Neverside

I know I asked this earlier, but since the thread has been revived I might as well ask again.

Does anyone know where I can find a Firebird spellchecker? I found one for Mozilla. But I can't find one anywhere for Firebird. (a port of ieSpell would work, or maybe an external program?)

Quote:

ahem...

Do a test for yourself.

Quote:

I know I asked this earlier, but since the thread has been revived I might as well ask again.

Does anyone know where I can find a Firebird spellchecker? I found one for Mozilla. But I can't find one anywhere for Firebird. (a port of ieSpell would work, or maybe an external program?)

Try this possibly:

http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/

___________________

fredmv, thx 4 the links n info...very useful. with people like You and the rest Mozilla crew from TF, the Firebird shall raise in the light of triumph over IE =) [sorry, got carried away] heh..anywayz..thx 4 opening my eyes n all...

___________________

Nihil miserabilius quam incerta sede vagari.

No problem at all. :grinning

___________________

Quote:

Originally posted by SmellyVognito
uhm, thx for reviving this once thankfully dead thread...

Not sure what you mean by "dead".... when I replied it was in the middle of page 1 of Water Cooler.

Anyhow.... yah I'm pretty sure it's much faster at loading pages than IE... especially like here on TF - for me that little "hang" in the load of the Default skin (loads the header then takes a sec to load any of the rest) is all but gone. It also appears a bit more "snappy" than IE when loading already-cached pages.

I've been having some intermittent issues though... like once or twice my scrollwheel became totally unresponsive on the page no matter where I clicked.... and a few times the extra flyout menu for additional "Toolbar Folder" links has stopped working (and I use that a lot since it gives me quick access to all of my most commonly accessed sites. Also the main "g" icon on my googlebar is "doubling" itself for some reason... it loads the icon twice horizontally... I checked the code though it's a bit over my head and I couldn't see where it defines the width of that button. I know somethings up though, since I have the same plugin on Mozilla/Netscape 7, and it only shows the icon once there hehe. That's no real biggie though, I'm sure with the next upgrade or something it will fix itself.

Also question: is there a way to open the same URL you're currently viewing into a new browser window? For instance in IE, if you press CTRL+N, it opens a new copy of the page you were on... in Firebird it opens a blank page (which is better in general I think, though a lot of times I "want" to open a new copy of the current site in the new window.

Peace.

___________________

-- Dave
Neverside Admin

absolutecross.com

i didn't want to switch.. i'm so used to IE.. but so many pop-up's and i couldn't find any good pop-up stoppers..

mozilla has done the trick, and has shown me the light.

now only if the flash plug-in was easier to download..

___________________

Sargeant: What in Sam Hill is a puma?
Simmons: Uhh, you mean like the shoe company?
Griff: No.. like a puma. It's a big cat.. like a lion.
Sargeant: You're makin' that up.

Quote:

Originally posted by SoylenT
i didn't want to switch.. i'm so used to IE.. but so many pop-up's and i couldn't find any good pop-up stoppers..

mozilla has done the trick, and has shown me the light.

For me in IE, this was solved by using the Google toolbar (which personally I find the most valuable plugin I've ever had hehe).. in the new version 2.0 they added built-in popup blocking. The main reason I wouldn't switch from IE for a long time was because there was no support for the Google toolbar in other browsers.... however now there's the unoffical Googlebar, and it's actually better in most ways (other than no access to PageRank, which is kinda important for marketing guys like me... though I'll live hehe).

___________________

-- Dave
Neverside Admin

absolutecross.com

oh, i had no idea that Google toolbar did that. i had tried all the most popular ones (Pop-Up Blocker and POW!, heard about both of them on TechTV) and they either blocked my browser from starting up completely or were only an evaluation which i'm not paying for.

___________________

Sargeant: What in Sam Hill is a puma?
Simmons: Uhh, you mean like the shoe company?
Griff: No.. like a puma. It's a big cat.. like a lion.
Sargeant: You're makin' that up.

I use Firebird

Hi, I?ve read the first half of this thread and gave up, so if what I?m about to say has already been covered then, well, tuff!

I started using Firebird almost a week ago, and it has sped up my browsing so much!

Before I list some of the great things about Firebird, I would like to say that Firebird has not even reached version one yet, and it already outstrips IE in terms of functionality, performance, and development speed. They are still addressing minor bugs and most major ones have been solved.

One thing they are working on, is an installer for all those not comfortable adding/delete program folder without help.
No doubt this will be added when they reach the first major release.

If any particular feature of Firebird is not for you, you can turn it off.
Firebird can be removed from your system, IE can?t.

Ok here?s some reasons that I believe Firebird is a better browser (than IE)?

[*] Tabbed Browsing ? it allows me to middle-click a link and that page loads while I continue reading the current page! Cool time-saving! [*]Mean lean browsing machine! ? Firebird in it?s default state, is very small and streamlined. It only needs a lot of resources when you open a lot of web pages, (or big pages or both). [*]Rendering pages faster. Plus you may not notice, but on my lousy 28.8k connection, it appears to download the pages faster too! [*]Rendering pages correctly ? it supports the W3C standards which means anything web pages should be able to do, can be done. The reason some pages don?t work is because web authors have inadvertently picked up bad habits just from making their code work in IE, whereas if they had developed in Firebird, their pages would have already worked as expected. [*]Therefore, coding in standards compliant code is easy, but because so many Internet users browse with IE, you have to add extra code ?hacks? so that it also works in IE! (To make code work in IE you have to do things the Microsoft way. To make code work in all standards compliant browsers you just have to do it the correct way.) [*]Incredibly flexible and extensible! Turn everything off for plain simple fast browsing, or install any imaginable ?extension? giving you the functionality you want. [*]More features and functionality that save you time, and allow you to do things you never even imagined before! [*] Syntax highlighting in View Source, don?t complain about bad choice of colours ? IE has ZERO colours!

That?ll do on Firebird for now.

On to IE?

IE does have many useful features in they way of Microsoft-only JavaScript functions (such as document.all) and they came up with a great way of telling web developers which mouse button(s) was clicked that works better than any other browser. They also support filters and transition effects.

Microsoft have just sat back and let the IE suckers keep using the out of date browser engine, and slapped on code hear and there to make it seem like it supports new stuff. I don?t think there will be any new IE releases until windows 2005 comes out.

Well they have domination in the browser market with IE, so what do they do with it? Make more money. IE will no longer be free!

I?m afraid that I have picked up so many bad habits writing web pages for IE. That I didn?t realise I?m such a crap coder!

I don?t think there is anything that IE does, that could not be done with Mozilla Firebird. Firebird simply does it faster, more reliably, and without so much fuss!

p.s. sorry for such a long read, but I hope you sit up and listen cos it's for youre benifit.
p.p.s Any web developers withot Firebird should get it right now, no ifs, no buts, take a peek. Look at your own work on a browser that shows up all you sloppy code and mistakes!

___________________

-LJ-

Last edited by fredmv, September 10th, 2003 10:46 PM (Edited 1 times)

Wow, very informative post... Nice job. And about this:

Quote:

I would like to say that Firebird has not even reached version one yet, and it already outstrips IE in terms of functionality, performance, and development speed. They are still addressing minor bugs and most major ones have been solved.

Exactly -- That's because it's open-source! :grinning

___________________