Woooowwwieeeeee Mozilla!!

[Jorden]

I just downloaded and installed Mozilla 0.6 from the Mozilla Site and I like it already. (6.5Mb for the installer)

Superfast, lean, mean and a real browser.
Everything you knew from the old Navigator, plus more. I'll be surfing with Mozilla for the moment. Bye bye NS 4.76 & IE 5.01 !!

Jord.

[Jorden]

Best thing so far: I said no to the flash 5 plug-in, so I'm now very effectively advert-less

Download times for pages with even a lot of pictures, with Javascript & Java on: between 6 and 13 seconds.

This is one cool mofo progro

Jord.

[Technoid]

Even better; you can get it to ignore ads and comercials by restricting the adresses it can dównload pictures from!!

[Gurm]

Yah, ever since Mozilla milestone 17 or so it has been my browser of choice. I still run IE for the stuff that Mozilla just can't do, but other than that... it's very cool.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Greebe]

You should try one of the latest builds then Jord! http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

[Ant]

Haven't I been telling you NS 4.x moaners, erm users, for months to dump it and go with Mozilla?

[alessandro]

What about the speed difference in IE5.5 vs Mozilla 0.6?
Is mozilla faster

[This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 30 December 2000).]

[Wulfman]

it starts slower...

mfg
wulfman

[Himself]

Using it now.

First thing I noticed with the latest build it doesn't import IE favourites completely, other than that there doesn't seem to be much of interest in the thing over IE, which I have to have installed anyway for applications like VC++. I also can't import IE favourites easily. It needs more right click context menus, things like delete for favourite items etc. Drag and drop would be nice. The default fonts are not as good as IE. I like the in progress animation. Not sure why there is a Mozilla listbox at the bottom edge of the window, seems out of place. The inclusion of an IRC chat is interesting. Speed seems slower than IE 5.5.
That's off the top of my head, first 10 minutes, hasn't crashed so that's a bonus.

[Gurm]

From my point of view it loads slower (as in opening a window) but I don't think anything can load as fast as IE since so much of IE is memory-resident (built into Explorer) anyhow.

Pages seem to load hella quick in the latest nightlies - which is good. Faster than IE? Hard to say.

But it doesn't have the IE memory leak, which STILL HASN'T BEEN FIXED IN 5.5, so that's a HUGE bonus. I've crashed it a time or two, but I was being mean to it...

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Jorden]

I've tested it for 3 hours and found that it remembers the old pages as well as IE does. Maybe that's where the speed-increase came from

But I also tested it with 26 Mozilla windows open, and although Windows resources went all the way back to 25%, it didn't crash my Windows, nor did Mozilla crash

And after closing all those windows, I had 86% of resources back. Neat !! No memory leak!!

Even the email works

Jord.

[jms]

What about <a href="http://www.opera.com"> Opera 5.01</a>?. It rocks!

Jan M.

[DentyCracker]

Using 5.0 now jms, what's the improvement in 5.01?

[Pace]

Just wondering guys, what do you look for in a browser? I've been trying out Opera (got 4.02 off a CD) but still generally prefer IE5, I don't know if it's just easier to use, or whether I'm more used to it, but that's why I use it.

What about you? Do you like speed over features? Ease of use? Stability?

Paul.

[Jorden]

I look for stability, speed, the looks, ease of use and a browser that doesn't ask me every time I enter a flash enabled page if I want to install that *&*%$&^% plug-in, but remembers my first answer

And whether or not it gives me back all the resources I was having before I started the browser, or that I need a reboot before doing something else

Jord.