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featherynscale ([personal profile] featherynscale) wrote2004-01-23 03:45 pm

Mmmmmm.... firebird

I gots me some Firebird, and all of the things I didn't like about it in the past seem to have been fixed. Oddly enough, it doesn't suffer from the odd font re-sizing disease that IE seems to have. I can now view all websites at a reasonable text size! (Unless, of course, they're built with a stupid text size, which no browser can cure...LYNX maybe, but I don't remember.)

[identity profile] liquidfun.livejournal.com 2004-01-23 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep getting told I should try Firebird ... but I've gotten really comfy with Opera ... maybe one of these days.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2004-01-23 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I liked Opera, aside from the fact that so much of your screen real estate is taken up by the browser itself - Firebird's entire navigational and functional systems are contained in a one-inch strip at the top of the screen. Being the screenspace whore that I am, I find this terribly appealing.

Re: text-resizing and firebird

[identity profile] wolfieboy.livejournal.com 2004-01-28 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
There is even a Text Zoom extension that you could load so that even stupid text sizes can be dealt with. (5% to 2000% zoom on command.)