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Battle of the Browsers
Jun. 24th, 2004 07:51 pmSo I hear everyone raving about the Mozilla browsers, right? All this stuff squeeing about the tabbed browsing and the find as you type and the better security and etc... And I have tried it out, really, both Firefox at work and Netscape (which is basically Firefox's twin with a different set of paint) at home.
Sure, I can understand the allure. The tabbed browsing is highly convenient once you get used to it, and way back a long time ago (before I switched to IE) I preferred Netscape because it lets me export my bookmarks to a convenient portable file.
But there's some things that, as far as I can tell, Mozilla browsers don't have over IE. One is they don't interface well with the roller wheel on a mouse. On IE, whenever my mouse cursor is hovering inside a div-scrollbox like the ones on my GJ pages, rolling the mouse-roller lets me scroll through the inline scroll box; while if the cursor is hovering outside the box, rolling would let me scroll the framing page. However, with Mozilla browsers, it doesn't do that, and I have to actually use the scroll bar to scroll, which is inconvenient. Two, Mozilla browsers can't handle as many CSS functions as IE. For example, it can't do opacity changes or scroll bar colors.
On most sites, this wouldn't be as much of a problem. However, on my GJ, which are the pages I visit the most often, it does become a problem. Which is why I'm probably not going to make the change to the Mozilla format yet.
Sure, I can understand the allure. The tabbed browsing is highly convenient once you get used to it, and way back a long time ago (before I switched to IE) I preferred Netscape because it lets me export my bookmarks to a convenient portable file.
But there's some things that, as far as I can tell, Mozilla browsers don't have over IE. One is they don't interface well with the roller wheel on a mouse. On IE, whenever my mouse cursor is hovering inside a div-scrollbox like the ones on my GJ pages, rolling the mouse-roller lets me scroll through the inline scroll box; while if the cursor is hovering outside the box, rolling would let me scroll the framing page. However, with Mozilla browsers, it doesn't do that, and I have to actually use the scroll bar to scroll, which is inconvenient. Two, Mozilla browsers can't handle as many CSS functions as IE. For example, it can't do opacity changes or scroll bar colors.
On most sites, this wouldn't be as much of a problem. However, on my GJ, which are the pages I visit the most often, it does become a problem. Which is why I'm probably not going to make the change to the Mozilla format yet.
