Mozilla 1.4 : Finally worth the move

[Agathon]

Actually, I just tried reducing the text size as much as I could in Safari. It stops after a while, but the text is still quite well antialiased. I'm pretty sure that is below size 8, but if it isn't I don't see how it matters anyway. It's so small it's almost killing me to read it.

[Urban Ranger]

IE is bloated. It can only achieve the apparent speed by having Windows preloading the monstrosity. If you use the "quick launch" feature of Mozilla, IE does not have any advantage in loading speed. It doesn't render faster, either.

As I pointed out before, IE does not have any built-in support for international character codes unlike Mozilla.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger

As I pointed out before, IE does not have any built-in support for international character codes unlike Mozilla.

What is it with MS? People like me have to write in two or three languages using different character sets.

I suppose Classicists are considered the lowest form of life by them.

[Q Classic]

As I pointed out before, IE does not have any built-in support for international character codes unlike Mozilla.

ie6 was able to read and write korean and japanese automatically, once i selected the option during install...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
IE is bloated. It can only achieve the apparent speed by having Windows preloading the monstrosity. If you use the "quick launch" feature of Mozilla, IE does not have any advantage in loading speed. It doesn't render faster, either.

The QuickLaunch feature of Mozilla does make it load faster, but still not nearly the speed of IE. Mozilla even has a slight delay when I switch windows, while IE is instant.

The problem is Mozilla's XUL interface, which is slow.

It doesn't have to be like that. Eclipse uses SWT, and is in Java, and it's way more responsive than Mozilla is...

As I pointed out before, IE does not have any built-in support for international character codes unlike Mozilla.

And as I pointed out before, it sure as hell does. I've no idea what you're basing this off of.

[Az]

Opera is my porn browser.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Az: Me too

[Ari Rahikkala]

Opera as a porn browser? But Mozilla's so much better for that job! Its new image rendering library is even called libpr0n!

[Az]

might switch to Mozilla.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, but what do you think MOUSE GESTURES are for? You can quickly hit the back button

[Az]

I am highly trained in Alt+F4.

[Ned]

Asher, I tried the "ignore font size" on the IE. For sites like Apolyton, it seems to work just as well as Mozilla for 200% zooms. But compare IE and Mozilla on ESPN. IE rendition is pure garbage. Mozilla is much better. Why?

BTW, I normally run at very high res. Increasing the font size to 200% really makes things highly readable to me. As I said before, the seeming lack of this feature in IE is the main reason I switched to Netscape/Mozilla. The other is those damned advertising popups that only IE does not block.

Oh, I really like tabbed browsing. The Slimbrowser I linked earlier has a new twist on tabs. If you open a new site from "favorites," it automatically places it in a new tab. This is really nice.

[mrmitchell]

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Seeing what Ned's talking about - open new tab (Moz) for ESPN.com and new window (MSIE) for ESPN.com. (I should note that Moz loads the page significantly faster.)

Indeed, they both are more difficult to read than before due to various problems but MSIE jams it together, spreads tables hideously, and generally makes the page look like ****. Moz suffers from far less problems than IE does in this arena; the page only looks bad enough to be considered "crap".

[Method]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
I hate advertising. I want it to die and burn in hell. Then I want its family and extended family to die and burn in hell, and after that I will dance on its grave.

yet you have the poly store banner in every post you make


anyways, sure i'd say mozilla is vastly superior to MSIE, but it just seems very bare compared to opera (unless you count the mail client and whatnot, which i don't). besides, i can't use my middle-of-mouse-rolly-ball-thing in mozilla, and i can't seem to get new links to open in tabs (1 window/page = the devil)

[Asher]

Does Mozilla even have an import-IE-favorites feature anymore?