Re: Try Mozilla Firefox, it's worth it!

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From: Dustin (someone_at_something.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:21:08 -0700

Cris wrote:

> Hi:
>
>
>>Firefox is just excellent in my opinion
>>I still can't get it to stay as default >though.....
>
>
>
> Maybe you can try:
>
> tools/options/default browser...
>
> Regards
>
> "Dustin" <someone@something.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:OKdYk4kXEHA.3676@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
>>Wood Contour wrote:
>>
>>>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>and no more hijacks or mystery toolbars or popups or holes
>>>>in the code.
>>>>
>>>>open source. gotta love it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>After the non-stop issues with IE 6, I took FireFox 0.9
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>for a ride. By
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>the end of the day I wiped(almost all of it) out IE, OE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>and Outlook. I
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>run mozilla thunderbird for e-mail and NG, no hang-ups, no
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>delays, just
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>pure fun.
>>>>>http://mozilla.org
>>>>>--
>>>>>Member
>>>>>http://www.woodcontour.com
>>>>>
>>>>>.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>And developers that tell you what they do, ability to customize and what
>>>not. Just to have fun with. I hate to say it here, but part of the XP
>>>slowness is the tight integration of IE/Explorer/Office apps. Once you
>>>remove it, XP runs beautiful. Firefox Also warns you about to many
>>>redirections and has better, or should I say clear privacy control.
>>>
>>
>>Firefox is just excellent in my opinion
>>
>>I still can't get it to stay as default though.....
>
>
>

Nope, doesnt work, IE just regains default browser dominance upon next
reboot. I don't think this is the best place to discuss this problem.
I'll just take it to the MozillaZine forum....

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