Help with Firefox

[echnidna]

:( :( :( :( :(
I just lost all of my bookmarks and the links on the toolbar including a dropdown links button.
I seek suggestions from the gurus on the forum please.

[vsquizz]

Yep, can help Bob, chuck it in the Bin an go back to IE...:o sorry :(

Fireball away FireFox users:D :p

Cheers

[Daddles]

I tend to agree. Having tried Firefox over a few days, it offers nothing over IE and for the first time ever, I wound up with viruses on my computer (not from emails). I can't recommend the thing.

Richard

[Twodogs]

When you use firefox it will not automaticlly get the bookmarks from your other browsers , to get them click "File" , "Import" , then select the browser
You want to copy them from.

I have another problem , I want to use Netscape as my composer for emails
but firefox takes me to the microsoft software .
There must be somewhere to set the default but I can't find it
any clues anybody ?????

thanks
Bill

[Grunt]

Twodogs,

If you have Windows XP you can try going to the Start Menu of XP and use 'Set Program Access and Defaults'

Click on Custom and then press the little down arrow button. Have a look at the setting for Choose your default email program. Select Netscape.

I don't know if this will work or not but it's worth a shot.

[PuppyPaw]

I have been using firefox for about 6 months and just recently changed back to IE.
I know that firefox is more secure but damn it, its got more problems with it and froze on many occasions and my bookmarks and lost a dozen times...

Firefox is more secure but I'll stick with IE for now..

Oh and in firefox, I have never found a way to get them back after they are lost you just have to import them again from IE..

[craigb]

I have been using firefox for about 6 months and just recently changed back to IE.
I know that firefox is more secure but damn it, its got more problems with it and froze on many occasions and my bookmarks and lost a dozen times...

Firefox is more secure but I'll stick with IE for now..

Oh and in firefox, I have never found a way to get them back after they are lost you just have to import them again from IE..

If you like tabbed browsing and want to stick with IE, there's always SlimBrowser from Flashpeak:

http://www.flashpeak.com/

I really like the download manager in Firefox but there are a couple of things about it I find annoying.

Such as the way it insists on taking you back to the top of a page when you hit the back arrow.

[PuppyPaw]

Hey Craig
Is that tabbed browser a plugin for IE or is it another browser using the IE engine?

[craigb]

Another browser using the IE engine I believe.

It also has a pop-up blocker

[Daddles]

Personally, I'd be wary of this 'more secure' line too. Is it really? And if so, is that only because people haven't started attacking what has been up to now, relatively unpopular software?
Norton trapped two viruses in my cache while using Firefox (over two days of very heavy use via broadband - I've since done a week of equally heavy use with IE6). This has never happened to me before and hasn't happened again since going back to IE. Perhaps Firefox itself isn't the target but is letting things slip in because it doesn't co-ordinate as well with anti-virus software (in this case Norton).
Perhaps it was just dumb luck.
But I have spoken to a bloke who maintains a computer system at a local University - he didn't think Firefox had anything to offer either (and I asked about the security issue).
I'm not canning Firefox, because it seemed to work nicely, but it's not wildly better or worse than IE6. I think the answer is to choose what you prefer to play with.

Richard

[PuppyPaw]

Firefox is more secure in not having security holes that virus/trojens can exploit and such like that (I'm willing to bet its just the case of virus/trojen writers not supporting that browser, like they don't mac and linux)

it doesn't really matter what browser you use be it IE, Firefox, Opera or anything else your browser will only be as truely secure as your computer is.
Run a firewall constantly in the background (I have both hardware at the router and software on my notebook).
having anti virus software running at all times too.
Keep upto date with security patches (for any browser they all have them) use spyware removal tools limit your browsing to trustworthy sites (ie, keep away from dodgy sites that try to exploit anything and everything).

Its all actually really simple to keep your computer completly clean when you take procautions.

In the many years that I have been using computers I have gotten two viruses and a few spyware.

I don't believe that IE is more or less secure then Firefox on a properly run computer.

and if your worried about spending money on firewalls look at zone alarm and there are free anti virus software available too which are pretty good on both fronts..

Hey Craig, do you happen to know of a plugin for IE that does tabbed browsing? (I don't really need popup stoppers my firewall already does that as does the google bar)

[craigb]

No I don't, sorry.

CrazyBrowser does tabbed browsing too but like SlimBrowser it's a wrapper for IE. Of the two, I prefer SlimBrowser.

I don't like Opera because of the ads.

[PuppyPaw]

Yeah i stay away from Opera because of ads too..
I'm not about the pay for a browser when I can get perfectly good ones for free that in my opinion are on someones much better!!

[gemi_babe]

I'm not much help here echidna but I lost all my book marks too from firefox.
How? Well at one point on this particular day a box popped up while I was playing with my yahoo messenger. It asked if I was the default user or to add a new user (it was a firefox box)... I clicked the default user, but it said it was already in use.. so I made another user *roll eyes* couple of days later, playing with yahoo again, the same box popped up and I deleted the second user and carried on working with the default user and all my bookmarks where back!

So they haven't gone anywhere I hope, but are there with the default user.

Try going to the firefox forums under the bookmark section, I think its "Firefox Central" and ask them there for help...

I wont go back to IE... its such a big program for nothing!

[fxst]

but IE is auto installed with windows so it sits on your system anyhow.... :confused:
I use linux and mozilla and run a firewall just in case they decide to try virii for that too :D
Pete

[vsquizz]

Maybe FireFox "was" more secure but don't think it always will be. Its usually just a matter of time.

The Google Bar has a very good little pop-up blocker and it plugins into IE without any dramas.

Cheers

[Bob Willson]

I switched to Opera some time ago and have nothing but praise for it. It has popup blockers. site blockers and all manner of other good stuff. Try it and prepare to tell Micro$oft to get stuffed.

[gemi_babe]

IE only sits there if you don't uninstall it. :p

[craigb]

I switched to Opera some time ago and have nothing but praise for it. It has popup blockers. site blockers and all manner of other good stuff. Try it and prepare to tell Micro$oft to get stuffed.

So Bob, did you pay for it or do you run the adware version?

[PuppyPaw]

I tried Opera today... Thought I would give it another chance after the last three times I tried it and had constant crashes (I am a slow learner sometimes)
Anywho, after install I only had to wait 10 minutes for it too start up every time it crashed and burned..

Now i'm on a pretty recent notebook (less then a year top of the line sort ofthing) and even firefox loads 3 times faster then opera..

That of course was the adware version I aint paying for a browser like that..
Anywho am going back to IE perminently I just wish it was CSS/HTML/XHTML complient!!

[Bob Willson]

craigb, I'm running the full version.
It is ocassionally a little slow in starting up, but then so is IE sometimes. It runs about twice as fast as IE and doesn't suffer from all those horrible afflictions that IE has.

gemi_babe, It is NOT possible to uninstall IE. It will not let you do it.