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*[[Wikipedia:Five pillars|The five pillars of Wikipedia]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]] |
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*[[Help:Contents|Help pages]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:How to write a great article|How to write a great article]] |
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]]! Please [[Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages|sign your name]] on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out [[Wikipedia:Questions]], ask me on my talk page, or place <code>{{helpme}}</code> on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! |
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--[[User:DieYuppieScum|Kurt]] 04:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC) |
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--[[User:DieYuppieScum|Kurt]] 04:25, 19 April 2006 (UTC) |
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== Re: Firefox == |
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Sorry buddy, but I take issue with you there. It ''does'' load different in Firefox and IE. Have you even looked at it in Firefox? If so you'd have noticed the camera icon stays in an absolute position in the top LHS - this doesn't happen in IE. Also, and I have tried to be considerate and included a buffer, the default text size rendering in IE is larger than firefox and so the text in the main section (everything below "panorama of the month") will occupy too much space breaking the side borders. I strongly encourage you to discard the broken reed that is Internet Explorer and discover Firefox --[[User:Fir0002|Fir0002]] 01:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC) |
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::Have you looked at my userpage in Firefox and seen the difference? Good, that point's settled then. Next - perhaps I can enlighten you on some of the joys of firefox. |
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::'''No. 1''' - tabbed browsing. You have no idea what the joy of tabbed browsing is until you've tried. You can scroll down a page, middle click on an interesting link and keep on going whilst that link begins to load up in another window. |
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::'''No. 2''' - Quick searches. By default firefox has a number of "quick searches" built in, but it's easy to add your own. The way a quick search works, is that you type a key word (for a wikipedia search it's "wiki") followed by the searchterm in your address bar. For instance if I wanted to search wikipedia for "dog" I'd type "wiki dog" - not that's a cool feature. |
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::'''No. 3''' - Bookmarks toolbar. As well as your standard bookmarks (favourites) you have a "bookmarks toolbar" folder. This appears underneath the address bar and there you can add frequently accessed links for quick bookmarking. |
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::'''No. 4''' - Crash Recovery. If your computer suddenly freezes or power gets cut, don't worry firefox will save all your tabs and ask you when you reopen firefox if you want to recover your tabs! |
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::'''No. 5''' - Vast increases in functionality through extensions - and I'll spend the rest of this message on describing some of the "essentials" which make Firefox sooo good. Here's what you'll need: Adblock Plus, Flashgot, IE tab, Smart Middle Click, SubmitToTab, Tab Mix Plus, video downloader and flash/shockwave player. |
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:::'''Adblock Plus''' - welcome to the joys of ad-less browsing. With this extension it comes as a rude shock when I use IE and see ads plastered all over the place. This is a must have and can make an eyesore website look OK. Make sure you get one of the ad definition files, otherwise you'll have to start from scratch. To do this simply right click on any ad (image flash file etc) and select adblock - then it'll come up with a link, delete it down to it's base and add an * (this will mean all webpages from that root website will be blocked. |
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:::'''Flashgot''' - coupled with a good download manager (I use Net Transport) you can get a huge increase in power over your downloads. Simlply right click on a d/load link and click flashgot and it'll send it to Net Transport where you can speed limit etc etc. |
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:::'''IE tab''' - this simply allows you at any time to switch to IE '''without closing firefox!'''. It's a little button in the lower RHS of your screen (shows firefox icon) - click on it and it'll switch that tab into Internet Explorer. Some pages intentionally/unitentionally use dodgy code which doesn't render properly in Firefox, making it necessary to switch temporarily to IE. But i've got to stress this is like one page in every thousand you visit will need to be opened in IE. |
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:::'''Smart Middle Click''' - this you need to open some of the more dodgy links like your hotmail emails (which have some kind of javascript protection against tabbed browsing) |
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:::'''SubmitToTab''' - allows you to open submit tabs in new windows. This is an absolute must have if you are uploading things (you can middle click on the "upload" button and it will upload in a new window) |
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:::'''Tab Mix Plus''' - gives you complete control over your tabs. You need this so that you can configure actions on your tabs. I've got my Firefox so that a double click on a tab closes it, middle click duplicates it, ctrl click closes all other tabs. But anyway gives you all those options. |
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::Finally a few customizations which you really need to make. The most important is to get Firefox to ask you were to download all your downloads (for some strange reason it's defaulted to your desktop). Get PDF's to open outside the browser in acrobat reader, as often pdf's crash firefox. Customize your navigation toolbar (right click anywhere on it) so that you have a new tab button and an "undo close tab" (this only comes with tab mix plus). Undo close tab is really cool feature in itself - you set how many stages you want it to remember, then either click on the green undo close tab icon to open the last tab closed or click on the drop down arrow to select a tab closed a while ago. It will open the tab exactly how you closed it (doesn't reload the page) - so if I suddenly closed this tab I'd be able to undo that and I'd still have all my writing here. I could go on and on, and this comment has already taken way too much time, but I don't think you can say anymore that IE is anywhere near as good as Firefox. --[[User:Fir0002|Fir0002]] 22:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC) |
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:::Haven't used IE 7 - but have seen that it's a hassle to install. Even if it has finally started to close the gap can you not see that all it's doing is imitating all of ''Firefox's'' cool ideas? What did IE 6 have? Nada - it was all firefox innovation. And guess where the innovation is going to come from in the future... Also it's pretty lame to say that your computer never crashes. Lightning strikes etc etc all can cause a system to crash. Extensions = bye bye ram? What kind of system are you using? Each extension = bye bye to 1 mb of ram!! What's BT? If you mean a bittorrent client that doesn't cover all the other kinds of links. What's a screenshot? All but useless, you want to be able to operate in the browser - the whole point for IE tab is so that you can run incompatible sites. Saying that Firefox should have Tabmixplus if it is so amazing doesn't get away from the fact firefox can quite easily quite all that great functionality. I'm not interested in converting you to firefox, as the huge security gain in using a minority browser is not worth losing just for being a good samaritan. I'm just saying that there is no way you can claim that IE is as good as Firefox. If I haven't been eloquent enough - [http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6656808-1.html?tag=lnav this] will convince you (unless you are an IE diehard) :-) |
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:::Apologies for sounding like I was assuming you hadn't use Firefox, but I automatically assume that anyone who doesn't like/use firefox doesn't know how to use it. --[[User:Fir0002|Fir0002]] 07:15, 7 January 2007 (UTC) |
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