Re: Firefox 0.9.2

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From: DILIP (dilipr_at_#*&!%l.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:53:23 +0530

That's how I browse as well. I go to a few websites everyday that find
their place in the Links (in firefox, bookmarks toolbar) folder and open
them in different windows. The links from these websites are opened within
the respective windows' tabs...

The grouping in the XP toolbar hasn't suited my liking actually. I think
anything more than a single click is too much, especially since the
sub-grouping fails to be descriptive enough. However I like 8 apps in the
Quick launch toolbar, which, along with the Desktop toolbar squeezed in on
the right make for quite a small taskbar space.

I think the biggest loser in this battle is Opera. They charge for the
features firefox has, or can add-in with extensions, for free (including
mouse gestures). And version 7.5 seems to have taken a few cues from
firefox as well, it seems less claustrophobic now, if you know what I mean.
:-) 

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"cquirke (MVP Win9x)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:17:56 +0530, "DILIP" <dilipr@#*&!%l.com> wrote:
>
>>The tabs omission is gonna cost MS dearly, you'll see.
>
> That's the (a?) trouble with MS: Short attention span.
>
> Team A susses out some angles, makes design decisions that neatly
> side-step a bunch of problems.  Said problems never arise.  Team B
> comes along and throws out the decisions team A brought to the party
> and gee whiz who'd have thought it, runs into what team A avoided.
>
> So it is with MDI.  MDI (Multiple Document Interface) was one of the
> good ideas Win3.yuk made standard (some DOS apps were already doing
> this).  Then IE did the five-dozen-heap-bleeding-separate-windows
> thing, complete with scrollbars on the Taskbar.
>
> Then they broke MS Office around Office 2000 to fit with this
> benighted IE design.  So great, now I have to guess which of a dozen
> Excel instances is the one with the *** I want to switch to.  YUKK!!
>
> XP brings some sense to the madness by grouping instances of the same
> app, and that helps particularly when you can see what apps they are
> in the Taskbar group's pop-up.
>
> But Netscape 7.x (and presumably the open-source foundation apps it's
> drawn from, such as Mozilla if not FireFox) give you the best of both
> worlds - you can kick open a new window *or* a new tab.  So; have
> three open Windows with different Google searches in each, and kick
> open each search's links as tabs in the same window.
>
> This is a sensible way to work.
>
> Thanks for the FireFox version heads-up, and links to that and new
> Mozilla.  I haven't looked in that direction since Netscape 7.02, and
> will now be doing so.  As it is, my standard practice is IE 6 SP1,
> Netscape 7.02 and the pre-AOL Netscape 4.8 (which I run with
> Java/JavaScript suppressed as a safer tyre-kicker).
>
>
>
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