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well I am now one week into my trial of Firebird and I will confess I have changed my mind about it. Although I've had some issues with it, the overall experience has been positive. I have, however, reverted back to using IE as my default, mainly because of the compatibility issues Firebird has with .Text and several internal MSFT sites, and these just caused my annoyances. But I think I will be leaving Firebird on my laptop. Here's why:

  • I am getting addicted to Tabs. I know I can do this with IE add-ons like MyIE2 and I am about to download that again to check out the new version. Until i started using Firebird I couldn't really think of a reason I'd need to have multiple sites bookmarked together in tabs, but it is amazing how quickly I got used to the idea once I started using it.
  • Google searching from the address bar. I know I can tweak IE to do this, but its nice having it as an out of the box feature.
  • Is it faster? Not sure. Seems fast, but so does IE.
  • More screen real estate? Sure but not a big deal.

Overall, I like it.

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  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2003
    One thing that I absolutely love about Firebird, is the availabilty of extensions.


    One of my favorite, is the Web Developer toolbar. I can, with a click, see how my pages perform for users with Javascript disabled, or with browsers that don't support CSS. It's got statistics on the page at a glance, validates the GTML, CSS, Sec. 508, and even allows me to view the pages as if I was using a lower resolution.


    These kind of add-ons (and tabbed browsing, and built-in pop-up blocking) are why it's solidly my favorite browser, even though there are some sites that aren't entirely compatible.


  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2003
    +1 to the extensions. In addition to the Web Dev one, I also use the All-In-One Gestures (if you like mouse gestures, they get addictive) and the Edit CSS one.
  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2003
    +2 to the extensions :)

    I love the RSS reader extension, even in its unpolished state. I'd probably stop using IE altogether if I could get Firebird working with ActiveX.
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    December 25, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    December 25, 2003
    I love its support for web standards ...
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    December 26, 2003
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    June 18, 2009
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