Mozilla done right

Posted on May 21, 2003 @ 22:26 in Software

I've been playing around with the recent Mozilla Firebird 0.6 release and I really love this browser. Firebird (previously Phoenix) is a lightweight implementation of the Mozilla browser engine. They have taken all the "browser suite" stuff out and focus just on a fast and capable browser that nevertheless does tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, etc. Check out this site to see why you'd want to switch to Firebird.

I've been a staunch Opera supporter and they still have a more polished product overall (well, the 7.03 release anyway). There are some issues with Firebird that will have to be resolved and Opera for instance has a much more refined way of dealing with cookies, but I must confess that I've even imported all my bookmarks into Firebird and I'm going to see for a couple of days how it works out as my main browser... I like it that much.

On the issue of importing bookmarks from Opera: even though Opera will gladly import bookmarks from IE or Mozilla, Opera itself doesn't offer a way to export the bookmarks to a file format that is readable by IE or Firebird. Firebird in turn can't import Opera bookmarks, so you're a bit stuck there. It took a bit of trouble to hunt down a solution, but BookmarkPriest is a fine little Windows utility that will convert bookmarks from and to IE, Netscape/Mozilla/Firebird, and Opera. If you run Linux or OS X, you may be interested in Opera2HTML Perl script, which will make your Opera bookmarks importable.

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  1. I've been using the Opera web browser since version 5.11. Until now, it has been simply the best web browser available for Windows. It is lightweight, fast, and highly functional. When I wrote a <a href="http:/...

    Trackback from Legends of the Sun Pig on July 30, 2003 @ 12:01

  2. The link directing me to the location to download bpriest.zip, at simtel, is not valid. Doing a search on Google led me to simtel; however, the address (which is good) is as follows:

    http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=9531

    Colin P. King

    Posted by Colin P. King on April 25, 2004 @ 17:04

  3. The link directing me to the location to download bpriest.zip, at simtel, is not valid. Doing a search on Google led me to simtel; however, the address (which is good) is as follows:

    http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=9531

    Colin P. King

    Posted by Colin P. King on April 25, 2004 @ 17:06

  4. Bookmark priest seems to fail with Opera 7.5, trying to convert to either IE or Netscape.
    Erg.

    Posted by lex on May 14, 2004 @ 10:22

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