I used to be a huge Netscape fan..

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:02 am

Some may even remember that I used to post tweaks for Netscape.

It just kind of fell behind what IE could do so I quit using it. The last 6 months or so, I've tried Mozilla and others but didn't think they were enough for me to quit IE..

After using Mozilla's Firefox, for the last couple of weeks, I've changed my mind. There are a few things this doesn't work will with, like the logon page for putting up news here, but for the most part, I love it.

The extensions are something else also......BugMeNot rocks...No more filling out forums for news sites...

Thanks for your attention and that's all, folks..

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:06 am

downhill wrote:Some may even remember that I used to post tweaks for Netscape.

It just kind of fell behind what IE could do so I quit using it. The last 6 months or so, I've tried Mozilla and others but didn't think they were enough for me to quit IE..

After using Mozilla's Firefox, for the last couple of weeks, I've changed my mind. There are a few things this doesn't work will with, like the logon page for putting up news here, but for the most part, I love it.

The extensions are something else also......BugMeNot rocks...No more filling out forums for news sites...

Thanks for your attention and that's all, folks..

1st step to recovery

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:16 am

I use FF as my primary browser and love it.
I would be lost without the functionality certain extensions add.
DH, check these out

http://dictionarysearch.mozdev.org/dictionaries.html
Can be configed to search encyclopedia's and other references

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

Other's I enjoy are, Adblock, flashblock, IE view (to view incompatible pages with IE), nuke anything, Ook (adds options to context menu) and compact menu to name a few.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:23 am

Cypher_138 wrote:I use FF as my primary browser and love it.
I would be lost without the functionality certain extensions add.
DH, check these out

http://dictionarysearch.mozdev.org/dictionaries.html
Can be configed to search encyclopedia's and other references

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

Other's I enjoy are, Adblock, flashblock, IE view (to view incompatible pages with IE), nuke anything, Ook (adds options to context menu) and compact menu to name a few.

Dude, you rock!! I wiz lurking for a sperll checkar!!! Thes fitz the bil.

donhill

Greenies on the way....If I don't have to spread the love..

mccoffee · Post by **mccoffee** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:31 am

sorry dh didn't know what else to say

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:36 am

[quote="mccoffee"]sorry dh didn't know what else to say ]

Nothing to be sorry about. Heck I appreciate sarcasm.......Although I'd be out of character if I were to use it, myself.....

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:53 am

Anytime man.

Check out the unoffical FAQs
Coffee has been meaning to switch too I think. Chrome edit is another good one.

Here are some great extension links

http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/

http://update.mozilla.org/

After you get chrome edit go to tools>Edit user files>User.js and paste this in there for a nice boost

user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 10);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 10);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 10);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 360);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 100);
user_pref("network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout", 60);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 30);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.connect.timeout", 30);
// Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages:
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
// Put an end to blinking text!
user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false);

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:11 am

[quote="Cypher_138"]Anytime man.

Check out the unoffical FAQs
C
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true)]

I'll be darned if some of them aren't the same for the older Netscape....In fact some of them are the tweaks I used to post.....

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:25 am

LOL

Well you know that Moz is the open sourced verion of Netscape in it's hayday, before the whole AOL fiasco.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:12 am

Ya firefox is damn good!

Banshee · Post by **Banshee** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:34 am

I made the IE --> FireFox switch a couple months ago

loving it, especially tabbed browsing and AdBlock

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:42 am

I'm still trying with Firefox.....just enough sites I need to visit on a daily basis that won't work correctly, makes me wonder why keep trying.

I used to love Nutscrape until somewhere a shortly after version 4.6...when they moved to that simply horriblel Gekko engine (or however they spelled it). Ugh if that wasn't the buggiest thing I'd ever seen.

minir · Post by **minir** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:14 am

Hi Cypher

Thanks for the Links. I'd been looking for a Spell checker without luck. Now i can use Firefox more often as i was lost without my Speel Cheker

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regards

minir

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:04 am

Im with ya DH. There was a time when Netscape was where it was at. Sadly that time has passed.

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:45 am

Geez Downhill, next thing you know you're going to tell us that you bought a Mac.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:35 am

ghost wrote:Geez Downhill, next thing you know you're going to tell us that you bought a Mac.

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:56 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I'm still trying with Firefox.....just enough sites I need to visit on a daily basis that won't work correctly, makes me wonder why keep trying.

I used to love Nutscrape until somewhere a shortly after version 4.6...when they moved to that simply horriblel Gekko engine (or however they spelled it). Ugh if that wasn't the buggiest thing I'd ever seen.

What sites? Examples please.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:16 am

So far, as I stated above, only the add news for this site is a problem. The gui has a few tools that don't load.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:43 pm

[quote="UOD"]What sites? Examples please.
]

Outlook Web Access for one...I hit that may times a day.

Recently tried to get an insurance company client of mine to try it, since it's an office that does a LOT of online work, filling out forms via secure online sites. Hideous looking.

And there's some stuff on this here forum, or any VB forum, that just don't work right.

A large percentage of them didn't work in FF or Mozilla, you couldn't try them youself as you'd have to log in to the secure site.

Just, on the average, I'd say nearly 1 out of 10 sites don't work correctly.

Yeah yeah I know, it's the developers fault for not making them 100% compatible, or for making them optimized for IE. But that's not my fault or my problem...the issue is, a large number of sites just don't work correctly. I try to roll clients over to FF or Zilla...make it their default browser...and guaranteed in a few days they'll be calling me "This doesn't work right!"

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:21 pm

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:56 pm

My resources get sucked up if I use firefox for a while. Winamp will start stuttering.

Cypher · Post by **Cypher** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:24 pm

minir wrote:Hi Cypher

Thanks for the Links. I'd been looking for a Spell checker without luck. Now i can use Firefox more often as i was lost without my Speel Cheker

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regards

minir

Well I owe one for IE spell and all the laughs.

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:08 pm

Hi to all

Anyone know how to make " Create Shortcut " work with Firefox???

I must be missing something as i cannot for the life of me figure it out.

Thanks in Advance, much appreciated.

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regards

minir

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:22 pm

Hmmm... it would be nice if someone could write a Firefox tweaking editorial. I don't have the time to do it, but would be a nice content addition for this site.

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:45 pm

SeedOfChaos wrote:Hmmm... it would be nice if someone could write a Firefox tweaking editorial. I don't have the time to do it, but would be a nice content addition for this site.

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Hi Ronald

I'll second that motion.

Thanks and Have a Good one Seed.

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regards

minir

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:50 pm

Me Again

I found that Pikes Extensions has an extension for " Create Shortcut " but the Site for Pikes is down.

Would anyone have that Extension that they could perhaps Post?

Pike's Mozilla Firefox Extensions'Create Shortcut'

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regards

minir

jdblitz · Post by **jdblitz** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:19 pm

after reading this thread, I decided to try FF.

I already checked the help and I can't figure out how to make it tab new pages instead of opening a new browser (which is the primary function that made me think to try FF).

Please and Thank You for the help!

JD

**EDIT**
Ok, I just learned I have to control+click all of the links I want to tab.

Is there any way to make this the default setting? to tab all new window links?

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:52 pm

[quote="UOD"]What sites? Examples please.
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Sites that are coded using proprietary IE tags or ASP code that uses broswer hooks.

Piss poor developers is the short answer.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:53 pm

Oops - didn't catch your edit

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:03 pm

Here ya go - http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#tabprefs

jdblitz wrote:after reading this thread, I decided to try FF.

I already checked the help and I can't figure out how to make it tab new pages instead of opening a new browser (which is the primary function that made me think to try FF).

Please and Thank You for the help!

JD

**EDIT**
Ok, I just learned I have to control+click all of the links I want to tab.

Is there any way to make this the default setting? to tab all new window links?

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:36 pm

I prefer the "Tabbrowser Extensions", two further down. As many options as you could ever wish for, really. Gotta love open-source projects!

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