Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 08/31/2003 10:03 AM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ] · 2118 views
Techseekers.net reports that a new version of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client is out v0.2 RC for windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Download Here
Also in the Mozillazine forums some members have built CPU specific optmized builds of the Mozilla Firebird browser based on the nightly's* which give a nice speed boost to the browser.
One of the most recent builds is relatively bug free and optimized for Pentuim 4, AthlonXP, newer Durons, Pentium M and Celeron 1.7Ghz+ with SSE. Download Here
Also in the Mozillazine forums some members have built CPU specific optmized builds of the Mozilla Firebird browser based on the nightly's* which give a nice speed boost to the browser.
One of the most recent builds is relatively bug free and optimized for Pentuim 4, AthlonXP, newer Durons, Pentium M and Celeron 1.7Ghz+ with SSE. Download Here
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Mmm_Beefy Member Posts: 51 Joined: 2002-12-17 |
#46814 Posted on: 08/31/2003 11:19 AM
sweet, i've just made firebird my default browser... its very fast in deed... well it was fast before.. but now.. kick A$$ |
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Devourer Unregistered |
#46816 Posted on: 08/31/2003 06:06 PM
I was using firebird & then switched to mozilla the other day.. I think mozilla is faster.. |
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snakefoot Unregistered |
#46817 Posted on: 08/31/2003 06:21 PM
It seems there is some flaw with extensions in this build, since I'm not able to configure extensions (No problem with firebird 0.6.1). I feel the Firebird browser is much faster to startup than Mozilla. |
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TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10 |
#46818 Posted on: 08/31/2003 06:46 PM
I too made the switch about a month or so back to Firebird. Usually once a day I'd run Adaware & find 5 or 6 references would be found regarding suspect cookies. Since changing to Firebird that has basically dropped to zero detections. Thanks to there being no further stand-alone IE versions (7.x+ that is, not IE SP2...) looks like I'll have zero reason to change either. |
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exedanni Unregistered |
#46819 Posted on: 08/31/2003 06:54 PM
Good links, I feel the SSE build is a bit faster! A note to anyone experiencing long startup times with any version of Mozilla: If you have Norton Anti-Virus, it might be set to scan .JS files, which it does really slowly on my PC. And Mozilla loads a lot of those when it launches. When I disabled that it cut the launch time for Firebird from 10s+ to 2-3s o/ |
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Sardaukary Unregistered |
#46827 Posted on: 09/01/2003 12:59 PM
Good to know I’m not the only Firebird convert. It’s really fast and has so many cool little features like the quick searches in the address bar, or if you type in keywords it will use Google to guess the web address. It all makes browsing easier and more productive. Thunderbird's getting better and better too. |
