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Get Firefox Now!!!
Right now there os a big marathon to get 1 million downloads of Firefox!
If you haven't heard of this, this is the GREAT alternative browser to Micro$oft's Internet Explorer. This is quite frankly leaps and bounds better than the microsoft browser. It has built in popup blocking and alot of other features to protect you. Its ALOT safer against malicious coding. And what's REALLY great about it is that you don't have to delete or uninstall Internet Explorer. You can have both. You can even install a plug in so that you have th option to switch browsers on the fly! Say you are in Firefox looking at a site. You want for some reason to open a link in Internet Explorer. You CAN!!!! M$ would never give you that kind of feature, but Firefox can!! AND ITS 100% FREE!!!!!!!! Quote:
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Downloaded it and am using it right now...:D
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So how do you like it?
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I downloaded it weeks ago, knowing that it was better and safer, but when I logged on I forgot that I couldn't access any of my hundreds of links in my Favorites. So I went back to IE and forgot that I have online back up and can automatically download my favorites into any browser in moments. D'oh!
I really should go back and use Firefox rather than IE. |
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:D 14th- Firefox can import explorer bookmarks and passwords. Its easy! Its under FILE>>IMPORT. |
I'll give that a try :D
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Anyone here still using Neoplanet?
Ian W359 |
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Your welcome SS!
Ian, no clue. :D |
I got my download. It's going to take some getting used to, but so far I like it. And it niftily transferred all of my bookmarks....and just in the last couple of seconds updated the icon in my bookmarks for this site.
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http://www.neoplanet.com Ian W359 |
AH okay. Never heard of it myself. There are a couple of browsers I know are popular, IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and the old Netscape (which became Mozilla and Firefox)
FG- glad you like it. Btw- there are some neat skins available. Just be careful the skin is for your version of Firefox. Since alot of skins are fan made, not all work well with all versions. ;) So has anyone got any complaints about this puppy? I think it works pretty well. :D |
Only one complaint so far.
When I opened it tonight, there was never any address in the address bar, so that I was unable to use the back button. I had to right-click and open a link in a second window to get it. It's a bit of a nusance. |
ah... I'm not sure exactly what you mean. But I assume you are talking about how Fleets is structured and not a Firefox problem right?
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when you open Firefox the thing opens up in a blank window? and you can't get it to do anything? Is that it?
I'm confused. :( |
No, I could get to anywhere in my bookmarks, but there wass no address in the address bar, so I couldn't use my back-button to go back to where I had been before, like viewing a thread, then backing out of it. The little window that says "http:/www. etcetera" was blank until I opened a second windoe, then the second window had the address.
Tonight, however, it was fine. |
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Thats weird!
I'm glad you were able to fix it! :D Btw- have you discovered tabbed browsing yet? Tommy likes that. You can do it with IE, but you need a hack. And i don't like adding hacks. :D |
There is also this really cool feature that allows you to block images from spam servers. Right click on an image that is spam and you can see if it is from a server that specifically puts out spam. If it has a name like ads or doublclick or anything that sounds markety, then you can block that server.
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You mean a HACK as in a hacker? :wtf:
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kinda...hack as in a program that plugs itself into IE without IE's program being made for it.
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i have been converted!! does all the same as your forementioned. |
I haven't found a use for tabbed browsing.
What is the benefit? |
What are the system requirements for Firefox?
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no im not working on commission! :) |
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Or say you are reading something good, and find something else you want to read. Open it in a tab and keep it in the background until you are ready to read it. And each firefox window can have its own tabs. So you can look up info on Apollo in one window with multiple tabs. And another windo with comparisons on Starbuck in another. You don't need it. But it d=saves clutter of the tabs on the bottom of a M$ Windows screen. :) |
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http://www.mozilla.org/products/fire...uirements.html Basically if you can read this webpage, you can use it. :) Onepath, Glad you found something you like. Firefox and Opera are about equal. Its in how you like your browser. Opera is more feature laden. Firefox more customizable and smaller. Also Opera's base is more European. And Firefox is american. :) |
I can read the page but my computer still crashed when I installed it. :...:
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