OT: Firefox - Page 2

Ragnarok · #11 June 23rd, 2004, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
I have to ask....

Those using Firefox, how many were persuaded by Fyron

Not me. I was using it long before he started advertising it around here.

Roanon · #12 June 23rd, 2004, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
I have not had any java issues, but one of our sites uses popups and they don't pop. Another uses a downloaded controll that I can't duplicate for Firefox.

The popup is possibly blocked by spam control. You should get an icon in the lower right of the Firefox window indicating the blocking of a popup, clicking it and you can enable popups for the current site only. Very nice feature.
The download control might be a non-standard HTML, used only by IE. Bad web design to use it; nothing that can be done about it.

Roanon · #13 June 23rd, 2004, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
I have to ask....

Those using Firefox, how many were persuaded by Fyron

I have always been an anti-IE fan, I can't stand the spy features and the security loopholes. Used first Netscape up to the Last useable Version (4.7), then Mozilla (Firefox is the stand-alone browser of Mozilla without its email features). Just a matter of personal preference, I can also recommend Opera. I have given ap preaching against IE, whoever uses IE / Outhouse, keep using it if you feel happy with it, just don't ask me for help if you are getting spammed/virussed/trojaned/spyed/whatever.

Will · #14 June 24th, 2004, 12:52 AM

My roommate was beta testing it when it was still around Firebird 0.4 (I think that was the Version number). He got me on it soon after v.0.7, and I used it in conjunction with MyIE2 (and I had IE5.5 still lurking around for one pesky site that didn't work on Firefox or MyIE2).

Karibu · #15 June 24th, 2004, 07:23 AM

I use Firefox at home and I ain't going back to IE any more. However, one use IE has. Windows Update.

However, mouse scroll does not work on Firefox in my working computer for unknown reason.

Oh, Fyron never mentioned FireFox to me, I found it by myself, for I was fed up with all those pop ups spawning from IE...

Alneyan · #16 June 24th, 2004, 10:19 AM

I was using Mozilla since Version 0.9 (if memory serves), so I switched to Firebird/Firebox and Thunderbird almost as soon as they were available.

And no, Fyron isn't involved in neither, but merely the amount of viruses I received through Outlook

(formatting is fun and all, but...)

IE serves one single purpose: to take care of some sites which will not run for no apparent reason (read, because I didn't set up my browser correctly).

Makinus · #17 June 24th, 2004, 12:09 PM

I started using Firefox when i saw this thread, and now i�m using it nearly exclusively (i loved the middle button function), but i still keep IE for some sites that don�t work right in Firefox...

BTW: where i can send the URLs of the sites that don�t work right so the next Version of Firefox can make them work?

Thermodyne · #18 June 24th, 2004, 12:18 PM

Well if you like it now, try these code mods.

First, type "about

fig" in the address bar. Then adjust or add these settings.

1.) network.http.pipelining (set to true)
2.) network.http.pipelining.firstrequest (set to true)
3.) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (set to a high number like 20)
4.) network.http.proxy.pipelining (set to true)
5.) nglayout.ititialpaint.delay (set to number 0)

Any keys/strings that do not exist should be added.

Thermodyne · #19 June 24th, 2004, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Roanon:

quote:
Originally posted by Thermodyne:
I have not had any java issues, but one of our sites uses popups and they don't pop. Another uses a downloaded controll that I can't duplicate for Firefox.

The popup is possibly blocked by spam control. You should get an icon in the lower right of the Firefox window indicating the blocking of a popup, clicking it and you can enable popups for the current site only. Very nice feature.
The download control might be a non-standard HTML, used only by IE. Bad web design to use it; nothing that can be done about it.

It uses a couple of dl�d controls and checks a secondary certificate before sending the popup. I haven�t looked at it hard enough to tell where it hangs. We have to make some arcane setting in IE to get it to function, so it could be the same with Firefox.

Ragnarok · #20 June 24th, 2004, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Well if you like it now, try these code mods.
1.) network.http.pipelining (set to true)
2.) network.http.pipelining.firstrequest (set to true)
3.) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (set to a high number like 20)
4.) network.http.proxy.pipelining (set to true)
5.) nglayout.ititialpaint.delay (set to number 0)

Any keys/strings that do not exist should be added.

I went ahead and changed these on mine to see if there is a difference but what exactly do they do?