Re: OT: Mozilla/Firefox


Michael Unger wrote:
> On 2005-12-31 05:18, "AEF" wrote:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > Another problem with Mozilla is fonts: With IE, I can get nice serif
> > fonts (I guess it's Times Roman -- it doesn't say what it is). I can't
> > do that with Mozilla. In IE I go to Tools, Options, Accessibility and
> > check ignore font sizes and ignore font styles. These are my normal
> > settings. With this I get what for me is text that is much easier to
> > read with most Web pages. There are problems occasionally with
> > paragraphs of text overlapping adjacent regions (and vice versa!!!)
> > because some sites don't care about people like me. But with Mozilla,
> > doing the same thing is a big PITA. You have to keep playing with Sizes
> > and Minumum Sizes and you have to use different settings for different
> > sites and the fonts never look as good as they do in IE. You can't get
> > one set of sizes that works on most pages. Sorry, IE wins this round,
> > too.
>
> ???
>
> "Edit" -> "Preferences" -> "Appearance" -> "Fonts". What exactly are you
> missing?

A single setting that works for most Web pages. Fonts that look as good
as IE's fonts. With IE I can use my ignore sizes and fonts for a huge
majority of Web pages and I can turn them off (a small pain) for the
few pages that require such. With Mozilla or Firefox or whatever the
hell it is I have to constantly change the sizes and I don't get the
same fonts with the same settings as I go to different sites. Also, the
fonts config page is less keyboard friendly than IE's. It also has too
many things to configure that don't seem to do what they say they do.
And I have a lot of trouble getting them to do what I want them to do.
For example, in Google Groups, I have to turn Always use my fonts off
to get the fixed font. When I click on Google's proportional font I get
proportional font but I get sans serif even though I selected serif for
proportional in the Firefox config box. So I have to go back to Always
use my fonts. IT'S A PITA comapred to IE. Also, the fonts in IE look
much better.

>
> > [...]
> >
> > Mozilla is far better for gif files. No doubt about it. And I use it
> > for that. But I still can't get it to be the default for gif's, which
> > is MS's fault, I'd guess. As for the "tabs": I'm not THAT crazy about
> > the tabs. They're nice, but I don't like them as much as you apparently
> > do (maybe because I favor using keyboard shortcuts -- it's been a while
> > since I tried Mozilla). And finally: Yes, Mozilla is safer, and perhaps
> > more robust, but for me it's also a PITA.
>
> "Edit" -> "Preferences" -> "Advanced" -> "System". There are a lot of
> checkboxes for file types, including GIF, and protocols.

My Mozilla or Firefox doesn't have edit/pref/adva/system. I have an
"advanced" config box under tools/options, but it doesn't have
checkboxes for file types. If you're talking about file types under
Windows Explorer's Folder Options, I have it set for gifs to be run by
Mozilla, but when I choose a gif file, it doesn't work. It doesn't open
Firefox. If Firefox is already open, it comes to the foreground, but
the gif doesn't load. It does not work. (Win 98 SE.)

I'm running what I believe is Firefox 1.0. What are you running?

>
> > [...]
>
> Michael
>
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AEF

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