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This might be a weird question. I found mozilla quicker than firefox. Is this just me or am I crazy? Anybody else feel this way? I haven't installed both on my system at once but I have both on different system. Mozilla on my slower computer and Firefox on my faster one. They seem to be both almost the same browser but Mozilla to me seems a little bit quicker What are your opinions?

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I compare them b/c on my slower computer 600 mhz 256 mb of ram opening webpages and the browser itself and opening tabs is faster if not equal to my 1.8 ghz computer with 1 gig of ram. I am not making any conclusions just on what I observe and I believe mozilla might be a "bit" faster than firefox.

I too find Mozilla 1.7.3 to be faster and more stable than FireFox, at least so far. I prefer Mozilla to FireFox anyway. FireFox is changing things too much, like breaking themes between .8 and 1.0, changing the config dialog to put Themes outside of that unified interface, and the thing seems buggier and slower than Mozilla for sure. At least to me.

I too find Mozilla 1.7.3 to be faster and more stable than FireFox, at least so far. I prefer Mozilla to FireFox anyway. FireFox is changing things too much, like breaking themes between .8 and 1.0, changing the config dialog to put Themes outside of that unified interface, and the thing seems buggier and slower than Mozilla for sure. At least to me.

Yeah, how dare those lame Firefox developers make the browser better! Must get my version 0.1 theme to work in 1.0 without any changes!! :rolleyes:

Yeah, how dare those lame Firefox developers make the browser better! Must get my version 0.1 theme to work in 1.0 without any changes!!

I guess I'm not sure it really is better.

But, it was a PRE-1.0 release, so I guess I need to cut them some slack.

Still, I'm confused why they would break the theme engine and also why they would take theming OUT of the main config dialog. I was stoked that everything you needed to do to configure FireFox was right there in the same dialog. But not any more.

I'm tryin' to be patient, but surely you can understand the frustration, right? Stuff that works in Mozilla 1.7.3 is broken in FireFox? Stuff that worked 100% in FireFox version .8 is BROKEN in .9 and 1.0.

I'm just venting, and I still think Mozilla = Better :)

I am just asking this because i am using firefox right now and since mozilla is almost equal and I find it faster I am just trying to see ppl's opinion on this so I can make my decision to switch from firefox to mozilla.

I think that at least for now, I'd try Mozilla 1.7.3 and the included mail client if you are so inclined. Also check out Composer.

It can't hurt to try it out. You can always switch back to FireFox if it gets more stable and such.

Happy browsing!

I'm not sure what you mean by breaking the theme engine, properly updated (search bar, update button, new statusbar icons) themes work better than ever now (without dynamic theme switching).

I like that the theme/extensions menus aren't in the options dialog anymore, they are quicker to access now and anyway, the options dialog is meant for Firefox's own options, not 3rd party themes and extensions.

I'm not sure what you mean by breaking the theme engine, properly updated (search bar, update button, new statusbar icons) themes work better than ever now (without dynamic theme switching).

Themes that worked in 0.7 did NOT work properly in 0.9, for instance, until they were reprogrammed.

I went to look for them just now but they've all been updated to support Mozilla. But I remember a long time ago, some of them were Firefox only. Ignore my previous erroneous comment.

No sweat, man! I was bummed when the moz extensions I liked did not work on firefox, and double bummed when the themes I used on firefox stopped working after they updated it. No such trouble with Mozilla. It just works. :)

Cool that firefox has autoscroll built in, but Moz has it all over firefox, so I'm down with the suite. :woot:

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