The extension specs have been changing, things go haywire and you have to clean up before upgrading (yes, you did upgrade from a previous release, I can tell.) Uninstall Firefox, delete your profile, and reinstall. It will work fine. Read the release notes next time;)
Cleanup: Backup your bookmarks, and download the Firefox install binaries if you don't have them. Go to C:/Documents and Settings/[your_login_name_on_bootup]/Application Data and delete both the Phoenix and Firefox directories. Then reinstall.
I certainly don't have time to figure out which files to edit to disable them myself.
Me neither, I'm too busy screwing around reading Slashdot:P
Sorry you ran into a problem, but your experience doesn't extrapolate to the entire world. We're clean. IE is fine.
Hmm.
I'm sorry, but I don't think the real world boils down to IT dictatorships and their pet cubicle drones. And unless you are using high security settings, software antivirus and/or spyware protection, the odds are highly against your machines being clean.
And no, IE is not just fine and dandy, in more ways than just the security. Depending on it is silly. If you can think of all else being the same, the Mozillas are much more flexable and cross platform.
I imagine that is why there is a plethora of professional closed-source Windows freeware out there, with all the fancy professional "Easy To Use ONE CLICK Software!" (emphasis not added) - from entities that only produce or distribute freeware programs.
The virii that come out of those are mostly yet-to-be detected, I'm sure...
ATTENTION WIN XP USERS: Windows XP will not allow you to access 16-bit screen savers (which make up about 2/3 of all the screen savers out there, including many of your classic favorites.) To get around this, you need to use a screen saver utility like Screen Control, which allows you to access ALL your 16-bit and 32-bit savers with simple one-click access from your system tray. Try a FREE DOWNLOAD today.
Poe-tay-toe Poe-tah-toe. Now that I think about it, it would be nice if we had a unit of storage that doesn't sound like another word, a phrase, or a slang term.
byte = bite
kilobyte = killer bite
megabyte = mega bite
gigabyte = jig 'o BYET (cessna)
terrabyte = tear a bite
Perhaps we should be evil and push for something like the "cockbyte".
*20 whats?
+Cockbytes
*Hey now, what are you mad about?
+What? I got 20 cockbytes, I'm pretty happy.
*Oww, that sounds painful - err...are you high or something?
+Huh? No. Anyway, all I need now is a couple cocks of ram, I'll go down Cox's . I feel like a cock getting all that ram from Cox's at such a quick, low overhead. Although some of the things I grab are best left behind... Hopefully I'll come back up to my throat in cocks. Although, I love seeing new stuff coming up...as soon as my equipment gets up, I'll be behind on cocks, and need a quick ram... Hey where you goin...?
*[Boldly, Brave Sir Robin, runs away, runs away...]
I guess it's because most of us have never had an IE related infection or problem.
You mean, you've never noticed an infection or a problem? I guess you have some high quality spyware there.;)
Some spyware out there is pretty slick. Theres this one that I ran into not too long ago, rund.exe or wind.exe or somethin like that, that intercepted the Firefox installer and crashed it. You can't shut down the spyware, it just clones itself. And you wouldn't notice it unless you tried installing Firefox. Of course, Joe Sixpack would have blamed it on it being a crappy installer or something.
These exploits are very narrow and you have to be visting a website run by an asshat
Or a server infected by a worm, or a ad banner server infected by a worm, or an ad banner server run by an asshat...(and since marketing people are asshats, be they well-meaning or not, you do the math).
If Micorsoft kept getting large amounts of bad press every time it announced a new exploit it would try even harder to hide the flaws instead of releasing a fix.
And that is a bad thing? The recent hubbub has helped even my dad and my boss, two hard core Microsoft and IE fans, use another browser. After they were hijacked themselves, of course.
The more exploits the better, it makes standards evangelism a LOT easier:D
You know I wonder, both Google and TheCounter haven't released new stats since may, and according to June's hidden TheCounter stats, Mozilla and Opera went up. I smell a coverup!:D
Nope, tried it on Mozilla 1.7.1. Still the blank cold shoulder. Actually, the document has no body tag, there is browser unsupported text buried in there.
I'll frame this screen shot, and give you follow up crap in 50 years.:D I can see it now: "18 MTB should be enough for anyone...heh heh heh...hell I'm dyin here with 30 'emtabs'"
And yes, I'm taking credit for the first person to coin that term!:P
And of course it never occurred to anyone to teach this person how to deal with the real world problems so the company might be able to benefit from the voluminous academic knowledge they worked so hard to acquire...
Yes, it has. Some people just cannot pick up real world applications and run with it if their lives depended on it.
Let's zoom in on the electronics end of things. In school, you have paper tests and lab tests. Those who do well at both could make it well as an engineer. Those who only do well at the labs probably won't make it as an engineer, but can still do well as a bench tech. Those who only do well on the paper tests will only be able to do well teaching.
The guys I was talking about are in the latter category. I guess you could say "They couldn't troubleshoot themselves out of a wet paper bag." Sure you could show them how to do what you wanted, but if you're needing to do this every time you want something done, it becomes a pain. Those who keep their jobs in this type of deal pick up things with minimal input - in order to do that you need the paper knowledge, and you need a firm grasp on reality.
Don Quixote was a story character (see the book by the same name) who saw things that weren't really there. He was driven insane by reading too many tales of knights in shining armor, and pretended he was one himself.
Hmm!
If there is still overlap, you either don't have the latest version, or you didn't completely uninstall before your last. So take the following steps:
1. Download Firefox 0.9.2 binaries
2. Save your bookmarks
3. Uninstall old Firefox
4. Delete your profile (Windows - C:\Docs & Sets\Your_Login\(phoenix or mozilla or firefox) (Linux -/home/your_login/(.mozilla or.firefox or.phoenix or.firebird)
5. Install Firefox 0.9.2
6. Put bookmarks back, reinstall Flash and Java if you use them.
The overlap had been fixed so more than likely you're using 0.9 or a pre-0.9 nightly
Well, part of the problem is that these PH.d's are 35, and have no actual experience. I've seen this at GE - there were guys, who shall remain nameless, who were brilliant with the formulas, et cetera, but who were comepletly devoid of common sense and unable to deal with real-world problems, due to too much time in a academic environment. I imagine it takes some time and several jobs before one could acclimate to the real world.
Nothing that a few good internships couldn't solve, to keep one grounded;)
Well, the older people you and I see on a regular basis are the sharp ones that can still live like normal.
However there are those like the Alzheimer's patients who are given some element of freedom, and when they wander off don't remember where they came from or don't know they are lost and keep wandering. Ever try to find someone who doesn't know where they are going or that they are lost? It is more difficult than you might think.
Well, you could also say that you spend $10 for the movie - ticket, popcorn, drink, for 1 1/2 to 2 hours of entertainment, or you pay $10-$30 for 8 to 20 hours of entertainment. The book is a better deal.
When I've read a new book, the first thing I want to do is discuss it with other people.
Well, what I do is give other people the book, and then we discuss things later.
Or you can buy a book on meditation and get enlightened.;) I don't know any movies out there for this purpose.:D For example, take a deep breath, read this, and think about it carefully:
"A man sits in an armchair in the middle of a forest. He watches is a rabbit hopping by, a spider busily consuming a fly, a wild turkey laying down to die. He listens to busy forest, birds and their sharp din, the rustle of the trees swaying gently in the wind. The man checks his watch, and replies, 'What is the point?'"
Ah yes, the folks that have been using it for awhile get addicted. I swear it is an addiction.
My boss's home and work computer is riddled with spyware, and he complains about popups and slow computers all the live-long day. I tell him he should use Firefox, it blocks popups. He shrugs his shoulders.
Later, he brings in his computer for me to fix, I do a reformat and put Firefox on, telling him to just use that and he shouldn't have any more problems. First thing he does is puts the blue E back on his desktop, and soon enough he's back where he started with the problems.
Last week I told him that "CERT, a part of the Department of Homeland security, said not to use IE," and about banking BHOs. OK, sort of a half truth, but still he shrugged his shoulder's and said "I don't use online banking."
Yesterday he was complaining to someone else about his computer acting funny. He isn't coming to me anymore, since I actually have a solution! I don't know, some folks prefer to be miserable, I guess.
Give me a fucking break. All this self-righteousness, over software.
The Internet is an catalyst for an extreme level of free speech. Since the software we use defines how the Internet works, it is acceptable to have feelings about it, since this is our freedom we are talking about here.
I have Mozilla, but I prefer IE.
I hear you. Every once and awhile, I feel an urge to click the blue E when I get on The Internet. I leave it up for old times sake, on my desktop. Every once and awhile I will actually use it to test a webpage, or if I don't have access to anything else, and then I think "What the heck was I thinking?" You just have to remember its the addiction speaking.;)
Well, unless the Mozilla Foundation can rack up a lot of donations, major advertising isn't going to happen with them. The onus rests on our shoulders.
If a bunch of websites out there start requiring a Gecko-based product to view, then people will switch. No one thinks twice about downloading Flash or Acrobat Reader, it is a general requirement that comes up often. In order to get people to not think twice about using a Mozilla-based browser, it must be required often thus.
I remember the old Internet Explorer days, and I never thought twice about switching to Netscape when I ran into a few sites that required it.
So, if any of you run a website that it wouldn't hurt anything by rejecting IE, do so.:D Perhaps try your hand at converting your site to XUL.
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You can squeeze alpha blending out of IE 5.5+ by using MS's CSS behaviors and/or filters. Try this canned Google search.
;)
This is kind of a pain, and doesn't solve alpha PNG backgrounds.
However, IMO, the more sites that bend or break in IE, the better - so, move along, nothing to see here
Works For Me.
;)
:P
The extension specs have been changing, things go haywire and you have to clean up before upgrading (yes, you did upgrade from a previous release, I can tell.) Uninstall Firefox, delete your profile, and reinstall. It will work fine. Read the release notes next time
Cleanup: Backup your bookmarks, and download the Firefox install binaries if you don't have them. Go to C:/Documents and Settings/[your_login_name_on_bootup]/Application Data and delete both the Phoenix and Firefox directories. Then reinstall.
I certainly don't have time to figure out which files to edit to disable them myself.
Me neither, I'm too busy screwing around reading Slashdot
Sorry you ran into a problem, but your experience doesn't extrapolate to the entire world. We're clean. IE is fine.
Hmm.
I'm sorry, but I don't think the real world boils down to IT dictatorships and their pet cubicle drones. And unless you are using high security settings, software antivirus and/or spyware protection, the odds are highly against your machines being clean.
And no, IE is not just fine and dandy, in more ways than just the security. Depending on it is silly. If you can think of all else being the same, the Mozillas are much more flexable and cross platform.
I imagine that is why there is a plethora of professional closed-source Windows freeware out there, with all the fancy professional "Easy To Use ONE CLICK Software!" (emphasis not added) - from entities that only produce or distribute freeware programs.
The virii that come out of those are mostly yet-to-be detected, I'm sure...
For example, on this specimin, they have:
ATTENTION WIN XP USERS: Windows XP will not allow you to access 16-bit screen savers (which make up about 2/3 of all the screen savers out there, including many of your classic favorites.) To get around this, you need to use a screen saver utility like Screen Control, which allows you to access ALL your 16-bit and 32-bit savers with simple one-click access from your system tray. Try a FREE DOWNLOAD today.
Uh huh - highly suspect.
my guess is it will be one that actually provides some kind of benefit for the user, to create a kind of symbiosis.
:D
I believe you are talking about spyware
Poe-tay-toe Poe-tah-toe. Now that I think about it, it would be nice if we had a unit of storage that doesn't sound like another word, a phrase, or a slang term.
byte = bite
kilobyte = killer bite
megabyte = mega bite
gigabyte = jig 'o BYET (cessna)
terrabyte = tear a bite
Perhaps we should be evil and push for something like the "cockbyte".
*20 whats?
+Cockbytes
*Hey now, what are you mad about?
+What? I got 20 cockbytes, I'm pretty happy.
*Oww, that sounds painful - err...are you high or something?
+Huh? No. Anyway, all I need now is a couple cocks of ram, I'll go down Cox's . I feel like a cock getting all that ram from Cox's at such a quick, low overhead. Although some of the things I grab are best left behind... Hopefully I'll come back up to my throat in cocks. Although, I love seeing new stuff coming up...as soon as my equipment gets up, I'll be behind on cocks, and need a quick ram... Hey where you goin...?
*[Boldly, Brave Sir Robin, runs away, runs away...]
I guess it's because most of us have never had an IE related infection or problem.
;)
You mean, you've never noticed an infection or a problem? I guess you have some high quality spyware there.
Some spyware out there is pretty slick. Theres this one that I ran into not too long ago, rund.exe or wind.exe or somethin like that, that intercepted the Firefox installer and crashed it. You can't shut down the spyware, it just clones itself. And you wouldn't notice it unless you tried installing Firefox. Of course, Joe Sixpack would have blamed it on it being a crappy installer or something.
These exploits are very narrow and you have to be visting a website run by an asshat
Or a server infected by a worm, or a ad banner server infected by a worm, or an ad banner server run by an asshat...(and since marketing people are asshats, be they well-meaning or not, you do the math).
If Micorsoft kept getting large amounts of bad press every time it announced a new exploit it would try even harder to hide the flaws instead of releasing a fix.
:D
And that is a bad thing? The recent hubbub has helped even my dad and my boss, two hard core Microsoft and IE fans, use another browser. After they were hijacked themselves, of course.
The more exploits the better, it makes standards evangelism a LOT easier
You know I wonder, both Google and TheCounter haven't released new stats since may, and according to June's hidden TheCounter stats, Mozilla and Opera went up. I smell a coverup! :D
Nope, tried it on Mozilla 1.7.1. Still the blank cold shoulder. Actually, the document has no body tag, there is browser unsupported text buried in there.
Alright, unofficial anti-IE drive! We need 1000 scathing hellfire reviews at download.com! Semi-unbridled sorta hate need not apply.
:D
Good luck, do your worst!
I'll frame this screen shot, and give you follow up crap in 50 years. :D I can see it now: "18 MTB should be enough for anyone...heh heh heh...hell I'm dyin here with 30 'emtabs'"
:P
And yes, I'm taking credit for the first person to coin that term!
And of course it never occurred to anyone to teach this person how to deal with the real world problems so the company might be able to benefit from the voluminous academic knowledge they worked so hard to acquire...
Yes, it has. Some people just cannot pick up real world applications and run with it if their lives depended on it.
Let's zoom in on the electronics end of things. In school, you have paper tests and lab tests. Those who do well at both could make it well as an engineer. Those who only do well at the labs probably won't make it as an engineer, but can still do well as a bench tech. Those who only do well on the paper tests will only be able to do well teaching.
The guys I was talking about are in the latter category. I guess you could say "They couldn't troubleshoot themselves out of a wet paper bag." Sure you could show them how to do what you wanted, but if you're needing to do this every time you want something done, it becomes a pain. Those who keep their jobs in this type of deal pick up things with minimal input - in order to do that you need the paper knowledge, and you need a firm grasp on reality.
Don Quixote was a story character (see the book by the same name) who saw things that weren't really there. He was driven insane by reading too many tales of knights in shining armor, and pretended he was one himself. Hmm!
BTW this won't help liquidations.com, it was designed with Microsoft Word. Nothing can help that site render properly save for a complete redesign.
If there is still overlap, you either don't have the latest version, or you didn't completely uninstall before your last. So take the following steps:
/home/your_login/(.mozilla or .firefox or .phoenix or .firebird)
1. Download Firefox 0.9.2 binaries
2. Save your bookmarks
3. Uninstall old Firefox
4. Delete your profile (Windows - C:\Docs & Sets\Your_Login\(phoenix or mozilla or firefox) (Linux -
5. Install Firefox 0.9.2
6. Put bookmarks back, reinstall Flash and Java if you use them.
The overlap had been fixed so more than likely you're using 0.9 or a pre-0.9 nightly
Well, part of the problem is that these PH.d's are 35, and have no actual experience. I've seen this at GE - there were guys, who shall remain nameless, who were brilliant with the formulas, et cetera, but who were comepletly devoid of common sense and unable to deal with real-world problems, due to too much time in a academic environment. I imagine it takes some time and several jobs before one could acclimate to the real world.
;)
Nothing that a few good internships couldn't solve, to keep one grounded
Well, the older people you and I see on a regular basis are the sharp ones that can still live like normal.
However there are those like the Alzheimer's patients who are given some element of freedom, and when they wander off don't remember where they came from or don't know they are lost and keep wandering. Ever try to find someone who doesn't know where they are going or that they are lost? It is more difficult than you might think.
Well, you could also say that you spend $10 for the movie - ticket, popcorn, drink, for 1 1/2 to 2 hours of entertainment, or you pay $10-$30 for 8 to 20 hours of entertainment. The book is a better deal.
;) I don't know any movies out there for this purpose. :D For example, take a deep breath, read this, and think about it carefully:
:D
When I've read a new book, the first thing I want to do is discuss it with other people.
Well, what I do is give other people the book, and then we discuss things later.
Or you can buy a book on meditation and get enlightened.
"A man sits in an armchair in the middle of a forest. He watches is a rabbit hopping by, a spider busily consuming a fly, a wild turkey laying down to die. He listens to busy forest, birds and their sharp din, the rustle of the trees swaying gently in the wind. The man checks his watch, and replies, 'What is the point?'"
Is this man you?
...I thought it already burst.
:D
Well there goes my retirement! Oh well, they say the minute you stop working, you are on the fast lane to fertilizer
Ah yes, the folks that have been using it for awhile get addicted. I swear it is an addiction.
;)
My boss's home and work computer is riddled with spyware, and he complains about popups and slow computers all the live-long day. I tell him he should use Firefox, it blocks popups. He shrugs his shoulders.
Later, he brings in his computer for me to fix, I do a reformat and put Firefox on, telling him to just use that and he shouldn't have any more problems. First thing he does is puts the blue E back on his desktop, and soon enough he's back where he started with the problems.
Last week I told him that "CERT, a part of the Department of Homeland security, said not to use IE," and about banking BHOs. OK, sort of a half truth, but still he shrugged his shoulder's and said "I don't use online banking."
Yesterday he was complaining to someone else about his computer acting funny. He isn't coming to me anymore, since I actually have a solution! I don't know, some folks prefer to be miserable, I guess.
Give me a fucking break. All this self-righteousness, over software.
The Internet is an catalyst for an extreme level of free speech. Since the software we use defines how the Internet works, it is acceptable to have feelings about it, since this is our freedom we are talking about here.
I have Mozilla, but I prefer IE.
I hear you. Every once and awhile, I feel an urge to click the blue E when I get on The Internet. I leave it up for old times sake, on my desktop. Every once and awhile I will actually use it to test a webpage, or if I don't have access to anything else, and then I think "What the heck was I thinking?" You just have to remember its the addiction speaking.
Well, unless the Mozilla Foundation can rack up a lot of donations, major advertising isn't going to happen with them. The onus rests on our shoulders.
:D Perhaps try your hand at converting your site to XUL.
If a bunch of websites out there start requiring a Gecko-based product to view, then people will switch. No one thinks twice about downloading Flash or Acrobat Reader, it is a general requirement that comes up often. In order to get people to not think twice about using a Mozilla-based browser, it must be required often thus.
I remember the old Internet Explorer days, and I never thought twice about switching to Netscape when I ran into a few sites that required it.
So, if any of you run a website that it wouldn't hurt anything by rejecting IE, do so.
If you have installed the patch, navigating to shell:// will return a basic Windows Explorer error.
If you haven't, the explorer.exe process will crash, or firefox will flicker, or both.
definiative? Um, lets see...no percentages, no chart markings, obscured data lines. That chart could mean anything for all we know.
Or conservative estimates. I've had hard drives rated for around 3000 hours that lasted more like 60000.