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5 out of 7 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Pros: fully features, lots of things, finally a piece of software that can bring back the good old browser wars. Who knows, MS may actually assemble the IE team back... :)
Cons: Not all stuff works on Firefox, but we're getting there, step by step.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Pros: Lean, Tabbed browsing, tons of themes and extensions, fast..But not as fast as Opera, overall too many pros to list.
Cons: None..However, A couple of years ago when it was called Firebird and even until recently Firefox stopped ALL popups, even the most evil and sinister, (Drudge Report). I dont know if the webmasters are getting more saavy to firefox, or if the Firefox team is just not improving it's (formerly) best feature.
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14 out of 17 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Pros: As a Mac user I am really happy with Apple's Safari browser (pages render beautifully on it) however once I started discovering how customizable Firefox can be (with themes and extensions and by typing about:config into the navigation Toolbar and changing a few settings). I have been using it about 80% of the time lately. There are some nice new Mac OS X themes for Firefox (GrApple, Safarish and the new OS X default theme) along with a little mod program called FireFoxy that makes the widgets look more like an OS X application should look. I have read that the next version of Firefox will eliminate my need to run Firefoxy (It will use the widgets from the OS by default). The user agent switcher extension has come in handy on several occasions when I've needed to visit a few IE only corporate sites. I also enjoy the RSS reader extension called Sage and I love FoxyTunes for changing songs in iTunes.
I strongly recommend Firefox to anyone using Windows, Linux or Mac OS X
Especially to someone using an older Windows PC (for security reasons). I have turned many friends onto this browser and they really enjoy using it.
I hope that the growing usage of Firefox will convince web designers to follow web standards and to ditch the security mess that Activex can be. It was very wise for Firefox to have Activex turned off by default on Windows. I'm a strong advocate for the web being equally accessible to everyone no matter what type of computer they enjoy using. Discouraging a security flawed technology that locks people out if they are using something other than a Microsoft operating system is a good thing.
Another thing that I like about Firefox is that it is available on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows and the features are pretty much identical on each OS. The add-ons for the browser are cross platform.
Oh and sometimes I get nostalgic and use the old Netscape/Mozilla Grey Modern Theme. Keep up the great work Mozilla team !!!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Pros: VERY FAST... has some useful options built in, as well as access to more free stuff on their web site. Kicks I.E.'s butt!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 1.0
"Easy-to-use, non-bloated and free Open Source web-browser !!"
Pros: Tabbed browsing, compact and non-bloated interface (and overall program's structure), Open Source software, etc., etc. Honesly, what else do you need (or want) ??
Cons: No "serious" cons related to features, interface or whatever, except maybe that from the 1.0.2 release on, it is not available in zipped package anymore. So untill this will change (I only hope so though), I am staying with the 1.0.1 release ...
cheers all, satyr/wayfarer
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