Mozilla Firefox: what a chuffin' great browser!

[EastEnder]

FireFox is the mutts nutts. Keep finding extra features that rock - particularly like the way you can highlight a line of text, right click it and do a google search directly on it. Very nice.

But one things annoying me - the 'Alert me whenever I'm about to view an encrypted page' popup. Even if you don't check the 'do this everytime' box, it still bloody does it every time!

Anyone know how to make it permanently stop showing the alert boxes?

 

[easy g]

some features you may have missed...from the firefox forums

 

[DG55]

With the popup blocker, I think there should be a way of blocking certain sites, not just excluding sites. I'd like to allow popups incase they arent spam.

 

[laptop]

I'd like to allow popups incase they arent spam.

But that'd be horrible. Users would end up having more of their attention stolen by popups, deciding whether to block them case-by-case.

You can always file a request at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ to see what response you get there, though...

 

[DG55]

Well perhaps so, although its nice to have the choice.

 

[bmd]

With the popup blocker, I think there should be a way of blocking certain sites, not just excluding sites. I'd like to allow popups incase they arent spam.

You can allow any site you choose the ability to use pop-ups when you're browsing them, go to the tools menu > options > web features > then click the 'allow sites' button opposite the 'block popup windows' tick box and away you go.

 

[Structaural]

some features you may have missed...from the firefox forums

'tip: holding down the ctrl key and scrolling the wheelmouse will increase or decrease text size.'

nice.

 

[DG55]

I've got a small problem with firefox on my old machine. Its a strange thing, the icons at the top (refresh, back, forward, home, etc) when in their 'off state' (e.g. cant press them) have like a ghosting of 'File' written on them like it appears above it on the menu.
I've tried changing themes but it seems to be a universal problem.
Heres a pic -

 

[fractionMan]

Try using a different theme, goto tools->themes and download a new one. It may well fix the probelm. I like plastikfox myself.

 

[DG55]

I've already tried that. Tried plastikfox, graymodern, blah blah, its not a skin issue.

 

[fractionMan]

Have you got the latest version?

 

[bluestreak]

i love firefox i really do. 's great....

 

[DG55]

Yep latest version. I have it on this winxp system and its fine, the other system, winxp, it has the error.

 

[laptop]

Yep latest version. I have it on this winxp system and its fine, the other system, winxp, it has the error.

Have you tried comparing the browser.chrome settings in the two installations by entering about:config in the address bar?

I can think of more complicated "forensics", but installing it again (even if precisely the same version) is so quick (with bband) that I'd recommend doing that first...

 

[stdPikachu]

I can think of more complicated "forensics", but installing it again (even if precisely the same version) is so quick (with bband) that I'd recommend doing that first...

Reinstalling might not delete the profile info... you'd prolly be better off just deleting the profile directory anyway (although that way you'll lose any saved passwords, cookies, per-user extensions, etc)

 

[easy g]

found this on the firefox forums...might help?

 

[Structaural]

Does anyone know a way of storing webpages as is (like the scrapbook function in IE on the mac)?
ie. to view previously stored page I wouldn't have to log on - just use cached information.

I'm on dial up at the mo' and it would help.

I'm using firefox on XP

cheers
Booty

 

[laptop]

Does anyone know a way of storing webpages as is (like the scrapbook function in IE on the mac)?
ie. to view previously stored page I wouldn't have to log on - just use cached information.

Have you investigated (a) File | Work offline and (b) File | save As > Type: Web page, complete?

I haven't, but I assumed that's what they're supposed to do...

 

[stdPikachu]

Is this for long-term usage, or just a temporary thing for when you're on the train?

If it's a temporary thing, then setting your browser cache to something huge and then using the "work offline" function is what you're after. If you want an archival copy of the site, you can use an app like HTTrack to mirror the whole website (or selected parts of it) to your hard drive.

 

[Structaural]

Thanks for help guys. The 'work offline' function seems to be what I'm looking for...

cheers.

 

[laptop]

New release 1.0.1 out, fixes loads of bugs including the non-Roman-character flaw in the domain name system.