OT: Spread Firefox

Fyron · #1 October 1st, 2004, 06:17 PM

Time to ditch that huge wasteland of exploits and holes running on your computer and get a browser that will not infest your PC with viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, malicious advertisements, etc., etc., etc. That's right, I am talking about Internet Exploder. It is time to leave that sinking ship behind and move to a better browser.

Get Firefox

Firefox is rather feature-laden and highly customizable as well, not to mention standards-compliant, which Internet Exploder has never managed to be.

A small number of features are listed below, taken from the official Firefox web site.

Popup Blocking
Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with Firefox's built in popup blocker.

Tabbed Browsing
View more than one web page in a single window with this time saving feature. Open links in the background so that they're ready for viewing when you're ready to read them. Find out more...

Privacy and Security
Built with your security in mind, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keep your Online activity your business.

Captain Kwok · #2 October 1st, 2004, 08:54 PM

Are they paying you now? [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon41.gif[/img]

Colonel · #3 October 1st, 2004, 09:05 PM

LOL Firefox is good Firefox is good

I have 0.93 Version its good

Captain Kwok · #4 October 1st, 2004, 09:09 PM

Hmm. Even you website is forcing these firefox ads on me. It even takes up a whole place and the font, must be what, 10 point?

Colonel · #5 October 1st, 2004, 10:30 PM

Hey Fyron do you know what the newest (free) Version of firefox is?? ie better then 0.93

Baron Munchausen · #6 October 2nd, 2004, 02:05 PM

The latest Firefox is the 1.0 'Preview Release' which is what they used to call a 'release candidate' -- i.e. a final beta which might be confirmed as 1.0 if no serious bugs turn up. If there are problems they fix them and release another 'almost final' Version.

It's a good idea to go with the very latest because a lot of security fixes have been made to both Firefox and the Mozilla suite lately. Just got Mozilla 1.7.3 Last week which fixes several security holes. As more people use Mozilla/Firefox these security fixes will be more important because more hackers will be targetting these browsers.

dumbluck · #7 October 3rd, 2004, 02:03 PM

I will take back what I said before. It's a pretty nice program. After the initial crash and denuncation, I gave it another try with much better results.

Grandpa Kim · #8 October 3rd, 2004, 02:31 PM

Why I hate installing new software.

So I install Firefox. One of the first things I do then is try to call up my email client. In all its wisdom, Firefox calls up Outlook Express. I have never used that client and never intend to! Naturally I cannot find a way to get it to call Netscape Messenger. In modern computer parlance, this is called "user friendly".

Fyron, any idea how I can get it to call up my email client and not this default client?

Fyron · #9 October 3rd, 2004, 03:08 PM

Is Netscape Messenger the system default mail client?

Aiken · #10 October 3rd, 2004, 03:21 PM

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Grandpa Kim said:
Why I hate installing new software.

So I install Firefox. One of the first things I do then is try to call up my email client. In all its wisdom, Firefox calls up Outlook Express. I have never used that client and never intend to! Naturally I cannot find a way to get it to call Netscape Messenger. In modern computer parlance, this is called "user friendly".

Fyron, any idea how I can get it to call up my email client and not this default client?

Type in firefox address bar: "about

fig" (without quotes). Enter.

Locate string "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto". It's set to "false" by default. Set it to true (double click on the string - type "true").

Close FF. Launch Messenger, and set this mail client as default one.

Should work, although I don't guarantee.