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Okay, so after many times hearing it on tv and from others here, I decided togive it a try. I like the tabbed browsing, always thought that was cool. One question I have that I noticed when browsing the preferences. Where you can set the homepage, it says "Clicking the Home button takes you to this page or group of pages". Does this mean that it will open a set of say 5 sites at once when I click on the home button? And will they open in different tabs. It would make it really easy to open my game sites right away. Also, how would I set it up to load all those sites. Would it be in a file? or just enter them all inline there in the text box?
Yes, you can set up multiple home pages if you wish. I believe that using the button when you have multiple tabs open will set each of the pages to open whenever you hit home. I prefer a single home page myself. I use that feature though by setting aside folders of similarly themed items in my bookmarks. I have a folder labelled "Dailies" that I can right click on, then select "Open in Tabs" to open up all bookmarks in the folder in tabs. I also do the same with a folder labelled "Porn", and so forth.
On the quick subject of porn, Firebird makes it easy to get hentai comics, or just to view all pictures in a gallery too. That's primarilly where I used tabbed browsing. Middle clicking on each link in a hentai comic's index will open up each scan in a new tab, then you can go through each one, saving as you go. For free porn galleries, there is an extension where you can just middle click on a picture, and advance forward and backward through the gallery without having to go back to the main index. It's also a good way of finding pics that aren't in the index too.
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EDIT: Is there a way to turn off quick reply?
If you are talking about the forums, I don't think so. I haven't seen an option for it, but I have never looked for one either. I find it useful.
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okay grey, here's another problem i'm having with firebird...pgc doesn't show up correctly. the formatting in the news posts is off. instead of ending at the vertical line, the text runs clear to the end of the window. this causes the thin vertical line that would normally end where the text ends to run through the entire length of the post.
i guess it doesn't effect anything that much, but i find it ironic that this thread has gone on for 5 pages on a forum for a website that doesn't work properly with firebird.
Just opened up IE to see if I could tell what you were talking about. After closing all the popups and flash ads and stuff, I got to a news story, and compared the two side by side. The two browsers rendered things a little differently, but I didn't see anything like what you might have been talking about. Sorry. Can you give me a screenshot? I probably can't help much, as it's likely a coding problem with the site, but I would be able to pinpoint what's causing it.
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What differences are there between Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird? I'm sure it was said already but there's too much reading to sort though.
Nothing. Mozilla is the same as Firebird at the core. The difference is that while Mozilla comes with a big suite of applications, Firebird is JUST the browser. It's the same as Mozilla, but it's been stripped of all the excess features. Firebird is scheduled to eventually replace the Mozilla browser when it comes of age (sometime next year), as it's obviously the better product (as stated by the Mozilla developers).
The intention is to use Firebird as the browser, and Thunderbird as the mail component. Everything else that you have enabled by default in Mozilla will be available via
extensions in Firebird/Thunderbird.
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Develop using the standards. My site works fine in both. Been using Firebird since it was phoenix, the naples release. Things have gotten much better.
My site works fine in everything but IE, and is completely coded according to standards. That gives me a great deal of pleasure.
I have been using Firebird since Phoenix 0.4
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should i completely delete ie now that i have this thing??? by the way, this this i way better then ie. i admit i dont know anything about computers, but ie was just wasnt working.
Not a good plan. IE is integrated directly into your operating system, so there is simply no way of removing it and still being able to boot Windows. Besides, there are likely to be some sites that won't work in anything but IE. There aren't very many at all, but one of note is Windows Update. IE is unsafe to run, and generally unpleasant to use, so I wouldn't use it much if I were you, but keep it around, just in case.
In case you are wondering, the main reason some sites (such as Windows Update) don't work in Firebird is because it doesn't support ActiveX or VBScript. These are two MS technologies which have the ability to screw around with your computer in ways you would rather not know. They are the root cause of many of IE's biggest vulnerabilities, and ActiveX in particular is inheritantly unsafe.
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Alright, I've played around with it for a bit and I'm impressed. One thing that always bugged me on Netscape and Mozilla was loading the IGN Boards. The browser would always freeze for a few seconds, this is now gone with firebird.
Is there a way to import my bookmarks from Mozilla?
The freeze upon loading a page was always one of my biggest gripes about Gekko based browsers. Phoenix/Firebird was the first non-IE browser I used since Netscape 4, and I have to admit that I was seriously shocked that not only did it not freeze upon loading a new page, but it ran circles around IE.
And, yes, you can
import your mozilla/netscape bookmarks 
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