OT: Spread Firefox

[Captain Kwok]

Hmm. Even you website is forcing these firefox ads on me. It even takes up a whole place and the font, must be what, 10 point?

[Colonel]

Hey Fyron do you know what the newest (free) Version of firefox is?? ie better then 0.93

[Baron Munchausen]

The latest Firefox is the 1.0 'Preview Release' which is what they used to call a 'release candidate' -- i.e. a final beta which might be confirmed as 1.0 if no serious bugs turn up. If there are problems they fix them and release another 'almost final' Version.

It's a good idea to go with the very latest because a lot of security fixes have been made to both Firefox and the Mozilla suite lately. Just got Mozilla 1.7.3 Last week which fixes several security holes. As more people use Mozilla/Firefox these security fixes will be more important because more hackers will be targetting these browsers.

[dumbluck]

I will take back what I said before. It's a pretty nice program. After the initial crash and denuncation, I gave it another try with much better results.

[Grandpa Kim]

Why I hate installing new software.

So I install Firefox. One of the first things I do then is try to call up my email client. In all its wisdom, Firefox calls up Outlook Express. I have never used that client and never intend to! Naturally I cannot find a way to get it to call Netscape Messenger. In modern computer parlance, this is called "user friendly".

Fyron, any idea how I can get it to call up my email client and not this default client?

[Fyron]

Is Netscape Messenger the system default mail client?

[Grandpa Kim]

Imperator Fyron said:
Is Netscape Messenger the system default mail client?

Yes it is. Now that I've called up Messenger separately, it seems to be working. I will try closing both programs and start again to see if it this is a permanent change.


Edit: And indeed it is! Seems Microsoft runs back to momma at the drop of a hint.

[Aiken]

Grandpa Kim said:
Why I hate installing new software.

So I install Firefox. One of the first things I do then is try to call up my email client. In all its wisdom, Firefox calls up Outlook Express. I have never used that client and never intend to! Naturally I cannot find a way to get it to call Netscape Messenger. In modern computer parlance, this is called "user friendly".

Fyron, any idea how I can get it to call up my email client and not this default client?

Type in firefox address bar: "aboutfig" (without quotes). Enter.

Locate string "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto". It's set to "false" by default. Set it to true (double click on the string - type "true").

Close FF. Launch Messenger, and set this mail client as default one.

Should work, although I don't guarantee.

[Thermodyne]

Firefox is a real nice browser. IE is improved with SP2, but is still target #1 for the a$$ wipes that write exploits. Still have to keep IE, there are a lot of things that it will do that Firefox won't.

[Fyron]

Mostly due to that quagmire that is ActiveX.