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Topic: Fire Fox & Netscape. Any Thing Different?

Posted By: neotrix
Subject: Fire Fox & Netscape. Any Thing Different?
Date Posted: 05 January 2005 at 11:07am

I just cannot seem to find a single difference between fire fox and net scape besides their different builtin skins?

What makes fire fox uniqe then?

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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 05 January 2005 at 11:37am

The old Netscape used to be based on the Mozilla Suite. The current version does have some extra modifications. The current version (or current beta??) also has a built in IE engine. If the site dosen't render correctly you can run it in IE but still in the Netscape Window. I think it might also have enhancments in RSS feeds or something.

Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 05 January 2005 at 11:43am

From the FireFox FAQ page:

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What's the difference between Firefox and Mozilla?: Mozilla (Application Suite, also known as SeaMonkey) is a complete suite of web related applications, such as a browser, a mail/news client, a chat client and much more. Firefox is just a browser, which makes it a better choice if you already have a mail client for example. Also, since Firefox is smaller than the whole Mozilla suite, it's faster and easier to use.

Note, though, that Firefox is not the standalone Mozilla browser. The user interface in Firefox differs from Mozilla in many ways. For example, Firefox has http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#q4.1 - customizable toolbars .
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Also, if I am not mistaken, the Firefox code is eventually slated to be used in the Netscape browser.

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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 05 January 2005 at 11:50am

Also, the following notes from the http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/charter.html - FireFox charter explain a lot:

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Delivering the right set of features - not too many or too few (the goal is to create a useful browser, not a minimal browser)
Making as few compromises as possible where user experience is concerned. We will not compromise the main line UI to placate an element of the community. Usability is a large area consisting not only of the things one typically considers related to the user experience such as the design of dialog boxes and windows, but also things such as interaction design (looking at how users try and accomplish a task, noting the paths they take and attempting to optimize those paths) and performance (reaction speed from a piece of software is important so as not to annoy the user - perceived speed is often more important than actual speed).
Keeping the download size down - to less than 5.0MB on Windows for the installer.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 January 2005 at 12:00pm

Heres an article on the next Netscape browser that will be based on Firefox by the looks of it and also alows you to switch to IE Engine.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Outsourced_Netscape_Merges_Firefox_IE/1101831853 - http://www.betanews.com/article/Outsourced_Netscape_Merges_F irefox_IE/1101831853

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