A grumpy user's browser review [LWN.net]

A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 11, 2004 18:29 UTC (Wed) by alan (subscriber, #4018)
Parent article: A grumpy user's browser review

I'm rather disappointed to see Mozilla 1.6 not included in this review. My job involves a lot of web testing, and I've found that mozilla is quite a complete powertool browser, nicely themeable, and very fast. It allows more than enough control over javascript and image animation, I rely on its personal security manager in managing multiple accounts, its javascript debugger in the course of my work, and its memory footprint is very comparable to its Firefox derivate, a 'ps axvf' on my box shows a resident segment size of 71420. (on lk 2.6.2)

Moz 1.6 also rendered your test page extremely quickly, although I don't have specific numbers. Try it for yourself.

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A grumpy user's browser review

Posted Feb 12, 2004 11:34 UTC (Thu) by mdekkers (guest, #85) [Link]

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree -- I have used Fire{bird/fox} for a while, but a month or so ago moved back to using Mozilla. I find site compatibility a bit better, while stabillity, features etc simply shine in Mozilla, and still have a way to go with fire{bird/fox}.

Mozilla 1.6 is most fully featured

Posted Feb 13, 2004 1:08 UTC (Fri) by Mithrandir (subscriber, #3031) [Link]

Yep, I use Mozilla 1.6 because I like to use pretty much all of the features. It's nice to have an integrated suite that allows one to browse, check email, author HTML, use IRC etc.

And it's the parts like the Venkman JavaScript debugger that make this browser truly without equal. Ever tried to find a bug in JavaScript using IE? Forget it!

The extentions that I use are:

Flash Click To View - replaces all flash windows with a button that you can click to display. I find that at least 95% of flash on the web is ads. And particularly annoying adds.
Nuke Image - right click on an image and choose "Remove this image". Combined with "Block image from this server", this allows you to remove all annoying animated ads.