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What's most interesting about the results of this poll is that my logs indicate only 6% of forum visitors are using FireFox, while a majority of the members that participated in this poll are using it. Perhaps, active members are more geeky than your average lurker?Greg said:
Greg said:
I would say thats probably not too far off base. Most of the active members here probably frequent other online forums/resources and would be more likely to be exposed to geeky stuff like Firefox
I for one heard about it on another forum, I think it was an automotive forum that had a computer discussion area...I assume that IE tops your logs?...
riverc0il
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glad to help!
pedxing
Member
Greg - I'm also wondering how many people (like myself) are very recent converts to Firefox. Also, if I am not on my own computer (as is the case right now) I am usually using explorer.
I had Firefox 1.0 on my previous PC w/ Dial Up. It worked great and I would launch & connect to AOL, minimize it, and launch Firefox to surf the net.
I downloaded Firefox yesterday and made it the default browser, but it wil not connect. It launcehes but no matter what I type for adress, it can not connect to it. I am on cable & using 802.1b.
Any reasons why it will not connect?
I downloaded Firefox yesterday and made it the default browser, but it wil not connect. It launcehes but no matter what I type for adress, it can not connect to it. I am on cable & using 802.1b.
Any reasons why it will not connect?
Max
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I'd like to give it a try as well, but I'm leery of not getting things to work right, i.e. Skijay's problem. I'm also on cable and using Zone Alarm pro. Is this something I can do myself, or do I need to call in a specialist (aka 12 year old neighborhood kid)?
If you can get IE to work you shouldn't have any trouble getting Firefox to work...
I'm little confused by "it will not connect" do you get any error messages? Does IE work with your new setup??
skijay said:
I'm little confused by "it will not connect" do you get any error messages? Does IE work with your new setup??
IE works fine. The message that pops up after entering a URL, such as www.yahoo.com, on Firefox is:
Firefox is unable to connect to: www.yahoo.com
I looked at the connection settings and I tried to compare vs. the IE and to my ability it looks as if it is configured the same.
I have Windows XP, and I am not at the PC currently.
Edit: I also have a firewall (McAffee), but IE has no problem communicating.
Firefox is unable to connect to: www.yahoo.com
I looked at the connection settings and I tried to compare vs. the IE and to my ability it looks as if it is configured the same.
I have Windows XP, and I am not at the PC currently.
Edit: I also have a firewall (McAffee), but IE has no problem communicating.
TenPeaks
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"Edit: I also have a firewall (McAffee), but IE has no problem communicating."
Your firewall is preventing Firefox from accessing the web. Open up your firewall program and configure the settings to have Firefox always connect.
My firewall seems to default to "do not connect" when I install new software. So, I've got to go in and manually change it myself.
Your firewall is preventing Firefox from accessing the web. Open up your firewall program and configure the settings to have Firefox always connect.
My firewall seems to default to "do not connect" when I install new software. So, I've got to go in and manually change it myself.
hammer
Active member
TenPeaks said:
If I remember right, I had some similar issues with the Windows firewall after I installed Windows XP SP2.
I'm not sure what additional protection the firewall gives me, but I still keep it on. I haven't figured out how to do FTP without temporarily disabling it, however.
TenPeaks said:
That sounds about right, I forgot that the software firewalls prevent programs from connecting...
hammer
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Does Firefox have a "spell checker" extension? Maybe that could be suggested for some forum members so that we avoid meaningless arguments over mispelled words in posts (e.g., helmet vs. helmut).
hammer said:
Yes, I use SpellBound which seems to work pretty good. I think there are others out there too.
You misspelled "misspelled" by the way and helmet is the correct spelling
I would never point that out normally, except you brought it up... :beer:
hammer
Active member
I guess I'm the one who's in need of a good spell checker :dunce:bvibert said:hammer said:
Yes, I use SpellBound which seems to work pretty good. I think there are others out there too.
You misspelled "misspelled" by the way and helmet is the correct spelling
hammer said:I guess I'm the one who's in need of a good spell checker :dunce:bvibert said:hammer said:
Yes, I use SpellBound which seems to work pretty good. I think there are others out there too.
You misspelled "misspelled" by the way and helmet is the correct spelling
:lol: Its all good, I thought mispelled looked correct at first too
:dunce:
riverc0il
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at least no one on here is using 133t speak, then we might have some real issues
You sholdn't have to totally disable the firewall. There should be an option somewhere that you tell it what programs are allowed to connect to the internet.
