Firebird — Now Firefox 0.8
Mozilla Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded
OK, so it’s download time again. Our friends have just released and changed the name of our most beloved browser. Firebird is now Firefox. Don’t ask me why, aparantly there is a press release about it but they have been so clogged up it’s been painful browsing their site.
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Yes FireFox is very slick. Although looking at it on the Mac it is virtually identical to Safari. The hot-keys are pretty much the same and apart from a few icons here and there it almost looks like the same product.
I thought it would do something that I hoped it could do on the Mac that only IE for Mac can do at this stage. Access my HSBC online banking service, apparently it has programming that supports only IE, need to write them about that.
And here is another thing, it doesn’t support Mac’s built in spelling service :(. With Safari it checks your spelling wherever you input text. WHY WHY WHY??!! - Ahh I’ll have to stop being lazy.
It doesn’t support Apples speech engine either, sniff…
Sol - There is a User Agent Switcher extension for Fire*.* browsers that gives you a nice little menu option to switch User Agent strings on the fly, and you can “fake” IE6 quite easily. It was enough to convince NatWest online banking, it might work for HSBC too.
Aaron - it got renamed cos there’s another open source project called Firebird (some SQL database related thing as I recall), and they didn’t wanna overlap on names…
Well, there’s a MOVIE called FireFox… you can’t please everyone.
They changed it TO firebird because there was a project called Pheonix…