Mozilla vs Firefox? Whats the difference?

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Direwolf20

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Is there a difference? Is it Mozilla Firefox like Microsoft Internet Explorer?

Or are Mozilla and Firefox two seperate browsers? Whats the difference between them? Which is better, or is one better?
 
Mozilla Application Suite is an older browser interface packaged with mail, editor, IM, and such. Relative to IE and FF, it's bloated.

Mozilla Firefox is the next-gen browser interface (but same rendering engine as MAS), and will replace the MAS browser soon. It has no extra garbage packed along for the ride, and particularly with the optimized builds linked in M11's sig, is ridiculously fast by comparison.
 
I would say so. FF is lean simply because the biggest complaint with MAS was/is bloat. I like having my mail and stuff in different apps.
 
between the two, I'd go with FF (and I have it on my system) but I find it slower than IE. I know, I'm the only person that thinks that :confused:
 
FireFox (internet) and Thunderbird (email) is the way to go, if you want to have something similar to the Mozilla Suite. :)
 
lorcani said:
FireFox (internet) and Thunderbird (email) is the way to go, if you want to have something similar to the Mozilla Suite. :)
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QFT ^
 
Direwolf20,

You are doing the right thing by dumping IE in favor of Firefox. You will never look back. :)




The rest of you guys,

Firefox is the way of the future. If you are using IE, and don't ever plan to change, you aren't very computer savvy after all....or maybe you are, and get a big kick out of cleaning up spyware, malware, porn dialers and browser hijacks all the time. :D

Internet Explorer = 28 security fixes this year alone....and counting.
 
I've heard several people say IE is faster than Firefox, but I haven't really been able to tell a difference. I do like Thunderbird as a stand-alone email client. :)
 
Thunderbird isn't bad. I took a look, but I use one called PocoMail. It's nice, but you have to pay for it. Anyway, the reason for this post is that I used Netscape Messenger before I switched to Poco. The reason that I switched is because I discovered, quite by accident, that Messenger never purged compressed mail. It kept every piece since the install, albeit compressed. Now Thunderbird looks very, very similar to the old Netscape Messenger, and we all know that Mozilla uses a great deal of Netscape code. I hope Mozilla uses fixed and modified code, and I know that most of the code is new, but does anyone know how long before the mail is purged completely? Why would you care? You wouldn't want to save a virus or a worm forever, would you?

Oops, I let the cat out of the bag. I'm an old Netscape guy. I never, ever used that POS Internet Explorer. :eek:
 
Lethal said:
I've heard several people say IE is faster than Firefox, but I haven't really been able to tell a difference. I do like Thunderbird as a stand-alone email client. :)
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Technically yes IE is faster if they were both stock web clients. But the functionality in Firefox makes it a pure winner. I've used mostly IE since windows 95 up untill about 6 months ago, and i will never switch back. Plus there are quite a few websites that have optimized instruction code for different cpu builds, that makes firefox faster than ie. My .02 anyways.

The one thing i don't like about Thunderbird is when you open it, it doesn't automaticly check for new mail. Unless i missed a setting somewhere, although i've looked several times.
 
Random Digits said:
The one thing i don't like about Thunderbird is when you open it, it doesn't automaticly check for new mail. Unless i missed a setting somewhere, although i've looked several times.
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Under "Account Settings", there's a "Check for new mail at startup" -- per-account basis.
 
lomn75 said:
Under "Account Settings", there's a "Check for new mail at startup" -- per-account basis.
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Jesus, silly me. I kept looking under the regular options menu. Thanks alot, now i'm much happier with Thunderbird.
 
Ehh i thought mozilla was the company and firefox is the app. says chris the circuit city pc tech
 
i went to FF from IE for 2 years - now FF seem buggy, has really BAD flash and PDF support - memory leaks that have yet to be fxed so now i went to Opera, - now that they removed banners and i find it so much better then FF


me going to Opera from FF was like going from IE to FF originally.
 
Opera is really fast and I like it quite a bit but I just cant seem to get away from maxthon. I have hundreds of options set exactly like I like them in Maxthon and I cant find a browser will all the features and compatiblily of maxthon. Opera is very good though and almost has me switching. For most people I recommend opera because it's just so much simpler.
 
I like both Firefox and Opera but in certain websites I seem to have a problem with the way Opera is functioning. I'm wondering if there's an optimized build or something specific for an AMD-64 processor that would resolve this or if it's just something in some hidden settings I need to adjust. Come to think of it I've got a few problems.

1. What will happen is that on certain message boards that I post at, it'll put my post through but when I go back to the thread I posted in, I have to manually refresh to see my own post. Whereas in IE or Firefox, it does it automatically.

2. Sites that I can visit under Firefox or IE will go through just fine. But certain ones Opera seems to throw a bitch fit about and it just stalls in loading it. Then it times out. I don't know if it's because I have third party cookies being refused or what, but even with IE and Firefox configured that way it doesn't seem to effect it.

3. It doesn't happen on every site, but on occasion if I hit the back button in my browser Opera won't update the address bar to the page I'm viewing at. Again I don't know if this is an Opera specific issue or say, something else that's outside of my control. I guess it doesn't happen often enough to really be bitchy over, but still, it gets annoying.

4. Links that I know for a fact I've visited (especially message forums where I've clicked specific links and I can see the color change in the link to show I've already been there) will be tagged again in the default color in showing I haven't visited it yet. This is when I have not closed out Opera yet, so I'm wondering if this is an issue of Opera or just merely a settings issue, which are default by the way.

5. Is there any way to automatically import my IE or Firefox over to Opera? Manually bookmarking them all over again is a freaking PAIN. Not a big issue I guess, but when you have a lot of sites bookmarked, threads on the [H] forum marked, categorized and everything else, it becomes a dread to do really quick.
 
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