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Posted on 12/22/2004 8:32:38 AM PST by holymoly
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To: Floyd R Turbo
Is there a Firefox extention to perform this?
To: China Clipper
I agree, also I had more spyware then with msie.
To: frog_jerk_2004
Where are they? I didn't see them on the mozilla site.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:26:38 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
To: Floyd R Turbo
Maybe this thread will help you:
http://discuss.50plus.com/ubb/Forum12/HTML/004288.html
To: wardaddy; Travis McGee
Guys, you're forgetting something: You don't have to "figure it out".
You just think at it.
In Russian.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:29:36 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: frog_jerk_2004
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:29:44 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
To: frog_jerk_2004
WooHoo! You were right! I changed to the automatic proxy config address in my IE and I am flyin' with Firefox!
Yesssssss
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:33:08 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
To: Travis McGee
Yeah, do it. It might take you five minutes to download and install. Once you do there are a few threads here with tips for settings and tweaks. Firefox is easily customized.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:33:45 AM PST
by
Fatalis
To: finnigan2
Regarding the homepage set by the browser, I have a suggestion to you that will help speed up the startup of your browser. What I do, rather than have my "homepage" set to a website, is I set it to my bookmarks.html file. That way, when I fire up my browser, I get a clean white page with my bookmarks on it. Since it doesn't have to go out to the net to fetch anything, It helps startup quite a bit. It's also convienient in that when I open a new tab, I can click the "home" button, and *poof* my bookmarks are there.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:34:17 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
To: toadthesecond; ShadowAce; frog_jerk_2004
Thanks for three good responses. I haven't used Firefox yet because I generally haven't experienced the security problems that others have suffered with IE. Unfortunately, there are too many people who treat their PC like a TV or toaster oven and have absolutely no idea how to maintain their PC and protect against security threats. On a weekly basis, I update and run Adware, Spybot S & D, Spywareblaster (which does a wonderful job preventing spyware/malware from loading in the first place), CWShredder, Cleanup!, and BC Wipe. I also use Norton Internet Security. I rarely have any problems.
To: zeugma
I'm an Internet Explorer fan. I used Netscape from the time of the initial betas, but I gave up on it.
To speed up loading of IE, you just set "About:Blank" as your home page.
To block ads and popups seamlessly, and also save a great deal of time loading pages that have ads on them, I use Ad Muncher. There's a small price for it, but it's a brilliant program, and it blocks the ads before they download.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:39:10 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: SmithL
I love the tabs.How do you add tabs to the toolbar? I couldn't find how in Help. TIA
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:43:59 AM PST
by
nycgal
To: Travis McGee
So, can you recommend this switch to us inertia-bound non-tech-savvy IE users?Yes, but only if you can think in Russian.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:45:50 AM PST
by
Poohbah
(God must love fools. He makes so many of them...)
To: Cicero
you can do the "About:Blank" with mozilla/firefox too. I just find by bookmarks page to be more useful than a blank sheet.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:45:53 AM PST
by
zeugma
(Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
To: wardaddy
Great minds obviously think alike (c8
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:46:22 AM PST
by
Poohbah
(God must love fools. He makes so many of them...)
To: zeugma
Great idea, but I noticed that it only includes the default bookmarks that come with Firefox. It does not reflect what is really in your bookmarks.
I opened it in wordpad and noticed I could hack the HTML to reflect the contents of my bookmarks, but that seems to be about the only way I can find to let it reflect where I really want to go.
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posted on
12/22/2004 9:56:34 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
To: Travis McGee
So, can you recommend this switch to us inertia-bound non-tech-savvy IE users? Yes. If you can use IE, it should not be much of a transition, but there are some really good features.
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