated in other Extensions.
The Gmail notifier extension has some benifits, and some drawbacks - it's main drawback being that you have to open Firefox and load your homepage to be able to check if you have any GMail; but also it can't be set as your default mail client. The other way to avoid this is with Google's Gmail Notifier.
The Download Manager Tweak is also quite good.

My current extensions:
Allow Right-Click
BlankLast
BugMeNot
ChatZilla
Download Manager Tweak
EMbuttons
Mouse Gestures
Show Image
Scrollable Tabs

And a custom extension someone on #firefox made for me. I also have a very big userChrome.css file... it is currently hiding all of my menus, stopping text from blinking with the "Blink" tag, forcing my tabs to stay the same width all the time, no matter what, and to remove extra padding on the toolbars.

[ 10-17-2004, 04:07 AM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]

10-16-2004, 11:00 PM	#16
LennonCook Jack Burton Join Date: November 10, 2001 Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux Age: 38 Posts: 5,452	/)eathkiller: It also isn't nearly as bloated as Opera. It thinks of itself as a browser. Not as a browser, a mail client, an IRC client... it also, in the default theme, obeys system policies in terms of its interface. And to top it all off, it doesn't have a "pay or have your content area limited by an intrusive add" deployment policy... silencer: Gecko is also secure because Mozilla pays people to tear it to shreds to find security holes that need fixing. And ofcourse because it has a good bug reporting system, and good turnover times (the "shell" bug earlier this year, for example, was fixed within an hour of it being verified a security hole). frudi_x: Forget Tabbrowser Extensions Completely. Uninstall it, go for less overbloated things. It completely replaces alot of Firefox's functions, including the popup blocker, with extremely inferior, and buggy, versions. It's realy useful features are in the Advanced Options of the branch nightlies. If you use the scrollbuttons on tabs, the Scrollable Tabs extension is what you want. All of TBE's other functions are also duplicated in other Extensions. The Gmail notifier extension has some benifits, and some drawbacks - it's main drawback being that you have to open Firefox and load your homepage to be able to check if you have any GMail; but also it can't be set as your default mail client. The other way to avoid this is with Google's Gmail Notifier. The Download Manager Tweak is also quite good. My current extensions: Allow Right-Click BlankLast BugMeNot ChatZilla Download Manager Tweak EMbuttons Mouse Gestures Show Image Scrollable Tabs And a custom extension someone on #firefox made for me. I also have a very big userChrome.css file... it is currently hiding all of my menus, stopping text from blinking with the "Blink" tag, forcing my tabs to stay the same width all the time, no matter what, and to remove extra padding on the toolbars. [ 10-17-2004, 04:07 AM: Message edited by: LennonCook ]