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[switch_abx]

There is also something like Portable Firefox available.

Here is the link:

Portable Firefox 1.0 for USB Stick

[fischyfinger]

Originally Posted by switch

There is also something like Portable Firefox available.

Here is the link:

Portable Firefox 1.0 for USB Stick

That is awsome! I am now surfing with FF at work! This rocks, I have been suffering with IE at work for a while now.

[wallijonn]

Originally Posted by SupDawg

Just figured out you have to delete your folder.

Try just deleting the extensions folder next time.

[KingTermite]

Originally Posted by c_white_wolf

Confused now, the paste link and pasting links works fine for me in WYSIWIG. How are my settings different then your settings?

Do you have this in your user.js file?

// ----------------------------------
// Mozilla Rich Text Editing
// ----------------------------------
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "allowclipboard");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites", "http://www.abxzone.com");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy", "allAccess");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste", "allAccess");

I am having the same problem....the paste link on the rtf box doesn't work and give me the error "You need to edit the Mozilla config file to allow this action".

You mentioned this, but I don't have a user.js file anywhere. Not in the FF install directory (or any subdirs) or in the applicationdata directory for FF.

I have a prefs.js which looks similar to what you are describing, however it tells you to go to the url about:config and change the settings you want. I tried that, and many settins were listed, but not the ones mentioned.

Any ideas? Anybody ever figure out what this problem was?

[fischyfinger]

Originally Posted by KingTermite

I am having the same problem....the paste link on the rtf box doesn't work and give me the error "You need to edit the Mozilla config file to allow this action".

You mentioned this, but I don't have a user.js file anywhere. Not in the FF install directory (or any subdirs) or in the applicationdata directory for FF.

I have a prefs.js which looks similar to what you are describing, however it tells you to go to the url about:config and change the settings you want. I tried that, and many settins were listed, but not the ones mentioned.

Any ideas? Anybody ever figure out what this problem was?

You can just create a user.js file with that text in it. Use notepad and name it user.js. HTH

Glad to see you onboard with the Firefox revolution KT!

[KingTermite]

Originally Posted by fischyfinger

You can just create a user.js file with that text in it. Use notepad and name it user.js. HTH
Glad to see you onboard with the Firefox revolution KT!

Where does the file go? What director? The install directory or the application data directory?

What does HTH mean?


Don't hold your breath.....I'm not "impressed" yet.

So far, I find it is a bit of a pain that things don't "work" and you have to go and manually fiddle around with it to get it working. In the long run, its ok for geeks like us....we know how to and aren't afraid to fiddle, but someone like a computer baby wouldn't feel comfortable having to edit config files to get a control in a web page working.

I still had a problem on my bank website, with the link that pops up the login window not working.

Anyway....jury is still out.

But....on the positive side, I like the interface better. I like the plugin ability to search various websites right from a bar like the googlebar, and I like the old unix editor style search (reminds me emacs).

[fischyfinger]

It goes here:

C:\Documents and Settings\*Username*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.1ii

Same place as the prefs.js.

I must admit that I do hesitate to suggest Firefox to people who don't know anything about computers. I know how to adjust/fix most things in Firefox and I know where to go if I don't and I understand the directions on how to fix things, many people don't and the second one of their favorite sites don't work they will bail. Firefox's biggest flaw is that out of the box it doesn't work with a lot of sites. We can argue till the cows come home about who's fault that is but the fact remains. Users don't care if suchandsuch.com doesn't have their HTML code corrrect, they just want it to work. This is going to be FF's biggest hurdle to claim a larger piece of IE's market share.

But for geeks like us, KT, this is a browser dream come true. It will do what you want it to do and not do what you don't want it to do. Spend a little time fiddling with it and it will be almost perfect.

HTH=Hope that helps...I could have sworn I saw that a thousand time on this board...oh well.

[KingTermite]

Originally Posted by fischyfinger

But for geeks like us, KT, this is a browser dream come true. It will do what you want it to do and not do what you don't want it to do. Spend a little time fiddling with it and it will be almost perfect.

HTH=Hope that helps...I could have sworn I saw that a thousand time on this board...oh well.

Thanks...I'll get it in there and see if it works.


What I would really like to see if FF to become a serious enough threat that M$ really cleans up their act with IE and makes it much nicer. Then FF, counters and spruces thiers up even more to counter IE's counter. Let them compete right and left like nobody's business. Because whatever the outcome, WE would be the winners!

[fischyfinger]

Originally Posted by KingTermite

Thanks...I'll get it in there and see if it works.


What I would really like to see if FF to become a serious enough threat that M$ really cleans up their act with IE and makes it much nicer. Then FF, counters and spruces thiers up even more to counter IE's counter. Let them compete right and left like nobody's business. Because whatever the outcome, WE would be the winners!

Competition, the great capitalist system to benefit the consumer. Gotta love it. There have already been a few stories kicking around that Firefox has inspired Microsoft to get things rolling to improve IE.

Have you checked out Swannema's guide to creating an ABXzone search plug-in? It's a good one.

[KingTermite]

Originally Posted by fischyfinger

Have you checked out Swannema's guide to creating an ABXzone search plug-in? It's a good one.

yes, I installed it already, but I don't see it in my list. I was going to look into that later.

[fischyfinger]

I have been having a problem with Firefox losing it's place when using the back button, mostly here on ABXzone. It happens occasionally on other sites but is pretty consistant here (and on other forums). Normally, if I scroll down a page and click on a link, I can use the back button to go back to my place on the previous page but here the back button always seems to take me back to the top of the page.

If I scroll down to the bottom of this page and click on the "first" link, then use the back button to come back to this page I am brought to the top of this page. Does anyone know of a fix for this?

[EDIT] If there is a post number in the link for this page, like if you followed it from an email notification, you will always be brought back to this post (or the one you clicked the link for) using the back button. Go to another page in this thread, then scroll down to the bottom and click on another page and try to use the back button to go to where you were. I hope this makes sense.

[switch_abx]

I tried to Log Out from ABXZone.com, but with Firefox it just won't work. I sometimes get the message after logging out: "All cookies cleared!", to find out later that the cookies weren't cleared.

More often, when I Log Out nothing happens.

This never was a problem in IE.

Any cure?

[SupDawg]

I have found in FF, I used to install many many extensions just to see what they do.. I have found the ones I like, so I quit installing them. But somewhere in the adding and deletion of extensions, I hosed some settings. No big deal, I was back and running again within minutes. One good thing about FF, if you hose anything up, at least you want have to format to get it working again. Since it is not so intergrated with Windows.

Glad to see KT join the FF crew here-- I must say, it is a bit quirky at first, but use it for a week or so- really just learn. IMO, it seems to get better with age.

When I use IE, I really hate it now--- Never felt that way before-- At first FF seemed strange, but now- IE seems strange--weird...

[Tinker]

TBP 1.1.1 has been released.

This extension provides a comprehensive UI for changing a number of the hidden tabbed browsing preferences in Firefox. It also provides the ability to control how internal and external links are opened in the browser and how the browser will react when links are sent to it.

fishyfinger this could help your problem. By using TBP you can open links in a page in a new tab. This way you do not loose your place in a given tab.

[c_white_wolf]

KT, there are three files you can use to help control Firefox: user.js, userChrome.css, and userContent.js.

Using fischyfinger's example, the files are located in:
C:\Documents and Settings\*Username*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*default.1ii*\user.js
C:\Documents and Settings\*Username*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*default.1ii*\chrome\userChrome.css
C:\Documents and Settings\*Username*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*default.1ii*\chrome\userContent.js

One extension you can add to firefox is called ChromEdit which can be used to edit these three files.

For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs

user.js: Personal prefs which mozilla shouldn't overwrite.

Normal prefs are kept in prefs.js in the user's profile directory (which is overwritten by Mozilla every time a pref is changed), but here's a tip: prefs or other JavaScript that you don't want overwritten (e.g. comments) can be put in a file called user.js in the same directory, which is under the user's control and is read but never written by Mozilla. One caution with using user.js: prefs set to non-default values in user.js are also written to prefs.js, so removing or commenting out pref settings in user.js doesn't necessarily cause Mozilla to stop using your previous pref setting. If you change user.js and aren't getting the results you expect, be sure to check prefs.js to make sure it isn't setting a conflicting value.


Much of Mozilla's fonts and colors are controlled via CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

These are set in .css files in Mozilla's chrome directories, but the user can override them with two plain text files, called userContent.css and userChrome.css. Neither userChrome.css nor userContent.css exist by default. If you want them, you create them in the chrome subdirectory underneath the user's profile directory.

There are examples for customizing these three files at the Mozilla site. I have also posted an example of my user.js earlier in this thread (#44) as well as a link to a site I've used for my userContent.css file for ad blocking (#6 ).