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OT / Firefox what a buggy mess.
A friend said I should use Firefox because it was safer against viruses. So I downloaded it and I
installed it. Boy was that ever a big mistake! It's slow. It's buggy. It doesn't do half the things Internet Explored does. It won't open anything. Animation doesn't work. It keeps putting everything downloaded right there on the desktop. But the very worst is it hangs up and crashes the computer about six times a day. So I got fed up and uninstalled it. Second mistake. Firefox had took over as the default browser. When it got uninstalled it forgot to put things back the way they used to be. Hyperlinks in Outlook Express stopped working. Error boxes with files not found popped up on every start up. It took me most of a day Googling and fixing. I had to hand edit about twenty file associations. That's what got the hyperlinks working again. Error boxes were mostly because the registry was screwed up. I had to edit it. It made me type my password in each account in Outlook Express for mail and news every time I clicked send and receive. A registry edit fixed that. I'm becoming an expert. Google is really a life saver. So far there's no problem it didn't have an answer for. Take my advice stick with Internet Explorer. But don't use the new one. IE 6 is better, It lets Hotmail work like POP mail in Outlook Express it's even got all the different folders right there. Internet Explorer 7 does something that makes Hotmail refuse to work in Outlook Express. If you want tabs install MSN live tool bar in IE 6. That way everything works again. So, after giving Firefox the boot and IE 7 the boot life is good again. Cheers, Ellen |
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