Longtime subscriber and newsletter author Clif wrote to suggest another solution to last week’s subscriber problem with the Firefox 3 address bar. Nicknamed the "Awesome Bar," the URL prediction features of the Firefox 3 address bar seem to boil down to love it or leave it… Clif also suggests some free, although lesser function, alternatives [...]
Software Firewalls May Interfere with New Programs
September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Last week, I received a call from a person to whom I had recommended the Mozilla Firefox web browser. She was having problems with Firefox after its most recent update. She could not connect to any web site using Firefox. After a little debugging over the phone, where I found out the I.E. worked, but [...]
Web Page Loading Problems
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Web Site Not Showing Up Right
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I answered a question recently from someone who was having a problem getting a web site (not mine) to work properly. In this case, he referred to the Foxit web site. Foxit is the maker of Foxit Reader, a much smaller and faster alternative to Adobe Reader. Tech Tip Foxit also offers a number of [...]
My Favorite Firefox Add-On’s (Firefox Extensions)
September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The standard version of Firefox 2 is an improvement over Internet Explorer, in my opinion. When they add the ability for me to pick and choose any number of Add-ons for additional functions, I think it is a great improvement. The Mozilla web site (mozilla.org) hosts a large number of independently developed add-ons for Firefox. [...]
HowTo: Adding Icons to the Firefox Icon Bar
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Firefox has a neat feature: you can add additional icons to the web browser’s icon bar! By default, the icon bar is very limited. The default configuration includes only the Back button, the Forward buttonn (not email, Forward as in, after you’ve used the Back button), the Reload button, the Stop button and the Home [...]
Google Earth adds Astronomy – Google Sky
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google recently added a neat new feature to Google Earth. If you haven’t been playing with (or working with) Google Earth, you don’t know what you’ve been missing. (click on the image for a larger version) Google Earth is fun to use as well as informative and entertaining. As you can see in the image [...]
Web Browser Wars
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
If you’ve been using the web for a while, you know that every version of Windows includes Internet Explorer as its default web browser. Since Windows is the predominant operating system in PC’s across the world, that should make IE the predominant web browser — and it does. However, there has always been a (unorganized) [...]
Making Viewed Fonts and Images Larger (or smaller)
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Is a Cookie Safe?
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Some Gripes about McAfee SiteAdvisor
August 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I recently started using McAfee SiteAdvisor, which is a free program and service from McAfee, makers of one of the common security suites. This program works in conjunction with your web browser (Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, and maybe others). When you go to a web site, McAfee SiteAdvisor’s logo (which it embeds into your web [...]
Unable to Access Specific Web Sites
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Thunderbird Plus Firefox Crash Problems
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Subscriber David wrote recently with a strange Thunderbird + Firefox problem: As a long-time reader, I have a long-time intermittent problem which I have posted on the Mozilla forum and not had any response. Every now and again, computer totally crashes. Screens (I have two) go completely blank without any warning and that’s it! Power [...]
Google Earth And Google Sky!
August 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google’s free Google Earth program (get it as part of the free Google Pack) has been amazing users for a while now. With an easy drag-the-world interface, you can move the display anywhere on the world with your mouse. Want to zoom in, use the mouse’s scroll button. Zoom out to view from space — [...]
Feedback on Cookies
August 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In my email newsletter recently, I wrote about cookies — what they were and what they’re used for. SubsequentlyI received feedback from several readers, one pointing out that there were some security issues with cookies and the other saying that I understated the need for cookies in making websites work. First, subscriber John C. wrote: [...]
Email Links Don’t Work in Outlook 2007
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Firefox Questions
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Using Multiple Tabs in Firefox
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Another Music Problem with Firefox? | Using IE-Only Web Functions
August 27, 2010 By
Larry Braud wrote to ask: http://www.ruthann1.com/RedneckChristmas.htm Terry, this site has a song in it, I can’t get it in Firefox, but it works in IE. Would you have any reason why? Larry The music on this web site did not play in Firefox because the web site owner is either inexperienced or doesn’t care about [...]
Java Speed Reader – Just For Fun
August 27, 2010 By
A guy named Trevor Smith created a cool speed-reading tool using Java and has it on the web. The Java SpeedReader requires Java. Ever since Sun Microsystems won its lawsuit against Microsoft for license violations (for changing Java to add functions that were incompatible with the official Java “runtime” version), Java has not been distributed [...]
Hiding the Firefox History and Bookmarks Sidebars
August 27, 2010 By
Firefox Extensions and a Tip for Opera Users
August 27, 2010 By
Every once in a while, I like to remind readers that I use Firefox as my default web browser. Internet Explorer is on my computer, of course, but normally I only use it at microsoft.com Tech Tip I strongly recommend using IE when you go to www.microsoft.com. If you don’t, many of Microsoft’s web site [...]
Using Google To Find Free Programs
August 27, 2010 By
If you want to use a free PDF creation tool, you are free to use one, and there are a number available. Similarly, you can find a free program for almost every type of application. Sometimes these are great programs. Other times, they’re not. Sometimes they meet your needs, and other times they don’t. But, [...]
Google Earth – A View from Space
August 27, 2010 By
In the Using Google Maps article, we saw how we could find a location on the maps. Then, we saw that we could see a satellite view and even a hybrid view with the map superimposed over the satellite view. We could zoom, too. Google has another neat satellite-view program. This one is Google Earth, [...]
Using Google Maps
August 27, 2010 By
Whenever I want to find a location, my first stop is Google Maps (http://maps.google.com). It’s so easy to find a location by searching. If you know the exact address, you can input it — and Google will show you the map with an pointer for that location. Since many cities really don’t enforce a city-wide [...]
Error When Trying to Watch YouTube Videos
August 27, 2010 By
Subscriber Rebekah wrote to ask: How do I watch videos on YouTube? It just says my firewall is turned off or get FlashPlayer Having your firewall turned off would not (1) be wise or (2) prevent YouTube videos from working. I think the error message Rebekah saw is the one about JavaScript, which reads almost [...]
Google Earth and Google Moon
August 25, 2010 By
Google has two fantastic new products: Google Earth and Google Moon. If you have a DSL or cable connection, you wil enjoy both. If you have dialup, you’ll he happy visiting the Google Moon http://moon.google.com, which uses only your web browser. You can see all the moon landing sites, as well as zoom out or way into [...]
How to do a Clean Reinstall of Firefox
August 24, 2010 By
Following the Setting the Default Web Browser article earlier in this issue, subscriber Valerie Mitchell as still having problems with setting Firefox as her default web browser after she uninstalled Internet Explorer 7. Dear Terry: This was your response to my recent ? on how to make Firefox the default web browser: To make Firefox [...]
Firefox: Opening Multiple Web Pages At the Same Time
August 23, 2010 By
Why I Recommend Firefox…
August 23, 2010 By
I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on the Firefox versus Internet Explorer subject in my newsletter. For a while last year, I beat it to death… But, recently, in responding to a reader’s question, I mentioned that I recommended Firefox over IE for web browsing. His response was “You Do?” The [...]
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