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Mozilla Firefox - 10 MILLION+ Downloads!!
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ ^ | http://www.spreadfirefox.com/

Posted on 12/13/2004 11:35:48 AM PST by soccer_linux_mozilla



TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: download; firefox; mozilla
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To: Wiggins
I have been using it for the past two weeks and have noticed that web pages seem to load a little slower then they do in IE.

The information here is very useful, if you're on anything but dialup:

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

It works for both Firefox and Mozilla. Speeded up an old Mozilla build I'm using quite nicely.

21 posted on 12/13/2004 12:01:59 PM PST by Fatalis
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To: So Cal Rocket
how do you change the preferences so that a link opens in a new tab, rather than in a new window?

Hold the CTRL key then click a link.

22 posted on 12/13/2004 12:03:11 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla

Well, I did it twice.

BTW - Thunderbird rocks!

I used to use Netscape's.


23 posted on 12/13/2004 12:04:02 PM PST by RedWing9 (No tag here... Just want to stay vague...)
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla

I switched about 2 weeks ago, and haven't looked back since. But I wouldn't hesitate to switch back to Microsoft if they came up with something better.


24 posted on 12/13/2004 12:05:10 PM PST by Cableguy
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla

I'm using OSX on a Mac, and Firefox is better than Safari, which is a pretty good browser. I also like Thunderbird, their email client. The Mozilla suite includes a pretty good basic html editor for when I don't feel like getting into the whole "Dreamweaver" thing.


25 posted on 12/13/2004 12:05:59 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Four more years)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks. It worked. It's twice as fast as it was before. I'm on a 5000 kbps down cable modem and that tweak made a big difference. Thank you for your help.
26 posted on 12/13/2004 12:11:12 PM PST by Wiggins
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To: Fatalis

Thank you also. It made a big difference.


27 posted on 12/13/2004 12:14:36 PM PST by Wiggins
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To: JazzX
the copy/paste function is not working.

It works for me, I even use the view selection source

to capture the HTML as I copy and paste for posting news articles....

28 posted on 12/13/2004 12:21:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper; All
If your mouse has a scroll wheel, click the scroll wheel once to open a highlighted link in a new tab; to kill any tab, place the cursor on the tab and click the scroll wheel once.

Very handy.

29 posted on 12/13/2004 12:38:40 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Ahhh!! Thanks!


30 posted on 12/13/2004 12:40:57 PM PST by So Cal Rocket (Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla

I'm one of those new downloaders...last week switched (of course) from IE tired of the darn popups and having to ctrl click everything I viewed.
My only complaint so far with Firefox is that html is lost on my signature with yahoo mail...but I can live with that!
My kids like the Firefox too!
Thanks for the speed up tweak...works great!


31 posted on 12/13/2004 12:42:47 PM PST by gljones (Semper Fi USMC 1979-1985 dh USMC Retired 1976-1997)
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To: So Cal Rocket

Should have pinged you for post #29.


32 posted on 12/13/2004 12:43:29 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I even use the view selection source

In IE, I DL'd an extension to "view partial source"... and was hoping I'd find something similar in Firefox. Is this an extension you added?

33 posted on 12/13/2004 12:43:35 PM PST by So Cal Rocket (Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla
Wonder how much longer before monolopist Micro$oft integrates IE into XP so that Mozilla's chances to compete will be 0.

Although that is high on the MS priority list, it is not likely to happen anytime soon, seeing that a federal court made them "unembed" IE to stop that hanky panky...

34 posted on 12/13/2004 12:44:20 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla

This is different than the Mozilla Browser I have dled?


35 posted on 12/13/2004 12:45:10 PM PST by Protagoras (Christmas is not a secular holiday)
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To: So Cal Rocket

Just right-click the selection on the screen. One of the options is "View Partial Source."


36 posted on 12/13/2004 12:49:28 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Sweet! Thanks!


37 posted on 12/13/2004 12:49:51 PM PST by So Cal Rocket (Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla

The adblock extension has to be the coolest feature on the browser. Now I don't have to see the annoying adds when reading Fox News.


38 posted on 12/13/2004 12:57:11 PM PST by cosmicassassin (Adblock)
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To: gljones

I don't know if this will work with signatures, but it gives you back some of the editing functions in Yahoo and Hotmail, (though no smilies).

https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=389&vid=1275


39 posted on 12/13/2004 12:58:20 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
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To: gljones

Try this one instead. It's the newest, fixes a bug in Yahoo spellcheck.

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion/index.php/t1648.html


40 posted on 12/13/2004 1:05:07 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
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