[SLE] Compare Mozilla and Firefox

From: Bahram Alinezhad (alineziad_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/29/04

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    Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:28:27 -0800 (PST)
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    In favour of Mozilla (1.7.3):

    1- You can see all the plugins, their versions, and
    status. While with Firefox, You neither can see all
    the installed plugins (e.g. Java), nor their versions!

    2- I found Mozilla is now very stable, Firefox suffers
    many crashes!

    3- "Home Page", "Navigator Startup Page", "New Window
    Page", and "New Tab Page" are all independently
    adjustable with Mozilla and this is very useful (e.g.
    we can set all to "blank" but "Home Page" to
    "mail.yahoo.com").

    4- "download manager" in Firefox has nothing more than
    it in Mozilla (no resume for later); The case here is
    that Mozilla has "progress dialog" which is sometimes
    preferred, while, it doesn't exist in Firefox!

    5- Mozilla has a "composer": very useful tool.

    6- With Firefox, type inside a *single row* text-box
    (like the address-box of Yahoo Mail) until it becomes
    full. Now, type one more character: What do you see?!!
    (A horizontal scroll-bar makes it unavailable!) A
    great bug that there wasn't with Mozilla.

    In favour of Firefox (1.0):

    1- When opening a new tab, Firefox doesn't jump onto
    it (very nice, like Konqueror).

    2- Key-strokes for www...org and www...net is added.

    3- Web-page saving corrected(?)

    4- I use to download mozilla from mozilla.org and keep
    it for installation inside any distribution I have,
    not to download distro-specific rpms. By doing so,
    only the first window of mozilla opens and the next
    ones ask me for creating a new profile! (why?) I had
    this problem with any version of Mozilla came out and
    with both RedHat and SuSE. I solved this issue by
    editing the shell-script of old rpm package and
    redirecting it to run the new version installed. With
    Firefox, there is no more such problem.

    If a more complete list be created and confirmed, we
    can send to mozilla community for asking improvement
    for both Mozilla and Firefox.

    Mozilla (and Firefox) are best instances of
    cross-platform products, since their high speed, very
    low memory consumption, wide compatibility, excellent
    graphical setup, while totally open-source and free.

    Thank you for your notice,
    Bahram Alinezhad,
    Rudehen, Tehran, Iran.

                    
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