Anybody using firefox?

brdmkr · July 12, 2006, 10:55:28 PM

I got sick and tired of adware popping up ruining my concentrations on the words of wisdom displayed at this great site. A friend suggested firefox as a web browser. I loaded'er up and so far, it has worked like a charm. Spybot and some beta release stuff from microsoft were unable to do a thing, but it seems that firefox may have been the fix. I still don't know how to use the cool features that I have been told about, but the browser sure seems to work well for me. 8)

stumpy · July 12, 2006, 11:16:08 PM

I've been using it for about a year and it works great

Bill · July 13, 2006, 01:31:22 AM

I've been using it for around a year. Brand X started up quicker but handled different pages way slower. Firefox starts slower but moves around real fast . 8)

Good Luck with it . . .

Tom Sawyer · July 13, 2006, 02:55:19 AM

Anybody who still uses Internet Explorer needs to download something else TODAY. Firefox is good - I use it. IE simply has too many holes for the bad stuff to get through.

asy · July 13, 2006, 03:04:58 AM

I've been using it for a couple of years now, and I just love it.

Here's a neat tip for you, if you've got a mouse with a scroll button, when you hover the mouse over a clickable link click on the scroll button (push the actual scroll wheel down), it opens a new tab in the same window, it's really neat and very handy, that way you don't lose the original page you're on, and you don't mess up your desktop with hundreds of windows.

I read a couple of forums and am usually on ebay in one capacity or anohter, so I have five windows open, one with this forum, one with my other forum, one with my blog, one with ebay and one with 'other stuff'. This way all the tabs are organised. So, In this forum, for example, I have the first tab as 'recent unread threads' and I keep refreshing that, then click the scroll button on all the ones I'm interested in reading and it opens new tabs. Then I don't miss anything.

Also, when you save bookmarks, there's a neat section called Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, if you want something that you ALWAYS use, you can save it in there, and when you next open Firefox it'll have a new line of links just under the address bar. I keep all the 'always used' ones there.

ALSO! There's another interesting thing, if you open a couple of tabs, and you always want to open with the same few tabs, go into Tools (right up the top) and click on OPTIONS, then click on 'use current pages', it'll open all the pages every time you open a new window, it's like having a few 'home pages'. Very convenient. I have mine open 'google', the forum I moderate, and today's TV programme ;)

The other thing is, if you do a lot of searching on the net, it's worth downloading the Google Toolbar, it makes it really easy if you're searching for stuff, as you can click on words and it autosearches. AND there's a built in spell check for forums (only works on fill-in-able forms, like forum posts) hehe.

asy :D

JimBuis · July 13, 2006, 07:00:31 AM

Firefox? Been using it for a couple of years now. Internet Explorer? What's that. ;D

asy · July 13, 2006, 07:14:03 AM

My brother calls it "Internut Exploder", he says it's as useful as a bag of exploding chestnuts.

asy :D

tnlogger · July 13, 2006, 11:12:46 AM

yup wouldn.t use anything else love it. i d/led the 2.0 beta yesterday and the should be out today some time. the only thing about it is aspell wont work on it yet. guess I need to do some tweeking to get it to work :D

Raphael · July 13, 2006, 12:49:11 PM

I use DOSlinks :D
Actually I haven't had the 286 on the internet since 1998.

I'm one of those people that has never used Internet explorer as it didn't even exist when I wrote my first html much less first accessed the WWW. I find Microsoft's approach to the W3C entirely too offensive to start using it now.

FireFox is definately a good choise, I've got a copy installed on this PC but tend to use Opera as I'm more familiar with it.

Tabbed browsing is great, I'll often have another window full of eBay tabs when I'm looking for a particular tool. This window always has this forum, the FF gallery, the Timber Framers Guild's ask the experts forum, and the Logosol users forum. I usually start Opera with those five tabs open.

tomboysawyer · July 13, 2006, 01:31:24 PM

In the Google search bar you can click the last choice and add searches for anything you want. Google, Wikipedia, the Weather Channel, Reuters, Dictionary.com...

Someone should write the FF search plug-in for FireFox. (FF in this sentence meaning Forestry Forum not Fire Fox) :P

dave7191 · July 14, 2006, 05:39:53 PM

i've used firefox from it's very beginings use ie only when i have to set forestry fourm up in tab book mark and it is always there at the top of the page
Dave719

sprucebunny · July 14, 2006, 05:49:47 PM

When I'm having Safari problems, I use it. Like NOW :

I'll try to get used to it. Where do I find the "tabbed browsing " thing ???

Internet exploder has caused me problems.

tnlogger · July 14, 2006, 06:08:53 PM

joan if you go to tools,options, tab browsing you can set the properties

isawlogs · July 14, 2006, 07:12:30 PM

I've been using firefox for about a year now , Explorer has gotten me to explode once too many . >:( ;D

Daren · July 14, 2006, 09:17:43 PM

I have looked at it, but I guess I need someone to tell me what the real advantage is. My IPS (a family owned/operated local phone company) provides free updates for spyware, pop up blockers, web accelerators... I have never had a pop-up. I have an automatic spyware blocker/cleaner. Maybe I am just not up to speed, but why do you need 12 windows open at one time? I have been using IE with the same ISP for 9 ? years and never had a single problem, and I spend more time online than I should. What am I missing?

asy · July 15, 2006, 12:27:57 AM

Quote from: Daren on July 14, 2006, 09:17:43 PM
Maybe I am just not up to speed, but why do you need 12 windows open at one time?

Well, that's a slow day... I have had enough open that I've jammed up the computer, on numerous occasions...

It's called being busy, and working on the computer.

When I'm working on a project it's not uncommon for me to have 10 windows open just doing that, and if I'm ebaying, that's another 10 or so... So the tabs make it MUCH easier to keep track of what I'm doing.

asy :D

Daren · July 15, 2006, 08:14:22 AM

Wow, asy. I think I figured it out, the setup I have now works for me because I can only do a couple things at a time. If I try to do too many thing I blow up/melt down/crash, not the computer. :D

asy · July 15, 2006, 09:13:28 AM

It's us sneaky wimminses again.

Multitasking.

asy :D

sawguy21 · July 15, 2006, 07:43:20 PM

I switched to Firefox because I was getting frustrated with ie's speed and the DanG popups. Like asy, I find the tabbed browser easy to use but then I have never tried to open twelve pages at once

SwampDonkey · July 15, 2006, 08:57:44 PM

Quote from: Raphael on July 13, 2006, 12:49:11 PM
I use DOSlinks :D
Actually I haven't had the 286 on the internet since 1998.

I'm one of those people that has never used Internet explorer as it didn't even exist when I wrote my first html much less first accessed the WWW. I find Microsoft's approach to the W3C entirely too offensive to start using it now.

Well now, why not try the Contiki web browser on the C64? ;D I been awaiting a PPP dialer, and then I was gonna give it a go over a 1200 baud C= modem. ;D :D It does have a TCP/IP stack if you have a shell account and a terminal program to login. ;)

http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/apps/webbrowser.html

Raphael · July 16, 2006, 12:41:55 AM

Nice... makes me wish I'd bought that C64 when I had the chance.
1200 baud... I feel your pain :'(
I've got the deluxe 2400 baud modem 8)

There was a browser in the works for the Radio Shack Color Computer running OS9 or NitrOS9.
I'll have to check back and see where it's at.

SwampDonkey · July 16, 2006, 08:08:21 AM

JeffB: cough cough (clearing throat here) ;)

' If you see something like the following in your web server logs, you know you've had a visitation from the Contiki web browser:
User-Agent: Contiki/1.0 (Commodore 64; http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki/) '

;D :D :D

tomboysawyer · July 16, 2006, 12:40:09 PM

Quote from: Daren on July 14, 2006, 09:17:43 PM
I have looked at it, but I guess I need someone to tell me what the real advantage is. My IPS (a family owned/operated local phone company) provides free updates for spyware, pop up blockers, web accelerators... I have never had a pop-up. I have an automatic spyware blocker/cleaner. Maybe I am just not up to speed, but why do you need 12 windows open at one time? I have been using IE with the same ISP for 9 ? years and never had a single problem, and I spend more time online than I should. What am I missing?

Why use something other than IE? Two words: ActiveX Controls

If you don't know what those are, then you should either educate yourself or just depend on all those downloaded programs. Nothing like having 12 programs running at once just so you have have a bissfully unaware possibly safe browsing experience with a single window of IE. Just remember, all those spyware blocks, pop-up blockers, dial hijackers, etc. only have code written *after* they find a weak point. OpenSource stuff like FireFox gets broken by the OpenSource developers all the time on purpose (called debugging) and solutions are solved by programmers around the world with good will, not profits, in mind. Microsoft doesn't have any motive to debug - only to build new. Fixed old programs don't encouraged to get people to open up their wallets.

None of your ISP's software will protect you against something you sign a EULA for and install so someone in your family can experience something in IE.

SwampDonkey · July 22, 2006, 06:34:26 PM

Just some interesting tid bits for hobbyists.

Found a PPP dialer through the C64/128 NovaTerm V10 Release 2 program. There are a couple of authors of this program and development was not 100 % complete. It was a (in)complete rewrite of the original program from V 9.x

http://www.ros.com.au/~errol/nt10.html

documents and screen to help config and get online

http://members.chello.at/wiener.freiheit/nt10help_en.htm

I have not had success configuring the inet info, it begins to load the config editor and crashes. Maybe I have some corrupt files, since I extracted the archive in Windows and burned to a Track AT Once multisession disk. Who knows. I was wanting to dial in using Novaterm and use the Contiki web browser to surf the forum. Oh well have to wait it out for a native Contiki OS PPP dialer. ;D

It is already possible the surf with the C64/128 with the WHeels OS (suped up GEOS) with the superCPU (16 bit) expansion and the Wave web browser. I think development has pretty much ended unless Maurice Randall supports it at Censible Software.

SwampDonkey · July 23, 2006, 04:38:02 PM

Not sure if anyone was aware that V 1.5.04 of Firefax was released in June. It didn't seem to come up on automatic updates. I previously had V 1.0.7 installed.

Fla._Deadheader · July 23, 2006, 07:24:23 PM

I had a guy today, clean my files, save my important stuff, FORMAT the drive, and reinstall Windows 2000. I then set up Mozilla for a browser. I STILL get popups, and trojan bombardments. Guss I will shoot this freakin computer and quit the Internet. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Sawyer · July 24, 2006, 12:20:48 AM

I got one word for you Deadheader - Mac.

SwampDonkey · July 24, 2006, 04:18:10 AM

I don't get popups in Firefox. And I don't seem to get adware either because I use a program to block those which seems to work as far as I know. The firewall in XP may be helping also.

brdmkr · July 24, 2006, 09:16:19 PM

Quote from: Tom Sawyer on July 24, 2006, 12:20:48 AM
I got one word for you Deadheader - Mac.

I am using a PC and I still have had no adware, spyware, or other popups with firefox. HOWEVER, when the time comes to get a new computer, I'll be going with a Mac. I am just too tired of Microsoft glitches and the whole world out to infect the MS products. I have considered Linux, but I just don't want to got through the trouble. So, Mac it shall be.

Quartlow · July 24, 2006, 10:49:47 PM

Quote from: Fla._Deadheader on July 23, 2006, 07:24:23 PM

I had a guy today, clean my files, save my important stuff, FORMAT the drive, and reinstall Windows 2000. I then set up Mozilla for a browser. I STILL get popups, and trojan bombardments. Guss I will shoot this freakin computer and quit the Internet. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got another word for you

ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/

If I'm figuring it out any one CAN!!!

Fla._Deadheader · July 25, 2006, 09:12:39 PM

I noticed that there is an ad.something.com that shows in the bottom address bar, before the popups hit the screen. Must have a hidden file on this computer, EH ???

ALSO, how does one remove bad stuff MANUALLY ??? I found a ton of stuff using Trend housecall. They deleted a lot, BUT, there are things that need to be deleted manually. NO instructions ????????

Tom Sawyer · July 26, 2006, 02:32:39 AM

I've considered going Linux too, but now that I have switched to Mac in the last year, I can't think of a good reason to use Linux anymore. I still might do it sometime just for fun! ;D

tnlogger · July 26, 2006, 10:17:51 AM

harold try this it's free and does a good job.asquared

Fla._Deadheader · July 26, 2006, 06:26:57 PM

Thanks Gene. I bookmarked it for now. 8)

SwampDonkey · July 28, 2006, 01:29:02 PM

On my new laptop and version 1.5 of Firefox, I've noticed it takes < 5 secs to load and a little longer to load in the homepage. That's a fresh load after a boot. You'll notice if you close and then reopen Firefox on older versions (0.x-1.0.x) it loads quicker. On my old system it was slow, but I think I had the poor thing overloaded with stuff. When I wiped the hard drive and did a fresh install of XP on it, it booted to desktop in <30 secs.

Max sawdust · July 28, 2006, 02:58:04 PM

I use IE. Not because I like it just don't know better. :

I will check out this firefox ;D
Far as bugs it is all about good hygiene :D :D
Symantec cooperate addition for anti virus
McAfee for firewall
and best of all
Xsoftspy for spyware clean up, it cleans the registry too

Knock on wood... but I never have any issues with the above hygiene regiment.

It is my opinion you need to run all three and download all updates!
Most people use a firewall and some kind of anti virus, but it seems not to many are using a anti spyware software. I encourage anyone who does not run a anti spyware to give it a try. You will be amazed at all the data miners and worse that reside on your computer ;)

Max

Onthesauk · July 28, 2006, 03:27:24 PM

Also inclined to run more then one. Have read that not all named brands catch everything. I run Ad-aware and Spybot every ten days or so.

Despite my best efforts, I've got something running in the background that I can't identify. "ShellCon Hiddenwindow" Have searched MS and Norton sites and a number of the industry publication sites but can't find any reference to it. Only appears as the machine is shutting down. Anyone have a clue?

SwampDonkey · July 28, 2006, 03:42:05 PM

I installed WinUAE (Windows version of the Ultimate Amiga Emulator) on my old laptop and there was a drawer with a file named 'AUX.library', which is not maliscious. There must be a Windows System file with the same name, because it just wouldn't let me delete it when I uninstalled WinUAE. I hate it when an OS doesn't let me do as I please. :D

Ianab · July 28, 2006, 05:02:45 PM

QuoteDespite my best efforts, I've got something running in the background that I can't identify. "ShellCon Hiddenwindow" Have searched MS and Norton sites and a number of the industry publication sites but can't find any reference to it. Only appears as the machine is shutting down. Anyone have a clue?

Do you have the MusicMatch Jukebox installed?
If so run MSconfig and remove the musicmatch startup program that autoloads... MM should still work but none of it's associated background tasks will be running. That might cure the problem

Cheers

Ian

SwampDonkey · July 28, 2006, 05:24:15 PM

Just received a notice of Firefox update 1.5.0.5 being available.

Onthesauk · July 28, 2006, 11:29:09 PM

Thanks Ian! That seems to have finally eliminated it.

Steve

tnlogger · July 29, 2006, 12:58:50 PM

I've been running 2.0 beta1 for the last few weeks and not even a hiccup. I'll be glad when alpha comes out so I can get my image zoom back

Tony · August 10, 2006, 10:16:24 PM

Hey fellows, I've got a problem...
I connected to internet and found that all my bookmarks on Firefox were gone. Also, I can't connect to Outlook Express--emails,addresses, etc. are gone also. What happened and what do I need to do to fix this problem???? Is it a virus ???
Would appreciate any help.....

Tony 8)

SwampDonkey · August 11, 2006, 05:19:20 AM

Sounds like you uninstalled an old installation of Firefox and delete all the folders, or you upgraded from IE and never (yet) imported your bookmarks into firefox. If it's an upgrade look on your C: drive for the 'Documents and Settings' folder, open the folder with your windows username labeled on it.
Open 'Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/rczx0f1h.default' folder for your bookmarks.html (around 86 kb more or less).

You need to make Firefox the default browser in order to link from Outlook. Under 'Tools/Options' select the 'general' tab and click on the checkbox to have Firefox check for default browser each time it loads, then click the 'Check now' button. ;D

Tony · August 11, 2006, 09:03:59 PM

Well, everything's back to normal today ;D ;D ;D ;D

Tony 8) 8)

SwampDonkey · November 02, 2006, 03:10:44 PM

Firefox 2 has been released and still supports Win 98. Version 3 will not have Win98 support according to the Mozilla team.

Jeff · November 02, 2006, 03:19:42 PM

I upgraded to IE 7 and I am going to REVERT. >:( It locks up all the time. Love the new tabs but its got issues as they always do

SwampDonkey · November 02, 2006, 03:22:07 PM

Nope, ain't gonna open my mouth.

Norm · November 02, 2006, 05:14:08 PM

Try the new Firefox 2.0, it's stable and has a built in spell checker. Also get the adware blocker add-on. Brett (my son) is using ie 7 and is having the same problems you are having.

pineywoods · November 02, 2006, 06:02:41 PM

Been using firefox for quite a while. I like it. No popups, no lockups, just does what it's supposed to do.. running win98se

pigman · November 02, 2006, 07:28:28 PM

I have been using firefox for a couple of months after reading this thread. I like it and it lets me see the members map without locking up this old ME computer. 8) I also like the easy spell check. The spell check does not help much when I don't know the first letter of the word I am trying to use. :

Bob

PineNut · November 02, 2006, 08:31:12 PM

Firefox is the browser I use. Have never used internet explorer on a regular basis, only when I had to for a site that would not run on firefox (or netscape before firefox.)

Tom Sawyer · November 02, 2006, 09:04:11 PM

Used to be that you needed to use IE for Windows updates. Now there is a Firefox extension that tricks the Windows update website into letting you do it from Firefox. Therefore, there is no longer a reason to use IE at all! ;D Of course if you have your computer to update Windows automatically then this is not an issue.

Quartlow · November 03, 2006, 07:25:38 AM

Quote from: Tom Sawyer on July 26, 2006, 02:32:39 AM
I've considered going Linux too, but now that I have switched to Mac in the last year, I can't think of a good reason to use Linux anymore. I still might do it sometime just for fun! ;D

I can think of a big reason,,FREE!!!

Tom Sawyer · November 05, 2006, 09:07:45 PM

Quote from: Quartlow on November 03, 2006, 07:25:38 AM
Quote from: Tom Sawyer on July 26, 2006, 02:32:39 AM
I've considered going Linux too, but now that I have switched to Mac in the last year, I can't think of a good reason to use Linux anymore. I still might do it sometime just for fun! ;D

I can think of a big reason,,FREE!!!

Yeah, but when you buy a computer it generally has an operating system on it. I just buy one with Mac OSX instead of Windows.

I actually have started playing with Ubuntu recently and someday when I have time I want to get into it a bit more. OSX looks prettier though ;D

Jeff · November 06, 2006, 02:11:24 PM

I really like the map add-on for firefox2 NICE ! Just high light an address and you get a pop up yahoo map.

dave7191 · November 09, 2006, 05:23:01 PM

I've had to go back to 1.5 on this older puter 2.0 won't let me into the forestry forum it will go to the opening page and when i try togo into the forums it sends me to google forestry forum rules I'm running win. 98

asy · November 09, 2006, 09:06:49 PM

Oooh, boss, where's that addon??? Do you have a url for the download?

asy :D

brdmkr · November 09, 2006, 10:18:53 PM

One thing I have noticed. When I play online video in the MS video player, I get popups. When I installed Firefox, I did not unistall all of the IE mess and I am still using the MS media player. Somehow the popups can come in through the media player even when the media is accessed via Firefox. I think a new media player default is in order.

Bill · November 10, 2006, 01:13:39 AM

Just downloaded firefox 2 ( for mac osx ) and so far so good. Will be installing it on a couple friends windows ( 98se and xp ) real soon - ABM ( anything but microsoft ) .

You heard this tale ( which I have no reason to believe is wrong ) -

Bill Gates wrote a payroll system for the school he was in when he was a youngin. Turns out payroll has to work every week and needs correct updates when the tax law changes. He figured out real quick he didn't like living by other people's needs/rules/deadlines but would rather make them and have others live by his - never did another program where he had to comply with spec's 'ceptin his own.

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