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11/04/2004 06:40:24 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by JC_Homola:
Originally posted by skylen:
Originally posted by Formerlee:
Have been using firefox for a couple of months now, it seemed fine at first, then I noticed some sites wouldn't load properly or couldn't click on site navigation titles.
So I compromise, I use IE for some sites and Firefox for others and have both running at the same time. |
Funny, I haven't had a site not work in Firefox ever, at least since 0.9 or so. |
I'm having that problem.. lot's of major sites aren't loading I think it may be something on my system.. couldn't get some of them to load in IE either.... grrrrrrrrrr
cnn.com, nationalgeographic.com.. are just a couple. |
Check out if you have "for originating web site only" checked under Prederences->Web features. CNN and many other sites deliver (some) images from a different site (CNN.com does from CNN.net) so some pages do load but images don't |
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11/04/2004 06:51:22 PM · #52 |
| That zoom image thing is AWESOME! haha I love firefox |
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11/05/2004 12:05:04 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by Kylie:
Originally posted by JC_Homola:
Originally posted by skylen:
Originally posted by Formerlee:
Have been using firefox for a couple of months now, it seemed fine at first, then I noticed some sites wouldn't load properly or couldn't click on site navigation titles.
So I compromise, I use IE for some sites and Firefox for others and have both running at the same time. |
Funny, I haven't had a site not work in Firefox ever, at least since 0.9 or so. |
I'm having that problem.. lot's of major sites aren't loading I think it may be something on my system.. couldn't get some of them to load in IE either.... grrrrrrrrrr
cnn.com, nationalgeographic.com.. are just a couple. |
Have you added any skins? That was my problem. |
Nope, no skins used...the main site that won't load properly is www.warehouseexpress.com. |
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11/05/2004 12:36:00 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by Formerlee:
Nope, no skins used...the main site that won't load properly is www.warehouseexpress.com. |
i don't see any problem with this site. See the pic and let me know if its missing something that's not loaded in the page
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11/05/2004 04:52:19 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by gaurawa:
Originally posted by Formerlee:
Nope, no skins used...the main site that won't load properly is www.warehouseexpress.com. |
i don't see any problem with this site. See the pic and let me know if its missing something that's not loaded in the page
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Home page come sup fine, but the telescope pages and some accessories pages don't always load completely. But could a glitch, I guess. |
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11/05/2004 05:36:11 PM · #56 |
| I use the Mozilla suite. I love firefox, I NEVER get any pop ups and very rarely have problems loading sites. Firefox is also way faster at loading pages than IE. |
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11/05/2004 05:50:44 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by skylen:
Originally posted by RebAl:
Here is a pic, there are no tabs in it however
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Middle-click a link (click the scroll wheel on most modern mice) to open it in a new tab. I always have a plethora of pinatas--I mean--tabs open, and it's really the most convenient thing ever. |
Had Firefox for a few months now, love it to pieces, and thanks for pointing out I can click on a link with the middle button, I find more out about this browser everyday, would recommend it to anyone, only downside is I cant get shockwave to work on it. |
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11/05/2004 05:51:41 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by Formerlee:
Originally posted by Kylie:
Originally posted by JC_Homola:
Originally posted by skylen:
Originally posted by Formerlee:
Have been using firefox for a couple of months now, it seemed fine at first, then I noticed some sites wouldn't load properly or couldn't click on site navigation titles.
So I compromise, I use IE for some sites and Firefox for others and have both running at the same time. |
Funny, I haven't had a site not work in Firefox ever, at least since 0.9 or so. |
I'm having that problem.. lot's of major sites aren't loading I think it may be something on my system.. couldn't get some of them to load in IE either.... grrrrrrrrrr
cnn.com, nationalgeographic.com.. are just a couple. |
Have you added any skins? That was my problem. |
Nope, no skins used...the main site that won't load properly is //www.warehouseexpress.com. |
I couldnt get this site to work (I got my 300d from them), but once I upgraded to the newest version I had no problems..
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11/05/2004 06:07:56 PM · #59 |
Tabbrowser Extensions is a nifty (but in still in development) Firefox extension. I've installed it since day-one with Firefox, so I don't know what "normal" tab features there are, but TBE adds lots of cool options.... you can re-arrange the order of the tabs, undo a close tab (which I sometimes do when I'm mouse-gesturing and do "close" instead of "back"), put the tabs on the left, right, or bottom, switch tabs with the wheel on your mouse, and a bunch of other cool stuff.
Just read the "caveats" before installing it; it is still in "development" and the author claims it isn't stable (but I use it all the time)... |
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11/05/2004 06:12:21 PM · #60 |
I'm using Windows 2000 with either AOL 9 (version of IE I guess) or regular old Mozilla. Any huge reason to go to Firefox? I prefer to leave stable things alone unless there's a compelling reason to "upgrade."
I'm also sometimes on various Macs with OS 7.5/8.6/9.2/X.3
Message edited by author 2004-11-05 18:13:42. |
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11/05/2004 06:51:06 PM · #61 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I'm using Windows 2000 with either AOL 9 (version of IE I guess) or regular old Mozilla. Any huge reason to go to Firefox? I prefer to leave stable things alone unless there's a compelling reason to "upgrade."
I'm also sometimes on various Macs with OS 7.5/8.6/9.2/X.3 |
I find the Adblock extension and the tabbrowser extensions mentioned in EddyG's post just above, to be the greatest things. Also Firefox makes the pages LOOK much nicer. The rendering is really smooth and clean. Great layout, fonts. MUCH simplified configuration etc. Live bookmarks that use RSS feeds! TONS of extensions.
I've been using Firefox for a couple of years now, and it's rock solid. It's based on the Mozilla rendering engine, so it isn't a from-scratch rewrite either, so it benefits from Mozilla's previous stable codebase. |
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11/05/2004 06:53:57 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by skylen:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I'm using Windows 2000 with either AOL 9 (version of IE I guess) or regular old Mozilla. Any huge reason to go to Firefox? I prefer to leave stable things alone unless there's a compelling reason to "upgrade."
I'm also sometimes on various Macs with OS 7.5/8.6/9.2/X.3 |
I find the Adblock extension and the tabbrowser extensions mentioned in EddyG's post just above, to be the greatest things. Also Firefox makes the pages LOOK much nicer. The rendering is really smooth and clean. Great layout, fonts. MUCH simplified configuration etc. Live bookmarks that use RSS feeds! TONS of extensions.
I've been using Firefox for a couple of years now, and it's rock solid. It's based on the Mozilla rendering engine, so it isn't a from-scratch rewrite either, so it benefits from Mozilla's previous stable codebase. |
Skylen - I have had FF for a month or so now, and LOVE it. I couldn't find any RSS feeds, though. What sites have you found? Also, I didn't play with the appearance much - anything cool you'd like to suggest? Thanks!!
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11/05/2004 07:09:03 PM · #63 |
Originally posted by Kylie:
Skylen - I have had FF for a month or so now, and LOVE it. I couldn't find any RSS feeds, though. What sites have you found? Also, I didn't play with the appearance much - anything cool you'd like to suggest? Thanks!! |
Oh, live bookmarks are so cool!! Try this: go to Yahoo! news top stories and a little "RSS" icon will appear in the lower-righthand corner of Firefox. Click it to add the Y! News RSS feed as a live bookmark. If you look at your bookmarks menu after this, you'll see all the current stories in the submenu under that bookmark!
A lot of blogs and news sites support RSS. |
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11/05/2004 07:15:01 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by skylen:
Originally posted by Kylie:
Skylen - I have had FF for a month or so now, and LOVE it. I couldn't find any RSS feeds, though. What sites have you found? Also, I didn't play with the appearance much - anything cool you'd like to suggest? Thanks!! |
Oh, live bookmarks are so cool!! Try this: go to Yahoo! news top stories and a little "RSS" icon will appear in the lower-righthand corner of Firefox. Click it to add the Y! News RSS feed as a live bookmark. If you look at your bookmarks menu after this, you'll see all the current stories in the submenu under that bookmark!
A lot of blogs and news sites support RSS. |
Thanks! I'll try that as soon as I get home. I googled on RSS and didn't come up with anything before. I still haven't convinced work to convert to FF!
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11/05/2004 07:26:44 PM · #65 |
Kylie - I just thought of a couple other cool Firefox extensions.
CuteMenus adds icons to the context menus, it looks nice.
Dictionary search lets you highlight any word, right click, and do a dictionary lookup with a single click.
Don't forget you can do this with Google (and other search engines... what, there are others?!) already! Just highlight any word on a web page, right click and choose "Search web for ''".
Linkification converts any URL or web site written only in text (like this: www.yahoo.com) into a real clickable link!!! It's awesome. No copying and pasting text links from posts anymore.
Adblock keeps me from ever seeing another ad!! It's great. It requires a little configuration because it uses wildcard patterns to identify the elements to block. Here's my current, pretty comprehensive, filter list. Copy and paste the rest of this post into a text file, save it. Go into Firefox after installing Adblock, choose Tools->Adblock->Preferences, click Adblock Options->Import filters, and import the text file. Ba-da-bing. You can add filters if ads slip through, by clicking the offending image, and choosing 'Adblock image'. Then look at the URL and modify it, putting a * wherever it looks like it should be, usually just after the hostname and the slash.
Here are my filters for Adblock:
[Adblock]
doubleclick.net
//us.a1.yimg.com/*
//*.content.ru4.com/*
//imagecache2.allposters.com/images/banners/*
//*.adrevolver.com/*
//*.atdmt.com/*
//*.mediaplex.com/*
//*.casalemedia.com/*
//*.googlesyndication.com/*
//rightmedia.net/*
//ads.osdn.com/*
//ac.rnm.ca/*
//*.tribalfusion.com/*
//*.hotlog.ru/*
//counter.yadro.ru/*
//*.burstnet.com/*
//www.gamedev.net/banman/*
//*.advertising.com/*
//*.fastclick.net/*
//*.valueclick.com/*
//rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?*
//www.soundclick.com/ads/*
//*.adserver.yahoo.com/*
//rcm-images.amazon.com/*
//rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/*
//ads.fortunecity.com/*
//adlog.com.com/*
//www.romnation.net:81/rn/ads/*
//*.hitbox.com/*
//i.cmpnet.com/ads/*
//www.cafepress.com/cp/banners/*
*/clickxchange*
//www.beginthier.nl/phpAds/*
//mirrorimageorigin.collegepublisher.com/media/Images/ads/*
//media.collegepublisher.com/images/ads/*
//*.bridgetrack.com/ads/*
//ak.buy.com/*
//ad.linksynergy.com/*
//*.bluestreak.com/*
//*.atwola.com/*
//*.toplayerserver.com/*
//www3.sys-con.com/ads/*
//www3.sys-con.com/java/rotate2.cfm
//www.di.fm/adfeatures/ |
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11/05/2004 07:32:19 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by skylen:
Kylie - I just thought of a couple other cool Firefox extensions.
CuteMenus adds icons to the context menus, it looks nice.
Dictionary search lets you highlight any word, right click, and do a dictionary lookup with a single click.
Don't forget you can do this with Google (and other search engines... what, there are others?!) already! Just highlight any word on a web page, right click and choose "Search web for ''".
Linkification converts any URL or web site written only in text (like this: //www.yahoo.com) into a real clickable link!!! It's awesome. No copying and pasting text links from posts anymore.
Adblock keeps me from ever seeing another ad!! It's great. It requires a little configuration because it uses wildcard patterns to identify the elements to block. Here's my current, pretty comprehensive, filter list. Copy and paste the rest of this post into a text file, save it. Go into Firefox after installing Adblock, choose Tools->Adblock->Preferences, click Adblock Options->Import filters, and import the text file. Ba-da-bing. You can add filters if ads slip through, by clicking the offending image, and choosing 'Adblock image'. Then look at the URL and modify it, putting a * wherever it looks like it should be, usually just after the hostname and the slash.
Here are my filters for Adblock:
[Adblock]
doubleclick.net
//us.a1.yimg.com/*
//*.content.ru4.com/*
//imagecache2.allposters.com/images/banners/*
//*.adrevolver.com/*
//*.atdmt.com/*
//*.mediaplex.com/*
//*.casalemedia.com/*
//*.googlesyndication.com/*
//rightmedia.net/*
//ads.osdn.com/*
//ac.rnm.ca/*
//*.tribalfusion.com/*
//*.hotlog.ru/*
//counter.yadro.ru/*
//*.burstnet.com/*
//www.gamedev.net/banman/*
//*.advertising.com/*
//*.fastclick.net/*
//*.valueclick.com/*
//rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?*
//www.soundclick.com/ads/*
//*.adserver.yahoo.com/*
//rcm-images.amazon.com/*
//rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/*
//ads.fortunecity.com/*
//adlog.com.com/*
//www.romnation.net:81/rn/ads/*
//*.hitbox.com/*
//i.cmpnet.com/ads/*
//www.cafepress.com/cp/banners/*
*/clickxchange*
//www.beginthier.nl/phpAds/*
//mirrorimageorigin.collegepublisher.com/media/Images/ads/*
//media.collegepublisher.com/images/ads/*
//*.bridgetrack.com/ads/*
//ak.buy.com/*
//ad.linksynergy.com/*
//*.bluestreak.com/*
//*.atwola.com/*
//*.toplayerserver.com/*
//www3.sys-con.com/ads/*
//www3.sys-con.com/java/rotate2.cfm
//www.di.fm/adfeatures/ |
WOW - my sincere thanks!!!!!! I can't wait to get home and try all this!
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11/05/2004 11:43:50 PM · #67 |
| I'm not sure if anyone's already mentioned this, but the USA Department of Homeland Securities, Computer Emergency Response Team, has recommended people use ANYTHING BUT Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That includes all the browser enhancers like Crazy Browser. |
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11/05/2004 11:45:40 PM · #68 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I'm using Windows 2000 with either AOL 9 (version of IE I guess) or regular old Mozilla. Any huge reason to go to Firefox? I prefer to leave stable things alone unless there's a compelling reason to "upgrade."
I'm also sometimes on various Macs with OS 7.5/8.6/9.2/X.3 |
I was Win2K with IE, and couldn't think of a compelling reason to switch, but thought, what the heck, I'll see what it's all about. All I can say about Firefox is, I won't go back to IE now for any reason. |
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11/06/2004 12:50:29 AM · #69 |
I'm still using IE and Outlook Express. First computer and these are what it came with and they're all I know (don't laugh.......IE is my security blankie LOL)If I download FF what do I do.....if I can't figure it out can I get rid of it, is IE still there......does FF work with OE........when you download it can you just use it or do you have to fiddle with the settings........
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nervous knownothing sue |
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11/06/2004 01:52:31 AM · #70 |
Originally posted by suemack:
I'm still using IE and Outlook Express. First computer and these are what it came with and they're all I know (don't laugh.......IE is my security blankie LOL)If I download FF what do I do.....if I can't figure it out can I get rid of it, is IE still there......does FF work with OE........when you download it can you just use it or do you have to fiddle with the settings........
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nervous knownothing sue |
Yes, everything is still there and OE works just fine. Go for it!!! You'll love it.
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11/06/2004 04:24:32 AM · #71 |
Originally posted by suemack:
I'm still using IE and Outlook Express. First computer and these are what it came with and they're all I know (don't laugh.......IE is my security blankie LOL)If I download FF what do I do.....if I can't figure it out can I get rid of it, is IE still there......does FF work with OE........when you download it can you just use it or do you have to fiddle with the settings........
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nervous knownothing sue |
Yeah, Firefox will add an icon, but the Internet Explorer icon will still be there too. (If you're using Windows XP, you can change the default browser from the 'Program settings and defaults' menu.)
Firefox will also ask if you want to import your IE bookmarks, cookies, settings, etc., when you install it, which you probably should answer YES to make things smooth. |
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11/06/2004 05:25:35 AM · #72 |
Originally posted by skylen:
Yeah, Firefox will add an icon, but the Internet Explorer icon will still be there too. (If you're using Windows XP, you can change the default browser from the 'Program settings and defaults' menu.) |
You don't even need to do that... the first time you run Firefox, it will ask you if you want to make Firefox your default browser. Click yes.
Suemack: Installing Firefox is laughably easy... you'll wonder what you were so worried about! As Kylie mentioned, the install doesn't remove anything, so you'll still have IE around for the occasional (poorly-designed) web site that only works in IE.
Happy surfing!
-Terry
Message edited by author 2004-11-06 05:27:36.
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11/06/2004 05:30:55 AM · #73 |
| thanks for the replies.....tried downloading it tonight but hit a glitch when the favourites, cookies etc were being imported, then computer crashed..... so didn't download properly. Couldn't find anything anywhere :( deleted it and will redownload tomorrow when I've got a bit of time. |
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11/06/2004 05:51:08 AM · #74 |
SUEMACK: Also, check out Mozilla Thunderbird for your email. (unless you have a Hotmail account).
Mozilla ThunderBird
You will still have the same security issues with OE, seeing as it's (almost) the same program code anyway.
Also, the good thing about ALL the stand-alone products from Mozilla, is that you can make them look exactly how you like, with hundreds of themes. |
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11/09/2004 07:31:31 AM · #75 |
Just FYI - I saw a news blurb this AM that Mozilla has released Firefox 1.0 officially, and a new download is available on their website.
//www.mozilla.org
Message edited by author 2004-11-09 07:31:40. |
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