Firebird vs. Mozilla? [LWN.net]

Firebird vs. Mozilla?

Posted Feb 5, 2004 5:24 UTC (Thu) by frazier (subscriber, #3060)
In reply to: Firebird vs. Mozilla? by jonabbey
Parent article: Building A Better Browser (Forbes)

Mozilla has all that on by default. Where Mozilla Firebird shines, though, is in the over-all user interface.

CTRL+k is so sweet! The separate integrated Google search field is excellent too (which is what CTRL-k applies focus to). One annoying factor about Mozilla from a UI standpoint is that the location field means one thing if you hit enter and another if you click "Search".

I also like the way when a link is opened in a new tab, it's loaded in the background with Firebird.

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Firebird vs. Mozilla? Seperate Search Field

Posted Feb 5, 2004 20:37 UTC (Thu) by ptr (guest, #5885) [Link]

Hmmm... It's hard to say anything general here, I liked the Mozilla approach better (still using firebird right now).

I do not like the idea of wasting screen space. I often like to type in quite some keywords and since the search field is quite small it scrolls... That's really a minor annoyance and I see your argument though, I have just never considered it that way.