Damn, she's fast. She made her moves before I could even think om mine! Her name? Mozilla Firebird. Her Version? 0.6

I just installed it in linux. Installed might be a big word, I merely unpacked it and ran the executable. Once I did, i saw pages coming at me at real great speeds! Heh, talk about getting the maximum out of your internet connection


So, who else has gotten hooked?

Sean.

MozillaFirebird is truly good, in my opinion. Fast, simple, versatile, and relatively feature rich. I'm eagerly anticipating the developments that will lead MozillaFirebird to be THE Mozilla Browser.

You are missing a few options lke:

It's fine but i like something else better

I prefer to use the mozilla suite which works great for me.

0.6 is in the portage tree (Gentoo). I'm emerging it right now.. will give it a try since it is GTK based and I want to switch to XFce.

MOttS

Well not bad. But I don't see much differences with Konq... ??? I emerged mozilla-firebird-bin. I guess it would be faster if I would have compile it. Anyway.

MOttS

I use the daily builds and update daily. I looove firebird. It's sweet.

fastest browser i've used. Yet to and not enthusiastic about tryin Opera. Idon't want the ads.
And i am not payin

I don't have a lot of ram or space so Firebird is perfect!!!
And i don't need Composer, or Mail or IRC so i don't use full Mozilla. Besides it's a lot slower.

one of my Windex using friends loves it too.

I have nothin but praise for Firebird.

You might have noticed that i always reccomend it.

James

I will maybe leave Opera behind and move to Firebird and Konq.

Firebird is a lot better than Mozilla (full).

I use the mozilla suite for mail... And, thos missing options... They are not missing because I frogot :*D

I added some new ones anyway

I love the speed and simplicity but it's still a little buggy right now with a few sites that I frequently visit, and also doesn't work very well with flash. If they fix these in the next version it will be the best browser, IMO. Sticking with Mozilla 1.4 for now - it's a lot faster than previous versions. I love it 8)

Anyone try Thunderbird(mail)?

Thunderbird is a Mail-News client meant to compliment the Mozilla Firebird. Thunderbird has support for IMAP, POP3, NNTP, multiple accounts, powerful filters, spell checking and a smart junk mail filter. Thunderbird is now built with Xft enabled and is my prefered Email program.


http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/


I also like firebird.

**side note** I've used opera, and I didn't care for it.

Installed Mozilla Firebird from texstar's repo ... but that's not XFT2 enabled.

Anyone knows where I can get Firebird with XFT2 enabled

Have you tried the file from the mozilla project site??

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/

Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 is avaialabe.. I tend to download the nightly builds from
http://texturizer.net/firebird/download.html

install stumble on firebird and rank this site!!!!



ciao!

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/


As a matter of fact, I was looking at thunderbird. I haven't dloaded it as of yet though. It sounds good, and I am going to try it for sure!

534N

i use thunderbird as my mail client, it does everything in need and looks good. 0.1 has just been released, though i haven't tried it yet

i also use firebird as my default browser

I update daily, ahh the joys of fast internet.

James

Hello:
I downloaded the tar version of MozillaFirebird-0.6.1. I tarred it using xvfz and it all went into MozillaFirebird directory. I went there and typed
./MozillaFirebird and got the message "missing GLIBC_2.2.4". So it wouldn't run.
Has anyone had this problem? Is it as simple as getting the missing file? Where can I get it? And where does it go?
I'm using Mandrake-Linux 8.0.
Any help would be appreciated. Right now I'm using Mozilla 1.0.1 and it runs fine.

bjc ,go to http://rpmfind.net and do a search for glibc-2.2.4
I'm using glibc-2.3.1-10mdk with no probs.


I have Mozilla-Firebird 0.6.1 and Mozilla 1.4 and really can't see any speed difference. I use moz more often then not.

Thunderbird is shaping up very nicely. I've been using it for about 3 weeks.

Be very careful upgrading glibc....many experience users have lost a perfectly good install trying. Although this doesn't seem to be as big of a risk now days you are on 8.0. Just something to think about. Don't forget to back up everything!

its okay. i tell you though if dillo was more feature rich (ie. if it could do java, css, frames and ssl) i would use it solely. (well as long as its speed was not compromised)

Thanks germ and bvc:
1/ I looked at rpmfind.net and found many versions of glibc for version 2.2.4 but none for Mandrake-Linux. They had ASPLInux, Redhat, Connectiva, and so on. For Mandrake-Linux they just had cooker version 2.1.3.
2/ I will take bvc's caution very seriously and not do any glibc updates, especially since rpmfind does not have the exact version needed.

So I'll stay with Mozilla 1.0.1 for now as it is quite satisfactory. For e-mail am using stand-alone client
Sylpheed which is good too. Mozilla provides a backup mail system if ever required.

Thanks again for your information and guidance.
This is a very good forum.