Mozilla users

[Paragon]

I just downloaded it based on PC Magazine calling it the "Best Browser of 2003".

Any suggestions, advice?

[lfairban]

1. Use the "Tab" feature, I do.

Hit Ctrl+T or File/New/New Tab.

Open Latest in first tab, LBN in the second, do a search on your own handle in the third, and whatever thread looks interesting in the forth, fifth, etc.

[Augspies]

2. Mozilla is the best browser.

It'll just take awhile to catch on.

:)

Jeremy

[trotsky]

3. I've been using it for a few months now.

Right-click, "Open Link in New Tab" is incredibly handy. Keeps down on the number of browser windows you need to open.

I don't like how it handles file downloads by default, with the download manager window, so I went into Preferences and changed that.

Otherwise I have been very pleased. Seems to perform better than IE. You'll like it.

On edit: Don't forget to enable the Pop-Up blocker! Blocks about 99.5% of that crap from my experience! (Edit.. Preferences.. Privacy & Security.. Popup Windows)

[trogdor]

6. Be sure to run the Cookie Manager OFTEN

It's under Tools/Cookie Manager/Manage Stored Cookies. Be sure to click the box that says "Don't allow sitess that set removed cookies to set future cookies." I just LOVE that feature. Just think; I don't have to put up with DoubleClick ever again.

Think of it as AdAware with a stick shift.

[starroute]

4. Have fun with skins

http://www.deskmod.com/?show=showcat&cat_name=mozilla


Also, for tabbed browsing:

1) The fastest way is generally to right-click a link and then select "Open Link in New Tab."

2) Go into Options and set "Windows and Tabs" to "Open Link in Background." This will let you open a whole set of threads (or any other sort of links) at once while keeping the "Latest Threads" screen in the foreground.

(New tabs use a lot less memory than new windows, so there's no reason not to go hog-wild.)

[dfong63]

7. middle-click

under "edit->preferences->tabbed browsing" you can opt to have the middle mouse button open a link in a new tab. (i think the default is to open in a new window.)

middle-clicking is much faster for me than right-clicking and making a menu selection, especially because the popup menu doesn't always pop up in the same relative location (say, if the link is near the bottom of the window.)

even under windows, i discovered that i can middle-click. one of the preference settings on the logitech mouse driver lets you say that clicking the scroll wheel (not rolling it, clicking it) shall be treated as a middle button click.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Nothing specific, just congrats for joining the crowd.

Been using Mozilla and Phoenix (the slightly faster version without mail and news-- now called Firebird) for a while now as backup for Opera, my favorite browser. It's always done a few things better than Opera, and just about everything better than IE.

[dfong63]

8. use the accelerators

<ctrl>d to bookmark
<ctrl>+ to zoom in, <ctrl>- to zoom out.

[dfong63]

9. auto-search

you can search (or "find") text in a page just by typing it. you don't have to bring up the "find" dialog. mozilla assumes if you're typing random stuff while viewing a page, that it's a search string.

[unluckythirteen]

10. Try Phoenix.

It's a Mozilla side-project that I think is even better than Mozilla itself. look somewhere on mozilla.org for it.

[classics]

11. Yep uninstall Moz and get Phoenix.

Phoenix is slated to replace Mozilla in a few versions. Actually its called 'Mozilla Firebird' now, and its quite the little browser.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html#install

[BonjourUSA]

12. All is better than IE !

[newyawker99]

13. Hi unluckythirteen!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: