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neilk

Joined: 24 Nov 2004
Posts: 241

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 04 11:14 am Post subject: Firefox search plugins
I've only recently started using firefox, but have really got into the customisable search box at the top. If you extract and copy these files into the firefox searchplugins folder (probably C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins) and restart firefox, it should load the new search. There's a basic search of these forums and one for the BBC recipe database. Neil

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 04 11:52 am Post subject:
Neil, Do you find that not all your normal pages will open with firefox, or that just me. I have found some, like this one are very fast, but others do not open at all.

jema
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 04 11:59 am Post subject:
I find a very small percentage with a Firefox issue jema

culpepper

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 638
Location: Kent

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 04 3:24 pm Post subject:
sometimes the pop ups are blocked (you get a cross at the top of the page) if you click on the cross you can view the popup. I have opera on mine as a backup browser so if something is not working with firefox,it usually will with opera. I refuse to use IE as it is so vulnerable to virus's

alison
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 04 7:31 pm Post subject:
Are these generally faster to load. Since I've downloaded firefox I now can't get about 6 sites at all on firefox or IE I can't get ebay, hotmail, Harrypotter, to name three!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 04 10:12 am Post subject:
ebay came up straight away in firefox for me Alison. Any ideas anyone?

sean
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 04 10:59 am Post subject:
I use Hotmail, which comes up fine. 'Snot some weird AOL thing is it?

alison
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 04 11:57 am Post subject:
Proberbly. I have 5 months more of my years contract with them, but the price I pay is good. What other broad band do others use, and how much do you pay. I can get these sites on AOL browser, but not firefox or ie.

sean
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 04 12:05 pm Post subject:
We use BT/Yahoo. It's about �20/month. That's with a 1MB connection and unlimited downloads. If you already have the broadband modem then I think it's cheaper. As far as I can see, all the suppliers make their pricing structure as comples as possible, just to make comparisons difficult.

jema
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 04 12:22 pm Post subject:
We are paying �19.,99 with NTL for a 750kbs connection. I gather they will upgrade this to 2mbs soon. jema

sean
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 04 12:25 pm Post subject:
No cable in Devon . But there compensations

culpepper

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Kent

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 04 1:10 pm Post subject:

alison wrote:

Are these generally faster to load.

Since I've downloaded firefox I now can't get about 6 sites at all on firefox or IE

I can't get ebay, hotmail, Harrypotter, to name three!

Some sites need flash player installed to work
Harry potter does (my daughter is mad on HP)
Some sites need you to allow cookies
some use java script
You can enable cookies in tools/options in firefox and you can download flash player (just google for it)

alison
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 05 5:17 pm Post subject:
Thanks for that. I am not at home at the moment, but I will have a look at all the settings when I get back.

jema
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 05 5:53 pm Post subject:
One tip for Firefox, is that you really need to be on 1.00. I only realised a few days ago, that I was on 1.00 (preview) jema

alison
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 05 8:01 pm Post subject:
Is that still free?

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