Comments on: Call for helpful suggestions

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:55:19 +0000

I’ve used Firefox for years. I don’t have any extensions installed, and I wouldn’t touch the Google Toolbar with a ten-foot pole.

I don’t like Opera, but my dad loves it. Each to his own, I guess. (The only version of Opera I am prepared to use is on my Wii — but that’s because it’s the only browser available!)

By: azza-bazoo

azza-bazoo — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:09:38 +0000

Dunno if you’ve figured it out, and sorry for the late comment, but since no one’s offered explicit directions I thought I’d chime in.

Close Firefox, open My Computer, double-click C drive, then:

Documents and Settings > your username > Application Data > Mozilla

Trash the folder named Firefox, then open the Firefox program again. This should reset all extensions, clear your history and bookmarks, etc.

(If you don’t see the Application Data folder, hit Control Panel, Folder Options, click the second tab, and tick the option to display hidden files.)

MikeM: that works in Firefox and Opera as well :-)

By: MikeM

MikeM — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:20:38 +0000

You just hold down the Control key while clicking on a hyperlink.

You can open a hyperlink one-handed in IE7 in a new tab by clicking on it with the mouse wheel, which acts as a middle button for this purpose. (If you click on something that isn’t a hyperlink you get a different effect which I have never found useful. You can undo that by clicking the mouse wheel again.)

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:25:55 +0000

Thx for the add on recommendations Meika – I didn’t know some of them. I was particularly pissed off that Firefox 2 did away with the little close tabs button on the right hand side of the screen. This enabled you to close five or six tabs by just clicking. The revision of FF 2 meant you had to go hunting for the close box on each tab. Now one of the add ons you have identified (I don’t even know which one – but I presume Tab Mix Plus) brings it back! I love open source for reasons like this!

By: Yobbo

Yobbo — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:22:48 +0000

Reformat. You probably don’t do it enough anyway.

By: Tony.T

Tony.T — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:55:04 +0000

What's Opera, FX?

By: meika

meika — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:14:10 +0000

For Firefox I recommend the following extensions as the minimum extras

Linkification
Copy URL +
Copy Links
History Menu
(and One to delete search engines added to the tool bar, I forget its name)
and, most importantly,
Tab Mix Plus

One must have this one!

I’ve installed google toolbar but rarely use it, much prefering the original search field in the bar with a dedicated wikipedia and wikiquote add-on (plus about ten others)

But one always has to have more than one browser ready to go…

By: Tim Lambert

Tim Lambert — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:08:14 +0000

Ken, you need to remove all the user settings as well as the binary. Some instructions. This is likely to fix the problem with the toolbar as well.

By: Francis X Holden

Francis X Holden — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:33:50 +0000

oops i used the greater than and less than thingos as brackets and it stripped it.

I’m sorry I’ll read that again.

It also has lots of other nifty features – my favourite is a function -[paste & go] that lets you drop a url into the browser or a word / phrase into google and drop it and launch in one finger action – makes one handed browsing a breeze

By: Francis X Holden

Francis X Holden — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:30:20 +0000

I meant to say I have IE, Firefox and Opera all installed – but I rarely use anything other then Opera.

By: Francis X Holden

Francis X Holden — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:28:43 +0000

I have used OPERA for over 7 years. I’d recommend you at least try it. Opera was the first with tabs – and its still the best for tabs. It also has lots of other nifty features – my favourite is a function – makes one handed browsing a breeze.

http://www.opera.com/

By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:22:06 +0000

No, neither of those methods is available. The toolbar isn’t completely installed and therefore doesn’t appear in the Mozilla browser window. But it nevertheless instantly crashes Mozilla and renders it inoperative, thus you also can’t uninstal the toolbar from the browser. Nor can you do so from Control panel because it doesn’t appear there (as I say, probably again because it wasn’t fully installed).

Anyway, I’ve managed to work out how to make the tabbing function in IE7 work roughly as I want it to. You just hold down the Control key while clicking on a hyperlink. It means I have to browse two handed instead of drinking a coffee while browsing, but I can live with that. So it looks like I’m stuck with Mr Gates whether I like it or not.

By: Ingolf

Ingolf — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:11:39 +0000

Ken, check this page and see if either method enables you to uninstall the toolbar:

http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/answer.py?answer=45081&topic=9173