You All Must Get Firefox. (3 Viewers)

[dritz2003]

isn't it a pity that large corporations will not allow users to install Firefox?
As long as they're under the Microsoft label, IE it will be.

Check out this article just posted on slashdot:
Strudelkugel writes "Business 2.0 reports Firefox is becoming a problem for Microsoft. But FF is not just a problem as a browser; its potential as a platform is significant. From the article: 'It all adds up to a business opportunity for startups, established software companies, and Web giants alike. Though Ross and the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation don't stand to make money, Firefox's open platform gives it enormous potential to hatch a new class of applications that live on the desktop but do business on the Web.'"

Seems like more business are gonna start to use FF, and M$ will finally get what it deserves

 

[LMF^^]

What do you mean less features? thats the whole thing about a pop-up blocking feature, to get rid of those damn pop-ups lol

Less feature az in less fancy shit that you can use in IE.

 

[fatmuscle]

yeah, well there's a lot of politics involved in large corps. The people at the top that make the final decision often know nothing about computers.

They'd prefer to stick with well known 'Microsoft' than some unknown software. (yes, firefox is unknown to a lot of people). The only people in a corp you'll find using FF, is the IT department

 

[jm1234567890]

Now all we need is a open source media player to compete against WMP10...

 

[dritz2003]

Now all we need is a open source media player to compete against WMP10...

You are joking right..... there are heaps of open source media players, for every file type imaginable. Mplayer, for example, is a Windows media player clone, but with native support for MPEG4, ogg etc.

 

[jm1234567890]

no, but none have comparable media library support....

and none have freeform skins or minimise to the task bar.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

I like WMP10 tho.
And there is a player i know of .... i had it a while ago, when wmp was still fairly new, and it was better... now tho i kinda doubt it.

 

[MedNez]

Mm, mplayerc definitely rivals windows media player for it's playing features.

As for a media library - ITunes > *

Heh, beats wmp hands down.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

i hate itunes cuz it makes you stick all your files in the itunes music folder.... they're as monopolistic as microsoft...

 

[neuro_logik]

Now all we need is a open source media player to compete against WMP10...

There is already two for me , MPlayer and XMMS

 

[jm1234567890]

there is this..... https://player.helixcommunity.org/
started by real networks

on unrelated note: anyone used mediamonkey? is it good?

 

[HellVeN]

Yeah firefox is pretty cool. Although I have noticed that some plugins do not work. Like when you click instal new plugin it says "plugin not found". Other than that it's neat stuff. And when you view the page source, it is colored !

 

[LMF^^]

Love my RealPlayer, easier to browse the library than WMP anyday.

 

[jm1234567890]

Firefox RC1 released.

This is a testing release, most people should wait till 1.0 is released nov 9

but it does have one important feature, single window mode
no need for tabbrowser preferences now

 

[MedNez]

Love my RealPlayer, easier to browse the library than WMP anyday.

:O

RealPlayer is evil. It's blacklisted from connecting to anything in PeerGuardian and Protowall

It's useful for streaming, but not for much else in my opinion.

 

[AsyLum]

Firefox RC1 released.

This is a testing release, most people should wait till 1.0 is released nov 9

but it does have one important feature, single window mode
no need for tabbrowser preferences now

hmm, how many RC clients are they planning on releasing?

 

[jm1234567890]

prolly just this one since nov 9 is 2 weeks away....

 

[Not-That-Bright]

anyone noticed a significant decrease in spyware, viruses etc since you've been running firefox...
(yes i did set up ie without active-x etc before.. wasn't the same)

 

[klh]

I have experimented with Firefox for a week or so...
my findings include:
popups blocked
some plugins wont download
some web pages dont show up properly e.g. ninemsn.com.au the linky thing on the left hand sign stuffs up
I have an extensive favourites menu and when i hover the continue arrow thing/button it keeps going.
makes IE stuff up, wont load some web pages...dunno why?
the search toolbar only has google.com not google.com.au

 

[jm1234567890]

I have experimented with Firefox for a week or so...
my findings include:
popups blocked
some plugins wont download
some web pages dont show up properly e.g. ninemsn.com.au the linky thing on the left hand sign stuffs up
I have an extensive favourites menu and when i hover the continue arrow thing/button it keeps going.
makes IE stuff up, wont load some web pages...dunno why?
the search toolbar only has google.com not google.com.au

yeah, they don't have much control over the plug-ins, it is afterall free

ninemsn.com.au is a microsoft site..... (they screwed up the site for opera before and got sued)
www.emailcash.com.au open market exchage also has problems

in regard to google
open bookmarks->manage bookmarks

you will see google quick search, right-click and properties

change the keyword to 'g'
and the link to the .au one

now to search you simply type "g whatever" in the location bar.
much easier eh?