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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