my nephew wanted to run a script for an onling game he plays... but needed firefox to run it....

so Ive gone over to the dark side and installed it... after years of saying I prefere IE....

and.... I still do prefere IE !

but Ill give it and go and see if it grws on me


but.....  how do i make the spell checker work ?

its enabled in the options, but not working.... googling hasnt helped....

and how do i stop it opening the little windo for downloads ?  I dont want it popping up for torrents etc....  or can I set it to auto close all of the time ? that would do...



p.s. IE used 800+meg of ram most of the time.... and ff uses sub 200meg....... but IE was still faster and smoother !

You need to download and install the UK dictionary file from them. Its somewhere on this page....

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3366

Quote from: SeriousYou need to download and install the UK dictionary file from them. Its somewhere on this page....

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3366

If you gone to the right part of the site where you say UK version download it comes packaged with it as standard, but yeah, Knighty Get this form that link.

I know why you use IE as you told me, I hope Your mind can overcome all that and get settled into it. When you start using some good addons should help improve your browser experience.

Quote from: knightyand how do i stop it opening the little window for downloads ?  I dont want it popping up for torrents etc....  or can I set it to auto close all of the time ? that would do...

http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/

TBH, I use chrome, the main reason being the auto complete.

It doesnt just give a list of the things that match, it fills in the most commonly used one so all you need to do for tekforums on a new tab for example is ctrl-t, te [enter]

All other browsers Ive tried you have to hit the down cursor, which is infuriating.

Quote from: MarkTBH, I use chrome, the main reason being the auto complete.

It doesnt just give a list of the things that match, it fills in the most commonly used one so all you need to do for tekforums on a new tab for example is ctrl-t, te [enter]

All other browsers Ive tried you have to hit the down cursor, which is infuriating.

Chrome 5 Is heading to improve this further with control over what types of forms need what information. Chrome is now the 3rd biggest after firefox and IE. IE8 is finally taking off for Microsoft. Ie7 has had more drop off then IE6 though, lol. Opera bless it is dying.

Im wanting to like Chrome, Ive gone and installed it giving it another go, but its continued track record of instability is making me regret my decision. I uninstalled it last time after a couple of months because I realised it was crashing more than FF did and wasnt actually any faster.

Indeed the only thing I find myself liking about it is the start page and slightly smaller footprint. Otherwise Id be using FF right now.

If it crashes a couple more times (3 times in the last 5 minutes) itll be being uninstalled again :/

has crashed once for me in about 6 months, Im on the internet browsing at least 5 hours a day.

Namoroka works fine

I use different browsers for different stuff. IE for general browsing, FF for one site I look at lots cos the most visited is handy, Opera for loggy-in type pages cos the speed dial is dead handy.

Opera is still better than FF imo. Native paste-and-go and native mouse-gestures, and it doesnt bug you to update your widgets every bloody time you open it.

Firefox is pissing me off now. As a development browser its great, but as a day to day browser it really could learn an effing lot from Chrome.

And it crashes at least once a day for me, after the eventual grinding to a halt from flash/java of doom has set in. Ive been saying it for about a year, too much time fannying on it trying to be the first to get new shiz out and not enough true nerds at the core on the helm of bugfixes and optimisation.

awwww....

so after years of perfect running with IE... zero crashes.... everything working great.... and everyone bashing me for using it instead of firefox....

now i change over to firefox..... and everyone swaps sides !

Quote from: Clockd 0NeFirefox is pissing me off now. As a development browser its great, but as a day to day browser it really could learn an effing lot from Chrome.

And it crashes at least once a day for me, after the eventual grinding to a halt from flash/java of doom has set in. Ive been saying it for about a year, too much time fannying on it trying to be the first to get new shiz out and not enough true nerds at the core on the helm of bugfixes and optimisation.

Something wrong there though with your set up still I think. Something causing that.
Work 5 days a week with 4 guys using it with lots of tabs open all day mac and pc and I can not remember last time firefox Crashed. Good few months for anyone.

Theres nothing wrong with my setup - I uninstalled it, removed all traces of it from the system and reg entries, reinstalled it completely along with Flash and Java just to be sure and its the same. I dont install any extensions or other nonsense either.

I can have about 100 tabs open sometimes, but I know its not the quantity of tabs as it used to run fine. Perhaps its a particular set of sites with troublesome scripts/code/flash or whatever, but its not really good enough. You shouldnt need a ninja computer just to browse the web, it feels like the internet is going backwards sometimes with websites getting too bloated.

One thing for sure is, Im not the only person reporting repeated problems with it, a quick Google search shows that, always the same DLLs crashing it for people...

I had problems with a dodgy version of pro that wasnt updated, Firefox crashed regularly on it.

No problems with XP home, Windows 7 or a properly updated XP 64 pro.