Terry's Computer Tips - Newsletter
December 3, 2006

Terry's Computer Tips Newsletter
http://www.terryscomputertips.com
A computer tips newsletter for users of PC's.

Volume 2, Number 25 — Sunday, December 3, 2006

Part 1  | Part 2  | Part 3 | Part 4

IN THIS WEEK'S ON-LINE ISSUE:
   1.   Firefox 2.0 Printing Bug Shows Up
   2.   Updates Last Week
   3.   Uninstalling Internet Explorer 7
   4.   Security Programs for Average Users
   5.   Put a Vista Look on Your Windows XP Computer
   6.   My Computer Security Software Recommendations
   7.   Flash Drive Won't Disconnect from Windows
   8.   Recommend my Terry's Computer Tips Newsletter to Your Friends

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1.  Firefox 2.0 Printing Bug Shows Up

This week, several subscribers wrote me emails like this one from Tommy Minton:

Terry, am using FireFox. This morning I have tried to print your newsletter in a variety of ways. I went to the online site and opened it. After a very short time the subscription window came onto the screen over the page. The top portion was missing ( the area with the X in it that lets you close this little window.) It was if several lines were missing. The only way I could get around this was to hit the Reload button, then I got the page without the subscription window. I then tried to print it and got the first page printed and that was all even though the Print is set to "ALL".

I then went to the archives and pulled down this weeks edition and hit file, print, Ok and again got the front page printed but that was it. I then painted the article "HOWTO: Writing Files to CD's with Windows XP" and hit files, print, selection, Ok and got 2 pages but they were each blank except for the "Terry's Computer Tips" header. I checked with HP and the driver they list is the driver I have installed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Tommy

Unfortunately, as I told Tommy, I don't have a solution for this. Firefox is doing the same thing for me.

I'll have to say that this is a Firefox bug. It seems to be happening on every page of my site, not just on the newsletters.

However, Opera and IE are both printing these pages properly — just not Firefox 2.0. (I don't know about earlier Firefox versions, as I don't have them installed any more).

Looks like you'll have to come back to read the page when you want to read it! Be sure to bookmark.

Maybe they'll get it fixed soon.

 

2.  Updates Last Week

Microsoft (operating systems, email, web browser, office suites):
No updates this week. Microsoft releases almost all updates once per month, on the second Tuesday.

Firefox (web browser, http://www.mozilla.com, free):
None this week. Current version 2.0. Latest v1.5 version is 1.5.0.8 -- all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2." Firefox v2.0 was released on Tuesday, October 24th.

Opera (web browser, http://www.opera.com, free):
No update last week. Current version 9.02 was released during late September.

Netscape (web browser, http://browser.netscape.com, free):
No update this week. Version 8.1.2 was released during the week ending September 30.

US-CERT issued a press-release on November 8th that recommended that Netscape users turn off JavaScript. (Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird were subject to the same issues, but new versions were released on November 8th to solve the problem.)

SeaMonkey (web browser, email, HTML editor, newsreader; http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey; free): No updates this week. Current version 1.0.6 was released on November 8th.

Eudora (email, http://www.eudora.com, options: paid, sponsored or free/lite):
No update last week. Version 7.1.0.9 was released October 11, 2006. This was announced as to be the last commercial version before Eudora becomes open-source in the first half of 2007.

Mozilla Thunderbird (email, http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird, free):
Thunderbird version 1.5.0.8 was released November 8th. This is fixes a significant security problem.

OpenOffice (office suite — spreadsheet, word processor, presentations, graphics, web design; http://www.openoffice.org; free):
Version 2.04 was released on Friday October 13, which was also the 6th anniversary of OpenOffice.org. What's new?

Part 1  | Part 2  | Part 3 | Part 4

Volume 2, Number 25 — Sunday, December 3, 2006

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