The Mozilla Museum
Note: this site hasn't really been worked on after 2000. Netscape is history, but I will always remember it as a pioneer in browsing.
Welcome to the Mozilla Museum (or the Mozilla zoo, if you prefer). It
is a collection of pictures of Mozilla painted by Vincent
van Mozh. Mozilla was the mascot of the Netscape
company in the early days; he gradually went away, because he was scared
of the pinstriped
suits.
Legal note: Netscape does not condemn or approve these pages, but those
pictures are probably copyrighted by them. "Mozilla" is a trademark of
Netscape Communications Corporation.
Visit
these pages to know more about Mozilla's lifestyle:
Other interesting sites:
My Opinions on some browsers
I
tested Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 years ago after Compuserve sneaked
it on my computer against my will (CompuServe included a time-bomb called
RPAWINET.DLL
that resulted in several lost days of work months later). It looks very
"trendy" – evidence that Microsoft has once again used the advantage of
their inhouse operating system development to produce these color-changing
buttons. This is unfair to the competition. But the real reason that I
do not use MSIE is that it does not provide the CTRL-TAB method for quick
switches between pages – and I switch a lot. Sometimes when researching
I have 20 – 30 pages up at the same time. One positive feature of IE 3.0
is that the "Copy" function works much better than with Mozilla. I have
used IE 4 and 5 too.
I tested Communicator 4.x. It looks "cool" but I have reluctantly
installed it only after having switched to a new computer. I miss two important
features that were in the previous version: 1. to send a HTML file as text
(important if you send newspaper articles to people without browser), 2.
to switch with CTRL-TAB (doesn't work in the composer window). Netscape
responded to me about (2), they say it is a feature and will keep it, and
that CTRL-TAB is used to insert a TAB into a table cell.
I tested and bought Opera 4. It is very fast, uses less space
and offers only what you really need. I tested it and I liked it,
but I'm staying with Mozilla as I need some of its "power features" like
the web editor. What I liked most is the CTRL-SHIFT-Click feature, this
makes it easy to download lots of pages in the background, which I use
then reading newspapers on the web. I disliked:
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I cannot scroll with the <SPACE> key (has been added in Opera 6)
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Error messages come as a dialog box, and not as a normal window
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<F3> key does not have same behaviour as in other software (continue
search)
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Direction of Windows switching is the opposite of Netscape
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No "Super-Reload" available - this means that if a page is not correctly
loaded in the cache, you won't be able to get a correct copy. (In Netscape
you do SHIFT-RELOAD)
I have also tested Opera 5 and 6. Both seem to use a very high amount of
resources, and CTRL-TAB no longer works so easily like it did before. Because
of that, I no longer use Opera on a regular basis.
Here are pages with lots of images that will crash Mozilla in low memory
conditions, or will beat the hell out of your internet connection. Set
"Options", "Connections", "Number of connections" to a high number, like
20.
Awards:
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19.7.1995: geek
site of the day by Scott Ruthfield:
I've heard women go wild for a web browsing expert
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16.10.1995: Bob's Kool Link by Bob Allison at his BOBAWORLD site (no longer
exists today)
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1.10.1996: Winner of Europe's Cool Site of the Day (no longer exists) award
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1.10.1996, 3pm PST: Cool Site of the Hour award by Cool Central (no longer exists)
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29.1.1997: kEwL Site Award from the kEwL kOrNeR (no longer exists), after
I nominated myself
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26.10.1996: The Médaille d'Or for Web Site Excellence (no
longer exists)
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21.6.1999: "Duct Tape of the Net" award from the Ohio State University
student organisation (no longer exists)
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