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It may not be too uncommon to find pages that worked under IE but don't work under firefox. That's often because the page has a bug (some times intentional) that happened to work because of a bug in IE...

============= Or the site is trying to load some kind of spyware on your computer. I have started seeing more and more of the sites where if you block the spyware the site won't load.

If you aren't running one I suggest a good firewall/anti-virus./anti-spyware program like zone labs zone alarm or Iolo system mechanic see

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Both zone labs and iolo provide updated definition files as the threats change.

A word of caution -- you can't run two firewalls, virus checkers, spyware/popup blockers *AT THE SAME TIME* If you try this you will generally lock your computer. Boot under the "safe mode" and remove one [change the .exe files to .xxx] to get the system operational].

First time you do a system scan with either one, you will be amazed on how much "junk" has been placed on your computer.

Uncle George

Simplest explaination has already been given - he's got javascript turned off.

I prefer the antivirus called "MacOSX", but in the Windows world, AVG antivirus isn't a bad one.

Yup.

I've been using Firefox and Thunderbird for almost a year. I love both, ended most of my system crashes. Only a few sites will not accept Firefox, unfortunately they are work related and I have to revert to IE to access them. I do like having better control. Especially like the tabs in Firefox. and the Google (and others) search window in the upper right..

- - Rex Burkheimer WM Automotive Fort Worth TX

Richard wrote:

Then there's MSC and Enco's sites, where whatever they use to tell whether Javascript is enabled doesn't like what Mozilla is answering. So I keep IE around mostly for them.

Tove

Better still..is Free Agent for newsgroups, and Eudora for email, followed by the very free Pegasus Mail.

Keep your Firefox updates current. And yes.its better than Outleak Exploder.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

For spyware..its hard to beat AdAware and Spybot S&D

Trend Micros PC-Cillian is a great av program.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

Yes. The former is easier to use. When I'm cleaning systems for people, I use both, and a few extras.

Had both of thiem installed for years now. Spybot generally stops most things, AdAware cleans out the tracking cookied quite nicely, plus the little MRU things that windoze puts in your machine. I have SPF downloaded, just haven't installed yet. The firewall in XP seems to block some things, but I have my doubts that files such as Media Player tries to send back to "big daddy" are being blocked.

Linux would be the ideal answer, but the last time I tried to set up internet access, I botched it completely, that's for when I have a separate box I can use for Linux again. When it's up and running, move this one, better yet, put Linux in this one and trash XP. I have another box with win(lose)2k that I reserve for those backward developers that only scribble for windoze.

Rich

Yup.

Try one of the "Live CD" linux distributions. Ubuntu has a great one. Stick the CD in your drive, reboot the system, you're in a linux system running off the CD. You can see the state of the OS, without doing a thing to your Windows installation. Take out the CD, reboot again, and you're back to your untouched Windows installation.

That's pretty cool. Is that something you buy at a retail software counter, or online?

Rex B

That's pretty cool. Is that something you buy at a retail software counter, or online?

Rex B

I suppose you can probably buy it, but we're talking linux, after all. Download it for free here, and burn it to your own CD:

Direct download:

Pick your poison from here.

Its quite good.

is very good. Ive got an early distro installed on a spare box and am using it as a server. Ive modified the box serveral times, and am having an issue with the browsers understanding Im actually on line.

The modem will dial, log in and just sit there. When I installed a proxy server on my personal machine..and set up the proxy values..it goes on line very well. Just not via the modem (s)

Ill do a full reinstall maybe tonight or next weekend and see if there is an improvement.

Ubunto is supposed to be very very good..but you have to install it on a seperate machine..as it installes itself completly..including formating your drives, as I understand it. I may be wrong with the latest distro.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

This is a working link to the "live" distribution. Cut it to a CD and run it from there.

Ditto!

Although with Firefox you may not need them as much as with IE. With IE as your only browser they are absolute must have programs.

Abrasha

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The requested URL /releases/warty/preview/live-i386.iso was not found on this server. Apache/2.1.3 (Ubuntu) Server at cdimage.ubuntu.com Port 80

When was the last time you updated Mozilla. I'm currently using Mozilla Firefox and have no trouble with MSC's web site. I did have some trouble with my older version of Mozilla.

Wayne Cook Shamrock, TX