Firefox is not ready for primetime

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Im using a p3 733 with 256 meg of ram (not much more of a spec than yours
really) and i dont like xp either.Whats a PIV?.The updates can be obtained
through the windows update feature.If its not in your start menu its
WUPDMGR.EXE Just run it in the start/run bar.Heres some info on one of the
latest updates for 98..july 2004

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/win98-kb840315.html
me
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Should I have used P4 instead of PIV?? <g>

Thanks for the tip re the update!
 
No, because WC3 is the recognized judge, and IE doesn't conform to
it.
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You seem to be agreeing and disagreeing at the same time. Maybe Henk
can help. ;)
 
An easy solution is to install the extension " IEview". This installs
a right-click context menu item and with one click IE opens for that
specific task. I use it as one of my bank's website refuses to
respond to anything but IE. Yes, I know...............
 
Jack Purvis said:
An easy solution is to install the extension " IEview". This
installs a right-click context menu item and with one click IE
opens for that specific task. I use it as one of my bank's
website refuses to respond to anything but IE. Yes, I
know...............
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Try the "User Agent Switcher" trick, mentioned earlier in the
thread. Might work for you :-)

Wald
 
All of Microsoft's sites work fine for me with Firefox, except for
Windows Update. Surfing the MS Knowledge Base, reading Hotmail, &c are
no problem; they are rendered in quirks mode.
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Yep, same here. I did have to use IE for banking when I was using Mozilla,
but with FF I've no problems with anything, except, as you say, the Windows
Update site.
 
About 1600 bookmarks. I have to click Bookmarks in the toolbar about 10 times
before I get the pulldown menu.
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Hmmm...I'd over 9000 last time I looked and I've added quite a few since
then. I've no problems with editing or opening - and it's not even a
particularly fast computer.

Maybe worth a re-install to see if it helps?
 
GlintingHedgehog said:
Hmmm...I'd over 9000 last time I looked and I've added quite a few since
then. I've no problems with editing or opening - and it's not even a
particularly fast computer.

Maybe worth a re-install to see if it helps?
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That's interesting- 9000 and it works! I never had a bookmark problem in Netscape
4.79, where this file came from.

And can you edit OK? When I cut/paste a bookmark, it pastes above the destination
folder. Others report that also.

I use Firefox 0.8, what version do you use? And how fast is your puter?

I use the FF executable, not install. It otherwise works so well that I doubt
starting over will help. I've been told it was the size of my bookmark file, but
your results show different.

Mike Sa
 
That's interesting- 9000 and it works! I never had a bookmark problem in
Netscape 4.79, where this file came from.

And can you edit OK? When I cut/paste a bookmark, it pastes above the
destination folder. Others report that also.
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I just checked - yes, that does happen to me too. It's easy to get around
though, by just clicking on the first item in the destination folder,
rather than the folder name.
I use Firefox 0.8, what version do you use?
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Well it was FF 0.8 until after my last post, when I wondered what version
you were using, and then I thought maybe I should upgrade, and so I've
been wasting time today moving to 0.92 and playing with new extensions :-D
And how fast is your puter?
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Ummm...Pentium 3, not sure on the ram etc, but I know it's not high-spec.
I'd an old laptop which was destroyed in a flood last year, & this one is
the replacement provided by the insurance company, so basically it's as
close as they could get to the old specs.
I use the FF executable, not install. It otherwise works so well that I
doubt starting over will help. I've been told it was the size of my
bookmark file, but your results show different.
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Don't know what to tell you - I just know I'd no problems in 0.8 and I
haven't noticed any so far in 0.92 either.
 
Microsoft made Java Scripts that CAN write to disk, where other
browser activex apps cannot. This is the huge security hole. By just
viewing a page you can be exploited with dialers, trojans, exploit
number (large number), etc.
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Yes JS, is actually a far bigger risk than Activex, lots of exploits just
die with active scripting off. True, activeX is almost certainly bad and
is seldom used for innocent purposes (that's what gives it a very bad
rep), but that makes it a smaller loss to block.

Blocking javascript is a much bigger pain.
 
Should I have used P4 instead of PIV?? <g>

Thanks for the tip re the update!
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Mmm PIV is obviously p4 now that youve told me lol.Somtimes i cant see the
wood for the trees :)
me
 
GlintingHedgehog said:
I just checked - yes, that does happen to me too. It's easy to get around
though, by just clicking on the first item in the destination folder,
rather than the folder name.
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Thanks for that tip, editing is now possible. I posted awhile ago on the Firefox
forum, no one knew that.
Well it was FF 0.8 until after my last post, when I wondered what version
you were using, and then I thought maybe I should upgrade, and so I've
been wasting time today moving to 0.92 and playing with new extensions :-D
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I decided today to download O.93, was waiting for 0.94, but who knows?
Ummm...Pentium 3, not sure on the ram etc, but I know it's not high-spec.
I'd an old laptop which was destroyed in a flood last year, & this one is
the replacement provided by the insurance company, so basically it's as
close as they could get to the old specs.




Don't know what to tell you - I just know I'd no problems in 0.8 and I
haven't noticed any so far in 0.92 either.
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I'm coming from Netscape 4.79. FF is a big improvement over Navigator, except for
bookmarks. But Thunderbird has a few problems IMO compared to the Messinger part
of Netscape.

Mike Sa
 
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