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A14LN C
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Joined: 15 Oct 2004
Posts: 1139
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Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:06 pm |
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Has anyone heard of sumthing called firefox?
i was reading in the RSC forums about it and i thought it stopped pop-ups and spy wear (i think) so i thought id d/load it and like MAGIC it actually works, the cmptr is a lot faster to load up a page and the pop-ups hav stopped 
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JB
Mr Quoter-vator
Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 7405
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Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:27 pm |
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yes i use it is great...never use IE anymore excpet for websites that ppl havent designed properly
download it for free from www.mozilla.org |
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huwwatkins
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Joined: 10 Jun 2004
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Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:01 pm |
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Yup, good brower, usually I switch between the two, depending on which icon my mouse gets to first. |
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christian
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Joined: 10 Apr 2004
Posts: 150
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Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:29 am |
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so speaking of Firefox, what is everyone's favorite extension?
I love Adblock (filters out banner ads), ForecastFox (displays weather information on the toolbar) and ScrapBook (allows you to easily save and organize pages for later reading).
quite useful is BBCode (makes it easy to paste quotes and images in message boards) and QuickTabPrefToggle (makes all new windows appear in new tabs instead).
not useful for the average surfer but an absolute geek tool is the Web Developer Toolbar. it's a must have and I wouldn't want to design web sites without it. |
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Roger Red Hat
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Joined: 13 Oct 2004
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Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:05 pm |
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Funny you shud say that
my MSN name =
"FireFox > IE" says:
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JB
Mr Quoter-vator
Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 7405
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:56 am |
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image zoom is a great extension...right click on any image and in the context menu u get a zoom feature...zoom up or down, works really well....
also fireFTP is a nice ftp client extension
firefox on its own without any extensions stops all pop ups. |
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schakal
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 5717
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:44 pm |
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can you delete the i.e of your system after you installed the firefox then guys? |
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Neal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
Posts: 7432
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:15 pm |
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nope, its an integral part of windows, has been since windows 98 (i think it was). Was a big fuss at the time because people reckoned microsoft were trying to monopolise net browsers. |
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JB
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Joined: 16 Feb 2004
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Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:25 am |
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i thought u could go to add/remove progs> windows components?
maybe not as i think i remember now someone sayin how IE and explorer are one and the same which is silly...anyways u wanna keep IE handy cos there are always some sites which havent been written properly that dont quite work in FF so u need to resort to internet exploder |
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Neal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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Sun Jan 09, 2005 5:53 am |
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yeah natwest online banking doesnt work properly on firefox, nor does the BB performance tuning website. |
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JB
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Joined: 16 Feb 2004
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Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:07 am |
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Soneji
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Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 1356
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Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:14 am |
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FF is great, nice to see some proper net software development that is actually worth bothering with that hasn't come out of Redmond |
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JB
Mr Quoter-vator
Joined: 16 Feb 2004
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Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:34 am |
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u all into the tabbed browsing business...itsgreat |
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Soneji
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Joined: 16 Feb 2004
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Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:40 am |
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Now that took some used to at first I must admit, but I just use CTRL+TAB anyway |
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JB
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Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:12 am |
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thankyou george...i have been searching for a shortcut key to flip between tabs for a long time...
u know about middleclick to open a link in a new tab.....and ctrl + t for new tab i assume....its great |
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Neal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:25 am |
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oooh i didnt know about that middle click thing... thats very handy indeed! |
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JB
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Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:45 am |
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also i have other tricks i use....such as things that i bookmark...u can go into bookmarks, do a properties on the bookmarked page, and in keywords give it anything u like...for example i have retro-renault keyworded as "rr"
so to go to retro i just type rr in the addy bar and hit enter...
gg for google...whatever u like
also....do a search for something in google....say "example" for example....bookmarks the results page, go to the bookmark properties like above, give it a key word like "gg", in the location bit, edit the url so that the bit where the word u seached for "example" gets replaces with "%s"...
now u can go to addy bar at top....and just type in "gg whatever" and it will go straight to the results page for searching in google for that word (in this case "whatever"...
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Neal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:50 am |
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i dont really have any need for shortcuts, this site is the only one i ever really look at recurrently, so i just have a retro-renault window permanently open |
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