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Michael Saint
Photographer


Alexis Texas is always lovely
1062 Posts
2/01
Posted - May 9 2006 : 3:11AM
Okay I love Firefox but apparently I am missing something when running it on my MAC I just don't know what.

Sites like Hotmail (yes I know it is a windows site) and MySpace come out all screwed up. Buttons misaligned images not there etc.

At first I thought it was a MAC thing and then I opened those same sites in Safari and they worked fine.

Anyone know of some extension or something I may be missing to make this happen?

jamesnadt
Deactivated User

cambridge, ma
152 Posts
2/06
Posted - May 10 2006 : 12:13AM
lee, myspace is just a layout nightmare period. i'd blame myspace before your browser.
Michael Saint
Photographer

Alexis Texas is always lovely
1062 Posts
2/01
Posted - May 10 2006 : 11:05AM
james,

True and I swore I would never join that site but wanted to contact someone who posts there so I did (Profile is blank though).

Searched for almost 5 hours through the Firefox forum yesterday and finally came up with a download that seemed to have fixed my problem. Apparently it had something to do with MS and other sites using "slashes" in there picture addresses. I don't pretend to understand it but I installed it and everything seems to work fine now.

JAGnLA All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

people pay me NOT to get naked
1944 Posts
2/04
Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 11:34PM
I'm resurrecting this because I am a total doofus who understands very little about most of this. I have, however, had my fill of IE and am thinking of making the change. So, my questions are:

- is it a complicated transition? What is involved exactly?
- Will I lose things that need to be saved, etc? What about my bookmarks?
- After DLing FireFox and installing it, can I eradicate IE from my 'puter and is this complicated?
- any hints, suggestions, etc. you can give me would be greatly appreciated as always.

CG_Gurl80
Member

Sexy Bitches
486 Posts
1/05
Posted - Jul 13 2006 : 11:51PM
Hey Jag, good to see you making the switch. Believe me, you'll be glad you did. I've turned many friends and family into Firefox converts and none of them have looked back since.

The transition is seamless, go here and download Mozilla Firefox then install it.

Firefox comes with an Import Wizard to transfer your bookmarks, go hereand follow the very easy instructions.

It's more secure and has a lot of flexibility. With all the extensions and customizable features, you'll find firefox to be a huge improvement over IE. Plus, the learning curve is minimal, so you'll be surfing your porn in no time. Enjoy!

 
JAGnLA All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

people pay me NOT to get naked
1944 Posts
2/04
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 12:56AM
Hey there CG!

Yep! Got it done...trying to decide what I want to do with IE. As much of a pain as its been, I hate the fact that its even taking space up on my 'puter!

I'm not even going to ask about your avatar!

JAGnLA All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

people pay me NOT to get naked
1944 Posts
2/04
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 1:29AM
So is there any valid reason for NOT deleting IE totally or not?
CG_Gurl80
Member

Sexy Bitches
486 Posts
1/05
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 1:49AM
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Edited by - cg_gurl80 on 7/14/2006 12:42:34 PM

CG_Gurl80
Member

Sexy Bitches
486 Posts
1/05
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 1:54AM
According to this article , there is. It's probably best to leave IE alone and just delete the icons. I saw someone try to delete IE from a computer once and it ended up being a hassle and very annoying problems surfaced shortly thereafter.
croy
Platinum Member

Discovry
4574 Posts
3/04
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 4:29AM
JAGnLA All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

people pay me NOT to get naked
1944 Posts
2/04
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 7:38AM
Wow, croy , you read my mind...I was wondering about extensions! I'm going to give that thread a thorough reading, thanks! So far all is well. Funnily enough, the pages I view even seem to look sharper , as if I had bought a new monitor or something!

I have noticed one glitch, however, and predictably it was while browsing MySpace :

Whever I go to comment on a friend's blog-entry, I cannot access the "edit box" to leave a comment. My cursor just will not appear within the box to type any text. I noticed that there is a check-box available for these situations, but if checked one must manually format all the html as opposed to the normal "rich text" availability.

Is there a plug-in that I am missing or what?

JAGnLA All-Star Supporter
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1944 Posts
2/04
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 7:39AM
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Edited by - jagnla on 7/14/2006 11:02:39 AM

budtugley
Senior Member

One man's trash can be the next man's treasure.
1187 Posts
1/04
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 12:57PM
IE runs Active X programs that Mozilla Firefox can't handle. I use Firefox 100% of the time but my daughter plays some games on the net that Firefox can't but IE can.
That's the only advantage for IE.
K
Smitten Kitten

Cloud 9
530 Posts
2/06
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 2:33PM
I vaguely remember seeing that problem once with FireFox myself.
IIRC, on that site, you could hit <TAB> until the cursor appeared in the entry field. Might work here too.
Hardware All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

Your other left
14594 Posts
3/02
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 3:43PM
It's probably a case of "won't" handle, seeing as how ActiveX is so vulnerable to hacks.
 
Harri Patel
Senior Member

#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele
5110 Posts
3/03
Posted - Jul 14 2006 : 4:41PM
Once in a great while, you do run across a site that just doesn't work right in Firefox, so it's good to have IE available just in case.

I like the Adblock extension, with the companion Adblock Filterset.G Updater (occasionally, it may block content you're trying to view, in which case you just right-click on the "Adblock" text on the lower-right corner of the browser window and tell it to "whitelist" the page, or the whole site), and the Tab Mix Plus extension to set up the tabbed browsing the way I like it. I used to use the Mouse Gestures one, but I've kind of gotten away from it.

oatmeal
Meat Popsicle

Seeking Beauty
1738 Posts
8/04
Posted - Jul 15 2006 : 9:39AM
Windows Update, Microsoft Update and Office Update rely on IE as well. Change your IE homepage to about:blank just to be safe.

IE7 Beta works well from what I've seen. But it still won't stop people from clicking before reading and other safe-surfing practices.

Lee, your page display problems could be font size related too. Just something else to try.

Edited by - Oatmeal on 7/15/2006 9:40:02 AM

jrv
Senior Member

1266 Posts
2/03
Posted - Jul 17 2006 : 2:57AM
The FireFox extension IE Tab (http://ietab.mozdev.org/) deals with this.
Often the website is broken. Many websites detect the browser type and different HTML to different browsers. It used to be fairly common to find websites that sent broken HTML to FireFox and Opera - Opera had to fake being IE to get working web pages sent.
Jeff @ IAFD All-Star Supporter
Webmaster IAFD.COM

931 Posts
6/00
Posted - Jul 17 2006 : 11:40AM
Keep IE. Don't try to remove it.

You can use the &quotProgram Access and Defaults" applet in Windows (probably on your start menu in XP) to tell Windows to only use Firefox when browsing the web.

Then, get the "Open Link in IE" extension to Firefox so you can look at the occasional site (Empire's VOD service, for example) that only works in IE.

As far as Mac users go, I've heard very good things from friends about OmniWeb (info/review)

Edited by - Jeff @ IAFD on 7/17/2006 11:44:02 AM

Edited by - Jeff @ IAFD on 7/17/2006 11:44:23 AM

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