A bit like godzilla (Mozilla Suite)

Member Name: alexmonkey

Product:	Mozilla Suite
Date:	01/06/04 (387 review reads)
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Advantages: fast, configurable, neat

Disadvantages: compatibility

Well, the title Kind of gives it a bad name, what I meant to say was that Mozilla actaully is like Godzilla cause its better and larger than Internet Explorer!

I have recently had to reinstall windows and I found that internet explorer had suddenly decided not to work, and be very slow, even more so than normal. I have used Internet explorer for the past six Years, I Have never used Another browser, apart from Netscape navigator, don?t bother, for about one day. I have always stood closely to internet explorer, until this week, when I wanted to change.

I had already heard of Mozilla and some other open source Browsers, so I looked for Mozilla 1.5, well I now have the update to Mozilla 1.6, but there isn?t much difference anyway. So I decided to go to their homepage, http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.6/, and looked for a download source. The main browser for Mozilla is around 11.3MB, about three mins on a broadband connection for me. The good thing about it is that its completely free, and made by people who know about computers, not Microsoft then!

Mozilla also do Mozilla firebird, a cut down version of Mozilla very handy for general browsing, I went for the larger one. This browser is highly stable, most people who don?t want to use internet explorer use this one, as they are almost the same, but Mozilla doesn?t have the security holes in it.

Probably one of the most secure, and stable, Mozilla is the one to go for. One thing is that Mozilla 1.4 is actually Netscape 7.1, but much better. But I will not refer to firebird much because it?s the wrong category to do so.

You can get add-ons for it, themes, that do not hinder its great stability, plugins/updates.
You can customize what it looks like, how is handles website, what the toolbar contains, and even lets you search in Google using the address-bar.

New features and updates from the old include the following ?

---An Improved download manager
---A
n IRC client, very useful for chatting
---email composer
---address book
---improved form filler, for usernames and passwords
---email client

Plus, loads of smaller updates and add-ons that have proved to be very useful. You can hide all the toolbars if you want to, so you have more browsing room. Many features in Mozilla are very similar to Internet explorer. Like internet explorer, An email client comes with it, very useful, and much better than outlooks express, I personally prefer outlook 2003.

For those of you that are going to use Mozilla, I would recommend anyone to, on the main website page, they have some very useful tips for internet explorer users and on the main browser, and they have a bookmarks folder, which includes a folder for your internet explorer favourites.

There also is included an IRC client, this can be very useful, at times. And I love to us it when I get bored or have nothing else to do. Because Mozilla is so customizable, you kind of get very used to it in a very short amount of time, which is good for impatient people like me.

I thought that Mozilla was a very fast browser, It worked on 9/10 pages that I browse through, I mean, really, I have actually found a site that doesn?t work for me yet. More and more pages are being made to be compatible with Mozilla, so you have not a problem there.

Mozilla isn?t so good at handling flash and shockwave animations, I mean, its ok for simple games and stuff, java, JavaScript and all that, but it cant keep up with flash. The plug-in for flash for Mozilla isn?t even the newest one.

Installing the main browser was very easy, and unlike internet explorer, you don?t have to download the program as you install it. God I hate it when programs do that, and companies. The install program takes about five mins, maybe less to install. Every body makes a big thing of installing something new, like a browser, but this was very easy.

B
est of all, the software is totally free, so you be rest assured that you are not going to be bothered with advertising, and you get great support from the developers. The email client is good, with is lows and highs, but all in all, Mozilla is a very good browser to sue for general browsing.

Other features, like page sourcing, Image tools, downloads managers, popup blockers, all come as standard, they are not advertised as being some extra feature that you have to pay for.

I would recommend any to use Mozilla, maybe not some people who prefer Internet explorer, obviously, but anyone who wants a change from boring browsing.

http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/guide/get -started.html#oh-yeah

http://www.mozilla.org

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