June Perry on mon 30 oct 06
I've been using Firefox along with Windows Explorer. I have found that there
are times when AOL won't open a site, or won't load some site information; but
Firefox will.
Sounds like the reverse is true at other times, which is probably why it's a
good idea to have both browsers installed.
Firefox was created by a 15 year old and he keeps improving it.
I like the way Explorer for AOL let's you drag and drop favorite places from
one spot to another. Wish the regular Explorer and Firefox would do the same!
Yesterday, Idownloaded the latest, safer, Explorer and it majorly messed up
my desktop. After about a hour of computer hell, I finally got the desktop
back to normal! :-(
Regards,
June
http://www.angelfire.com/art2/shambhalapottery/
Timothy Joko-Veltman on mon 30 oct 06
On 10/30/06, June Perry wrote:
> Firefox was created by a 15 year old and he keeps improving it.
But, being an open source project, anyone can contribute (even you or
me), and thousands of of people have and continue to do so.
> I like the way Explorer for AOL let's you drag and drop favorite places from
> one spot to another. Wish the regular Explorer and Firefox would do the same!
If you mean from one folder to another (i've never used the AOL
browser, but I believe it's based on a relative of Firefox, the
Mozilla suite), then you probably can in both ... using the
bookmarks/favourites manager.
> Yesterday, Idownloaded the latest, safer, Explorer and it majorly messed up
> my desktop. After about a hour of computer hell, I finally got the desktop
> back to normal! :-(
>
I hear your pain. I got so sick of that sort of bull, that I switched
to Linux a couple years ago.
Tim
Maurice Weitman on mon 30 oct 06
At 08:31 -0500 on 10/30/06, ShambhalaPottery@aol.com wrote:
>Firefox was created by a 15 year old and he keeps improving it.
Uhhh... nice story but Mozilla Foundation (mozilla.org) and Mozilla Corporation
(mozilla.com), two of the organizations behind Firefox (having their
roots in Netscape) might have something to do with it.
There are literally hundreds, likely thousands involved in developing
and maintaining Firefox.
And for those who are thinking about using it now, it should be fine,
but a bit rough in the early days. It was JUST released last week,
and they claim that over two million folks are using it.
Well, maybe, and even though Mozilla and Firefox are very, very good
about releasing easily-installed updates to fix bugs and security
issues, you might want to struggle through with your current browser
for another week or two to let the "early adopters" enjoy the first
round of post-beta testing.
It seems quite stable, but I've seen many reports of issues that need
to be, and I'm sure will soon be resolved fairly quickly.
But each browser has its issues, including some pages/sites that will
render well or poorly. Sometimes it's the browser's fault, often
it's the non-standard code that sites use.
As a new browser or version begins to be used, web page developers
and those who write software to develop web pages make adjustments to
problems that arise.
It's usually a sound practice to wait a few weeks to get the biggest
problems dealt with.
Regards,
Maurice
Amanda Blum - Howling Zoe Productions on mon 30 oct 06
The newest VERSION of firefox has been out a few weeks. Firefox? Few years.
It represents a ridiculously large portion of the browsing public these days
because it leaves a small footprint on your system (gads smaller than
safari, IE or AOL), has no EOLAS issues (been noticing sites with flash not
looking so hot these days in IE? They lost a big lawsuit and can't use flash
correctly if you're using IE7) and has a zillion ad ons.
And those who have firefox, all got notifications that the update was out,
and thus its entirely likely that 2 million are using it. (of all browsers,
approx 55% use a form of IE (only about 5 have IE7) and almost 30% use
Firefox.
That said, there's a lot of talk about the 2.0 developments in firefox, and
you are likely better downloading a former version instead. You can find it
here:
http://oldversion.com/program.php?n=firefox
At 08:31 -0500 on 10/30/06, ShambhalaPottery@aol.com wrote:
>Firefox was created by a 15 year old and he keeps improving it.
Uhhh... nice story but Mozilla Foundation (mozilla.org) and Mozilla
Corporation
(mozilla.com), two of the organizations behind Firefox (having their
roots in Netscape) might have something to do with it.
There are literally hundreds, likely thousands involved in developing
and maintaining Firefox.
And for those who are thinking about using it now, it should be fine,
but a bit rough in the early days. It was JUST released last week,
and they claim that over two million folks are using it.
Well, maybe, and even though Mozilla and Firefox are very, very good
about releasing easily-installed updates to fix bugs and security
issues, you might want to struggle through with your current browser
for another week or two to let the "early adopters" enjoy the first
round of post-beta testing.
It seems quite stable, but I've seen many reports of issues that need
to be, and I'm sure will soon be resolved fairly quickly.
But each browser has its issues, including some pages/sites that will
render well or poorly. Sometimes it's the browser's fault, often
it's the non-standard code that sites use.
As a new browser or version begins to be used, web page developers
and those who write software to develop web pages make adjustments to
problems that arise.
It's usually a sound practice to wait a few weeks to get the biggest
problems dealt with.
Regards,
Maurice
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