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Mozilla.org : Because You Love Your Mother
My mom called me last night who was distressed with popups and spammy spyware on her computer.
I was able to talk her through downloading and installing Mozilla over the phone. Then I told her how to enable the popup blocker and how to use tabed browsing.
I know there are so many good reasons for her to use Mozilla but I need to find a good easy to follow guide to the various features of Mozilla that is less Unix and more "Mom".
Next she needs to configure the Mozilla mail client to work with her Verison DSL account and use the Spam filters. I figure the more Mozilla my mom uses the talking about computer problems we will do.
Jake at August 26, 2003 
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the popup blocker is one of the neatest things about mozilla...i'm also in love w/tabs, but that's just me...;)
Posted by: lilly at August 26, 2003 12:15 PM
If you want something less Unix-y for your Mom, check out www.avantbrowser.com. Same Mozilla-like features but based on top of IE.
By the way, I purchased the GBA on Sunday along with Advance Wars 2 and the newest Golden Sun game. I think it will turn out to be a good purchase, but buying it just makes me want Final Fantasy Tactics Advance all the more.
Posted by: Jeff at August 26, 2003 12:32 PM
Mozilla is not to unixy and the less IE that she uses the better in my mind. I just wish there was a "Mozilla for dummies"
I just wish that they would get off their ass and bring FF Tactics Advanced to the US. Japan has had it for almost a year.
Posted by: Jake at August 26, 2003 12:43 PM
Ya, I started using Mozilla a while back when a web forum I read a lot got popups. I figured heck, I'm not a web developer anymore, there's no real reason for me to use IE. The new Google toolbar has a built in popup blocker now though so I might give that a try and go back to IE cause Mozilla crashes several times a day (which is a real pain when it happens mid-post).
Posted by: ZYirAH at August 26, 2003 1:11 PM
Oh man I would never install the Google Toolbar. I would be worried about spyware.
Posted by: Jake at August 26, 2003 1:25 PM
I use the Google toolbar with no problems. It's a handy accessory to have when you're always searching about things on a whim.
Posted by: Matt at August 26, 2003 3:31 PM
Yeah but Mozilla can do all the things that the Google toolbar can do with no extra plugins ( http://toolbar.google.com/ )
Posted by: Jake at August 26, 2003 3:39 PM
It doesn't bother me that much...yet.
Posted by: Matt at August 26, 2003 11:03 PM
yeah, but it's mozilla ... ewww. ;-)
actually i have yet to install mozilla. i'm a web developer, but for the military, so our apps don't have to be 508 compliant. and since they dictate what browsers their people use, they've dictated IE.
but seriously, is mozilla any different? all i'm doing is looking at web pages for crying out loud.
Posted by: tj at August 27, 2003 5:30 AM
Yes TJ mozilla is all that and a bag of chips. For my day to day browsing I will stick with Mozilla. There are just so many good features to mention here.
Posted by: Jake at August 27, 2003 9:13 AM
Hmm.. would you consider the mozilla suite more user friendly than the firebird/thunderbird combo? I haven't really installed moz since the 'birds'. Thoughts?
Posted by: wuji at August 27, 2003 11:12 AM
Yeah actually I would. I love the form managers and the address book in the Mozilla suite. I think that the "Birds" have a long way to go to replace Mozilla 1.4. I don't want to sacrifice all the features I love for it to load a half a sec faster.
Posted by: Jake at August 27, 2003 11:15 AM
