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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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Quite
It's called 'denying the antecedent.' It's a logical fallacy. That's part of the reason the joke's so funny.
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I use Firefox, although I'm unhappy about it not being OSX native. it doesn't support the Services menu, which is a drag. I do like it other than that, especially some of the add-ons, like the RSS reader (Sage) and a little weather thing in the bookmark bar. it also seems a touch faster than Safari. I actually like Camino better, but it has some funny screen-drawing issues, so I haven't used it in a while.
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You kniw, except foir the Descarte part of this, Not a bit of this thread has made any sense to me than Horace in the original does.
Who'da thunk I'd prefer Descarte before the Horace?
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Oh, didn't see that. lol.
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do you use the Firefox extension that lets you select "open this page in I.E." from the right-click menu?
Nope. Wasn't aware of it. Sounds handy.
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I for one would like to see the whole joke. There must be a punch line.
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AnnaS,
Don't know about the shaggy dog story, just the "I think" bit.
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Descarte before the Horace
Please! I just ate.
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>the whole joke http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=137387btw, thanks to those who've responded in regard to firefox. I'm told that, in essence, it's really just the next generation of (Mozilla's) Netscape. it appears now to be a lot less hacked than IE -- but just give the hackers some reason to hack (i.e., more visibility).
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Thanks, I think I'll now switch back to Opera.
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