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rsl12 · 02-13-2004, 09:57 PM

tabbed browsing is something you have to try to realize how useful it is. you would be surprised how different it is from opening up a bunch of new windows all the time.

image block is great for keeping banner ads off annoying sites. along the same lines, you can get animated gifs to play only once, so that you can see what the intent was, but not have to look at annoying flashing banners.

google toolbar vs. the search sidebar? i don't see how they're that much different. however, if you approve of all the office XP stuff with all their sidebar additions, mozilla is like that but 3 times better. the options available on their sidebars are very very useful and intuitive.

finally, there's something called "mouse gestures" available for mozilla that for me is the BIGGEST advantage. imagine that, when you want to go back to the last loaded page, you click your middle mouse button and drag it left half an inch or so. and when you want to go forward a page, you drag your middle mouse button right half an inch. if you do more advanced things, there's a bunch of other shapes you can drag with the mouse (for example, drag a "b" shape to bookmark a page). it is incredible!!

text search: anytime you want to find a particular word that you know is somewhere on the page, you don't press f3, type the word you're looking for, and then do find-next find-next find-next until you find the right one. instead, you type "/" and the word you're looking for. it will find what you're looking for as you type and highlight it. if it happens to be a link, press "enter" and you're on to the next link!

ez sizing: are the words too small on your screen? press ctrl - + and they become bigger. press ctrl - - and they become smaller. somehow, i've found that this works much much better in mozilla than in ie.

on and on. these are real innovations, things that you can expect in the next version of IE, because they're so good, microsoft would be fools to ignore them.

02-13-2004, 09:57 PM	#20 (permalink)
rsl12 On the lam Location: northern va	tabbed browsing is something you have to try to realize how useful it is. you would be surprised how different it is from opening up a bunch of new windows all the time. image block is great for keeping banner ads off annoying sites. along the same lines, you can get animated gifs to play only once, so that you can see what the intent was, but not have to look at annoying flashing banners. google toolbar vs. the search sidebar? i don't see how they're that much different. however, if you approve of all the office XP stuff with all their sidebar additions, mozilla is like that but 3 times better. the options available on their sidebars are very very useful and intuitive. finally, there's something called "mouse gestures" available for mozilla that for me is the BIGGEST advantage. imagine that, when you want to go back to the last loaded page, you click your middle mouse button and drag it left half an inch or so. and when you want to go forward a page, you drag your middle mouse button right half an inch. if you do more advanced things, there's a bunch of other shapes you can drag with the mouse (for example, drag a "b" shape to bookmark a page). it is incredible!! text search: anytime you want to find a particular word that you know is somewhere on the page, you don't press f3, type the word you're looking for, and then do find-next find-next find-next until you find the right one. instead, you type "/" and the word you're looking for. it will find what you're looking for as you type and highlight it. if it happens to be a link, press "enter" and you're on to the next link! ez sizing: are the words too small on your screen? press ctrl - + and they become bigger. press ctrl - - and they become smaller. somehow, i've found that this works much much better in mozilla than in ie. on and on. these are real innovations, things that you can expect in the next version of IE, because they're so good, microsoft would be fools to ignore them. __________________ oh baby oh baby, i like gravy.