Re: why firefox instead of mozilla?

Bart Garst wrote:

>I use mozilla as my browser on both linux and windows.
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>What are some of the reasons a person would use firefox instead of mozilla?
>I looked at their web page when the 1.0 release was announced and didn't see
>anything that grabbed my attention.
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>Could any of you, who have experience with both, shed some light this?
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>Thanks,
>Bart
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I use both and here's what I do;

I'm an ambidextrous computer user so I really have equal time on Mac,
Linux, and Windows.

At work, I primarily use Windows where I use Mozilla for main browsing
and email. Nice simple client.
For web programming, I use Eclipse where I check my PHP output in
Firefox. Sometimes with a right-click >"View in IE".
What IE has over the Mozilla is session management. Every browser
window is a seperate connection with the server where as a Mozilla
session stays the same until the browser is closed. Each tab is still
the same session. The full Mozilla client becomes a problem because of
it's size and shutting down windows or the browser also means shutting
down the mail client which takes time to shut down and bring back up.

So for windows, I use Mozilla for main browsing and email, Firefox for
singular browsing and web testing. Firefox kills and comes up just as
fast as IE sometimes faster just so I can have new sessions.

In Linux, Mozilla again is my main browser, check in Firefox, Epiphany,
and Opera.

Mac is my iBook and wireless. I use Eclipse, Firefox and Thunderbird.
If I need another browser, I use Safari and Opera. For testing I use the
local apache webserver, Mysql, and PHP.

Firefox is IMO the better browser if all you need is browsing. The
plugin management is great in the latest release.

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