IE to Mozilla

Yorkie1

Have been on IE8 for years; don't like IE9 and haven't tried IE10. But IE8 has become increasingly eccentric of late, and yesterday the screen just went black - no cursor or anything.

I shut the computer down with the on/off button, and restarted it. Luckily it started OK but IE wouldn't open properly - the window appeared but IE wouldn't load. I just got the dialog box with the option to close IE, which you clicked but the window stayed open and the little circle going round on the spot!

So I've downloaded Mozilla to try instead. I've got a couple of problems I hope you can help with:

1. Only half of my IE favourites were imported into Mozilla (those starting with a letter up to and including L). There is a fix by saving the IE favourites into an html file, apparently, but that requires me to open IE first. Which I can't do!

Are my IE favourites already stored somewhere else in my computer? Or are my options either to uninstall IE8 / install IE9or10, or to go without?

2. For years I've used the keyboard shortcut Alt+S to post messages on forums. I'm pretty sure I've used it since starting up Mozilla, both on here and on other forums.

However, I've clearly now hit some combination of keys which means that when I use Alt+S it launches the menu toolbar, history tab. This is really frustrating.

Does anyone know how to reverse what I've done?

I've also noticed that I'm typing in what looks like Times New Roman on this box on MSE - this has just changed since the Alt+S debacle too.

Hoping someone can help, please.

debitcardmayhem

Alt and S is for hiStory on my firefox(on linux) I will fire up windoze and check.....

Edit: yep same on windoze too

scheming_gypsy

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Are my IE favourites already stored somewhere else in my computer? Or are my options either to uninstall IE8 / install IE9or10, or to go without?

Windows 7?

c:\users\username\favourites. They'll all be in there as shorcuts

debitcardmayhem

Favourites are saved in C:\Users\yourname\favorites

debitcardmayhem

In firefox goto Bookmarks/Show all bookmarks then import/export and import from another browser

Yorkie1

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

In firefox goto Bookmarks/Show all bookmarks then import/export and import from another browser

Thanks, that's what I did when Mozilla set itself up but will give it another go.

Yorkie1

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Alt and S is for hiStory on my firefox(on linux) I will fire up windoze and check.....

Edit: yep same on windoze too

That's really weird - I've been using it as the shortcut to post forum messages for absolutely years. It's a right pain to have to navigate down to the 'Submit Reply' or 'Quick Post' button underneath the typing box. :mad:

Yorkie1

Well I've now got more favourites than I asked for, which I think is progress, thanks!

Still don't understand what's suddenly happened mid-browse to change my keyboard shortcut, and to make the font in this typing box to look like TNR though. The wonders (not) of technology!

Edit: just dropped in on another forum. Was able to use Alt+S to make a post. Went back into the post to edit it, and it launched the toolbar when I tried the same to save it. Aaargh.

ptrichardson

Since you're in "finally escaped IE" mode (and well done for that - you won't regret it), I would suggest giving Chrome a good try instead.

I also started with Firefox, but some friends got me to try Chrome, and within a week I would never go back.

Yorkie1

I know it's a silly reason, but I really don't want to use Chrome as a matter of principle. It feels as though Google is trying to get us to use it by stealth by including it as a download on so many other programmes - with the untick boxes very easy to miss - and I don't like such corporate behaviour.

I've had a nightmare trying to get the other half of my favourites from IE using the users folder. I tried to import an html shortcut to one into Mozilla, and ended up with over 100 sub-links from that page, which I then had to delete individually from the drop-down menu because they didn't appear as individual links in the window.

As IE 8 won't load at all, I've had to install IE 10 so that I can try to import them from there as html, and to be honest I'm tempted to stay with what I know. I can't work out what I'm doing wrong and I've spent hours on it so far.

GunJack

try Opera (with a nice skin/theme) and you'll never go back