Fencer: now what do you mean by that other than trying to be the smarty u are. what i mean is it does work for me, you sound suprised..

nightmagic: Lucky you are.

ie7 loaded all my pages here in less than 5 seconds per move and a 10 sec. re fresh

Binabik: cool!!! then u might be able to help me out too. send me pm message of how it works for you.then i can start over again with it. thanks!

nightmagic: Thank you, I don't plan on deleting until I hear more, like you said. :O)

Binabik: don't delete till u hear from others that may be able to help u better understand your problem. someone may be able to clear your problem, as with me i just preffered going back to old till all is complete. but i have heard alot on here are on foxfire now

Binabik: both may be ok after they get fully in mode, not as i see it at this time, others may help u more. me its only 1'2 a program, but like i said works for others as not me yet, will also depend on your useage and for what, personaly i like ie7 for now.i guess others use it differenty, but that to my bookmarks dissapear too.

nightmagic: Thank you, I did notice a speed improvement when I first started to use it, but I have a suspicion I didn't complete the process, if that's the right word. I'm tempted to delete it and either start over or go to Opera, which hasn't lost my bookmarks, but which tends to pay overmuch attention to details here on BK...

Binabik: sorry ! me as new at foxfire see's it not complete yet, in my opion not worth much i know, i would wait till it's complete as it is still in prosseses, so to speak. if you want it to do only certain things at this time it will do that. it has no botton clicks for toolbar and thats why i'm waiting, but others here brag on how fast pages load for here....no cake for me i'm a pudding person,lol

Hi there,
My firefox icon on my desktop changed its title from "firefox" to "vddf" .... what/why is this and should I worry?

The main reason I don't like Firefox is that my bookmarks always disappear... and I do mean always. What causes this and how do I prevent it?

Am I supposed to "personalize" Firefox in any way, not by adding extensions but somewhere on my computer where it differentiates between me and the other 2 users on this computer?

Finally, I'll bake a lovely cake for whomever will come and fix my problems.....

Rose: That's because IE is not a browser, but a strategical weapon. Its intent is not to give you a good internet experience. If that were the case, MS would have developed it constantly, but they didn't do anything about it when there was no threatening second browser. Its sole purpose is to be the quasi standard and to let people get used to it. It doesn't conform to any standards - if you try to develop valid in means of w3c-standards, IE will kick your a**.

It accepts a mess and renders it. That might sound good - but is actually bad. It's the main reason why more than 90% of the internet is not standards compliant! And it simply ignores a huge stack of standards, especially CSS (just consider their broken Border-Box-Model). That's why it is hard nowadays to develop both correct and successful in the meaning of reaching out to many people. If you want many people to see what you are doing, you have to consider IE. If you consider IE, your design gets broken.

Just consider you wouldn't have tested your site on FF: You would have thought, that using the "alt" tag was actually correct, and would have expected your users to see those titles. You wanted to do everything correct and cared about the user. The user also did nothing wrong. And despite it might look like FF was lowering the user's experience by simply not displaying the (intended) titles, it was acutally IE which made you think you could use alt when you had to use title.

IE is a pain in the a**. Please, everybody: Use Firefox! If you don't like Firefox, use Opera. But NEVER use the Internet Exploder. It really plainly sucks.

Fencer: Very kool! It is so weird how something works in IE but has to be changed to work in FF. Yet, using Title works in both browsers.. DOH!

Thank you oh-great-one!

Rose: "Alt" is supposed to show up if the image won't load. If you want a tooltip text, use "title" instead.

Anyone who created websites knows or I assume should know what an alt tag is. I have been having trouble recently with alt tags not showing up in FF but work as they are intended in IE. Anyone else heard of this happening?

Fencer: It is my comp's ISP & webtv is my back-up. Mom doesn't like to go near a comp 1 bit & webtv is safer for her to use & understand mostly especially no waiting for me to get off the comp so she came get on-line! LOL I play games & have accounts at different sites that webtv can'y get into (no java)

MagicDragon: Why do you need MSN at all?

Everything was working great last night & when I tried logging on this morning, my messenger wouldn't connect at all & I get a pop=up saying that MSN wouldn't be able to connect w/o it. I'm on webtv again. I'm wondering if it is because my comp would automatically upgrade to Vista when I 1st got it & changed everything or would I have to reboot the comp & ten re-install MSN again?

Rose: Network Card? When I ordered the new comp, they never mentioned it to me let alone knowing about it. On this comp, everytime I look under for High Speed, I need a DSL modem for it unfortunately

Rose: So sorry that I haven't read the computer board in such a long time! LOL Everything is built right in & the only time I'm asked if I'm going to use dial-up or DSL is my ISP server. I have a DSL modem after I changed ISP's to dial up & I can't use it because 1 part flashes red unless I want to get a brand new 1

BerniceC: I bought a 4G for £22.99 That is arround $40 I think. The 1Gs are going for arround £10!

Mousetrap: $39 for 1gig and $60 for 2gig.....real cheap backup system

Rose: They are great ain,t they? Going cheap over here!

jessica: Buy a flash drive load your pics on it and and transfer em, its much faster and they are going cheap.

King Reza: I wonder if pressing F11 might possibly bring it back.

BIG BAD WOLF:Nope!  None worked. 
But thanks for the help.

Gordon: I thank you too.  None worked either

Is there any way to get the Tab button on your keyboard to work as a tab in a typing box here, rather than it jumping to the next field ?

1) Reboot computer if you have not already - if something went bad to cause it to not display, a fresh computer bootup will solve most all problems.

2) What I see some people do is make the taskbar smaller. Put your mouse at the bottom of the screen - VERY bottom, does it change from a pointer to a up/down 2 arrow? If so, then the taskbar may have been minimized - click while you see the double arrow and drag up a little bit to "expand" the task bar back to the regular size.

King Reza: CAUTION - this might be a stupid question:

Have you tried rebooting? ;)

King Reza: That's bad news :(

Is explorer running then? If it is, you can see "explorer.exer" in the list on the "processes" tab of the task manager. Also, if explorer is running, hitting WinButton+R should show the "Run" dialog.

Gordon Shumway:Thanks for the reply.  No it's not hidden.  I already checked that.  And I did what you said, running explorer and stuff, and it didn't work. 

King Reza: I know of two scenarios in which the taskbar disappears:

a) Explorer crashes
b) It is hidden

If explorer crashes, it usually just restarts. and if the taskbar is hidden, it usually reappears when you move your mouse to the bottom of the desktop. You can hide/unhide the Taskbar through Start -> Setting -> Taskbar&Startmenu.

If your taskbar is not hidden, and explorer doesn't recover, go into the task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Task Manager) and start explorer (click "new task" and type "explorer", then hit enter)

Hi all,

My taskbar has suddenly disappeared.  Everything is fine, I just don't have my taskbar and start menu on my desktop.  Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Summertop: I would most definitely call it a downgrade rather than an upgrade. All you get at the moment are some additional restrictions and obscure "security advantages" which are so annoying that everybody will ignore them/ turn them off after a short while. This article ("20 Things you won't like about Windows Vista" may be a good start, although I wouldn't agree on some of his statements, especially on his "OS-Ranking". It definitely shows some disadvantages from the user's viewpoint.

Anyway: I have not heard of any reason to switch to Vista except its improved look&feel (which is IMHO inferior to the look&feel of other modern OSes like MacOS or up-to-date Linux distributions) so far.

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: I have limited exposure to Vista. But what I have seen is not good. I would expect many programs to quit working once you upgrade (crossgrade? downgrade?) to Vista. I am a Software developer and several of my company's products don't work on Vista. Some of the products we interface with also don't work.

It also seems to be cumbersome to use. Our software, like most, is not "Signed" and does not have a "Trust Certificate" with it. So, Vista ALWAYS asks "Are you sure" every time we try to run something. VERY annoying after a while.

Finally, as with any Microsoft OS, I would wait until some "Service Packs" have been released to fix the expected bugs.

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: I would wait a while to be honest, that what i am doing

Anyone using it yet?  
Just wondering if I should spend the $$$ or wait till the price comes down..
Worth buying now?

Gr☺uch☺: lol, thanks for making my day, I used to work for gm in baltimore maryland before the shut down.I used to drill out the dash panel holes,lol.I had heard this before but still funny to me.

Wow - I been hosting my websites at http://powweb.com for about $7.77 a month. In December, I had 20GB disk space, 400GB of monthly bandwidth

In January, they upgraded me to 40 GB of space & 800GB of monthly bandwidth

In February, they upgraded me to 300GB of space & 3,000GB of month bandwidth

Anyway, if anyone is looking for a lot of space & bandwidth - http://www.powweb.com

Does anyone have first hand experience of using BrainKing with the Nintendo DS Browser? Is it any good?

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: thank you, I thought that sounded too easy :) It's good to know.

volant:
U could use those (hotmail, yahoo or even google mail) which give u a gig a space. But I wouldnt reccomend it without having the stuff backed up on disc anyways.   They can disapear off the site and nothing u could do about it.  Same as the "free" online sites that host your pics..   Can disapear anytime and u would lose everything.   If its a "new" PC that your getting, it will have a CD/DVD burner for you.  Use that for best protection.

slapping forehead!

YUP or a USB flash drive.. cant believe i forgot that method, I just bought one for me! DOH! Sorry about that Jessica

Just curious: How would it work to get a free Hotmail or Yahoo account and email the files to yourself there?

jessica:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat107700050013&type=category

thanks

If you have a burner ( CD writer or DVD writer) that is your best most efficient way to save your files to transfer them. If you cant or dont have a burner the other options are the old fashioned Floppy drive back up which would take you dozens of floppies to save your files to. OR there are free storage sites online that you can upload your files to then download them on to your new system once it is online.

Hope that helsp

i am getting a new computer in a few months and need to know how to save certain info like downloaded pics from this one to put on the other one.

"Snoopy":  woooo hoooooo  ;)

Gr☺uch☺: thanks i even got my rich text box back yeahhhhh