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#141935 04/11/05 07:22 PM
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suddenly, browser share at my website for Mozilla Firefox is in the 10-15% range. does anyone here have any practical experience with this browser?

(not particularly looking for technical data -- I'd go elsewhere for that.)


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I have a very little. Did not explore it very much, as it was simpler just to stay with Safari, but it seemed very good.

edit. Actually, I may have read, somewhere, that Safari is based on Fire Fox (or its parent) and actually lacks some of its features. If that is true, then I recommend trying the browser.


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I don't think that Safari is based on the same rendering engie used in Firefox. Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine, whereas Safari is based on Konqueror, the browser engine developed by KDE for Linux. A quick google confirms this.


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There are some sites that (usually deliberately) only work well with I.E., but I use firefox most of the time. Other times I use Opera which has built in support for IRC in it.

I vaguely recall a firefox option that permits you to set what your browser will report itself to be. I believe I set it so it says (to servers) that it's really I.E.

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TheFallibleFriend, do you use the Firefox extension that lets you select "open this page in I.E." from the right-click menu? It's one of many useful extensions that can be plugged in to Firefox.


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<<I don't think>>

Well, I, for one, am sure not gonna argue with you, Vernon. :)


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<<I don't think>>

Well, I, for one, am sure not gonna argue with you, Vernon. :)


Is that some sort of descartesian challenge to my being?


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<<Challenge to my being>>

Absolutely not. Just deferring to you, and thanking you for setting me straight. :)


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So, René Descartes walks into a bar …


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So, René Descartes walks into a bar …


Quite.


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