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- MarleysGh0st
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Firefox
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!
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!
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Re: Firefox
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!
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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.
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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Trying to find the post that goes with this avatar.ulysses5019 wrote:I can see right through you.ulysses5019 wrote:Was I talkin' to you?MarleysGh0st wrote: I'm a gh0st. What other colors do you expect?
This ain't it.
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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Thanks!ulysses5019 wrote:Good luck.SportsFan68 wrote:Trying to find the post that goes with this avatar.
This ain't it.
Got it.
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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I actually thought it was the post about the cheesy fries.ulysses5019 wrote:You did? So you know that it's a fox that caught on fire.SportsFan68 wrote:Thanks!ulysses5019 wrote: Good luck.
Got it.
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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There we go -- Annie will set us straight on these things.AnnieCamaro wrote:I believe you are correct, Miss Sports. Mr. Uly is a jokey guy.SportsFan68 wrote:
I actually thought it was the post about the cheesy fries.
/:P\
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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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.
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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I downloaded Firefox 3, but one of my favorite extensions (Dog Ears) didn't work, so I went back to Firefox 2.MarleysGh0st wrote:Yep. 3.0.1.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.
I started using Firefox for sweepstakes and now I use it for all things.
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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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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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