Ray K wrote:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Ray K wrote:
My only real problem with SM is the slow browser.
What do you find slow? We're using the same browser component as
Firefox 2 in SeaMonkey 1.1 and the same as Firefox 3.1 in SeaMonkey 2,
so I wonder how it can be different in speed.
Robert Kaiser
Now that I've installed FF3, I see that my concern over migrating from
SM was not warranted. All the bookmarks, history, passwords, etc.
migrated effortlessly as part of one of the installation choices.
Congratulations to the developers for that.
For whatever reasons, FF is dramatically faster that SM 1.1.14 (and IE).
Maybe SM doesn't like my W2k, or maybe some of my other settings are
slowing SM but not FF. Maybe FF's excellent popup blocker is the
difference.
My home page is my.yahoo.com. With SM, when I click on a link, the new
page often - but certainly not every time - is delayed in opening. Task
Manager shows SM as Not Responding. At the bottom status line, I see
Read (or Waiting for) l.yimg.com. If I wait, sometimes up to a minute,
SM starts responding and the page loads. With FF, this has not happened
so far.
One other immediate improvement. With SM, if I received an email with a
wmv attachment, and double-clicked it, it would not play unless all SM
windows were closed. This is not a problem with FF.
Some grumbles/comments:
1. If I scroll down on my my.yahoo.com home page and click on a link,
after viewing the new page and clicking on Back, the scroll bar on
my.yahoo.com returns to the top position instead of its previous lower
position. This is mainly a problem with links from my.yahoo.com
(regardless if I've signed in or not).
If I start from simply yahoo.com, scroll down, click a link and then
return, the scroll bar does return to it previous position. So it
appears to be be something odd about my.yahoo.com, but IE manages to
remember the previous scroll position.
2. With SM, as I type a previous visited address in the the URL box,
autocomplete would put the most likely address right into the box so all
I'd have to do is press Enter. Now, FF is similar to IE; it merely opens
a drop-down list for me to choose from. I have to use an arrow key first
to make the selection, then press Enter. Also, I'm not wild about the
two lines that appear for each entry.
3. Tools/Options seem much more limited in some ways. I don't see a way
of modifying the autocomplete operation mentioned in 2 above. I don't
see a password manager. I thought that Parental control was missing, but
now I see that it is an add-on.
4. It would be nice to be able to delete items that appear when I click
on History, either by highlighting the item and pressing Delete or
opening a right-click menu with Delete and Delete All as options.
Maybe some of the above issues are because I haven't explored FF enough
yet. But I certainly do love the increased speed. Now I have to explore
Thunderbird.
Ray
don't forget, you're comparing apples to oranges. FF3
and SM 1.1x are not the same. You need to compare
SM1.1x to FF2.x or SM2 to FF3.
--
*IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email
help!!!! Emails to me may become public
Notice: This posting is protected under the Free Speech
Laws, which applies everywhere in the FREE world,
except for some strange reason, not to the mozilla.org
newsgroup servers, where your posting may get you banned.
Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon:
http://melaman2.com/cartoons/singles/mp3/p-potamus.mp3
http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm
_______________________________________________
support-seamonkey mailing list
support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
