IE to Mozilla

JohnStuart_2

Yorkie1 wrote: »

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.

IE 9 and 10 are good version, i use Firefox and IE, chrome is the worst browser i have ever used.

ptrichardson

Yorkie1 wrote: »

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.

Put it this way, who's fault is it that your favourites are all screwed up? IE.

Stick with Firefox - its miles better.