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Mozilla Firebird 1.4
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:55 am
by Nay
Hey, I just downloaded Mozilla Firebird yesterday and find it quite good acutally. It highlights the syntax when I view the source, now that's neat.
Anyhow, I've come to dump Outlook Express, and use Mozilla's mail client. Anyhow, 1 problem is that I would have to keep that extra window open to receive an instant notification if I have received a new e-mail.
Is there anyway to auto-check my mail box every, say 10 minutes without having to have the mail window open?
Thanks,
-Nay
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:23 am
by Nay
Okay, I've got a temperory solution so far though. I downloaded:
http://download.com.com/3000-2340-10104 ... ag=lst-0-1
It's a minizer thing that...........well, minimizes my applications to the system tray so it keeps it out of my way. I've got my Mozilla mail manager open all the time and configured it to check my mail box every 5 minutes. Well, not the best of solutions but it works

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-Nay
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:23 am
by JAM
Be sure (if you havn't allready) to check out the extensions.

Christmas time...
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:23 pm
by JPlush76
I'd love to use firebird but it still needs to grow a little
alot of common javascript still doesn't work and you dont have all the image features IE gives ya
I wish it did though

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:29 pm
by Unipus
Well that just means the javascript wasn't written very well. As for "image features," do you just mean the "fit to screen" feature in IE6? I'm sure someone has written an extension somewhere that does that.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:40 pm
by JPlush76
I mean the copy/pasting of images... I use that feature alot
plus its not like it was one site with the javascript.. just seems it has weak implementation of it.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:07 pm
by EvilWalrus
Application minimizer? HA! I wrote my own in visual basic, and use it whenever my computer is up and running...
One comment about visual basic: subclassing is a BITCH
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:05 am
by Nay
JPlush76 wrote:plus its not like it was one site with the javascript.. just seems it has weak implementation of it.
That, I have to agree with. I still have to use IE to make most of my Javascipts. Even outputting onto the status bar is a hassle.
-Nay
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:42 am
by scorphus
I must leave here my opinion about this subject. Mozilla Firebird is the browser of dreams.
- It is fast! (great cache implementation)
- It is highly faithful to W3C Recommendations, XHTML, CSS *and* JavaScript
- The pop-up blocking and tab-browsing are fascinating
- The JavaScript Console helps coding a lot
- You can backup all your 'favorites' just saving only one file (bookmarks.htm) instead of an entire folder/subfolder/zillion-files mess
- There are many other benefits from using Mozilla...
Unfortunately we cannot just ignore M$ Internet Explorer.
Cheers,
Scorphus.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 9:13 am
by scorphus