Mozilla Suite vs. Firefox
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri May 5 12:41:08 UTC 2006
Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:31 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> For Firefox, the logic for setting preferences is not intuitive to me
>> and the defaults are horrible. It downloads to the desktop by default
>> and I had to hunt for where the desired preference was located.
>
> I agree that desktop is a silly choice, but how hard was it to find the
> entire section labelled as "downloads" in the *only* preferences window
> Firefox has, and where the first thing it asks is where to download
> files to?
>
> While you're there, or with *any* other browser, you really should go
> through and configure the entire thing properly. For instance, many
> browsers come set claiming that you only accept US English (never mind
> what your locale setttings are for therest of the PC). Then there's
> settings for how much drive space you waste with the cache (generally
> far too much), and plenty of other settings that the defaults aren't
> always such brilliant choices.
>
> Mozillas settings are far worse, a whole lot of things spread about all
> over the place.
>
The default settings probably can be improved a lot for sanity and for
languages other than English. I adopted Mozilla usage while RHL was
still only shipping Netscape 4.7.x series browsers. I grew into whatever
settings were setup as default and wrestled out all of the then present
MIME related problems.
With Firefox and seamonkey/mozilla departing ways for certain settings,
a more sane set of defaults or a more obvious configuration tool can be
incorporated into the browsers.
Jim
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