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Malop



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:40 am    Post subject: Firefox 2.0 Reply with quote

Not quite the right place, but since this is a techie forum I thought I'd post it here.

I can't recommend Firefox 2.0 enough. Installed the final release version from Mozilla last night and it's great.

Not only do you get tabbed browsing, but when typing in a form (like a post on this forum) it does a spell check and underlines misspelt words in red Idea as you type.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We had an IT woman in yesterday doing some training on some new software we're using, or will be once we get our heads around it, and she slated Firefox. Only when used with the stuff we're going to be used (creates HTML files for reports etc) and apparently the two won't marry up.

So we're stuck with Explorer I fear... maybe Microsoft got to her... Shocked
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just got it this morning, some nice new features and personally i think a better looking basic skin. The spell check is pretty handy but to be quite honest i think most people use it now just to get away from damned IE
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drizzt, I suspect you're going to be using an asp.net application with SQL reporting services tagged on. In which case Firefox is not good at handling it.

Hardly surprising when asp.net is a Microsoft development tooled aimed specifically at IE 6 browsers. It doesn't always run so well in IE 5 either.

So it's not Firefox's fault really, just MS using browser specific code in their development language.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh I know - we have at least half the office using Firefox who'll now have to switch over to Explorer in order to use the reports. You should have heard the reaction from our IT Engineers. After a few minutes they were inventing bad language.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you tried IE tab add-on for Firefox? I use it for all my asp.net stuff and it works fine apart from when some types of popups are used.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nah we've been told to use IE and live with the shame. Rolling Eyes

Doesn't make much difference really, just means we'll be able to track which sites people have been going onto again... Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have IE (the vista version with tabbed browsing) and the new firefox, I still use firefox, it is just better than IE in my opinion, I don't like having everything microsoft on my laptop/pc, which is why i recently installed linux, btw, has anyone got any experience with linux, cause I'm having some problems...
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ry,

PM me the problem. For my sins I'm a UNIX/LINUX admin as well
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I gave up on Firefox after it appeared to find my PC not to its liking. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why doesn't it surprise me it didn't like your pc
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Malop have you had any trouble since you doundloaded 2.0?

i have had a lot more problems with MSN and email since i installed it.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Manty,

No major problems. Although downloading IE 7 and Firefox 2 on the same day probably wasn't a good idea in hindsight.

Firefox shouldn't mess with MSN too much but you will always have problems with asp.net applications in anything other than IE.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also use Firefox, for the main reason that everyone else seems to use it, to spite Microsoft. The revolution is coming. I envisage a time when everything software wise will pretty much be open-source and in my opinion, it will be a golden age, a modern renaissance, a time of human interaction, progression and evolution.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*rolls eyes* That'll be the day...
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