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arbon

Nov 9, 2006, 10:56 AM

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Re: [Rolly] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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Or just hold down the control key, and move the scroll wheel. (on IE7)

The font or page will go from 10% min to 1000% max.
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Papirex

Nov 9, 2006, 11:38 AM

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Re: [ignacio] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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Ignacio, I’ve been playing around with my laptop computer today, and I just found out that your method of holding down the ctrl key and pressing the plus or minus keys to resize the text will work in IE 7 too.

I probably won’t use it often, but it is nice to know it is available. Your method will be a lot handier than toggling the status bar on and off in my computers too.

Rex

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" - Victor Hugo

Ron Pickering W3FJW

Nov 9, 2006, 1:21 PM

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Re: [RexC] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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There is a box to tic in desktop>properties> to automatically hide the statusn when cursor is not on it, and a full screen command in the menu bar if you're not aware of it.
Getting older and still not down here.

Papirex

Nov 9, 2006, 1:52 PM

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Re: [Ron Pickering W3FJW] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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Thanks Ron, I am aware of that feature, and I use it. It hides the taskbar, and not just the progress bar though. I wasn’t sure if many people would want to hide them both. It takes a little getting used to, but I prefer to have as large a viewing area on my monitor as possible. Especially when using my laptop.

I have been limping along using a 17” CRT monitor with my desktop, I just ordered a LG 19” flat panel monitor from Mexico City for $2,857.53 Pesos ($US$ 265) delivered with all taxes paid, and a three year warranty, that’s dirt cheap in Mexico. When I get the larger monitor next week, I may decide to enable the taskbar to be visible again.

Rex

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" - Victor Hugo

sfmacaws

Nov 9, 2006, 2:10 PM

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Re: [RexC] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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OK, I have to vent a bit about IE. My problems with it are numerous but the main ones are its vulnerability (even IE7), the total lack of information and cooperation by MS with the design community which makes it a hit or miss, endless experimentation, agonizing effort to make things work in IE, the half-assed compliance with standards, the hidden hooks and features that become bugs if you are not using MS design programs, and for me the huge effort and frustration of making things look even similar to how they look in standards compliant browsers. What has to be done is almost a separate web page for IE, there are numerous hacks that everyone uses to force it to comply but they have to be re-written with new versions so now they don't work in IE7 but IE7 still has not fixed the problems. All this for what? It is late in adopting great innovations that other browsers have had for a long time, I think IE7 finally has tabbed browsing? It is hanging on to Active X which is unfixable and un-secureable. Bleh! Thank god it's user group is dropping quickly, once it gets below 25% most designers will stop supporting it and that day can not come too quickly for me.

Jonna - Mérida, Yucatán

Ron Pickering W3FJW

Nov 9, 2006, 2:46 PM

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Another excuse for me to make another trip SOB to pick one up. That's a damn good price even for up here.
I usually hide all of the bars. Just have to move the cursor to the edge to bring them into view. Works for the side menus also if you use them.
Getting older and still not down here.

toddmc

Nov 11, 2006, 7:22 AM

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Risks of turning of the status bar

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On thing to keep in mind is that you expose yourself to a greater risk of Phishing if you have the status bar off.
Please read this if you are unfamiliar with what that is.
http://www.microsoft.com/...s/saferbrowsing.mspx

But even that doesnt always work as some fake sites "forge" the status bar.

Happy Browsing!

Todd

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Anonimo

Nov 11, 2006, 7:50 AM

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Re: [morgaine7] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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As an experiment, I turned on Firefox Mac, went to Mexconnect preferences, switched to Advanced Editor, and when I got done, I couldn't even find a box to post in!.
Now I'm back in Safari, not having changed prefs here. I wonder how long this will last.

Saludos,
Anonimo

Anonimo

Nov 11, 2006, 7:56 AM

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Re: [Anonimo] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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Even though I switched back to Basic Editor, and I can now enter text in FF, the replies won't post. I get error messages.
(I'm posting from Safari)

Saludos,
Anonimo

Papirex

Nov 11, 2006, 8:46 AM

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Re: [toddmc] Risks of turning of the status bar

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Todd, the article you cite has some good advice for the unwary. I feel that I am very well protected though. I have some very good anti-virus, anti-spam, and anti-phishing programs in all our computers.

I don’t use Outlook Express; I use the Outlook Email client, which is part of the Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition. It sometimes blocks potentially harmful Email attachments from being downloaded. It also sometimes blocks me from sending Email attachments that Outlook may deem to be potentially harmful.

Outlook is so protective; it is sometimes a little aggravating. Two of my nieces in The USA sometimes send me pictures, which are always blocked by Outlook as potentially harmful attachments. I think this may be because the servers their ISPs use may be known sources of spam. The workaround for me when I recognize that the Emails are really from my nieces is to open and use the Incredimail Email client to download the pictures.

When Outlook sometimes also blocks me from sending an attachment or URL that is deemed to be potentially dangerous. I use Incredimail to solve that problem too, I copy the Email I have written in Outlook, and paste it into a new Email in Incredimail.

The high security of Outlook is sometimes a pain in the neck, but I would rather have too much security than not enough. I think that most of us are well aware that no bank, credit card issuer, or other financial institution will ever send an Email asking for an account number, password, etc. that they already have on file, and nobody is going to give us something of great value for nothing.

With most good Email clients, you can right click on a suspect Email before you open it and a menu drops down. If you click on either “properties” or “options”, information about the sender is shown. The Email address, URL, etc. It’s pretty easy to determine if the Email is a fake, etc.

Unfortunately, there are so many scumbags in the world, that we must protect our computers as we protect our homes. Having an unprotected computer would be like living in a house without locks on the doors and windows and no dog.

Rex

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" - Victor Hugo

arbon

Nov 11, 2006, 8:57 AM

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Re: [Anonimo] Firefox Glitch, Please Help

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Anon, your photo looks like you are on Safari, but I hope you are not after the head of a "Gossamer Forum" soft ware tech', to hang over your fire place.
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