Firefox Questions

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newfdog

Hi all......... OK I'm trying Firefox and it has some features that I
really like but I have 2 questions.

When I click on the mail button in the navigation bar it opens Outlook
Express, can I change this so
that it will open MailWasher ? I want to look at my mail before downloading
it.

Does it support drop down boxes to save typing time ? For instance when
going to Gmail I don't want to
have to type in my user name everytime. With IE the drop down box appears
when I type the first letter
and I only have to click on my username to fill in the box.

Thanks,
Newfdog
 
Hi all......... OK I'm trying Firefox and it has some
features that I really like but I have 2 questions.

When I click on the mail button in the navigation bar it
opens Outlook Express, can I change this so
that it will open MailWasher ? I want to look at my mail
before downloading it.

Does it support drop down boxes to save typing time ? For
instance when going to Gmail I don't want to
have to type in my user name everytime. With IE the drop
down box appears when I type the first letter
and I only have to click on my username to fill in the box.

Thanks,
Newfdog
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Good places to ask:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=7
or
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

J
 
I used to use MailWasher , now use Pimmy email client as default . No
need for MailWasher .

If you want to try a really good free email client & Spam remover
, this is very good .

I can look at my mail on the ISP's server , delete ( spam removal ) ,
reply , click on links & if I want it on my comp , click on Move
to > Archive .
Use right click for some of the functions .

You can still leave any other email client installed . Just a matter
of choosing which one you want as default .

http://www.geminisoft.com/geminisoft/
http://geminisoft.com/geminisoft.eng/
http://geminisoft.com/geminisoft.eng/homepage.asp
http://www.geminisoft.com/download/pimmy350-english.zip
http://geminisoft.com/pimmy.eng/frameset.htm
http://geminisoft.com/pimmy.eng/caratteristiche.htm
Pimmy - Your personal postman.

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I think you should be opening mailwasher first, processing your mail, then
fetching the mail you want...

Tools >Options - "general" tab

"launch email prog after processing"

whether or not you check the box, cloick on "specify"

You will prolly find Thunderbird already in the "configured" box, if not
click the button on the right and navigate to your email run command, in
your case maybe

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe


I don't know, but there's a prog called keytext which is excellent for this
sort of thing, when I had it the trial version was free and more than
adequaate, but I liked it so much I got the full version.

Now I use Allchars as it's much smaller and is completely free, I just set
up a macro like (e-mail address removed) (whoops, it went off, the hash is
the cue character) "hash"me and it bungs in my email every time I type that
combination.

HTH

mike
 
When I click on the mail button in the navigation bar it opens
Outlook Express, can I change this so
that it will open MailWasher ? I want to look at my mail before
downloading it.
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I believe the mail button just opens your default mail app, and I doubt
you want to make MailWasher the default mail handler.
Does it support drop down boxes to save typing time ? For
instance when going to Gmail I don't want to
have to type in my user name everytime. With IE the drop down box
appears when I type the first letter
and I only have to click on my username to fill in the box.
Click to expand...

That's the way it works here. Check your settings under
Options » Privacy, Saved Form Information and Saved Passwords.
 
On 13 Nov 2004, Buz Overbeck wrote
I don't find that option under my Firefox 1.0 Options->General. In
fact, nowhere can I find anyplace to select an e-mail client.

What am I missing?
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I think he's talking about Tools>Options in MailWasher, not Firefox.

(I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like -- you process the
mail in MW, and it then launches the email program.)
 
I think he's talking about Tools>Options in MailWasher, not Firefox.

(I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like -- you process the
mail in MW, and it then launches the email program.)
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No, you're right Harvey, but what I didn't realise was that there's a mail
button on the toolbar as my FF didn't have one, till I just put it there,
from customise toolbar.

For me it opens Thunderbird, but if I used it I would want to open
mailwasher, so now I know what newfdog and Buz are on about.

I looked in about;config, but couldn't find any reference to it, so I'm
baffled, I don't even know how it opens t/bird for me, but as I don't want
stuff arriving unscheduled, I'm hiding the mail button again!

I hope someone else can help, or the links that J gave would be the place
to go

mikw
 
On 14 Nov 2004, mike ring wrote
No, you're right Harvey, but what I didn't realise was that
there's a mail button on the toolbar as my FF didn't have one,
till I just put it there, from customise toolbar.

For me it opens Thunderbird, but if I used it I would want to open
mailwasher, so now I know what newfdog and Buz are on about.

I looked in about;config, but couldn't find any reference to it,
so I'm baffled, I don't even know how it opens t/bird for me, but
as I don't want stuff arriving unscheduled, I'm hiding the mail
button again!
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Presumably the FF button's not customisable, as it just pulls your
default-registered mail program from its registry entry -- the
equivalent of a "mailto:" link in html.

I suspect you'd have to have Mailwasher set up as your default mail
program for the FF button to be able to call it.
 
mike ring said:
No, you're right Harvey, but what I didn't realise was that there's a mail
button on the toolbar as my FF didn't have one, till I just put it there,
from customise toolbar.

For me it opens Thunderbird, but if I used it I would want to open
mailwasher, so now I know what newfdog and Buz are on about.

I looked in about;config, but couldn't find any reference to it, so I'm
baffled, I don't even know how it opens t/bird for me, but as I don't want
stuff arriving unscheduled, I'm hiding the mail button again!

I hope someone else can help, or the links that J gave would be the place
to go

mikw
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Yeah Mike.. that's exactly what I'm talking about. I found a sort of
workaround
though. Download the mouse gestures extension (easy gestures 2.14) and then
set one of the
buttons to open Mailwasher, from there you can open your email program as
normal.

Newfdog
 
I found a sort of workaround though. Download the mouse gestures
extension (easy gestures 2.14) and then set one of the
buttons to open Mailwasher, from there you can open your email
program as normal.
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One of the pie menu buttons, you mean? (I don't use easygestures.)

If what you really want is a Mailwasher button on a Fx toolbar, the
External App Button extension will let you put one there. Version
0.7.2, which works with Fx 1.0, is at the author's site,
<http://cgi29.plala.or.jp/mozzarel/addon/firefox/externalapp/>.
 
Yes one of the pie menu buttons. Thanks I'll check out that
extension as well.
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Instructions are out there on the web somewhere, but not on the
author's site, so I'll give a quick howto on External App Buttons.
Once it's installed, you right-click the toolbar and select
'Customize'. Thanks to the extension, there's an item labeled
'Applications' that you can drag to a toolbar. Once you click
'Done', the toolbar item is invisible, which can be confusing. But
there's a little hotspot on the toolbar; you can add app buttons
there by right-clicking it or by dragging things to it.
 
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