Mozilla vs IE question

[Terri Knoll]

for the last couple of years I have been using firefox browser with no problems. I love the add ons (especially the sidebar for my word games) but lately within a month or so, firefox won't load Naznet right. It works on every other website I visit the same as always, but when Naznet loads, the pic of GA at the top is missing, and the manage attachments buttons is missing on the post a new thread. I have IE7 because of updates and use it now for Naznet. It has some pretty cool features too. Everything works right on Naznet with IE but not with Mozilla...

any ideas why?

[Mark Bolerjack]

I switched back to IE this week after several months on Firefox. I downloaded and installed the new version (2.0.0.3?), but everytime I opened the browser a message popped up asking if I wanted to install the new version. I got tired of closing out message after message.

[Terri Knoll]

I switched back to IE this week after several months on Firefox. I downloaded and installed the new version (2.0.0.3?), but everytime I opened the browser a message popped up asking if I wanted to install the new version. I got tired of closing out message after message.

now see last time I did the windows update, when I opened my media, avast told me I had 2 viruses, and deleted them. I am wary because of what I have read about viruses in IE, so don't use IE for anything but Naznet, cuz I want to post pictures. I haven't done a defrag since I got the laptop, might be time to do that? I haven't gotten the messages you talk about from mozilla...and I so love the sidebar. one of the word games I play www.playbabble.com has a hint page that I open in a sidebar when I can't find the words on my own and it is so great NOT to have to keep switching tabs or windows etc to see the clues. come to think of it, my probs loading naznet in firefox came about the time I downloaded the sidebar...wonder if that could have something to do with it? I look forward to reading others experiences...sorry yours were so bad with Mozilla.

blessings,
Terri

[Adam Spriggs]

Don't give up too early on Firefox.

Terri: I would start disabling your extensions one at a time and refresh Naznet after each one you disable. I exclusively use Firefox and have no problem on Naznet. If you must have IE, then I suggest IETab (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1419), which will let you flag a website to open in with an IE "engine" inside of Firefox.

Mark: There's an upgrade bug (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updates_reported_when_running_newest_version) that's been written up about this issue. I'd try one of those fixes.

[Bob Wright]

I returned to IE after they came out with version 7. I like the anti-phishing and I have been using a privacy add-on called "Caller ID for Internet." It rates and evaluates sites and also gives the name and street address of the owner of the site. They have come a long way. I used Firefox almost exclusively for years. Infact, I had an extension for Firefox that would open certain sites in IE even though the default browser was Firefox.

[Adam Spriggs]

Some of the same anti-phishing tools are built in the Google Toolbar for Firefox -- if you use that.

[Terri Knoll]

so far so good. I opened my extension manager and noticed an update needed for my session manager. I updated that and restarted and now Naznet is working right. How simple is that lol!:fav18

[Jerry Frank]

I use Eudora for email. It has had anti-phishing for at least a couple of years. If I hover over a fictitious web link, it shows the real location.

Unfortunately Eudora is no longer being updated / supported. It has gone open-source and some are trying to bring it into the Firefox fold. Not sure how that is progressing.

Jerry

[Carsten Schermuly]

anti phishing is a free service by Netcraft too - Google toolbar is working with Netcraft software.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/01/01/about_netcraft.html

[Gina Stevenson]

Well, over in the "Browser Woes" thread I went into detail re weird things that have been happening since "updating" Firefox (sadly).

Don't really want to switch to MSIE unless they've added tabs, such as Firefox has, rather than everything having to be in a new window.

Since someone mentioned Eudora---which I never got working on this computer, tho' I'd been using it on the old relic---might as well ask now re how well Thunderbird works (part of Firefox, right?), since I've tried it, but not gotten it going, either. Probably didn't configure some things right (like notation re POP or other mail types).

Thanks!

[Carsten Schermuly]

Well, over in the "Browser Woes" thread I went into detail re weird things that have been happening since "updating" Firefox (sadly).

Don't really want to switch to MSIE unless they've added tabs, such as Firefox has, rather than everything having to be in a new window.
FireFox is the best - because highest security.
FireFox is an internet (or another net like intranet) browser to browse internet pages.

Since someone mentioned Eudora---which I never got working on this computer, tho' I'd been using it on the old relic---might as well ask now re how well Thunderbird works (part of Firefox, right?), since I've tried it, but not gotten it going, either. Probably didn't configure some things right (like notation re POP or other mail types).

Thanks!
Thunderbird is a good choice. It is not part of FireFox - both are independent to another.

The mystery are five points
1 - an account name (Username, screenname, nickname or your real names)
2 - your eMailaddress
3 - is your eMailservice offering the protocol IMAP or is you eMailservice offering the protocols SMTP and POP3? (in most cases it is SMTP / POP3)
4 - the SMTP - address of your eMailservice
5 - the POP3 - address of your eMailservice

If you like it, we can go through this five points - and do install in common your Thunderbird.

No matter how long it will last - in end you will like it to read / write offline - on your computer at home (and work easily with copies of eMails and eMailcontents) and must no more open your eMailservices webpages in your browser. I guess from that will come the wrong imagination, Thunderbird were part of FireFox - because in the past you had always to run FireFox if you like to get or send eMails.

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I forgot one

6 - a password - regularily you can choose your own password. But it is also thinkable, you have to use a password, given by your eMailservice.