BBW, you are very welcome! I've used the site before, but the extension is just awesome. There is no need to type username or password or even hit the button. right-click, select bugMeNot and you are in.

I cannot get the auto refresh to work on the main page of brainking. Any suggestions? I unloaded Ad-Watch SE Plus but it still won't refresh.

Thanks vitalik for telling me about "bugmenot" - I had to get a password from a site which i think was in German (which I can't read), and it would not let me sign up, etc.. etc... etc... But using bugmenot got me in long enough to find what I needed.

it pulls up blazingly fast on ff ... ~*~

Logout/Login on BrainKing is usually faster than any workaround :-)

thanx for answers. i'm using IE for second login, but just thought i maybe able to do with Firefox what i could with IE.

Rahvin: another solution (if you use XP) is to have two users on the system, and just switch from one to another.

work parallel also ... ~~*~~

Rahvin: You can still use IE for the second login.

i've downloaded and installed it, plus a few extensions and themes (my favorite so far is Noia 2.0 (extreme). The only problem i've found so far is this. Myself and my girlfriend both play on this site and when we used IE, we could open 2 seperate windows with different logins and then just swap between them in turn. But Firefox won't let me do that. Everytime i open a second login, then click on the first, it open up the second one in that window also, and vice-versa. Is there something i can change in the setting to overcome this?

and unget (to jump redirected links directly)
for firefox is, apart of some uncommon specials,
what would come up my mind after the mentioned examples. ~*~

Ok, i got a few more extensions:

Translate - thanks to Fencer,
MapIt - maps any highlighted address to mapquest.com
BugMeNot - if you don't know what that is, check out bugmenot.com website. That's a database of login/passwords for many websites that require free registration.

Also, i found that you can add your favorite search engine to that list in the right top corner. Good for people who want to have other than enlgish search.

I still think it's a little slower than IE if you hit some very slow server on the other end of the world. IE loads picture faster. But extensions functionality is awesome.

So far, the only extension I have is the DOM Inspector. I will have to take a look at the other extensions and start loading some.

One of the things I love about Firefox (over Netscape) is that if you have multiply tabs open like I do, Firefox will give you a warning if you have multiply tabs open and you click the wrong X. Netscape would just close everything.

LOL, i am just playing about with the same thing rabbitoid :o)

Quite impressed by Firefox at the moment (a bit like Netscape).

wow.
question: does anyone know where Firefox puts his cookies?
I ask, because I think they only go into a single file, Index.dat in the cookies folder. that's fine by me, but my problem is that as far as I can see, no spykiller program knows how to find spycookies there. does anyone have the info?

This is the list of extensions installed in my Firefox: DOM Inspector, GMail Notifier, FoxyTunes, WeatherFox, SwitchProxy Tool, Live HTTP Headers, FlashGot, Copy Plain Text, Search Status, Bandwidth Tester, Translate, View Cookies, ColorZilla.

Wow, FireFox has a lot of nice extensions. Anybody has any favorites? I like this one. A lot of options how tab browsing works. I especially like the little "X" button i can add on every tab.

Its not compatable with AOL!

regarding WinAmp users and JRE Java 1.5 (used in mozilla/firefox)
contrary to the claims of nullsoft, version 5.06 still appears vulnerable ...
- for the java runtime env though an updated, safe version is available ... ~*~

Well if you go to the Yahoo Toolbar page, it actually points you to that mozdev page - so that is some-what "sponsered" by Yahoo, or at least approved by Yahoo.

yeah, that's the other tool that i mentioned. It's not bad, almost like the original yahoo toolbar.

Yahoo toolbar for FireFox = http://companion.mozdev.org/

have not used it myself

I thought there is no Yahoo toolbar for firefox, there is only a third party tool that tries to mimic one.

I use Firefox now and much prefer it to IE. It does import your bookmarks.
I thought there might be a few problems with a Yahoo toolbar (they say as such) but mine works perfectly.

1. Go to Firefox link
2. Find the "Free Download" link in upper right
3. Choose SAVE and save it on your hard drive (on the desktop is the best place - and easy to find if you don't know much about searching your computer for the downloaded file. (If you "Open", then you actually run it from their website which is not recommended)
4. After download is complete, run file that you just downloaded (Double click on file - should be sitting on your desktop)
5. If should walk you through setting up the browser.
6. Start using Firefox, load pages quicker & more secure without all the pop ups

Heh :-) It will save a lot of my time if BK users stop using IE.

Spread Firefox..... I was getting ready to put things like that on my websites! :-)

lol .. i heard of most of those names .. but never could imagine them together in 1 title :)

Thank you all. I will try to close some applications and see what happens :-)
Hrlqs: It is a bought DVD ... Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" ... :-)

like bbw says .. have a look at the processes running (you can do so by pressing ctrl-alt-del)

your ram could be a problem or the memory of your graphics card

is it a bought/copied/downloaded dvd or a dvd movie on your harddisk ?

To me it just sounds like something else is possible running and taking up processor power - causing the movie not to play smothly.

I would disable virus scan during playback - make sure other programs are not running. (Possible do a fresh reboot of the laptop before playing the movie.)

RAM problems maybe?

Hi, I need help please: I have problems running DVD movies on my laptop - they aren't running smoothly and the image seems stop for an instant from time to time.
The strange thing is I have DMA working and my hardware should be OK. Has anyone ever encountered this ?

Do you have a color laser printer? Carefull what you print:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=4&u=/pcworld/20041122/tc_pcworld/118664

I want a whole department to filter my email for me...

So do you think you get a lot of junk mail?

Bill Gates - 4 million e-mails a day! (most spam)

News story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041118/ap_on_fe_st/bill_gates_spam_2

Now my 150 e-mails I get a day does not seem as bad! :-) (145+ are usually junk)

Was just reading today about Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System release in the next month, and the big news - it will be FREE!

I will have to admit I have never used Solaris operating system, but now I will have no excuse to at least put it on a test PC and play around with it.

News Story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041115/ap_on_hi_te/sun_solaris10

thanks harley, i'll try that later.

RAHVIN, I've had this problem before. Empty your recycle box, do a disk cleanup, restart your PC then run your AVG again. It should be clear then.

can someone help please. i resently updated my virus checker(AVG-free edition v.6). it found a few viruses and killed them except that now i keep getting this same pop up box which says as follows,

AVG Resident Shield
Virus
Trojan horse Backdoor.Agent.BA
is found in file
C:\WINDOWS\system32\resepad.dll
To remove this virus, please run AVG for Windows.

I've tried running Avg again and it finds this virus, but it says it can't heal the file and it can't delete it, so everytime i open a window or start and app, this box pops up.
Can somebody please tell me what to do.

Well, I've remove the links to IE (he doesn't know how to find it now) and installed firefox...not to mention the issue of him sneaking on the internet. Kids certainly keep you on your toes!

Yes because these ActiveX components are compatible with IE only.

Is firefox (and other browsers) as susceptible to hijacking as IE is? My son has been sneaking on the internet (no, he is not visiting porn sites). He likes to go to free on-line game sites. He also likes to search for things (favorite trucks, toys, games, etc) on the internet. Everytime he came to a web site that poped up the "Do you want to trust content from..." dialog, he clicked YES. Ouch...I ended up with almost 500 spyware/malware/adware objects on my computer. IE was hijacked so bad, I couldn't even get to google. After three days of work (using ad-aware) I think I have all but one gone. Ad-aware doesn't find any but I still can't get to google (it is like it doesn't even exist). If you ever come across "SearchForIt"...don't be fooled. It is one ugly hijack to get rid of.

what stoped you from changing colors in IE?

Hey, I've got a girlie reason for prefering Firefox!
I can make all my used links turn red instead of that yucky blue!
Maybe I should have said 'aesthetic reason'.

Personally, I prefer Mozilla to Mozilla Firefox. But either is worth it when it comes to pop-ups (the lack thereof). :)

yes, under your bk2.0. under the old system, with more lax security, it would have worked.