Mozilla Suite vs. Firefox

[Robin Laing]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 10:32 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>>>>Mozillas settings are far worse, a whole lot of things spread about all
>>>>over the place.
>>>
>>>
>>>That may be so, but I prefer them to the setup of Firefox. I am
>>>learning in this thread that I am not alone.
>>>
>>
>>I used Mozilla until a few weeks ago.  I tried FF with the Tab Mix Plus 
>>Extension and I won't look back at Mozilla.  At least is a page decides 
>>to crash my browser, it doesn't take Thunderbird down.  Less crashes in 
>>FF as well.
>>
>>With a couple of tweaks to about:config, FF is much faster as well.
>>
>>I do agree with many of the posters, the configuration settings should 
>>be clearer.  I miss the cookie manager in the Tools menu most of all.
>>
>>As with using any tool, it takes some time to adapt.  I am very happy 
>>with FF. :)
>>
>>The best that could happen is for FF/TB and Mozilla to work towards the 
>>same code base.  There are good things in both.
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Robin Laing
> 
> Ok, I have to jusp in. One aspect of firefox is a real mess. That is the
> enabling of pluins. Sometimes it is a matter of getting the plugin in
> to /usr/lib/firefox--x/plugins. Sometimes it isd a matter of changing
> mozzpluggerrc. In any case what you get when you go to about:pluggins
> has no relationship to the pluggin list you get when you go to edit->
> prperties-> Downloads. I have a FC5 machine with no mozpluggerrc in
> which video and audio works perfectly, and I have another machine that I
> have diddled around with and video works but audio works only from
> certain sources.
> 
> Its a mess. I liked the interface where you told the browser that input
> of a certain mime-type with a particular extension should be processed
> by this application. Where has that clarity gone.
> 

plugger/mozplugger has been a headache for me in the past.  If you get 
it working correctly, it is great, otherwise it screws you up.  I have 
experienced this since I first ran into it oh so many versions of Linux 
ago.  To be fair, it isn't part of Mozilla but an addon.  I prefer not 
to use it.

yum remove mozplugger

-- 
Robin Laing