On 19 Feb 2005 at 7:02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 01:31 AM 2/19/05 -0800, Mark D Lew wrote: > >Can someone perhaps tell me what I should suggest to my girlfriend? > >What browser do you recommend instead, and where does she go to > >download and install it? > > Jari recommended Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/). So do I -- even > though I was an Opera user for years. Firefox takes no time to get > used to, except for the surprise of no invasive popups. :) It does > have some limited features (no option to auto-clear the cache on exit, > no mouse gestures, poor implementation of print output, and weakness > in reliably finding needed plugins), . . .
The full Mozilla version supports both cache auto-clear and mouse gestures. It probably shares what you see as the poor print output in FireFox, though I'd disagree -- I've had far more problems with IE when printing (usually cutting off parts of the page, probably due to the same box-model bug that I posted about yesterday) than I've ever had with Gecko-based browsers. As to the plugins problem, once you have the commonly-used ones installed, it's no longer an issue. but it is stable and works with > every website I regularly visit, including banking and auction sites. > > I admit it was hard to downshift from Opera to Firefox. I still think > Opera has far and away the best features of any browser, . . . Opera feels clunky and hard-to-use for me. I've tried it many times, and I've just never warmed to it. I think it's huge default toolbar set gets in my way psychologically, and I just think tabs are superior to the multiple-document interface for a web browser. But it *is* a good browser. Keep in mind also that Apple, Opera and the Mozilla Foundation have created a coalition to promote support of W3C standards in their browsers. They are trying to work together as something of a counterweight to the Microsoft monolith. but it is has > some problems. It's pretty geeky to configure easily, and its people > just don't listen to ordinary users' needs. It's hard-line about > rejecting websites that aren't written perfectly. It's ID is rejected > by some websites. . . . But isn't it extremely easy to switch user agent strings in order to trick the web site into sending HTML it can render? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
