Mozilla/Firefox vs. MS/IE

OK, I've run into a slight problem. Firefox is allowing me to copy text, URLs and whatever else but then it will only let me paste them in address/title boxes but not a dialogue box such as the one into which I typed this post. I tried to use the paste icon but a message popped up telling me I needed to "edit the Mozilla config file". I looked at the config file but could not determine what needed to be reset. Can someone help? ;)
 
The one thing I can't fugure out in Thunberbird (Mozilla's email client) is how to add a sig line to my emails.
 
K.V. Collucci said:
The one thing I can't fugure out in Thunberbird (Mozilla's email client) is how to add a sig line to my emails.
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I never even looked at Thunderbird, I've been using Gmail with Firefox and .Mac mail with Safari. You can add a signature to Gmail and even add an icon to the toolbar to let you know how many messages are in your box. Plus you can send huge files with Gmail which happens a lot with the graphics that I do.
 
I've been using Firefox for about a month and it's been great! Very easy to set-up and use... very quick.

Just ran into a problem, though. :grumpy:

Used the update feature and now no sites will load at all. Tried deleting the program (including the registry and all program files) and reloading. No improvement. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what's wrong and how I can fix it? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

AJ
 
MS is losing browser share so fast, I had to rush to validate the HTML on my wife's website so it would display the Java menu properly in Firefox/Mozilla. One thing about IE, is that it is very tolerant of invalid HTML...other than that, it is a trainwreck. Brilliant idea...let's let hackers run command lines within URLs on your computer and not fix it...ever. Firefox all the way.

Also, I am trying to make the switch to Linux. On my broadband, when I download programs and such on Winders, the download fluctuates wildly. On Linux, however, the download speed stays pegged at a consistent 350 kbs.
 
I just installed Firefox, after downloading last night, and wish I had done this a long time ago.

This site is the slowest of all the forums I visit, using IE, I mean it can take up to 6 minutes to edit a post, or submit one. It's now about 40x faster with Firefox.
I'm really impressed!! Thanks!!:D
 
Roadrunner said:
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network.http.proxy.pipelining
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Holy faster-than-light firefoxman, that's made a fair bit of difference.

Thanks for the tip.
 
trane fan said:
OK, I've run into a slight problem. Firefox is allowing me to copy text, URLs and whatever else but then it will only let me paste them in address/title boxes but not a dialogue box such as the one into which I typed this post. I tried to use the paste icon but a message popped up telling me I needed to "edit the Mozilla config file". I looked at the config file but could not determine what needed to be reset. Can someone help? ;)
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Never mind. I figured out that one as well. ;)
 
Mike Hull said:
I just installed Firefox, after downloading last night, and wish I had done this a long time ago.

This site is the slowest of all the forums I visit, using IE, I mean it can take up to 6 minutes to edit a post, or submit one. It's now about 40x faster with Firefox.
I'm really impressed!! Thanks!!:D
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Told ya. . . . :p :D
 
Firefox is great so much better than IE. Faster and less pop-ups. It's great.
 
For me, the term "Firefox" means the Craig Thomas book and subsequent Clint Eastwood movie about the attempt by US and British intelligence services to steal this super-duper Soviet MiG fighter plane. The book and film came out in 1982 and were very crisply done techno-thrillers before that genre became so famous at the hands of writers like Tom Clancy.

Careful, you young sprouts out there, or I'll run over you with my wheelchair and beat you to death with my cane. :D :D
 
Watch it with that cane, man. I'm not even 25, and I know what you're talking about.

Roadrunner: The display problem has to do with the site's code being geared toward displaying properly in IE, but they didn't bother to make the code sufficient for cross-browser display (e.g., they didn't test it in other browsers). The truth of the matter is that it's IE's interpretation of HTML, CSS, et al. that is non-compliant with the standards for those languages. They're long overdue for a game of catch-up with the rest of the browsers. I doubt they would give up on it, so they probably have something up their sleeves that they've kept very quiet for now.
 
LyonHaert said:
Watch it with that cane, man. I'm not even 25, and I know what you're talking about.
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Actually, so do I, since arthritis causes me to walk with a cane. :)
 
I have the latest versions of IE, Netscape, Firefox, and Opera on my computer. I see no speed advantage with Firefox on my computer (I just loaded them both on my computer and ran through a number of BF pages side by side....pages all loaded the same with no noticeable increase on one browser or the other). Though the others (other than IE) are fine browsers, I really prefer IE's performance and features. I also like the integration into Explorer...being able to instantly surf the net at any second without loading IE while surfing the innards of my computer either by the address bar or the "favorites" pull down...this is a big feature for me, 'cuz I do it a lot. But the main reason is that it is the number one browser out there (by tons and tons!!!!...the last corporate website I managed, the stats showed IE at well over 90%, while all the others share the remaining meager single digit percentage points) and webmasters do take that into consideration when designing their sites. I've had less problems with IE than the others. Regarding pop ups, I have blockers for that...as well as those pesky graphic ads which clutter up commercial-oriented sites.

Oh....and with Microsoft being in my backyard, I'm a major fan. Microsoft should rule the world! ;) (OK...I know that was a little over the top!...sorry!)
 
I have a firefox question.

When I get directed to a .pdf link firefox acesses the page without opening Acrobat, so I have to manually open Acrobat, and cut and paste the adress into the open new file adress. Is there any way to get Firefox to do this automatically?

kkimo
 
Kkimo,

Reinstall Acrobat Reader 7.0 and it will identify the browser and install a plug-in for Acrobat.

When I installed Firefox, it automatically installed my Reader.
 
I was doing fine with Firefox until yesterday. Now my system crashes whenever I try to load it. Back to IE again.
 
I'm having a firefox problem. On bladeforums the images are all getting messed up. People get the wrong avatar next to their name, the avatars sometimes show up in the wrong spots, people with no avatar tend to get my avatar to the right of their name, and the smileys are randomly replaced by other images.

This only has been happening on BF, and only with Mozilla Firefox. Anybody know what might be wrong?
 
Sadly, I have ditched Firefox. it was a good thing while it lasted but I got tired of having to download extensions, delete Temp files, dump the cache...it got ridiculous. It's back to IE for me. I heard a rumor that Microsuck is working on a tabbed version of IE with Longhorn due out in 2006? Any of this true?
 
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