Here are some additional opinions about Firefox. From all the responses
I've learned that as a Mac user Safari is best and use Firefox as a
back-up.
I am sure you have been flooded with responses but I could not help
but put my 2 cents in. As a Mac only household in a PC world (my
husband uses PC's at work, my children have PC's at college and in
the workplace, and I have PC's in my school library), Firefox helps
bridge the gap. What Safari can't do in a PC world, Firefox does.
My school district is Mac unfriendly and even our website has a hard
time opening all windows on Safari. Firefox not only opens the site
but it opens all the individual windows. I even have Portable
Firefox on my thumb drive and use it on my PC at school. Firefox is
the way to go... OPEN SOURCE is the way to go!!!!
Enjoy Firefox.
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I really like it. The tabs feature is nice - much easier than multiple
windows. However, the history feature isn't great if you are trying to
pinpoint when a student accessed a site. This probably won't be a problem
for elementary, but for MS/HS study halls it is.
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Perhaps this is a further example of PC and Mac not playing well
together? What I've found is that if something won't work for me
when I am using Safari, if I switch over to Mozilla Firefox, it WILL
work. I get a lot of "not supported by this browser" messages when I
am using Safari, but rarely have that difficulty when I use Firefox.
I use both Mac and PC and started having difficulties interacting
with my university's registration program (and the distance ed
software won't even work with Mac at this point). When I talked with
tech support about it, they suggested that I try Firefox instead of
Safari (though they are trying to track the problem down). When I
switched over, I was able to access the registration websites. I
suspect that the question of which is better depends a lot on what
sites you access most frequently and what other systems you interact
with. I'm finding Firefox to be far more dependable than Safari
(I'm using Version 2.0.3 for Mac OSX) for my uses. It is definitely
faster on both my PC and my Mac.
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I know our tech guys don't like Firefox for the Macs, but there are
some web applications that run better in Firefox than Safari. Two
examples are our web-based email system from school, which is
Outlook. I constantly have to put in my password on Safari but it
works like a charm in Firefox. Also, anyone who is working with
LiveText from a university will want to use Firefox as it makes all
of the features available while they don't all work in Safari.
Personally I prefer Safari but have to use both for the above
reasons...keep them both available and if something doesn't work on
one then try the other.
Firefox does have a lot of the features of Safari like tabbed
browsing and the popup blocker but there are some differences between
the two on Macs. For Windows I would certainly use Firefox as it is
more current technology...IE and Netscape just haven't kept up...
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Susan Davis
Media Specialist
Bennett Elementary School
1755 NE 14 Street
Fort Lauderdale FL 33304
754-322-5464
FAX 754-322-5490
susan.davis@browardschools.com
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