Posted on 01/07/2005 3:06:33 PM PST by KwasiOwusu
Most times, if you right-click the graphics box and select View Image, you see see it, then go Back to see it loaded in the page.
"from the originating site only" is unchecked. Clicking the "show image" usually brings them up. It's just not always on the first load.
A headscratcher, obviously. But it can't be as strange as this was:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=187972
Bwahahahahah...
Yea IE sure is the Internet. You in one sorry statement summed up how completely clueless you are. Though MS has made impressive gains in the past five years, The Internet is run on UNIX. Keep in mind the Internet does not refer to web pages, mail servers, dns servers, ftp server, ..... make up the Internet.
The DNS servers that make the Internet work run on UNIX. Sendmail still runs most big mail servers, Exchange is nice groupware but is not for high traffic sites like comcast.
And, it's "Schadenfreude", by the way. It means the way we feel about the poor suckers who insist on sticking with Internet Exploder and Outschnook.
It's fun to observe. Like watching a dinosaur thrash helplessly in a tarpit.
Try growing up before puberty takes you apart.
So, how do you check whether your current firefox version is update-to-date?
I don't see a "check for updates" button or inks in the [about] or [tools] menus.
That is, a user who didn't have a gun at his head. Even then, I'd have to think about it . . . . . .
I don't know much about Firefox...
I am really slow to change from what I am use to.
I did download Firefox, but I asked my daughter about it.
She makes her living off of the internet.
She says that some web pages just do not work with Firefox
and told me I should not use it for now.
Easy. Tools/Options/Advanced.
It checks for updates automatically. User just acknowledges whether he wants the latest one installed.
You can also tell it to Check For Updates Now.
I switch back to IE load the bank's software/billpay. It doesn't "answer" mozzila's replies properly.
The very few that don't are written in nonstandard, M$-specific code. And they're coming around. You may never even run across such a broken, nonstandard site.
Install Firefox! It will copy all your bookmarks and settings automatically - you can pick up right where you left off with Exploder.
And (shudder), you don't have to stop using Exploder; Firefox will happily coexist with any/all other browsers.
Go for it; you won't go back. I've never heard of anyone voluntarily going back. Kweezy claims to have forced some minions to revert back - I'm sure they put Firefox back in place as soon as he left the room.
Internet Exploder just supersucks.
If it were me, I'd bitch to the site programmers to fix their nonstandard, possibly insecure, code.
Thank you.
Tries that: Said there were no updates available, but I've only got Mozilla/5.0:
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
He's Bill Gates' indentured buttboy, apparently, given his posting history. Gotta hand it to him for perseverance, though; trying to defend such a crappy virus-transportation system is a pretty futile task.
"Install Firefox! It will copy all your bookmarks and settings automatically "
I saw that option....Will the history still stay in my IE
when I copy to Firefox?
I do not want to screw up what I am use to.
Thanks
Oh yeah, your IE settings will remain as they are. FF won't suck it dry, so to speak.
IF you decide to use FF, I recommend this extension, called "IE View".
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion/index.php/t50.html
When installed, you can right click on most any page you don't see rendered properly and it'll open IE for you. I say "most" because it might not open a window that you had to enter a password for, for instance.
I still keep IE nearbyy. For instance, NOAA weather radar loops use Java. Windows has Java, (called Virtual Machine), and for the comparable Java to work with Mozilla you have to install another program. It's around 15 or so megs, a long download for a dialup. I found that form of Java to be extremely bug ridden, and an uninstall ruined the Java that came with Windows.
That's not the fault of Mozilla but of Java's programmers, who hasn't even the sense to write code that recognizes their own stuff on someone's system and leave it alone.
Mozilla doesn't save web pages worth a nickel either. So IE isn't useless, just comparable to a screen door on a submarine.
I've rebooted a little bit ago and now am running FF in "safe mode", where no extensions or themes load. Will see how it goes a couple of days concerning images.
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