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Two of the most important Mozilla/Firebird items from texturizer.net: Flash Click To View and Ad Blocking. The Ad Blocking stuff really works well.

And this page has all the information to install plugins. Besides, flash isn't hard to install. you download a .exe, and double-click it. Rocket science, I know.

I would prefer a bit more options built into firebird directly as well, but 95% of what isn't already there that I care about can be achieved with Tabbrowser.

might be a bit slow, since the main site is taking a beatingfrom all the downloads of the newest builds of firebird/thunderbird. anyways, it adds an entry to your right-click menu, to open a link in IE. i rarely use it, but it comes in handy.

ChatZilla, the IRC client, is available as a Firebird extension.

One word. Venkman.

If you've never heard of it, Venkman is the incredibly handy integrated JavaScript debugger bundled with Mozilla. Firebird has become my default browser but there are still times when I need Venkman, and that's why I keep Mozilla around. Firebird makes it available only as an extension, but it's stability is said to be dubious. (This is by no means a knock against Firebird and the decision not to integrate it, that's in line with it's spirit of un-bloatedness) But if that were to change, I would fully agree with you.

Click on the Firebird throbber (that ugly thing in the upper right part of the browser that spins around when loading a page) - http://texturizer.net/firebird/ - Click on Download on the left under Home

Now, you're on http://texturizer.net/firebird/download.html - Scroll down to the tan box that says Testers.

There's a link there next to Linux: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nig htly/latest-trunk/MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+ xft.tar.gz.

Hope this helps. Also, be sure to install the Bitstream Vera fonts.

Click on the Firebird throbber (that ugly thing in the upper right part of the browser that spins around when loading a page) - http://texturizer.net/firebird/ - Click on Download on the left under Home

Now, you're on http://texturizer.net/firebird/download.html - Scroll down to the tan box that says Testers.

There's a link there next to Linux: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nig htly/latest-trunk/MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+ xft.tar.gz.

Hope this helps. Also, be sure to install the Bitstream Vera fonts.

Ah, do I hear the wheels of progress already working on the next Mozilla extension? Imagine gleefully watching the California ones carefully plucked out of your Junk folder, optionally with PDF files of the necessary court papers ready to print and file.

I've tried a good deal of the stuff listed. The following are the most intuitive, free, software products I have encountered. They increase productivity, and are stable.

Freeware List: If you can think of it, it's in here.
OpenCD: Precompiled CD with all open source software.
Doom9.org: Famed site for lots of media tools.
Trillian: AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo! IM software all in one.
AVG Anti-Virus: Free AV
SpyBot (Spam Remover): Free Spam Remover/Search & Destroy
Firebird: Web browser w/ adblock & popup control.
FileZilla FTP: FTP Client
Smart FTP: Free Client, better looking, faster
Kerio: Personal Firewall, better than ZoneAlarm
Textpad: Text Editor.
PuTTY: SSH Client.
CygWin: Linux emulation.
FFDshow: DivX/XVid decoder.
TweakUI: Microsoft's famed Powertoy for Windows XP.
WinAce: Fast, high-compression (40% smaller, faster compression than ZIP).
WinAmp: MP3 player, with this skin.
dBpowerAMP: Music Converter (copies CDs to MP3)

One last thing, don't use Outlook. Find a better program: Eudora, Thunderbird, or PegasusMail (in that order) are safer/more powerful. Windows comes bundled with great software, just like Mandrake - but their internet package leaves much (security) to be desired.

You should try out Firebird. Even though it's still early (there are a few annoying bugs) it's far less annoying than IE.

It's lightweight (unlike mozilla) yet it still has numerous features that I now can't live without. Particularly tabbed browsing, the fully configurable toolbar/menu, and (via an extension) the ability to right-click on *anything* on a page and remove it.

This is a feature that I've been waiting for forever. Don't you hate when you're trying to read something and there's a flashing gif right next to it? Right click and kill it. Of course. It's my browser, it should be under my control, and I should be able to tell it not to render something. Excellent.

I am so sick of Opera hype that I have to say Nein !! I have paid for, and used, version 3.x. I gave up because it had so many bugs. I heard that it got better, then paid for, and used, 6.x and nothing had changed! Trying to get support, was a joke. Save your money and get a real browser like Firebird!

Some free, Free and not so free applications:

Webbrowser Mozilla Firebird (Win / linux)
Email Eudora (win) Evolution (linux)
Office suite OpenOffice.org 1.1 (win / linux)
SSH client putty (win) openssh (linux)
Videoplayer VLC (win / linux) or BSPlayer (win) and Xine (linux)
Editor Textpad (windows) Kate (linux)
Chat Jabber PSI (win / linux)
Firewall Kerio (win)
Anti virus F-Secure (not free) (win)

- Ost

OT & FYI: There's a nifty Mozilla/Firebird extension that makes all text URLs into hyperlinks. HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, mailto, etc...

Here's even a link.

Most (all?) PGP support for mail clients is provided in the form of plugins, like enigmail for thunderbird. Even still, I don't use encryption either.

Substitute "windows" for "explorer".
Everyone should be using Mozilla Firebird on windows anyway...

Check out Mozilla Firebird and install the Mozex extension.

Then you can easily associate external editors for textareas. If that doesn't suit your needs you could always write your own extension. (It's pretty easy, I wrote my first one, Image Zoomer, in about 2 days last week.)

check out this extension

I agree in part. The only thing I would miss if flash died would be some webcomics, but I'm sure their authors would just use gifs or pngs. At the moment this simple mozilla extension is the bane of flash advertising.

There's also a great extension for Mozilla Firebird where all Flash is displayed as a grey box, and if you want to see it just click on the box. This means you can avoid seizure-inducing crazy blinking ads, but be able to view great sites like Homestar Runner.

Try using Firebird. I haven't seen a bulk ad or pup-up since I switched form mozilla. Even mozilla stopped almost every popup. It will run where you uncompress it, so you don't need privileges to install it. Download a plugin (aka extensions) called AdBlock. Go into the normal options and turn off unrequested popups. Also set the options so that only images from the originating server are downloaded. With AdBlock, you can block images by name server (ex. ads.x10.com). There is a comprehensive list that you can output in many block formats here).

I still recommend you install the full (but inofficial) Google Bar to get the most out of Firebird + Google. It is nice to have a built-in like they have, but the full thing does so much more. :)

Well, I'll be: there's an extension plugin that makes editing the prefs (slightly) easier:
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/extensions.html# ChromEdit

Why yes. Yes, there is!
Just put this in your user.js file in the profile folder:

// Check for new mail in ALL imap folders
user_pref("mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new", true);

Note that the prefs file can be tricky to find. On XP, it's usually in
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\%random%.slt
Information for other operating systems here
Remember to quit Thunderbird first, otherwise it'll overwrite your changes.

see this on Firebird's site for the external links thing.
I thought inline autocomplete was enabled by default.

Remember, bugzilla doesn't take referrals from slashdot.

Found this link in the Release Notes that may be of help in that regard: http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#2.2

Just type response in a little box below the message and hit enter. Jobs done!.

Besides, i did have a look a few weeks ago. It was big bloatware. What happened to mean and lean anyway?

Well, there's firebird. I've been happy ignoring IE for the past 2 years or so.

I'd like that big projects like Moz or KDE be modular in terms of speed vs. functionalities : if I have a powerful machine, I'll want the super 3D web-o-matic, and if I run it on an old machine, I have an option to do without and I can stay at a level of niceties and support corresponding to the speed of the machine.

Firebird Text Links

Why not just program the existing scroll wheel so that when held down, it behaves like the "hand" tool in Photoshop. Press down the middle button, and then drag the document around the window.

Logitech and MS's windows mouse drivers both already have options to do that. Internet Explorer has that built in even if you don't use the driver option. And you can get the Autoscroll extension to do the same thing in Firebird. There's probably a way to do it in straight mozilla too, but I haven't tried it since Phoenix 0.5 came out :)

Getch'er beta here.

As far as I can tell, it works as well as the Windows version. A little too well, in fact, so I downloaded this helpful little extension.

Once it's installed, go ahead and test it out.

Rather than guessing, you could look down the page a little ways...

If you use mozilla mail, you will need to migrate your accounts over by hand.

Basically.. you copy the profile directory over. Not a big deal, though an actual import filter would be nice.

I also hope they will implement flash blocking like they have with images. Too many pages just annoy the hell out of you with flash instead now...

There is a extension for that: Flash Click to view

Firebird on my 866mhz Pentium III machine was almost faster than IE on my Athlon XP 1400, and then I did this and there was no contest. Speeds up page rendering quite a lot.

I've been using Thunderbird on Windows now for about 3 weeks and I haven't had a single problem. I much prefer it to Eudora, my previous email client.

By the way, something useful for non-US English users that took me a while to figure out: Thunderbird uses MySpell dictionaries which can be downloaded here.

And lots more tips for Thunderbird here.

Look at How do I migrate my Mozilla mail and settings to Thunderbird

FWIW, I've been runing Mozilla Mail 1.3 and Thunderbird side by side (using the same profile/email stores) and no problems.

MozillaZine Thunderbird Forums
FAQ and tips at Texturizer

Mozilla Firebird may have the features you like. Most features are available as extensions. You may have already looked at that page, but, if not, you might be suprised at what is available.

Get the TabBrowser extension. It allows dragging and more. It is listed under Extensions at
texturizer.net/firebird

Visit the author's webpage to install the extension if you are using Mozilla browser, the Install Click Here link is only for Firebird. I am so hooked to this extension and wondering why the author does not list the extension at mozdev.

http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html#Fla sh%20Click%20To%20View

I would assume that just like Mozilla let's you block graphics it will eventually let you turn off svg's. I also just found out about the flash blocker,
Flash Cick to View. It's part of the Firebird extensions but also works great on plain mozilla 1.4 if you get it from the author's page.

With no popups, no ads and no flash, the web is usable.

Mozilla; yes of course.

1. Popup blocking.
2. Block images by server (waiting for block Flash by server ...)
3. Tabbed browsing.
4. Bookmark groups of tabs.


With Firebird, there's a nice extension for blocking Flash, though not by server. Flash click to view is an extension that replaces Flash objects with a button that you click to view them. So it effectively allows you to block annoying Flash ads, but still watch Strongbad.

If you don't like it, change it. :)

'Mozilla is slow and ugly.'

You call yourself a Mac user?

Camino (Chimera/Navigator/et al.) was sickeningly fast, even in 10.1.x. I saw great speed gains between that and IE 5.

Firebird is a bit slower, but very skinnable, combatting that 'Moz is ugly' retort that's so quick to roll off the tongue.

And while we're on the topic of UGLY, let's look at that 'brushed metal' theme...

If you're using Mozilla, or a mozilla derived browser, you can add Ted Mielczarek great Flash, Click to Play extension: extension installer. You can find info on it here and here.

Phoenix (now renamed Mozilla Firebird) uses its own menus (defined in XUL) rather than using the native menus of GTK or any other Linux toolkit. Changing to a different theme will get rid of the shadows if the theme in question doesn't use shadows. You can download new themes from Mozilla Firebird Help

The only OS where Mozilla based XUL apps use native menus is on Mac OS because on the Mac the menus are displayed at the top of the screen not at the top of the application like they are in Windows and Linux apps.

Phoenix (now renamed Mozilla Firebird) uses its own menus (defined in XUL) rather than using the native menus of GTK or any other Linux toolkit. Changing to a different theme will get rid of the shadows if the theme in question doesn't use shadows. You can download new themes from Mozilla Firebird Help

The only OS where Mozilla based XUL apps use native menus is on Mac OS because on the Mac the menus are displayed at the top of the screen not at the top of the application like they are in Windows and Linux apps.

If you're running MozillaFirebird, there's an extension that allows you to spoof your user agent using a custom string (there are other popular options available as well). My choice?

"I Telnet To Port 80" :)