Meeting and Mozilla

[Gregory J. Neumann]

You've actually been able to do that since Win95 ... before it didn't 
matter.  What SP1 is supposed to do, but doesn't, is allow you to 
remove IE in favor of something else.  All it really does is remove the 
"references", and it's almost as much a pain as making another 
browser the default.  The attitude seems to be, "We're making it 
possible because the Court says we do, but we are NOT going to 
make it EASY!", and even then, IE is STILL installed, STILL used by 
the O/S where you can't see it.  So all the bad aspects are still there!  
Setting Mozilla as my WinXP Pro default simply involved clicking the 
"set as default" button in the Preferences.

oops!  I'm ranting about Microsoft again! (still!)  Sigh!  "It's what we 
use at work."

-Greg

> Rumor has it that SP1 for Windows XP and SP3 for Windows 2000 has a utility
> to make a browser, other than Explorer, your default.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
> John R. Ghidiu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:31 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: Meeting and Mozilla
> 
> 
> i didnt make it to the meeting, but i did want to add to this discussion.
> i have been using a piece of software called privoxy for some time now.
> privoxy is a filtering proxy that can be run on a standalone box or on
> your local computer. available at www.privoxy.org, and based on code from
> junkbuster (www.junkbuster.com), privoxy allows you to filter out ads,
> popup windows and just about anything you can make a regex for. privoxy
> also allows you to change, on the fly, the text from a web server (the
> current version comes with a filter to change microsoft to microsuck). the
> best part is that there is a windows version and a linux version. i use it
> quite steadily and would reccomend it. not having to deal with ads and
> popups is such a big deal, but i didnt even realize it until i used
> privoxy for a while and used someone else's computer...
> 
> john
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
> 
> > Also, under
> > Edit -> Preference -> Advanced,
> > be sure to UNCHECK "Open Unrequested Windows"!!
> > NO MORE "POPUPS"!!
> > That alone should be enough to make everybody try Mozilla!  That
> > and "tabbed browsing"!  Took time, but this is one very awesome
> > browser!
> >
> > -Greg
> >
> > > In Mozilla (Same as Netscape 7) you can set preferences by going to
> > > EDIT -> PREFERENCES.  There's a button saying "Set Default Browser".
> > >
> > > - Tony
> > >
> > > > Hola !!
> > > > I'm back. How did the meeting go on SUN ? Did the meeting go on SUN ?
> > > > What was discussed, and what was done ?
> > > >
> > > > On another note, I downloaded Mozilla 1.0. Does any one know how to
> > > > make Moz your default web browser, in either  Windows or Linux ?
> > > > --
> > > > Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be
> > > > normal. Albert Camus
> > > >
> > > > Scott
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> ----------------------------
> John R. Ghidiu
> john at rmdashrf.org
>