banjo Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 I am confused about the relationship between Foxfiire and Mozilla. I am running an old Moz 1.3 on my Mandy 9.1 and I would like to upgrade to Foxfire. Do I have to uninstall Moz before installing Foxfire to stay out of trouble? The Foxfire install procedures say not to install a new Foxfire over an old one, but will an old Mozilla screw it up? I would like to avoid dependency Hell on this because I only have a 56 K modem to download with. Thanks in advance Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 If I remember correctly Firefox is a stand alone browser and can be installed with Mozilla already on the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted August 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 Thanks. Maybe I will give it a try here at work (on fnWindoze) tomorrow to see how it looks. If I like it I can try it on my Mandy at home. Any idea if it will run on my old Mandy 9.1? Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 (edited) Do I have to uninstall Moz before installing Foxfire to stay out of trouble? The Foxfire install rocedures say not to install a new Foxfire over an old one, but will an old Mozilla screw it up? Installing firefox wont do any harm at all to your mozilla installation, so no need for uninstalling. Firefox is a diferent browser than Mozilla. Any idea if it will run on my old Mandy 9.1? I dont see why not. Im running it on MDK 9.2. BTW i do have Mozilla installed there too, no trouble whatsoever. Good luck and post if you need any help. Edited August 3, 2004 by feralertx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted August 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Thanks for the info. I will see about downloading Firefox at work tomorrow where we have broadband........... I run on a 56K here at home, and that can be painful for large downloads. I will post back later with the results. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted August 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 I installed Firefox here at work on Win 2000 and it looks good. Very fast. So I installed it on my Mandy 9.1 at home. It seems to run OK, but it is not substantially faster than my old Mozilla. In fact, even though it boots up faster, the page rendering is pretty much the same as Moz. That is probably due to the fact that my home system talks over a 56 K modem (we have broadband here at work). I am not seeing a major improvement by moving from Mozilla 1.3 to Firefox 9.1 and I wonder if I am missing something. Firefox looks like Moz and acts like Moz and appears to be Moz in a different skin. So what is it about Firefox that is supposed to make it superior to my old Moz? I am not taking a cheap shot at Firefox or trying to be snide. I reallly am wondering if I have missed a main feature or benefit of Firefox that would make it worthwhile to go over to it. What are the other benefits of using Firefox? Anybody want to provide any illumination? Thanks Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 (edited) the benefit of firefox is that it is "smaller" (no email, no composer) thus starting faster and it is generally a bit faster than mozilla. in order to properly configure firefox, take a look here: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16075 other than that, don't expect too many differences as both browsers are based on the same source. but if you want a stand-alone browser (because you use e.g. ximian evolution for mail) than it is much better to start only a browser and not a whole network-suite. also take a look at the plugins available for firefox. some of them are really useful. (others are simple toys.) :) Edited August 5, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturnes Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 Keeping your existing Mozilla is a good thing. Symlinking to it to make Java work is the easier than the instructions Mozilla use for Firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted August 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 Ah, yes. I did the upgrades to the configuration. I can't tell if it makes it faster or not because my 56 K is obviously a bottleneck. I'm not complaining. Firefox seems to work just fine. It does, indeed boot considerably faster than Mozilla on both platforms...... and I only use the browser. I use Quanta for composing web sites and Kmail for mail. I will go look for the plugins. Thanx for the pointers. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Tom Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Firefox is a diferent browser than Mozilla. Not really,because Firefox is a external browser from Mozilla. But both based on the best Engine: Gecko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Firefox is a diferent browser than Mozilla. Not really,because Firefox is a external browser from Mozilla. But both based on the best Engine: Gecko <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, yeah, what i meant was that they're different in terms of installation, since both have their own, and that firefox is a stand alone browser, which is what i was talking about, youve taken the sentence out-of-context. Apart from that, I agree: Gecko goooooood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Tom Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 youve taken the sentence out-of-context. Apart from that, I agree: Gecko goooooood <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I had,yes... Gecko is clearly (or at least should be) the branch captain :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted August 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Well, I am running Firefox now to give it a whirl. It does boot faster than my old Moz. While setting this up I found out about the "about:config" command. I also now know about the "about:plugins" command. Can anybody give me a pointer to the complete set of "secret about" commands in the browser? These look to be very useful for getting into the skivvies of the thing to make it crank. Thanks, Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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