Seeing Stars

[Longboarder]

OK Stu, I'm now running Firefox and reading this page. It doesn't look any different. The snow is snowing. I can see the page. If this comes up I can post. Nice to have this spell checked as I type. Almost worth it just for that feature alone. Strange that the dictionary doesn't like the word firefox!

I don't get it. It works fine. IE7 works fine. What do you do with firefox that you can't do with IE7?

 

Nigel

 

The only difference is it's snowing a bit heavier in firefox.

[Guest timswait]

The only difference is it's snowing a bit heavier in firefox.

Isn't that enough?

Another advantage is there's fewer viruses, malware etc for Firefox, largely because fewer people use Firefox so not so many hackers bother making viruses to exploit it's loopholes.

Nigel: Your broadband problem sounds a bit like an intermittent one my parents get. Could you PM me the fix for it so I can forward it onto them?

Tim

[Guest Nishka]

Is it just me or does anyone else find it bl**dy annoying?

 

Just a thought!

 

Humbug and all that.

 

Nishka

[Longboarder]

Tim, the instructions for resetting the frequency of the modem are I think specific to the modem I have from Blueyonder. Scientific Atlanta Webstar DPX 100/110. Presumably all modems can have their frequencies adjusted. If your folks have a webstar modem then no problem. Can you check.

It has certainly more than doubled my download speed.

 

Nigel

[Guest stu205]

What do you do with firefox that you can't do with IE7?

 

as Tim says but it also uses allot less of your pc's resources and if you go onto https://addons.mozilla.org/ there are thousands of additional plugins that you can add and different skins, Id recommend adblock plus stops allsorts of crap! All in all its allot more user friendly than Bills version

[Guest paulh]

What did you do to make the snow stop? It's sending me cross-eyed!!

[Guest Ian & Carole]

Miserable lot

 

Make it snow heavier Matt

 

Ian J

[Mat-Moo]

You can get IESpell for IE to check spelling etc.

[Guest erichetherington]

Are we sure it wan't the wrong type of snow on the lines that caused last nights problems?

[Mat-Moo]

He He, that made me laugh, the Waterloo line was shut down because of "Dust on the platform"!

[Guest erichetherington]

Is that this palladium dust? Or was it the kind of stuff from my student days (Only ever heard talk of it -honest Mr Enforcer SIR)

[Guest timswait]

More likely Polonium dust, the way things are going in London!

[Guest chris n's missus]

i like the snowflakes as background on the title headers and the father christmas hat on the rhocar community logo too. i love christmas and can't wait for the big day

[Guest Nishka]

Bah Humbug!!!

[Guest ScotMac]

IE has been playing catchup w/ FF (and Opera now) for quite some time. FF was first to have pop-up blocking, tabbing, extensions, skins, ... combined w/ a the fact that it is a l/w, streamlined, fast, no-nonsense browser.

 

Nigel, try the tabbed browsing. It really adds to the browsing experience. IE just added it w/ v7, after FF has had it for many years.

 

Anyway, the discussion has become somewhat "religious" at this point....kinda like emacs vs. vi...w/ everyone having their own pet/favorite browser, for personal reasons....all i can say is DEATH TO MICROSOFT!!!