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I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted
Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Thanks. Ron |
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wrote in message oups.com... I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Thanks. Ron http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq -- D Remove shoes to E-mail. |
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wrote in message oups.com... I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Thanks. Ron We have both Firefox and IE on all four computers. All are set with IE being the default browser. So far so good, no problems. For some sites I prefer Firefox and for some IE seems to work better. We haven't tried the Mozilla email program. Possibly someone else can give you a heads up on it. |
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I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted
Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Firefox is pretty good, although for general browsing I still use an older Opera 7.x as my default (wasn`t keen on the update to 8.x) As far as having several browsers, it doesn`t cause a problem, but for the majority of sites i`d suggest using something other than IE, and only if the site refuses to work as it should, fall back to IE. Then send a complaint to the website telling them to right standards compliant code ;-) Can`t help with the mail side i`m afraid, as I use one called TheBat! which is about as secure as you can get. Firefox has some nice plugins that make it a little more "opera alike" - mouse gestures is a definite one to track down - it makes general browsing so much easier - you can right click and nudge the mouse left or right to navigate forwards or back through pages you`ve visited, and you`ll miss it like crazy if you have to use IE ! -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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Irene,
I have both IE and FireFox. You need to keep (as far as I know) to access the Windows Update site. I use FireFox for everything else. I also use Thunderbird. All my Outlook info imported into Thunderbird without any problem. The same is true of importing all your Favorites from IE into FireFox's bookmarks. I'm using Thunderbird as my newsreader, no problem. Now I must also say that I've never really had a problem with IE or Outlook, they're just more under attack by hackers and such. Paul Irene wrote: wrote in message oups.com... I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Thanks. Ron We have both Firefox and IE on all four computers. All are set with IE being the default browser. So far so good, no problems. For some sites I prefer Firefox and for some IE seems to work better. We haven't tried the Mozilla email program. Possibly someone else can give you a heads up on it. |
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Paul Schilter wrote:
Irene, I have both IE and FireFox. You need to keep (as far as I know) to access the Windows Update site. I use FireFox for everything else. I also use Thunderbird. All my Outlook info imported into Thunderbird without any problem. The same is true of importing all your Favorites from IE into FireFox's bookmarks. I'm using Thunderbird as my newsreader, no problem. Now I must also say that I've never really had a problem with IE or Outlook, they're just more under attack by hackers and such. Paul I also do use Firefox and Thunderbird Firefox, I have no real problems with even though there are some sites that do not run well or even at all with Firefox. Windows Update, puretracks.com, pcpitstop.com and launch.com to name a few. I have used Firefox for awhile. I did not like the original Firefox and used the original Mozilla. I still have the original Mozilla on my computer as I use it's Composer program to edit my website. Thunderbird, I do like and was surprised that it imported all my messages from OE. Eudora, Pegasus and any other email program always crashed during the import. There is a a couple of problems I have. 1. I like to have my threads in the newsgroups threaded (All posted responses are in the same thread.) OE did this automatically. Thunderbird only does it in one newsgroup after you tell it to, so you have to do it for every newsgroup you are in and when you do it, it expands all of the messages. The option to collapse the thread is in the view option menu) 2. Sorting of newsgroups. Unless you subscribe to the newsgroup in the order you want, (ie alphabetical) you have to go into the Thunderbird folder to edit the listing. .. I only use OE now for checking hotmail |
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I use Firefox as my default and IE for updates. Seems to work pretty well
for most sites. Launch.com is one that does not work. I kept Outlook Express for e-mail as I like the way it is set up but will eventually switch over to Mozilla's e-mail too. I've had no problems with trojans since I started using Firefox. Highly recommended! Andy wrote in message oups.com... I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Thanks. Ron |
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I use Firefox except when required by the MS Update web site and a few other web
sites which have bought into Microsoft's perversions of www standards. I like the tabbed browsing of Firefox... Ben Myers On 26 Jun 2005 14:52:56 -0700, wrote: I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions? Can you run both Firefox AND IE? How would you set the default? How does the email client work? Thanks. Ron |
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YES! The "tab browsing" is really nice. The browser if a bit faster too.
I have IE still installed but Firefox is set as my default browser. I do have the IEview/open extension but haven't needed it yet. I do have one problem and I'm sure there's a fix for it but I haven't investigated it yet. When I right click on a picture while browsing with Firefox, choose Copy and try to paste it into an OE message, it doesn't work. I can right click/Copy the same pix with IE and it works. Anyone happen to know what I need to do? Monica ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... I use Firefox except when required by the MS Update web site and a few other web sites which have bought into Microsoft's perversions of www standards. I like the tabbed browsing of Firefox... Ben Myers |
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