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Old 12-16-2004, 05:50 PM
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Mozilla firefox

I am at home for the holidays now , away from my computer , for a few weeks , i convinced dad to let me install firefox on his computer , because i know it is better than netscape , which he has now , but , since many ppl use this computer , we all have our own profile on netscape , is there any way to setup profiles as such with firefox?
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Old 12-16-2004, 10:31 PM
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Good luck with it. I downloaded it and I got exactly what I paid for - not much. I uninstalled it after 2 months and went back to IE. It's free for a reason.
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IE is free too. Mozilla is better than IE most importantly because it keeps you + your data much more secure than IE.
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Originally posted by njoverkill
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IE is free too. Mozilla is better than IE most importantly because it keeps you + your data much more secure than IE.
I agree. I haven't had any issues with it and tabbed browsing is great. The popup blocker is the tops. Always works well for me.
Old 12-17-2004, 04:43 AM
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I agree, I have used it for about 2 month now and is great. Not one single pop-up. Gotta love the tabbed browsing too. That's one of my more favorite features. Firefox doesn't have the security holes like IE.
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It's also got some excellent extensions available. I'm running the Gmail notifier, the Bugmenot extension, and some others. Cool skins, too.
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Alright , the help is great so far , took a few tries to get everything imported , and setup the way it was before , the only thing i am having trouble with is getting the home pages set as there were before? any advise on this?

When i installed firefox on my own PC , i had no trouble what so ever , everthing went perfectly.

I Love firefox , i have never used or liked IE , and well , netscape , i got tired of it causing system crashes , got firefox , and i love it.
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So far not very happy with FireFox. It does not allow Postini to delete virus infected mail and when viewing a very long series of posts, it slows to a crawl or stops. IE and Netscape do not do this. I think that I will wait for a more mature version.
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I am the Systems Admin for a pretty good sized college and we deployed our own custom version of Mozilla for everyone to use. It has worked wonderfully.
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My Wife works in HR for a large autoparts company and they use Mozilla. They have excellent luck with it so we now use it at home and love it.
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I like it ok, but with dialup, it's much slower to load pages then IE. I 've tried different setups, but it still loads slow.
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I went back and downloaded the Macromedia Flash program in "options", and for whatever reason, it works faster. Does anyone know if there is a spell check program available for Firefox. iSpell doesn't work.
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When I tried to download Firefox, something happened. Still haven't figured that one out. Computer locked up and would not load windows even in the 'safe' mode. I lost all pictures, files,and passwords. I had one HECK of a time rebuilding my system. I still don't have eveything back like it was.
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From what I seen on the weather tonight, your PC may have frozen to death.


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