Rob, you are right, there isn't an installer. Somewhere on one of the instruction pages it said to download and then click and the installer would appear. But that was a lot of hogwash, because when I put that firefoxy icon into the applications, it all worked itself out marvellously. -I guess I should not even have read the how-to page in this case. Marta On Jul 5, 2004, at 10:41, Robert Kersting wrote:
> Alex: > > It always confused me that Camino and Firefox were basically the same > thing, just two different teams working independently. It's weird, but > Camino always seemed "sportier" while Firefox seemed more "sturdy." > Like Camino was the Thoroughbred and Firefox was the Clydesdale. Two > beautiful animals that were bred for different jobs. (Told you it > seemed weird to me.) > > Both browsers are based on the Mozilla platform and the "geck" engine, > but since they are browsers only they don't suffer the bloat of having > mail, chat, editors and browser all under one hood. Mozilla is still > around for those people who want the ease of an all-in-one > application. > > Give it a try, it's an easy download that won't scramble any of your > current information. Firefox offers tabbed browsing and a popup > blocker. I'd be willing to bet it will work with Mail since that > setting is a global setting in System Preferences. > I have also had no problem with online banking or any other > bill-paying site. > > Marta: > I don't recall an installer for Firefox. When you open the disk image > you'll see a large icon. Just drag it to your Applications folder (or > wherever). Same with Thunderbird. > > Also, Firefox and Camino aren't your only options. You might want to > try Opera or iCab. Bottom line on all of this: use the one you like > best. I still use Navigator 4.8 at the office. It works fine and keeps > me out of too much trouble. Like my own built-in speed bump. > > > rob > > Alex Whitman wrote: > >> I'm ready to try a new browser, but I'm confused. What is the >> difference between Mozilla, Camino, and Firefox? I don't care about >> IRC chat, and at this point I don't need HTML editing - both included >> with Mozilla 1.7. I do need pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, and it >> would be nice if my new browser played well with Mail, AddressBook, >> and synchronizing bookmarks between my 2 machines via iSync. Safari >> 1.2.2 and IE 5.2 choke my bank's internet bill-paying (though they >> say they won't support anything but IE on Windows, so I may be S.O.L. >> on that no matter what browser I end up with), and I am having >> trouble with some long pages with lots of highly-formatted text >> loading correctly in Safari. >> >> I'm running 10.3.4 on both an iMac and an iBook. >> >> Thanks! >> Alex Whitman >> >> >> On Jul 4, 2004, at 5:40 AM, Robert Kersting wrote: >> >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
