Okay, so my kid has been bugging me to download it and try it. So I finally am. So far so good, except that it seems to lack a back to previous page option in certain situations (editing that I mean the green arrow doesn’t always work but I see the tab thingie does).
I logged on to chat for a moment to see if it worked any better than Safari but nobody is on at the moment. We’ll see.
I have an ongoing problem with online purchasing and interactive pages with Safari. Usually, you spend five minutes trying to purchase or register to something then it turns to @#$, leaving you wondering if you made it. And Explorer no longer works at all on my Mac…
Recommendations welcome for using/customizing the ware.
ToCyrillic is a transliterator and a keyboard mapper for Firefox & Thunderbird. It allows as-you-type conversion of transliterated characters to native script, as well as transliteration/detransliteration anywhere within the document. Included layouts provide support for Bulgarian, Cherokee, Georgian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian languages, as well as Taiwanese POJ romanization
This from someone who knows Diddly Squat. But I talked to someone else, a tech person for our district, who says that Firefox is due to become obsolete very shortly. Check out that rumor to see if it’s worth an investment.
If you like, I’ll follow up and ask him how he knows.
I couldn’t do my job without Firefox. It’s a lifesaver. If it does become obsolete it’ll only be for something just as good. NEVER for Internet Exploder.
The thing you’ll find as a Mac user is that as long as whoever programmed the page programmed at least for Windows Firefox to work, the Mac Firefox will also work. I haven’t found hardly anything but the most arcane or superficial differences between the Windows and Mac Firefox.
I have hit several web sites that will only support MS IE through using non-standard, MS-centric software on the web (McAfee is a good example). However, Mozilla was already on the web (in Netscape) when Bill Gates first told MS not to bother developing for this web thingy. I suspect whatever comes along, Mozilla will adopt and adapt.
Yes, this is what I meant by "MS-centric,"i.e. only runs in IE.
One thing I notice moving from Netscape to FireFox is that FireFox does not have the option to “Display current page like IE.” But I was responding to sbfluter’s post, “I haven’t found hardly anything but the most arcane or superficial differences between the Windows and Mac Firefox.” In other words, I have found web sites that didn’t want to work under a Mozilla browser like Netscape, but would only work in IE.
I much prefer Firefox as a browser, so I have an add-on that allows me to right click on a page and “view this page in IE”. Takes care of the frustration when you do run into incompatible sites. I highly recommend it.
It astounds me that designers are willing to build websites to only work with IE. Why would you want to ignore or alienate a sizable and growing audience using alternative browsers? (Of course, Microsoft often does, but they obviously have a different agenda.)
I have run into a lot of “programmers” who only know MS. MS sponsors a lot of community-college level computer programming classes, and the only thing these people are learning is how to work with MS software, servers and networking. All they are learning is that UNIX is a four-letter word.
Please let me know the name of the add-on for IE viewing in FoxPlus.
