What is a Mozilla anyway?
Shameless Plug for Mozilla
If you spend ALOT of time online (as it has been my wont of late, armed with freshly installed cable modem, to do) you will undoubtedly find reference amidst the flotsam and jetsam that clog the internet to “Mozilla”. Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org is an open source web browser that offers an elegant alternative to the unarguably ubiquitous Microsoft (MS) Internet Explorer (IE) The fight between IE and Netscape, if you’ll remember, was at the center of the now infamous MS anti-trust trial wherein IE was said to have been “inextricably linked” to the MS OS and then miraculously wasn’t anymore. [opinion] MS may have been successful in muscling out its competition, but it has not seen very much improvement in the IE browser [/opinion]. Meanwhile, the Godzilla look-alike, a Netscape mascot logo since 1994, still brands the Mozilla open source project (1998) which offers free to the world a very fast and stable set of tools that has made navigating the web a lot more fun. Read on for interesting links…For the completely uninitiated, you can read a quick overview of Mozilla here: http://mozilla.org/why/users.html where you can find links to the download pages for various operating systems. The Mozilla museum http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/ serves up old images of the Moz mascot through time. Dave Titus, the creator of the Mozilla character has a site (with really cool graphics!) at http://www.davetitus.com/flash/home_06e.html
And if you were wondering what Tim Berners-Lee, the “father” of the web is thinking will be the next www: the semantic web, http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Semantic.html
whereby, using XML and RDF he thinks it may be possible to make the web browseable by artificial intelligences. Think of the concept as a “global database” (his words) wherein data is stored in a logical way so that your machines can go out and use it to get stuff done for you.
Comment posted on 8-6-2003
Mozilla is fantastic it\’s all I use.
I love the trainable spam filter and the pop-up blocker just plain blocks them all. Wonderful stuff.
Before I had broadband the tab browzing was essential. It allows me to click on the like with my mouse wheel and have it load in it\’s own tab _behind_ my current window. It makes all the difference when you want to check out a bunch of links from a google search: just go along and wheel click on them and then go to the tabs when they\’re done. Far superior to opening a new browser window for each or playing the click…wait…back…click..wait…back game.
Mozilla rocks.
Oh, on a side topic, I have a 2 button wheel mouse plugged in the Titanium G4 and everything works just fine under OSX. Suprising.
Comment posted on 11-2-2003
Another one of my favourite things about Mozilla is the userContent.css file. This little known personal stylesheet can be configured to set your personal preferences for browsing on many levels but the thing I like the most is that it can be set up to block all inline advertisements! No more banner ads or flashy blocks in the middle of the text you’re reading! (Until the advertisers figure out how to get around it).
Customizing Mozilla
Ad Blocking
Comment posted on 11-2-2003
What\’s nice about the pop up blocker is that you can choose to allow a pop up on a per site basis if, for instance, you NEED a pop up window to work to use the site.