Post by: Gibdo Master on June 16, 2004, 07:41:11 AM
Just thought I'd let you guys know that 0.9 has been released. Go here to ge it.
The new theme is ugly, but you can download the old one, so no problem. The old them is called Qute, by the way. I just downloaded it myself, so I really haven't gotten to test it out properly, but I have noticed it is hella fast.
Oh, and Thunder bird 0.7 has been released as well.
Post by: Berny on June 16, 2004, 07:45:05 AM
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 16, 2004, 07:47:56 AM
Post by: Berny on June 16, 2004, 07:55:26 AM
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 16, 2004, 08:00:30 AM
In fact that's the biggest let down so far, because a lot of the extensions are missing. I'm sure it's just the fact that they have to be updated for 0.9 though, so it shouldn't be that long till most of them are back up.
Post by: Berny on June 16, 2004, 08:02:05 AM
I don't even USE IE. Well I'll figure something out.
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 16, 2004, 08:04:03 AM
Post by: Bill Aurion on June 16, 2004, 08:04:47 AM
Post by: Berny on June 16, 2004, 08:19:07 AM
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 16, 2004, 08:44:04 AM
Anyway, at least you didn't lose all your passwords. I had pretty much the same thing happen to me when I upgraded to 0.8. I had a crap load of passwords I lost, most of which I didn't have written down anywhere, so they were gone for good. Taught me to back up all my stuff.
Post by: Berny on June 16, 2004, 09:06:23 AM
Passwords have never been a problem for me. I only have a few; very dangerous if someone figures them out, but it is convenient. Plus what do I care if people know that my PGC forums password is ilickgerbils4fun? What's the worst you could do? Change my name and location? Pah.
Well Firefox 0.9 is definitely better than the previous version. As Gibdo said, it is faster, and I've gotten used to the ugly theme already. Perhaps the Mac theme looks a little different than the PC. Oh and thanks for the update, Gibdo.
Post by: Jale on June 16, 2004, 09:40:26 AM
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 16, 2004, 09:45:50 AM
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Originally posted by: Berny
Plus what do I care if people know that my PGC forums password is ilickgerbils4fun? What's the worst you could do? Change my name and location? Pah.
Well, someone could also post something with your account to get you banned.
Post by: MysticGohan24 on June 16, 2004, 11:02:28 AM
Finally something that loads faster, instead of waiting on IE to decide on what the hell it's waiting for, and I have adsl.
Post by: Berny on June 16, 2004, 11:29:17 AM
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Well, someone could also post something with your account to get you banned.
Hm...hadn't considered that.
I'll just change my password now...Post by: KnowsNothing on June 16, 2004, 01:33:43 PM
Anyway, I like it, but the icons on the top are really big and rather bothersome. o_O
Post by: Berny on June 16, 2004, 04:31:43 PM
Post by: Grey Ninja on June 16, 2004, 07:41:55 PM
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Well Firefox 0.9 is definitely better than the previous version. As Gibdo said, it is faster, and I've gotten used to the ugly theme already. Perhaps the Mac theme looks a little different than the PC. Oh and thanks for the update, Gibdo.
Actually, the new theme is cross-platform IIRC. The old way, Qute was used in Windows/Linux, but Macs had their own theme. Due to licensing problems, Qute was dropped in Windows/Linux, and the Mac theme was modified to suit all platforms. The theme is in quite an early stage though, and it's not really suited well for Windows.
Windows generally favors more gradient based smooth artwork, with very little/no shadows. While Macs favor the simplistic coloring, and more shadows and angles in their artwork.
I just installed Qute and was done with it.
Post by: MysticGohan24 on June 16, 2004, 10:10:38 PM
Grey has been preaching for awhile how good Mozilla reall was
A formal source code for Netscape, before it became crapscrape.Well Grey on a side note, feel free to boost your avatars size, should you feel the need. 100x100 in the new standard.
Post by: Caillan on June 16, 2004, 10:40:04 PM
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Jesus, how many times a year do they update this thing?
Open source programs are usually updated on a much more consistant basis than commercial ones. Because they're free, they can release small installments; commercial projects would pissed off their userbase getting at having to shell out $50 a month for 'new' software. It also allows for unstable versions to be readily released to the public without concern as well.
I'm concerned about how heavy Firefox/Firebird/Phonex has become, though of course I still like it. I reckon I'll switch to plain old Dillo soon... has anyone else here tried this?
Post by: mouse_clicker on June 16, 2004, 11:44:13 PM
Post by: Berny on June 17, 2004, 07:37:13 AM
Post by: Chode2234 on June 17, 2004, 10:02:08 AM
Post by: Berny on June 17, 2004, 02:15:40 PM
73h [h33p b4573rdz0rz). Then I went to what was once Firebird and suddenly they were ALL GONE. And there's an extension that counts the number of blocked popups per page and I've seen it get as high as 8. Oh, and tabbed browsing rocks my world as well, but you have to experience it yourself to know how much more awesomer it is than .... not tabbed browsing.
Post by: Berny on June 21, 2004, 02:27:22 PM
EDIT: Added bonus: I was able to import my bookmarks! <3 Camino
Post by: Syl on June 21, 2004, 03:01:38 PM
Mouseclicker: theres a plugin that prevents exactly what you just mentioned.
oh, and "adblock" = most useful thing ever, never will i have to see another macromedia flash ad slowing down my computer, or hell, if i wanted, i could block berny's annoying avatar, in fact, i think i will!
Post by: Grey Ninja on June 21, 2004, 03:05:40 PM
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WOO! I just discovered Camino! It is TEH FASTZORZ! It has popupblocker and tabbed browsing and everything! (ie: The Works) Wow, I wish I'd known about this before.
EDIT: Added bonus: I was able to import my bookmarks! <3 Camino
Heh. I was going to recommend that one to someone the other day, as I hear lots of nice things about it. But given that I am not a Mac user, and completely unfamiliar with it, I just went with the good old "get Firefox" idea.
Thanks for the vote of confidence in it.
(for those who don't know, Camino is the old school Mac OS variant of Mozilla.)
Post by: Berny on June 21, 2004, 03:22:08 PM
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hell, if i wanted, i could block berny's annoying avatar, in fact, i think i will!
455h47.
Oops. Yeah I shoulda mentioned that, Grey. You can recommend it to your friend now off the recommendation of some random geek in a video game forum. ^_^ It is quality stuff. I am VERY pleased with it.
Post by: Grey Ninja on June 21, 2004, 04:18:42 PM
I have a handy bookmarklet though that can reduce all the images on the page's size thing. Yeah. Man, english is just unpossible for me today. (Interestingly enough, all my programming coworkers have had the same problem today. I think there might be something to that. Programming makes you dumb or something to that effect.)Berny, your opinion means a little more to me because you have tried both the Mac Firefox and Camino. I know that Firefox is hands down the best browser on Windows (and Linux), but I honestly don't know about Macs.
Post by: Berny on June 21, 2004, 04:46:46 PM
Post by: Infernal Monkey on June 21, 2004, 05:44:37 PM
I might check the latest version tonight, and maybe break my PC again. That'd require salsa.
Post by: Berny on June 22, 2004, 04:53:32 AM
Aw poo. And I was really getting attached to Camino, too. My ongoing review of Camino has more news to report. Occasionally Camino has what I have dubbed "Scroll Burps." This occasionally occurs when you are trying to scroll by dragging the scroll bar and it does this weird thing where stuff repeats....yeah it's kida weird. But like right now, Infernal Monkey's avatar was like cut in half as started over again along with all the text next to it. If you are thinking of going Camino (although I'm pretty sure there's like ONE other Mac user on these forums
) use the scroll buttons. They seem to work fine. Okay scratch that: scrolling in Camino is teh suxorz. Not teh suxorz enough to make me go back to Firefox yet though. I'll stick it out a little longer.
Post by: Ms.Pikmin on June 22, 2004, 08:02:09 AM
Too bad Camino stinks too. Maybe next month when Firefox 1.0 comes out you can be the guinea pig once again?
Post by: Chode2234 on June 22, 2004, 08:28:37 AM
Post by: Berny on June 22, 2004, 09:43:26 AM
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Camino™ is a web browser optimized for Mac OS X with a Cocoa user interface, and powerful Gecko layout engine. It's the simple, secure, and fast browser for Mac OS X.
You can read all about Camino, Cocoa, and Gecko here. I also suggest you ask Ninja about Cocoa. I'm sure he could tell you something about it. At least I think I'm sure. I won't make promises for him though. You'll just have to ask him.
Post by: Grey Ninja on June 22, 2004, 02:40:30 PM
Post by: Berny on June 22, 2004, 03:33:12 PM
No fun.Maybe your Firefox is just mad at you for ever using IE.
Post by: Uglydot on June 24, 2004, 10:37:15 AM
Post by: DL_992 on June 24, 2004, 03:17:59 PM
Post by: Syl on June 24, 2004, 03:24:40 PM
I'll go back to it once they add in adblocker and a few other things i like. But, for now, its still firefox .08
Post by: Berny on June 24, 2004, 07:38:38 PM
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 24, 2004, 07:45:29 PM
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0.9 didn't have a popup blocker? That's funny. When I used it, it blocked popups and even counted them I think.
Adblocker is an extension that allows you to block images. Very nice for getting rid of ads and crap like that.
It is available for 0.9, Syl. It was the first extension I downloaded after installing 0.9.
Post by: Syl on June 24, 2004, 11:14:33 PM
odd.
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 25, 2004, 06:24:25 AM
Never fear though, cause you can download it direct from the Adblock homepage here!
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 29, 2004, 10:01:07 AM
Post by: MysticGohan24 on June 29, 2004, 05:05:41 PM
Post by: Shift Key on June 29, 2004, 06:11:59 PM
Post by: MysticGohan24 on June 29, 2004, 06:16:38 PM
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 29, 2004, 06:25:00 PM
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it sucks now that spell check isn't included in OE, I remember that it used to, I guess M$ charges for it seperately.
Wow, really? I haven't used OE in over a year.
Thunderbird is also a lot safer than OE, since OE opens up attachements automatically. Also it has a nice junk mail filter.
Post by: MysticGohan24 on June 29, 2004, 06:46:15 PM
Post by: MysticGohan24 on June 29, 2004, 09:13:46 PM
Especially my E-mail button.
Post by: Gibdo Master on June 30, 2004, 06:31:39 AM
Post by: MysticGohan24 on June 30, 2004, 06:57:59 AM
I'm not sure how to correct this. hmmmmm....
Post by: Syl on June 30, 2004, 09:20:23 PM
much slicker. woot.
