I have read on http://www.firewall-net.com/ "Look'n'Stop" is the best Firewall. Staying the first before the well known McAfee, Norton and others.

Have you some divergents opinions?

Amazingly, no clue about Microsoft Firewall. What could be its value?

the windows updates... . 

Do you mean the windows updates or the tool to remove the Windows Genuine Advantage screen update?

Rose: is it moreorless safe to do those updates anyway?

Error: The stylesheet
Could somebody tell me what the below means, been trying to viw this website, never had any problems before, but now keep getting this error message, and the website doesnt load properly, is it my end or the originators end


http://www.directholidays.co.uk/media/dhuk-topnav.css was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/plain", is not "text/css".

Czuch Chuckers: .
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It happened to me before for unknown reasons?!?!? But after a while and to be specific: a Firefox restart didn't help but 2 restarts helped!
Go figure!

You can of course try the following if you use Firefox:
Type in the address bar: about:config
and then find: image.animation_mode
and see if the value is set to normal. If not then set it and restart Firefox.....


DOUBLECRAP! Banana appears non-animated to me too.....

Czuch Chuckers: Hey, how come my banana doesnt dance anymore?

FYI
Anyone that might not have a 100% legal copy of XP and does the latest windows update and find they now get that silly Windows Genuine Advantage screen bother them let me know. I can help you remove it.. shhhhhhhh!!

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice as well!!!!

BIG BAD WOLF:

Thanks BBW, that was it!!!! I knew it would be something like that, i just couldnt find where!

I will have to think about this some more. BrainKing should not know or care what browser a user is using - and would either think Firefox is messed up for all sites you visit, or BrainKing is messed up for all browsers you use.

OR one other thing I thought about while I was trying this, go to Tools, Options - and the "Content" area.

To the right of "load Images", choose "Exceptions"

If Brainking is listed there, choose and REMOVE it.

Maybe it will help to know.... the spacing between the names on my friends list is larger than normal, and also the space between the names on my games list is also different than normal

BIG BAD WOLF: I have already tried it with my extensions disabled, and I havent noticed any problems, except with brainking using firefox.

I was on brainking using firefox when this child had his fun banging my keyboard and my mouse!

Plus you may have already answered this, is it just BrainKing with Firefox that is not working, or do you see the same strange thing on other sites with Firefox?

Do you have any type of extension installed that blocks pop-ups or something (which may have gotten set to block images also?)

Since this is a strange problem, some sort of broken extension is the only thing I can think of.

In Tools, Extensions - you can right click, and DISABLE them. You may want to go through and disable some of them to see if any of them are causing a problem. (Then you can renable them after testing if they were not the problem.)

I am also not seeing anyones pictures, and my smiley box isnt there either...

Mr. Shumway: I just re installed firefox, and nothing is better! It seems to me that if this new version remembers all of my settings,IE my bookmarks, then it will also remember whatever it is that has not allowed my game graphics to load properly?

I just looked at my tools content and it has everything there check marked, IE Java Java script load images etc... it seems okay to me?
I looked at my toola

Czuch Chuckers: As BBW says, you don't need to worry about your bookmarks. Firefox keeps your settings, bookmarks, etc. in your home directory, so they won't be lost except you reinstall windows :)
But another question: Do graphics on other pages load, or do you have no graphics at all? Because you can dis-/enable the loading of images in tools->options->content.

Czuch Chuckers: I would also suggest trying to download the newest copy of firefox if you do not already have the newest version.

No, you should not lose any bookmarks. Some extensions only work for certain versions, but if I remember correctly, it will tell you if it does not work and will go search for newer versions of the extensions for you. (not 100% sure about that.)

Also, you can be safe and export your bookmarks first if you want to make sure you don't lose them. (in firefox, tools, bookmark manager - file, export - into bookmarks.htm - then if you need to, you can import them back - but again, they should copy over automaticly.)

Also, the newest version of firefox will keep itself updated, that is automaticly check for updates and give you options to update it when needed - which is always a good thing for a browser because new security issues for most browsers show up all the time.

the guy at my tech support suggested to download a new version of firefox and overwrite the old one.... will this make me lose my bookmarks and extension etc?

Baked Alaskan: yeah, some little kid had a field day banging on my keyboard and he obviously hit something by accident that did something, but I just cant figure out what it was. i thought someone with a good knoledge of computers could have an idea maybe where I could/should at least have a look at? My guess is that he randomly brought up something and either checked or unchecked a box or two.... so if I can get some idea what controls how graphics load, I might be able to find which box or filter or whatever I need to turn on/off?

Czuch Chuckers:

Sorry, no help here.  I'm on Firefox and all is well...

Okay folks, someone out here must know this stuff enough to give me a hand..... it definitly seems like a firefox problem as with another browser I dont have nay problems. Most things work fine, its just the games page graphics that dont seem to load properly. I have cleared cache etc and I have disabled extensioons...... any ideas please?

Mr. Shumway: okay, using a new browser is working... so how can I fix whats going on with firefox?

Czuch Chuckers: Since neither refreshing, clearing the cache, nor rebooting helped - have you tried to use another browser?

can anyone help me? My game pages are not loading correctly and I am not able to play any of my games, except for ponds!

Summertop: I use the one on the google toolbar.

Baked Alaskan: That one is SpellBound (hosted on sourceforge). Unfortunately it doesn't work with version 1.5

Summertop: A good dictionary within arm's reach of the computer keyboard. Works for me quite well.

Summertop:


SpellCheck for Firefox   

I am using Firefox version 1.5.04

What do you recommend for a spell checker?

anastasia: A HUGH thank you to Groucho...who was the only one after 5 gateway techs and 3 pinnacle techs could not help me was the ONLY one that could help me get done what I wanted to do...Hugs and Squishes to you!!!!

Mr. Shumway: Oh! Disappointing. Then even the Fellowships are not for RSS.

Thank you for your answer.

The GameList doesn't have any feed! There are only feeds for discussion boards and News! You can find the link by hovering (or clicking) the orange "RSS"-button (this one) on the top of a page. If a BK page doesn't have this icon, it doesn't have a feed. The feed for this discussion board is:

http://brainking.com/en/BoardRSS/news.xml?bc=52

I very recently installed RSSreader.

Each time I try to add and address, an error sentence say it is a not valid. For example: http://brainking.com/fr/GameList

I click on "validate".
Receive: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://brainking.com/fr/GameList
The reply is "It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn't find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate".

Someone know wich is the valid address for BrainKing, please?

I need Java source code for " directed graph" in drawing automata machine , can anyone help me?

ok..so I checked and the fprmat IS mpeg,not jpeg,so I will call gateway AGIAN tomorrow.thatnks for all your help and input on this thing!!

Thank you for your suggestions. I will sure look into them.

volant: I haven't tried it, but maybe the Linkification extension will do what you want.

In your e-mail settings make sure that "Block HTML" or something along those lines isn't checked.

My ISP is associated with Yahoo. So the email account my ISP provides is very much like a Yahoo email account. When I type or cut & paste a URL into an email it does not come out clickable. When I'm using Firefox but it will be clickable in IE. Does anyone know of a change I can make to Firefox so any URL I place in an email will be clickable?

BIG BAD WOLF: I think the converting is the problem...the lady from gateway said that since the still photos are in jpeg fprmat,chances are that the movies are in jpeg format and dvd players cannot read a jpeg format.I am still waiting (probably take a while since this is a holiday weekend) to hear back from pinnacle about what they say.I try to burn through pinnalce and it says that it is burning but nothing actually happens.I am only trying to burn 60 seconds worth of video...surely it wouldn't take 45 minutes to do that,would it?

anastasia: Well I now use Nero 7 for all my burning of movies.

There is an option to "Make your own DVD-Video" where you go and choose your video file (from .avi or other formats), it will let you make menues and such, and will do all the coverting & buring itself. It takes awhile, but I normally start before I go to bed, and in the morning it is done.

Before I started using Nero 7, I was using a few different programs for converting, and burning and such, and was getting to be a pain - and found Nero 7 a help - easy program to do all my burning & converting.

Hello, do you have any game on computer?

BIG BAD WOLF: I just got off phone with gateway and they said that aolt of players can't read jpeg format..I have NO IDEA what format the movies are because they load as "quicktime" this is the only thing that she can come up with.HOWEVER....pinnacle sent me that program to chnage the format...HOWEVER....I cannot burn through the pinnacle for some reason and I am now waiting to here back from them.HONESTLY...maybe THIS will convince my husband to buy us a new dvd recorder instead of me recording movies from my reg digital camera.

anastasia: It may also be the DVD player.

I have a very nice DVD 5-disc changer which will only play some of my burnt DVD movies, but I then also have a very cheap ($39) DVD Player from Wal-Mart which will play them all.

So you may be burning everything OK, just that your DVD player can't play them. (Not sure why, some are just more 'picky' then others.)

Andersp: lol...I have to admit,after spending $300.00 on this pinnacle and it not working...making me a WEEEEE bit upset!! even the nero isn't doing the trick though.

anastasia: should be one format which works everywhere only, but i guess there are reasons (money) why they have to make things so complicated

Andersp: I do have a program that works great BUT still can't get the dvd to play in anything other then a puter

anastasia: i typed convert+mov in Google and i had many hits. There are a lot of programs.
Usually you can download for free and test them.