Firefox - why is it better?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:33:43AM -0700, Jared Buck wrote:
> You can change the directory firefox downloads into by going to the Edit
> - Preferences menu, then selecting downloads.  lots of stuff you can
> change there, including where stuff gets downloaded to.
This is not true. You can put it in any directory but your home directory.
> 
> And as for the interface?  it's not hard, you just go to the firefox
> extensions website, then download the extension you want, then restart
> firefox after it installs.  All of them can be individually configured
> from the Extensions dialog box under the Tools menu (just select the one
> you want to work with and hit options.
> 
> Jared
To me this is more complicated then going to a helper menu, entering a application
type, one or more extensions and the program to deal with files of that type.

But again I do not want to start an argument about this.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:37 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > Again I am not trying to start a rant I just want to know.
> > 
> > I find firefox somewhat inferior to the previous mozilla. Why do
> > people support it so?
> > 
> > 1. The ctrl-l option is somewhat worse than the previous ctrl-shift-l
> > option.
> > 2. I would like my downloaded files to go in my home directory. So as
> > root I want them to go into /root. That may be unreasonable to some
> > people but it can't be done in firefox. The Desktop folder is the last
> > place I want to put them.
> > 3. The interface to add helper applications is obscure compared to
> > mozilla.
> > 
> > And on and on. I guess I am just a curmudgeon. Remember I am not trying
> > to start a rant , I am just very curious why firefox is taking over.
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