Firefox Now Clustier Than Ever

mag · 11-10-2004, 03:22 PM

Sure, you have the newly released Mozilla Firefox 1.0. But do you have Vivisimo's new Firefox toolbar?

Vivisimo is the creator of Clusty, a clustering engine that some are saying will replace Google. The toolbar lets you "meta-search and cluster the leading search engines, use ClustyClips to get dictionary and encyclopedia info without leaving your current page, save toolbar space with Mini-Mode, highlight your search terms on the page," and "jump instantly to search terms on the page."

Good stuff.

mag

jjacob · 11-10-2004, 06:04 PM

Ooh oooh, I don't understand anything of it yet, clips, clusters, clicky things, but it sounds good, I'll give it a try, even though I generally hate toolbars.

Mattsius · 11-11-2004, 10:34 AM

As I might have mentioned earlier, I've changed to Firefox some weeks ago and now I can't live without it. I'm a changed man, I'm tellin' you!

Seriously, I never want to use IE again (although I have to with Win update, dammit!).

I might try our that toolbar at some point also, we'll see.

EDIT: The release of Firefox 1.0 has gone well so far.

SoccerDude28 · 11-11-2004, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattsius

As I might have mentioned earlier, I've changed to Firefox some weeks ago and now I can't live without it. I'm a changed man, I'm tellin' you!

Seriously, I never want to use IE again (although I have to with Win update, dammit!).

I might try our that toolbar at some point also, we'll see.

EDIT: The release of Firefox 1.0 has gone well so far.

I just installed firefox today, to see what all this hype about, and I admit, I do like the browser. It definitely looks more stable than Netscape. But I could not find anything that sets it apart from IE. What extra features does firefox has that IE doesn't?

Wormsie · 11-11-2004, 11:01 AM

Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing.

Doesn't crash every day. Tiny little google search-field. Better normal search. COOLER. And faster. Better security. Pop-up blocking. Not by Micro-****ing-soft.

EDIT: http://forums.idlethumbs.net/showthread.php?t=1437

mag · 11-11-2004, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by deadworm222

Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing.

Doesn't crash every day. Tiny little google search-field. Better normal search. COOLER. And faster.

That, plus the fact that it's not made by Microsoft, which as we all know is an evil mega-corporation operating out of a Death Star.

mag

jjacob · 11-11-2004, 11:27 AM

I like it! I'm still using my google searchbar out of habit every now and then though. But I read the other day that IE actually turns out to be more stable and display less page errors. I can't find it now but I'll post the link when I do (it wasn't on microsoft.com

).

Wormsie · 11-11-2004, 11:58 AM

Not on my machine, at least.

timcclayton · 11-11-2004, 12:46 PM

I love Firefox too and have been using it for 6 months or more now. It does bomb out when visiting certain sites though (probably ones with ActiveX controls on them or some scripting of some sort) and the annoying thing is that you lose all the tabs you have open when it crashes.

But apart from that minor annoyance, I love it.

Catbert · 11-11-2004, 12:58 PM

First of all it's way better because there's tons of free extensions to use with it, and most are good. It's way better because there's no shitty publicity opening windows everytime. It's way better because it's light, doesn't crash and it's safe.

It's not Firefox's fault people code their sites for the kind of shitty code-reading browsers like IE that "cheat" at what they do. I love firefox. Hail to the king baby

Erkki · 11-11-2004, 01:46 PM

I just switched to FireFox a couple of weeks ago. I had it installed before, but then IE started crashing and screwed up the fonts (and there seems to be no way to reinstall it) and I've found that FireFox is actually better in most things, except that it doesn't support those WISYWIG editors in forums (or does it?).

RLacey · 11-11-2004, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Erkki

I've found that FireFox is actually better in most things, except that it doesn't support those WISYWIG editors in forums (or does it?).

It should do. Is it set up properly in the forum control panel?

I've used Firefox for a while now, and nothing would persuade me to return to IE. Though I fail to understand all this tabbed browsing nonsense - I'd far rather have ten windows open, and I don't see the advantage to using tabs.

Erkki · 11-11-2004, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by RLacey

It should do. Is it setup properly in the forum control panel?

Ok, this is really weird and possibly a bug of vBulletin. It was set up properly, but when I went in there and saved the settings, it started working! (Or it was because I upgraded from Firefox 1.0PR to 1.0).
Thanx!

The tabbed browsing is great for me because I don't want to keep 10 windows open

And with firefox I can now group together open pages so that some are in one window and some in another. I like it, I don't blame you if you don't.

Skinkie · 11-12-2004, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by mag

That, plus the fact that it's not made by Microsoft, which as we all know is an evil mega-corporation operating out of a Death Star.

mag

Bum Bum Bum....

Ninth · 11-14-2004, 04:34 PM

I've installed Firefox a few hours ago, and it looks good, as I expected...

SoccerDude28 · 11-14-2004, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ninth

I've installed Firefox a few hours ago, and it looks good, as I expected...

Yeah it also grew on me too. I am gonna uninstall IE and keep firefox

One hit for the republic against the Sith Lords.

Tanukitsune · 11-15-2004, 03:43 AM

I've completely switched to Firefox and Thunderbird, and I've also started using my Gmail account instead of the old one...
I love the option to open wepages in a tab instead of a new window!
For a moment I thought the pages loaded slower, but it just loads them in a different order, because when I went to my game collection on IGN, it loaded faster than ever!
I've already got Sage, Fireftp, Image zoom, Foxy tunes and Webmail Compose so I can visit my Gmail account easily, and since Gmail is starting to use POP3, I'll start using it in Thunderbird eventually....
Does anybody know more cool extensions?

SoccerDude28 · 11-15-2004, 04:13 PM

This is some awesome news

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...pcworld/118451

I have already converted my gf and a lot of my friends to mozilla firefox. Our company also will support firefox to some degree in our next release ito please one of our big customers and MS's arch rival Sun Microsystems

Hope Open source OS will pick up steam too.

Erkki · 12-01-2004, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by mag

Sure, you have the newly released Mozilla Firefox 1.0. But do you have Vivisimo's new Firefox toolbar?

The search result clustering sounds interesting, but I didn't like the toolbar. Ugly and buggy.

mag · 12-01-2004, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erkki

The search result clustering sounds interesting, but I didn't like the toolbar. Ugly and buggy.

Well, I guess you could just go to clusty.com if you don't like toolbars. But buggy? I haven't encountered any bugs.

mag

11-10-2004, 03:22 PM	#1
mag Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,913	Firefox Now Clustier Than Ever Sure, you have the newly released Mozilla Firefox 1.0. But do you have Vivisimo's new Firefox toolbar? Vivisimo is the creator of Clusty, a clustering engine that some are saying will replace Google. The toolbar lets you "meta-search and cluster the leading search engines, use ClustyClips to get dictionary and encyclopedia info without leaving your current page, save toolbar space with Mini-Mode, highlight your search terms on the page," and "jump instantly to search terms on the page." Good stuff. mag Share Share this post on Twitter

11-10-2004, 06:04 PM	#2
jjacob Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,771	Ooh oooh, I don't understand anything of it yet, clips, clusters, clicky things, but it sounds good, I'll give it a try, even though I generally hate toolbars. Share Share this post on Twitter

11-11-2004, 10:34 AM	#3
Mattsius Mostly absent Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Turku, Finland Posts: 2,532	As I might have mentioned earlier, I've changed to Firefox some weeks ago and now I can't live without it. I'm a changed man, I'm tellin' you! Seriously, I never want to use IE again (although I have to with Win update, dammit!). I might try our that toolbar at some point also, we'll see. EDIT: The release of Firefox 1.0 has gone well so far. Share Share this post on Twitter

11-11-2004, 11:01 AM	#5
Wormsie Doctor Watson Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 4,736	Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing. Doesn't crash every day. Tiny little google search-field. Better normal search. COOLER. And faster. Better security. Pop-up blocking. Not by Micro-***ing-soft. EDIT: http://forums.idlethumbs.net/showthread.php?t=1437 Share Share this post on Twitter Last edited by deadworm222; 11-11-2004 at 11:16 AM.*

11-11-2004, 11:27 AM	#7
jjacob Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,771	I like it! I'm still using my google searchbar out of habit every now and then though. But I read the other day that IE actually turns out to be more stable and display less page errors. I can't find it now but I'll post the link when I do (it wasn't on microsoft.com ). Share Share this post on Twitter

11-11-2004, 11:58 AM	#8
Wormsie Doctor Watson Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: The Catacombs Posts: 4,736	Not on my machine, at least. Share Share this post on Twitter

11-11-2004, 12:46 PM	#9
timcclayton 23 Railway Cuttings Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Jersey, UK Posts: 385	I love Firefox too and have been using it for 6 months or more now. It does bomb out when visiting certain sites though (probably ones with ActiveX controls on them or some scripting of some sort) and the annoying thing is that you lose all the tabs you have open when it crashes. But apart from that minor annoyance, I love it. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ The perils of working in IT...

11-11-2004, 12:58 PM	#10
Catbert DAVE Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 1,326	First of all it's way better because there's tons of free extensions to use with it, and most are good. It's way better because there's no shitty publicity opening windows everytime. It's way better because it's light, doesn't crash and it's safe. It's not Firefox's fault people code their sites for the kind of shitty code-reading browsers like IE that "cheat" at what they do. I love firefox. Hail to the king baby Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ IS THAT DAVE?

11-11-2004, 01:46 PM	#11
Erkki Umbilicus Mundi Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Stonia Posts: 1,266	I just switched to FireFox a couple of weeks ago. I had it installed before, but then IE started crashing and screwed up the fonts (and there seems to be no way to reinstall it) and I've found that FireFox is actually better in most things, except that it doesn't support those WISYWIG editors in forums (or does it?). Share Share this post on Twitter __________________

11-14-2004, 04:34 PM	#15
Ninth Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Paris, France Posts: 6,409	I've installed Firefox a few hours ago, and it looks good, as I expected... Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ ...It's down there somewhere. Let me have another look.

11-15-2004, 03:43 AM	#17
Tanukitsune ACK! Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Spain Posts: 2,448	I've completely switched to Firefox and Thunderbird, and I've also started using my Gmail account instead of the old one... I love the option to open wepages in a tab instead of a new window! For a moment I thought the pages loaded slower, but it just loads them in a different order, because when I went to my game collection on IGN, it loaded faster than ever! I've already got Sage, Fireftp, Image zoom, Foxy tunes and Webmail Compose so I can visit my Gmail account easily, and since Gmail is starting to use POP3, I'll start using it in Thunderbird eventually.... Does anybody know more cool extensions? Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Apparently I have a Devianrt Art account... And people actually like it! Last edited by Tanukitsune; 11-15-2004 at 03:56 AM.

11-15-2004, 04:13 PM	#18
SoccerDude28 Homer of Kittens Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: San Francisco, Bay Area Posts: 4,374	This is some awesome news http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...pcworld/118451 I have already converted my gf and a lot of my friends to mozilla firefox. Our company also will support firefox to some degree in our next release ito please one of our big customers and MS's arch rival Sun Microsystems Hope Open source OS will pick up steam too. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ -------------------------------------------------- Games I am playing: Jeanne D'Ark (PSP) Firefox rules

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