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Posted on 11/29/2004 12:10:39 PM PST by nickcarraway
Firefox is one very hot browser, pardon the pun, and your computer will be safer if you switch to this free software that's heating up the charts.
There's been a seismic shift during November, with Firefox emerging as the first credible competitive threat in a decade to Microsoft's aging Internet Explorer browser for Windows.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
I just downloaded the "fix pack 2". I call it......well, it rhymes with "duck-pack 2". My modem will now only connect at 28,000 bps or slower.
Another fine Microsuck program.
ping
I've been using Firefox happily for months..
But yesterday morning, I woke up and all of my bookmarks had vanished. I am a little miffed about that.
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It's recommended to back up your bookmarks which are in the form of a "bookmarks.html" file. Just copy and paste it into say .... my documents
Fire Fox bookmarks LOCATED IN:
C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles
well there ya go :)
keep in mind my working knowledge of linux is 5 years old (so ancient history by now)
back in those days ;) the answer is no.
in these days, i would guess kinda sorta no. The number of applications that have been written or ported to linux is greater, but you need the correct version. Ie your windows version of outlook (or ms office) won't work (i think) you need the linux version
now some stuff, namely almost anything written in java (and in terms of big commerical applications there aren't many) will work in linux.
If your big into games...forget the switch. Waiting for a linux game is like waiting for a mac game.
There are all sorts of emulaters that you can run to fool windows programs into thinking linux is really windows. But its kind of like why bother.
1. I believe his name is Anderson Chu.
2. Did that URL not work for you?
Dan
It's better than that. They can run side by side if you like (I use Mozilla for everything, but if something refused to run, I copy the url over to IE and run it there).
Just use your middle mouse button. Any link you click with the middle button will open in a new tab, even if it's normally supposed to open in a new window.
I dunno about it just yet. I switched over a few months ago, and found it ok, the (current) lack of security vulnerability was nice, but the tradeoff seemed to be that Firefox would take forever to load java pages(such as the weather service radar.) and freezing all the other tabs and windows during the java page's loading process. After installing Firefox I could no longer get IE updates from the Microsoft website, the page would start to scan for applicable updates and then give an error message.
But it got even worse after I switched last week to the latest Firefox release. Ever since then the java problem has been magnified, literally taking 2 minutes to load the NOAA weather radars or often hanging up, so that I'd have to do ctrl-alt-del to get out of the frozen screen and losing all my other tabs and windows. Tried removing java and reinstalling it, but no change. Also loading some pages with a large number of photos produces similar freezes and slowdowns(though not nearly as often), occassionally requiring a restart to go to any more webpages. Something went wrong in the upgrade, as the new Firefox is unable on startup to load up my homepage, I have to actually hit the homepage icon to get started. What is really weired is that now these same problems take place when I try to use IE instead on the java sites.
Routinely scan the computers with Norton, Ad Aware, Spybot, Pest Patrol, have a good firewall, and auto update all plus Spyware blaster, so my machine is clean. Am on ME(yeah, I know that XP would be better, but am not yet ready to take the time, risk, and hassle of an upgrade to this machine.)
Any suggestions are appreciated, I haven't had time to scour the Firefox sites and figure out what exactly are the problems.
Many thanks to you both. I am the equivalent of a citizen of the Middle Ages trying to decide whether to get on an airplane. The hand holding is appreciated.
Uber browser ping!!
yeah i know. But at work i still haveta use IE so i get confused sometimes. Besides i'd haveta move my finger to click on the middle button
I've looked online and cant find other people with this problem. Does anyone know why java would be exceptionally slow on a given machine versus others?
Thanks to all for the "co-existing" with IE answers.
Yep, what Petronski said. I've found that it's pretty rare though. The only times I can recall that I've had to open up IE when Firefox doesn't work is with the Windows Update website and certain parts of the MSNBC website.
Ah hah! See my post #76. Finally someone else who has the same problem! I thought I was going nuts!
You can actually uninstall IE but still use it when you need it. I "uninstalled" it through add remove programs, but if I absolutely need it for a page I just go to windows update which still opens IE. Then I stop loading and type the url I need and voila.
IE can't really be uninstalled easily, just hidden. Out of Sight, Out of Mind.
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