Re: OT: Mozilla/Firefox (was:Re: Windoze ends year with a major cert ...)

AEF wrote:
BRAD wrote: I guess too 
many folks are used to beating themselves over the head with Internet
Exploder, and have gotten used to the dull ache of Windows.


[Normally, I really hate Microsoft, but there are some exceptions. This
is one of them.]

Well, some of us prefer Internet Exploder. It does some things Mozilla
can't. If you hate the mouse, and I surely do, IE is better. In most
cases, you can move the focus to a link, press Enter, then read that
page. Then alt-left-arrow to go back to the original page, tab, and
you're keyboard focus is on the next link and you can press Enter to go
to that next link. Repeat. You can't do that with Mozilla or any other
browser I've tried. These other browsers always put your keyboard focus
on the first link on the page when you go back one page. Then you have
to hold the tab key and wait for the focus to move through all the
links on the page!!! I've been shown workarounds, but they either are
too much bother (and often don't cover some situations) or they rely on
your having to ALWAYS anticipate whenever you might want to go to the
next link on the previous page (which in Mozilla would create an
unmanageable amount of tabs). Sorry, IE wins this point.

First of all, nice post. I tried the above on Mozilla _and_ Firefox 1.5. Mozilla behaves as you describe, but Firefox works as you describe IE working. I _do_ keep IE around on my XP Pro laptop, so that I can read the few pages that won't render properly under other browsers, but I find that with Firefox, I don't need IE at all. I've sent a suggestion off to the SWB folks, asking them if they have any plans to port Firefox/Thunderbird. :-)

I notice that your post seems to deal with Mozilla vs. IE. Give Firefox a try on your Windows box (presuming that's where you are using IE). Perhaps someday we will see Firefox/Thunderbird on OpenVMS. I can't really speak to the rest of your points in this post.

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