If you are using it just click on the red dot in the upper right corner of your screen.
If you would like to enjoy the advantages of the Firefox browse just go here for the free download.
The Chief Lizard Wrangler announce yesterday that they are aiming for 10% market share by the end of 2005. Let’s hope they speak true. Firefox is a great browser, and I hope to be able to convince more people of its advantages.
I keep hearing about Firefox, but I’m using IE. Should I switch? Why?
I have one big problem with Firefox, sites that have intro pages with sound, such as my own site, then the images play no problem, but the sound does not.
Am i missing a setting somewehere, or is lack of sound standard
Tabbed browsing is great, also there are some cool plugins.
Give it a try, what do you have to lose?
Tabbed browsing is great, also there are some cool plugins.
Give it a try, what do you have to lose?[/quote]
Popups man, you lose all those cool popups. Plus, how are you going to keep your computer properly installed with all that spyware?
ADAware keeps my computer sparkling clean.
And doesn’t a popup blocker also block alot of things that you don’t want blocked? Like Forumosa IM alerts and other legit popup-links?
You can allow pop ups from certain websites.
You can configure the popup blocker to allow popups from certain sites, if you really want them.
And be aware that AdAware doesn’t always catch everything 
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Anyway, you don’t have to “switch” to Firefox right away, just try it and see if you like it. Chances are that after a week you won’t even think about using IE anymore… 
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What I like about it is:
- tabbed browsing (middle-click on a link opens the link in a new tab)
- integrated web search (with Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, IMDB etc.)
- tons of extensions - like Adblock (to block the most atrocious and intrusive ads on some sites), a spellchecker (wokrs relly grate), proxy switcher, webpage translation (with Altavista), etc.
I wouldn’t go back to IE.
I wouldn’t go back to IE either. but keep your IE there coz you gonna need it for some IE only sites or when you bump into garbaged site. Firefox is not as intelligible as IE whe it comes to auto encoding, at least to my experienc.e.
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Just to mention a Firefox feature I use a lot -
holding the Ctrl button and then moving the scroll wheel up/down on yr mouse -
You can increase or decrease the text/size of the page you are viewing.
Very good for to lessen strain on tired eyes,
[quote=“TainanCowboy”]holding the Ctrl button and then moving the scroll wheel up/down on yr mouse -
You can increase or decrease the text/size of the page you are viewing.[/quote]
Every now and then you can hit a post gem. This is at least one fix for my new 19" It likes to be on 1280 x 1024 and some pages I just could not see with tiny text. Now fixed. Thanks TC.
Internet is faster and easier with Firefox.
Ctrl scroll and F11 combined with tab browsing is great.
Ctrl T to open new tabs. Open say 4 tabs. I have yahoo mail, google, Kfog.com radio (for 80’s,90’s music), forumosa and flickr.
Save them as the start up page then open Firefox and its all tabbed across the top everytime you start your browser with your sites ready to go.
Cowboy
[quote]holding the Ctrl button and then moving the scroll wheel up/down on yr mouse -
You can increase or decrease the text/size of the page you are viewing.
Very good for to lessen strain on tired eyes,[/quote]
Hey, brilliant tip! No more squinting at the monitor.
Any more little gems? 
We’re up to 1.0.6 now. Maybe it’s time to change the title of this thread?
I get the sound. Do you have a page in particular to show as an example?
Here’s some of the things I like about Firefox:
Tabbed browsing: I click the mouse wheel on a link and it opens and sits on a tab in the background - the page I am looking at stays there.
No adware or popups (which are easy to turn on if you want them to.
Extensions I’ve installed (easy to do):
Foxytunes - a little control panel for my music which sits unobtrusively down the bootom.
Gmail notifier - also down on that bottom bar.
The weather - 5 day weather forecast on the bottom bar.
Image toolbar - single click on an image and it’s saved.
IE View - for those few pages that only work in IE, I select ‘View this in IE and it opens IE up to that page’.
Translate - Translates the page I’m on
Googlebar - I type a search in the google bar and then hit the icon for normal search, image search or dictionary search and it does the search and puts it in a tab in the background, not interrupting the page I’m on.
There’s literally hundreds of other extensions you can get, depending on your needs. FF is so customizable. Gte rid of allt he buttons you don’t need, freeing up toolbar space for other useful stuff.
Brian
[quote=“Bu Lai En”]There’s literally hundreds of other extensions you can get, depending on your needs. FF is so customizable. Gte rid of allt he buttons you don’t need, freeing up toolbar space for other useful stuff.
Brian[/quote]
Is spell check something you can add in. I’ll have a mosy around.
I searched and dug this up rather than start a new thread.
Firefox is brilliant. The tabs, the magnification, the start up with all tabs up alread. The speed. All amazing.
I just installed 1.0.6 on my office computer but can’t get it to run propoerly, or rather show web sites, I always get a message saying:
FF copied all settings from IE when I installed it, I double-checked and they’re all o.k., i.e. same as in IE, but the latter works while FF doesn’t - what’s the problem??
Update: corporate IntraNet works, InterNet doesn’t …
silly q - did you x-out of all open windows and reboot?
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