Until recently I’d forgotten how much Internet Explorer lags behind in the browser stakes from a user perspective as opposed to a developer perspective. No tabs, no mouse gestures, minimal customisation of menus. Rubbish. Of course, you can get MyIE2 to cure most of these ills, but then that comes with its own bloat, including over-complicated menus and preferences dialogs, inconsistent interna...

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Andy made an excellent post about the Firebird menubar. The Firebird menubar is extremely configurable, and you can put anything just about anywhere, including the Home/Refresh buttons to the same line as the File/Edit menus. This is great for me, previously I had the main menu bar, navigation/address bar, my bookma...

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To keep me from moaning quite so much, there’s now a web panel enhancer extension for Firebird which allows you to turn the sidebar on/off via the “View” menu and adds an “Open in sidebar” option (as well as some others) to the context menu. Thank God.

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Interestingly here is Ben Goodger’s original plan for Firebird web panels (via Phil Ringnalda). Confirming my suspicions, this is definitely not what we see in the current Firebird release, despite the fact that web panels are on the current fea...

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The completely unbiased Mozilla Firebird Browser Comparison Chart (via Cheah Chu Yeow )

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Finally weblogs.mozillazine.org is alive again for me to extract this quote from asa’s blog on August 3rd: Web Panels is much more useful/versitile/practical than the old SeaMonkey sidebar. If you’re visiting a page that you want to hold onto for a few minutes you can just pres the “Grab Page” button and it pulls that page fr...

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Firebird 0.7: bugs have been fixed – good. can’t spot any new bugs – good bookmarks can be opened in the sidebar – good can’t see web panels for the fucking life of me – bad.

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I was wrong when I said Firebird was now providing all my needs. This is because Firebird doesn’t currently support Mozilla sidebars. Under Moz, my sidebar looks like this. Under Firebird I just only have the default choice of “Downloads”...

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Firebird I finally decided to give Firebird a proper go at the end of last week, and it was doing very very well, having become my default browser by virtue of being better and faster than full Mozilla (my previous default browser) in all but one way. That way was that Jesse Ruderman’s edit CSS boo...

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Netscape is dead. Everyone’s shouting it from the rooftops, and if it wasn’t such a major thing I’d assume it was covered well enough in other places. Comments

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