Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 16181 Location: Perth, Western Australia (GMT+8hrs)
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:12 am Post subject:
Bipedal Male wrote:
Firefox under windoze is great...
except...
FOR THE 100% CPU usage glitch that seems to afflict it, not such a problem on my Dual CPU home PC, but a nightmare at work, when I am supposed to be <ahem> working!!!
I haven't had that problem yet. I''m using version 1.5.0.4 With Windows XP Home Edition. My PC is a Celeron 2.8GHz with 1GB or RAM and a 256MB graphics card. Perhaps that's why I have no problems yet.
Windows is a funny thing though. It tends to install slightly differently on each computer. I guess that's because of hardware capabilities. Maybe Firefox does something similar.
Last edited by boingo on Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:10 am; edited 1 time in total
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: FireFox or SeaMonkey..?
I used FireFox for a year, and had a hundred problems with it...
When SeaMonkey came out, I tried it, and have had only a few problems with the stable version... Plus it has all the features you could want in a browser, including spellcheck... SeaMonkey is the Best of the Best.. and probably will be for the next couple hundred years...
I set the updates prefs to not download updates.. and once a month, or so, as I'm leaving the PC for sleep or whatever, I click the SeaMonkey downloads bookmark, and leave the computer downloading the latest...
When I get back on the computer, it takes about a minute to uninstall the old SeaMonkey, and another minute to install the new one...
I leave the SeaMonkey download on the desktop.. for whenever the browser gets attacked by a nasty webpage.. or when it just doesn't seem to run proper... In those cases, I instantly uninstall SeaMonkey, run my cleanup softwares, reboot, then reinstall SeaMonkey... and all the new problems, and the would be problems, are now dead history... Simple as that...
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The Mozilla Group has a huge website dedicated to bugs and modifications in their softwares... Should you come up with an idea, you tell them about it... in "SeaMonkey Report a bug"...
I'm sending this idea to them a few minutes from now:
"I'm finding that after I type out a post, and post it.. to often then is when I noticed the errors...
In forums I find that preview helps me to noticed the errors immediately.. probably because the font has changed.. and that makes it sort of like you are reading it for the first time...
I'm seeing the value in a SeaMonkey Compose feature that presents an editing preview in a different font... a font that is well suited for proofing.. one that really shows up the errors... One might call it "Post Debug", or "Post post"...
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And next thing you know they've included your idea in their browser, if it's a good one...
Quote: "I get the problem on both my home PC and my work PC. "
Till I found SeaMonkey, I worked feverish to solving that Firefox-glitch in my PC.. and discovered that it's partially caused by sticky hidden, almost permanent messes, deep in the front end of the system.. which format doesn't cure...
I cured it by running Eraser's freespace cleaner, by formating C, pulling battery, and reloading C via fdisk...
Me thinks that Firefox has troubles only in PC's that have messed up bios settings.. like natas evirus causes...
I suspect it happens when a PC catches a bug, and the bug is cleaned out, but its damages aren't repaired... Eraser & fdisk seem to fix it...
In the battle of the browsers, have you tried Seamonkey..? It has an email software with it, and a Spellcheck that you can use to check your forum posts.. and saves things as word files on the desktop...
Seamonkey 1.1 even underlines misspelled words as you compose on the Net... Plus it has a popups blocker, a cookies manager, an image blocker, an animation blocker, window colors options, themes, an instant Net disconnect, and lots more... Seamonkey is the leader of the world's communication age...
In my old W98se PC, Seamonkey loads to the desktop in three-seconds...
'The Mozilla project scuttled development for the legacy Mozilla Suite in 2005 after shifting focus to work on Firefox and Thunderbird. However, rather than abandoning the project entirely, the Mozilla Project provided the infrastructure to allow the community to continue development of the Mozilla Suite as SeaMonkey.
SeaMonkey still uses the "kitchen sink" approach [You have to download the lot or it won't work]. It includes the Navigator browser, the ChatZilla IRC client, the Composer HTML editor, a mail and newsgroup client, and an address book component all bundled into one big application. To get all the functionality of SeaMonkey using the separate Mozilla apps, you'd have to install Firefox, Thunderbird, the ChatZilla extension for Firefox, and a separate HTML editor such as Nvu (which is built using the Composer codebase).
What's missing in SeaMonkey:
You'll find that SeaMonkey is missing a number of features that might be hard to give up.
For instance, SeaMonkey is missing native RSS/Atom support, so you can't use live bookmarks in the browser, or subscribe to feeds in the mail/news client as you can in Thunderbird. The search bar is also missing, which is a feature that I've come to rely on. I'm used to being able to just hit Ctrl-k to jump to the search bar and run a Google search, and I missed that right away.
SeaMonkey is also missing the spiffy new "clear private data" option in Firefox, which lets you clear the cache, cookies, and download history with a single hotkey combination.
Extension support is also rather primitive in SeaMonkey. Though you can use some extensions with SeaMonkey, it doesn't include an easy way to manage extensions the way Firefox does. I tried installing the Sage extension to manage RSS/Atom feeds, but even though it appeared to install successfully, I couldn't actually find the application in the menus or sidebar -- and there appears to be no easy way to uninstall or disable extensions.
SeaMonkey also features the old, cluttered Preference dialog, though I suspect that's not going to be a major problem for most users.
Another missing featureis the automatic update feature. Browser security is a major concern for users, and having an automatic notification and update for security fixes is essential for many users.
All thing considered, after using firefox for over a year and recently changing to Avant browser, I'll take Avant any day. It has everything you need and nothing that's a security risk.
Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 16181 Location: Perth, Western Australia (GMT+8hrs)
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:56 am Post subject:
I've just updated with Firefox 2. It seems the slow-to-close downloader is here to stay.
The spell checker is great. Strangely Firefox has a setting to tell it which English spelling to use; UK or US, but it only has a US English database for the spell checker and a lot of common words aren't recognised.
There is a right click facility to add a word to the dictionary though which helps, but it is a bit of a pain at first when it keeps telling me to put a zed instead of an es in a lot of words. (Eg recognise)
No offense to Americans, but did they forget to take any English dictionaries with them when the country was founded?
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 5743 Location: In UR base snifin all UR pantys
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject:
boingo wrote:
I've just updated with Firefox 2. It seems the slow-to-close downloader is here to stay.
The spell checker is great. Strangely Firefox has a setting to tell it which English spelling to use; UK or US, but it only has a US English database for the spell checker and a lot of common words aren't recognised.
There is a right click facility to add a word to the dictionary though which helps, but it is a bit of a pain at first when it keeps telling me to put a zed instead of an es in a lot of words. (Eg recognise)
No offense to Americans, but did they forget to take any English dictionaries with them when the country was founded?
Technically (and I'm referring to the OED here) -IZE is preferred for most words as it is more correct, but -ISE is more popular. Not a lot of people know that...
Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 16181 Location: Perth, Western Australia (GMT+8hrs)
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject:
monosodium wrote:
boingo wrote:
I've just updated with Firefox 2. It seems the slow-to-close downloader is here to stay.
The spell checker is great. Strangely Firefox has a setting to tell it which English spelling to use; UK or US, but it only has a US English database for the spell checker and a lot of common words aren't recognised.
There is a right click facility to add a word to the dictionary though which helps, but it is a bit of a pain at first when it keeps telling me to put a zed instead of an es in a lot of words. (Eg recognise)
No offense to Americans, but did they forget to take any English dictionaries with them when the country was founded?
Technically (and I'm referring to the OED here) -IZE is preferred for most words as it is more correct, but -ISE is more popular. Not a lot of people know that...
Cheers for that!
I'm glad you took it as an inquiry, because, looking back at the way I worded, I should have written it differently because it looks like I was being big headed. lol
Perhaps ise is a corrupt Australian way of spelling those words then. I do feel like a dick now then.
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 5743 Location: In UR base snifin all UR pantys
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:
boingo wrote:
monosodium wrote:
boingo wrote:
I've just updated with Firefox 2. It seems the slow-to-close downloader is here to stay.
The spell checker is great. Strangely Firefox has a setting to tell it which English spelling to use; UK or US, but it only has a US English database for the spell checker and a lot of common words aren't recognised.
There is a right click facility to add a word to the dictionary though which helps, but it is a bit of a pain at first when it keeps telling me to put a zed instead of an es in a lot of words. (Eg recognise)
No offense to Americans, but did they forget to take any English dictionaries with them when the country was founded?
Technically (and I'm referring to the OED here) -IZE is preferred for most words as it is more correct, but -ISE is more popular. Not a lot of people know that...
Cheers for that!
I'm glad you took it as an inquiry, because, looking back at the way I worded, I should have written it differently because it looks like I was being big headed. lol
Perhaps ise is a corrupt Australian way of spelling those words then. I do feel like a dick now then.
No need to, like I say, most people don't know. I only know because it was my job to know stuff like that. It comes up at least twice a year.
ISE is most popular in all the places where it is "accepted" (so basically everywhere that is not North America) and I know certain European goverment organisations have added filters into their spell checkers specifically to block out IZE word endings so that they are not used in documents they produce and are flagged as wrong.
I don't know how F/Fox implemented their spelling checker, it sounds like a simple word list rather than an intelligent spell/grammar checker. I don't ever use it. First time I used it I couldn't turn off the tabbed browsing immediately. I'm sure it's easy, it was just a level of effort that wasn't worth it so I removed F/Fox instead. I admit I did have to go looking for it to turn it off in IE7, but by then I didn't have a choice as all browsers now have it.
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