I may be switching from FF to IE

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As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3)
to IE8. Why? I'm getting tired of getting 'you need to install a
missing plugin.' Then when I hit install I get 'install manually.' So
I have to go to the software's website, download and install it
manually and hope it works (sometimes doesn't). Also, FF continually
crashes, usually when I'm deleting emails from my yahoo account. And
when I'm on facebook and try to play a video I often get 'an error
occurred, please try again later.' However, when I use IE it plays
fine.

I've used FF for years because of the security holes in IE. However,
with IE8 MS seems to have addressed those vulnerabilities. When I
check for exploits, FF seems to have just as many, or nearly as many,
as IE. And I have to admit I like IE's interface better - it's
slicker.

I did a check on mozilla.com to find out about the problems with FF
and there were many, including crashing while on yahoo. Their answer?
They blamed yahoo. I'm sorry, but that just smacks of 'we're too lazy
to fix FF so we're blaming it on somebody else.' I thought the whole
point of open source was thousands of people could tweak the code to
solve the problems I'm having. Am I wrong?
 
As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3)
to IE8. Why? I'm getting tired of getting 'you need to install a
missing plugin.' Then when I hit install I get 'install manually.' So
I have to go to the software's website, download and install it
manually and hope it works (sometimes doesn't). Also, FF continually
crashes, usually when I'm deleting emails from my yahoo account. And
when I'm on facebook and try to play a video I often get 'an error
occurred, please try again later.' However, when I use IE it plays
fine.

I've used FF for years because of the security holes in IE. However,
with IE8 MS seems to have addressed those vulnerabilities. When I
check for exploits, FF seems to have just as many, or nearly as many,
as IE. And I have to admit I like IE's interface better - it's
slicker.
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*BACKUP* your current Firefox profile, un-install Firefox, then
re-install Firefox and start a NEW profile!! If it worked, restore
bookmarks and other stuff into the new profile!


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As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3)
to IE8. Why? I'm getting tired of getting 'you need to install a
missing plugin.' Then when I hit install I get 'install manually.' So
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Is it Flash or Quicktime?

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^ ^ 15:52:01 up 22 days 19:03 2 users load average: 1.07 1.05 1.01
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http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
 
shegeek72 said:
As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3)
to IE8.
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I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does inline
auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the
favorites/bookmarks folder/file.

Jon
 
I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does inline
auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the
favorites/bookmarks folder/file.
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Firefox is doing it, isn't it?

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http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
 
shegeek72 said:
I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3)
to IE8.
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And you decided to post this piece of information into the two groups
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt + alt.fan.mozilla instead of posting it
into just one appropriate group -- why?

If you were trying to stir up flames in the alt.fan.mozilla group, why
crosspost the flamage into achp-h?

I don't see anything wrong with your decision; IE 8 is OK. Personally
I prefer others. The person who is using IE6 needs to get straight.

Cross-posting idiots, bah!
 
shegeek72 said:
As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox
(v3.6.3) to IE8. Why?
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Because you forgot what Internet Explorer is like.

Next question.
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Jon Danniken said:
shegeek72 wrote:

I'm still stuck using IE6.x
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Too bad, Firefox is much better than Internet Explorer. Firefox is
almost as intuitive as Total Annihilation was. Just one of many
ways Firefox is superior over Internet Explorer... If your
connection or power is somehow interrupted, the next time you
start Firefox, it will offer to replace all of the windows the way
you had them before. That kind of thing reminds me of how pathetic
Microsoft programming really is. And it gets worse. Internet
Explorer is the only program I have that does not know how to
interpret my mouse settings properly. For some bizarre reason, the
scroll wheel erroneously switches to freewheeling mode in Internet
Explorer.

But whatever, do whatever you feel like doing, it is your loss not
mine.
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Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) said:
Firefox is doing it, isn't it?
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Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using FF as my
default browser.

Jon
 
Jon Danniken wrote on [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:30:45 -0700]:
Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using FF as my
default browser.
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FF does it, and has for a while
 
And you decided to post this piece of information into the two groups
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt + alt.fan.mozilla instead of posting it
into just one appropriate group -- why?
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Several reasons: alt.fan.mozilla seems the most appropriate ng.
However, last time I checked activity was low and it's riddled with
spam, though I had the slim hope that I'd get some intelligent
responses. I cross-posted in achp-h because I'm an experienced PC user
(over 15 yrs. experience) and know I'm going to get quality responses
from the denizens here.
If you were trying to stir up flames in the alt.fan.mozilla group, why
crosspost the flamage into achp-h?
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Obviously, because that was not my intent.
 
Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using FF as my
default browser.
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I believe both Chrome and Firefox are doing it! Try again! :)

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http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
 
Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) said:
I believe both Chrome and Firefox are doing it! Try again! :)
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I do use FF occasionally, but I haven't seen it. Using version 3.08, no
in-line auto-complete.

Is it a special add-on or something?

Jon
 
I do use FF occasionally, but I haven't seen it. Using version 3.08, no
in-line auto-complete.
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By auto-complete, did you mean website address auto-complete, or
bookmark auto-complete?

You need to cache the website address first by visiting it once, then
you could auto-complete it next time!

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^ ^ 20:52:01 up 8:45 2 users load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00
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http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
 
Justin said:
Jon Danniken wrote on [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:30:45 -0700]:
Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using FF
as my default browser.
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FF does it, and has for a while
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How do you turn it on? I have 3.0.8, no inline auto-complete.

Jon
 
I do use FF occasionally, but I haven't seen it. Using version 3.08, no
in-line auto-complete.

Is it a special add-on or something?
Click to expand...

AH... Firefox can import the history from IE!!! As I said in another
post: no history, no auto-complete!

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Jon Danniken wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:50:59 -0700]:
I do use FF occasionally, but I haven't seen it. Using version 3.08, no
in-line auto-complete.

Is it a special add-on or something?
Click to expand...

3.08 is an OLD version and out of support.
 
Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:33:33 +0800]:
AH... Firefox can import the history from IE!!! As I said in another
post: no history, no auto-complete!
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I am using 3.6.3 and it auto completes bookmarks I have never visited since
I imported them from Netscape years ago
 
Jon Danniken wrote on [Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:54:53 -0700]:
Justin said:
Jon Danniken wrote on [Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:30:45 -0700]:
Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote:
I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does
inline auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the
favorites/bookmarks folder/file.


Firefox is doing it, isn't it?

Not the last time I checked. If they were to do it, I'd be using FF
as my default browser.
Click to expand...

FF does it, and has for a while
Click to expand...

How do you turn it on? I have 3.0.8, no inline auto-complete.
Click to expand...

Upgrade to a supported version, 3.6.3 does it by default
 
shegeek72:
Several reasons: alt.fan.mozilla seems the most appropriate ng.
However, last time I checked activity was low and it's riddled with
spam,
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news.mozilla.org is what you want
 
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