On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:10:54 -0400, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:

>default wrote:
>
>> I've been using Firefox for >10 years now ...
>
>You must have been on the development team! ;-)

I started with Netscape Mosaic when it was a baby, then switched to
FF.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla...elease_history
>Originally called Phoenix - release date: September 23, 2002
>
>> There are some sites that don't follow Internet protocols - will work
>> with MS but not Firefox (I've only found two myself)
>
>..and those truly-IE-only sites are usually ActiveX-based. Write to the
>authors and tell 'em the problem - that perchance less than half of
>their visitors can use the site.
>
>> for those I keep Opera around - but Opera is slow.
>
>Do you have a bunch of widgets added to Opera? Normally, Opera is the
>fastest of the bunch.

I don't have any widgets on Opera - just seems slow as molasses. But
the truth of the matter is I'm more comfortable with FF and as a
result only use Opera when absolutely necessary; it may be those
sites that are slow.

Regarding your sig file. Are you using Linux? Which distro? What
would you recommend for a newb?

I got Redhat up and running years ago but it was a pain. Did some
experimenting with a few open distros and liked the Knoppix best.

And last but not least, is there a way to auto boot into windows so my
wife won't have to deal with it? I want to put the Linux on its own
drive and use the bios to boot to it, if there's no easier way.
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