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#1 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:28 am

I've been having ongoing problems with my home PC; either Windows tells me it found and repaired a corrupted file during power-up or some other random program suddenly has a fatal error. I suspect one of my programs (maybe ZoneAlarm or AVG Anti-Virus) is behaving badly. I don't think it's malware.

Anyway, since it was Internet Explorer's turn to start crashing every time I tried opening a thread this morning, I tried installing Firefox this morning. It installed without a hitch, successfully copied over all my IE bookmarks and appears to be working great!

Any other Firefox users want to mention particular features about this program I should be aware of? I already see, from typing this post, that it has a nifty spellchecker! 8)

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#2 Post by goongas » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:43 am

The main advantage of Firefox over IE is the extensions you can use with it. One extension I use is called Foxmarks, which allows instant synchronization of your bookmarks on each machine you install the extension. Firefox supposedly is also faster than IE.

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#3 Post by kayrharris » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:08 am

What Eric said. I only use IE for a few programs that won't run on Firefox. I forget which one it is that I run into on occasion, but it's rare.

I love the Firefox extensions and you can tailor it to what you want to use.
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Re: Firefox

#4 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:17 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:I've been having ongoing problems with my home PC; either Windows tells me it found and repaired a corrupted file during power-up or some other random program suddenly has a fatal error. I suspect one of my programs (maybe ZoneAlarm or AVG Anti-Virus) is behaving badly. I don't think it's malware.

Anyway, since it was Internet Explorer's turn to start crashing every time I tried opening a thread this morning, I tried installing Firefox this morning. It installed without a hitch, successfully copied over all my IE bookmarks and appears to be working great!

Any other Firefox users want to mention particular features about this program I should be aware of? I already see, from typing this post, that it has a nifty spellchecker! 8)

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#5 Post by mrkelley23 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:56 am

Firefox is Da Bomb, officially. I can't think of an IE function that isn't duplicated, usually better, in FF.

Did you get FF3? I haven't DLed it yet, because when I initially tried, all the servers were too busy with other geeks trying to DL it at the same time.
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#6 Post by peacock2121 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:02 am

Maybe you need a different color computer.

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#7 Post by kayrharris » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:03 am

I downloaded FF 3 last week without any problems.
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#8 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:06 am

peacock2121 wrote:Maybe you need a different color computer.

Maybe we need to see your avatar in color.
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#9 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:20 am

mrkelley23 wrote:Did you get FF3? I haven't DLed it yet, because when I initially tried, all the servers were too busy with other geeks trying to DL it at the same time.
Yep. 3.0.1. 8)

Firefox just set a record for most number of downloads in one day when they released this version, didn't they? :)

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#10 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:21 am

ulysses5019 wrote: Maybe we need to see your avatar in color.
I'm a gh0st. What other colors do you expect? :P

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#11 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:28 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote: Maybe we need to see your avatar in color.
I'm a gh0st. What other colors do you expect? :P
Was I talkin' to you?
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#12 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:29 am

ulysses5019 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote: Maybe we need to see your avatar in color.
I'm a gh0st. What other colors do you expect? :P
Was I talkin' to you?
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#13 Post by SportsFan68 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:56 am

ulysses5019 wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: I'm a gh0st. What other colors do you expect? :P
Was I talkin' to you?
I can see right through you.
Trying to find the post that goes with this avatar.

This ain't it.
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#14 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:58 am

SportsFan68 wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote: Was I talkin' to you?
I can see right through you.
Trying to find the post that goes with this avatar.

This ain't it.
Good luck.
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#15 Post by SportsFan68 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:05 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:Trying to find the post that goes with this avatar.

This ain't it.
Good luck.
Thanks!

Got it. :D
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#16 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:08 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:Trying to find the post that goes with this avatar.

This ain't it.
Good luck.
Thanks!

Got it. :D
You did? So you know that it's a fox that caught on fire.
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#17 Post by SportsFan68 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:10 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:
ulysses5019 wrote: Good luck.
Thanks!

Got it. :D
You did? So you know that it's a fox that caught on fire.
I actually thought it was the post about the cheesy fries.
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#18 Post by AnnieCamaro » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:14 pm

SportsFan68 wrote:
I actually thought it was the post about the cheesy fries.
I believe you are correct, Miss Sports. Mr. Uly is a jokey guy.

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#19 Post by SportsFan68 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:16 pm

AnnieCamaro wrote:
SportsFan68 wrote:
I actually thought it was the post about the cheesy fries.
I believe you are correct, Miss Sports. Mr. Uly is a jokey guy.

/:P\
There we go -- Annie will set us straight on these things.

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#20 Post by lilyvonschtupp26 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:02 pm

I use Firefox too. I read that the reason it's faster is that it pre-caches the top few hits on a Google search, so it's already loaded the top few which are usually the ones people want.

I use Delicious i/o the Firefox synching. i find it's handier and I can tag my bookmarks to search them.
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#21 Post by secondchance » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:31 pm

Can any of you tech-savvy gods help me catch that GSN stuff???
pretty please with sugar on top...

And Uly, - your avatar - what's with the hairy warthog in a beanie? lol

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#22 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:35 pm

Second Chance wrote:Can any of you tech-savvy gods help me catch that GSN stuff???
pretty please with sugar on top...

And Uly, - your avatar - what's with the hairy warthog in a beanie? lol

That ain't no warthog......that's a squogre!
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#23 Post by MrJokeyGuy » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:57 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
Second Chance wrote:Can any of you tech-savvy gods help me catch that GSN stuff???
pretty please with sugar on top...

And Uly, - your avatar - what's with the hairy warthog in a beanie? lol

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#24 Post by takinover » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:02 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote:Did you get FF3? I haven't DLed it yet, because when I initially tried, all the servers were too busy with other geeks trying to DL it at the same time.
Yep. 3.0.1. 8)
I downloaded Firefox 3, but one of my favorite extensions (Dog Ears) didn't work, so I went back to Firefox 2.

I started using Firefox for sweepstakes and now I use it for all things.
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#25 Post by littlebeast13 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:40 pm

When I was having some kind of spyware/malware problems 2 years ago, I downloaded it one Wednesday night and gave it a whirl for a few minutes before I went to bed. It was weird, but I figured I'd get used to it....

I never got the chance. When I woke up the next morning, the hard drive blew to kingdom come. Never bothered to download it on the new computer I got.....

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