Mozilla Firefox

Tao81

sra wrote: »

If you're getting firefox you really must get the ieview extension.

All it does is put a little option in the right-click menu so that when a page won't work right, you can right-click and select "View this page in IE"

It's a tiny extension that does a tiny thing but it makes using firefox painless because you can move so quickly over to Internet Explorere when things don't work

where do I find this extenstion have searched firefox extensions for ieview and it says it cannot be found?!

Conor_3

http://ieview.mozdev.org/installation.html

You'll need to add mozdev.org to the list of allowed sites to install from. You'll see a notification pop up when you try to install it and can enter the site there.

My favourite extensions..

Add Bookmark Here 2
Paste'n'Go
IE View
Mouse Gestures.
British Dictionary
Gmail Notifier

Tao81

You lot are amazing......How do you manage to post so quickly.
Think I've found ie view and downloaded it, thanks Conor, but it's greyed out on the toolbar, not tried using it yet!
Firefox seems very complex. How best can an idiot like me quickly learn to use the most useful bits and generally learn my way around? As there's plenty of stuff on my screen, icons, msgs and stuff, that I simply don't understand!:eek:

Reluctant_spender

Have a look at this - http://lists.thedatalist.com/pages/Firefox.htm

It's a list of plugins for Firefox with a short description

Conor_3

Tao81 wrote: »

Firefox seems very complex. How best can an idiot like me quickly learn to use the most useful bits and generally learn my way around? As there's plenty of stuff on my screen, icons, msgs and stuff, that I simply don't understand!:eek:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq

Millionaire

Firefox is highly recommended. I use it myself.

First thing you want to do is go to "tools" then "options" and set it up to work the way you want it.

Go throught the sub menus and select or deselct how you want it to work. then you can start playing around with add-ons etc

Stubert

Anybody else wanna recommend any other good scripts?

I like Greasemonkey quite a lot myself, you had to add add-ons to the add-on to utilise it. But its really good as you can do simple stuff as changing colours on websites or one this one music website I use on the artist description it adds a myspace and last fm player which is really useful.

Tao81

Can anyone explain why mozilla is slow on my machine? It's much slower than IE?!
Could it be that I am using it with windows 98?

Is there a way to find out how fast your machine is? I have a feeling there is, I just can't remember how to find it!

Could there be anything within firefox I have/have not got set which could be slowing things down?

Processor is AMD-K6 3D (not sure what speed it is)
128 RAM
58% Resources Free
Windows 98

Thanks

sra

Firefox seems to vary from computer to computer.
On my current PC it's much faster than IE but I have seen it slower on other computers I have installed it on.

If you google "firefox faster" you'll find hundreds of suggestions and guides.

Or you could go with -

Firetune - Seperate application that'll tweak your Firefox.
or
Fasterfox - Extension you install within Firefox - but I think some of the settings can sometimes do more harm than good. (eg Do you really want Firefox using bandwidth and resources prefetching pages on the off chance you might decided to click on them)

Doesn't hurt to experiment tho

spud17

Tao81

I have a second PC with the same processor (500mhz BTW), WIN98se and Firefox.

I find that although Firefox takes longer to load than IE, once up and running it is faster.

One difference is that I have 320mbRAM and Firefox is a known resource hog as seen in your figure of 58% resources free. Mine is probably around 90% free.

The other thing to check is, I'm guessing here, and no offence intended, the PC is a bit old and could have several unnecessary and forgotten about programs running in the background using valuable resources.

So, a spring clean of no longer needed programs could speed up things.