Firefox usage

My problem with FireFox is that when I am on my school network I have to set the proxy setting for the school. But when I am at home I have to set the settings to talk to my dialup. I kinda sucks. But maby I am just being lazy. I suppose I could just create a new user account for when I am at home...
 
kilps,
This is why Firefox is so coool: Download the Switchproxy extension. You can easily select different stored proxy settings.

EDIT: Arf thinks : Surely he would have had the same problem with IE??
 
I'm trying to get everyone in my office to use it....but our intranet uses some M$ activeX components....
 
kilps said:
My problem with FireFox is that when I am on my school network I have to set the proxy setting for the school. But when I am at home I have to set the settings to talk to my dialup. I kinda sucks. But maby I am just being lazy. I suppose I could just create a new user account for when I am at home...
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Not true. I use my laptop at the office which uses a proxy script. And use at home, without having to change any connection details, on the wireless network to surf the net.
 
Raithlin said:
Thunderbird is just what it says it is - an email/NNTP client. It isn't a huge giant that does everything - although there will be extensions soon enough that will cater for most of our wants [I remember a calendar extension for TB 0.8]..

I use TB at home for my mail and news, and FF for just about everything else http-related. Have been doing since TB 0.8, FF 0.6. No problems here...
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Besides having none of the *huge* security problems of Outlook and Outlook Express probably the best thing about Thunderbird is its spam detection features. You 'teach' it whats spam and whats not and it does a very good job of keeping your inbox clean (this is for the stuff that slips past spam assasin, etc). Then there's also the extensions and the RSS features, plus a calendar application called Sunbird which is being developed. Don't underestimate Thunderbird. Its only just had a 1.0 release and look at how far its come already.

Added: By the way has anybody used The Bat. Its a seriously cool email client. Cheap but not free, its worth looking at for a Windows mail program. I use thunderbird though.
 
arf: Why would I want to get out if I have an internet connection that puts the whole world at my fingertips? :)

Besides, it's a really cool theme - got some cool icons and such...

Okay, so I'm a geek, at least I'm a geek with a cool lookin' phone :D
 
I am running FireFox and is quire impressed, especially with the ability to open a link in a new tab instead of opening hundreds of new windows.

There are still sites where menu's and button's are not working with FireFox. That has forced me to still keep IE in the background. Hopefully that will be sorted out shortly....
 
I doubt it, unless the Firefox devs decide to start supporting VBScript - which is unlikely.

I just had something odd happen to me again: FiFo just started hogging memory for some reason. I had to restart my laptop, 'cos it was dying. It went up to like 123000 K Memory Usage.

Very odd.
 
GimmeMore said:
There are still sites where menu's and button's are not working with FireFox. That has forced me to still keep IE in the background. Hopefully that will be sorted out shortly....
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FiFo will not support VBscript, but maybe the owners of the pages will code for FiFo...so make sure you complain.
 
Well, we all know that VBscript is the spawn of satan and activeX is the very devil himself, so using firefox is almost like having holy water and a crucifix ! :D

j/k
 
Wish it was true for me

FireFLi said:
Not true. I use my laptop at the office which uses a proxy script. And use at home, without having to change any connection details, on the wireless network to surf the net.
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It could have been something wrong with my ISP - but it seemed to work when I changed them back so I will just download the proxy change script arf9999 metioned
 
I was just busy browsing the forum and realised one disapointing difference between IE and FireFox - when you hover over a thread before clicking on it to view the whole thread you hardly see any preview of what is happening in the thread (if you don't get what I mean - try it)
 
hmmm...I see what you mean.

Any propellerheads/web designers/developers able to explain? Maybe it is a setting in FiFo that can be changed?
 
It's a case of not coding for multiple browsers, as it is possible to render "tooltip" type effects in firefox.

Here's a site I designed a while back (now handed over to another web company) - check out the thumbnails of the posters in the lower section and mouse-over with mozilla.

http://www.aircraftraffle.co.za/

Note the formatting.

So, it can be done, however, obviously the guys who coded vBulletin either didn't know how, or didn't bother.
 
I'm sure rpm could change it if the license allowed that since php files are just text files. Also the vbulletin would probably include it in new releases if you sent them the patch.
 
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