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(OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice
jmcquown wrote:
Mozilla is asking me to install some sort of shopping/sweepstakes option which also wants to add something to the computer. That would be a NO. And what the heck is with making Babylon the default search engine? What is that? So I tried installing Firefox again and even though I clicked Cancel when it asked about Babylon, now IE (my current default) has Babylon as the search engine. (If this screws up my new computer I'll scream so loudly they'll hear me across the pond!) Something like that happened to me recently. It involved IE on my work computer. (I hardly ever use IE at home.) I must not have been paying enough attention the last time there was an upgrade, and all of a sudden there was this new toolbar, new home page, and new default search engine, all part of an add-on called "addobrio" (or something like that). A stealth add-on. I was able to get rid of it by selecting Tools - Internet Options - Settings button (in the "Search" area). This opens a window called "Manage Add-ons". It allows you to update toolbars, extensions, search engines, and other stuff - and I was able to get rid of it. Firefox must have something similar. BTW, I did have a fairly recent backup on a flash drive. The hard drive wasn't damaged, but the monitor on the old laptop was completely shot. I confess: I spilled a glass of water on the keyboard and it took out the monitor. The guys at Best Buy loaded the data from my old PC onto a portable HD. But I can't figure out where to tell it to put it so I can get things right. I haven't kept up with the technology. And to think I used to be so proficient at this sort of thing. (sigh) It really doesn't take long to become out-of-date on technology, once you're no longer working in the field. I stopped doing software development 15 years ago, and a couple of years after that, I would see a programmer job ad and think I'd have to go back to school to get that job. Now I can't even read those ads! No idea what they're talking about. -- Joyce The heck with top and bottom -- I want relationships with strangeness and charm. |
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(OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice
"Bastette" wrote in message ... Jack Campin wrote: It's very old and if you don't have as big an investment in legacy software as I do, you don't want it. The later versions are Leopard (10.5), Snow Leopard (10.6), Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8). Presumably they're putting more and more features into the OS whenever there's a new version, right? So it stands to reason that the cats should be getting bigger with each new release: mountain lion, leopard, snow leopard, lion, tiger, and then... smilodon? Then they have to switch to a new family of animals, I guess. The pattern isn't as obvious as that. Apparently they started out naming them after German WW2 tanks, which were themselves named after big cats. Well, there you go. That's just like when someone tried to name a development project after a make of car (cobra), and everyone thought he meant the snake. (I just realized that in my last post, I might have said one of the snake names was "Mambo" - LOL. I meant Mamba. Though it would also be great to have a line of products named after Afro-Cuban dances. ) I still wanna see OS X Maru. Wouldn't that be great! -- Joyce My friend Nancy (who once posted here to let you folks know I was in the hospital, 2008) recently adopted a kitten with markings like Maru. Her cat, Cocoa, is brown and tan but has the same type of swirled markings on her fur as Maru's. I've heard this type of cat described as a "marble tabby". That seems like an appropriate description Jill |
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Thunderbird as newsreader (WAS: (OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice)
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Thunderbird as newsreader (WAS: (OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice)
In article , "jmcquown" wrote:
Could you shoot me an email about how to configure Thunderbird for Usenet? Just got into the office, where I use NewsXpress, but I'll try and recreate the steps (unfamiliar because I don't do it very often) when I get paroled and will contact you this evening or tomorrow. I've been thinking of putting Thunderbird on another one of the laptops, so this will provide the excuse to do so. I recall that I had to go through some grief to prevent it from also taking over my Email, as I prefer to use Outlook 2003 for that functionality at home. Art |
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Thunderbird as newsreader (WAS: (OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice)
"Arthur Shapiro" wrote in message ... In article , "jmcquown" wrote: Could you shoot me an email about how to configure Thunderbird for Usenet? Just got into the office, where I use NewsXpress, but I'll try and recreate the steps (unfamiliar because I don't do it very often) when I get paroled and will contact you this evening or tomorrow. I've been thinking of putting Thunderbird on another one of the laptops, so this will provide the excuse to do so. I recall that I had to go through some grief to prevent it from also taking over my Email, as I prefer to use Outlook 2003 for that functionality at home. Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm also interested, so I hope you will post the information here. I need to try to find a message Cheryl posted awhile ago concerning this same topic. I never got around to it and now have forgotten where it is. MaryL |
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Thunderbird as newsreader (WAS: (OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice)
On 8/6/2012 11:44 AM, Arthur Shapiro wrote:
In article , "jmcquown" wrote: Could you shoot me an email about how to configure Thunderbird for Usenet? Just got into the office, where I use NewsXpress, but I'll try and recreate the steps (unfamiliar because I don't do it very often) when I get paroled and will contact you this evening or tomorrow. I've been thinking of putting Thunderbird on another one of the laptops, so this will provide the excuse to do so. I recall that I had to go through some grief to prevent it from also taking over my Email, as I prefer to use Outlook 2003 for that functionality at home. Art Thanks anyway, but someone else sent me info about how to set it up as a newsreader. They sure do hide it well! I'm testing it. Also testing it for email. Jill |
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Thunderbird as newsreader (WAS: (OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice)
jmcquown wrote:
On 8/6/2012 11:44 AM, Arthur Shapiro wrote: In article , "jmcquown" wrote: Could you shoot me an email about how to configure Thunderbird for Usenet? Just got into the office, where I use NewsXpress, but I'll try and recreate the steps (unfamiliar because I don't do it very often) when I get paroled and will contact you this evening or tomorrow. I've been thinking of putting Thunderbird on another one of the laptops, so this will provide the excuse to do so. I recall that I had to go through some grief to prevent it from also taking over my Email, as I prefer to use Outlook 2003 for that functionality at home. Art Thanks anyway, but someone else sent me info about how to set it up as a newsreader. They sure do hide it well! I'm testing it. Also testing it for email. Jill A good thing about, Thunderbird, is it quotes properly, unlike Windows Mail. -- Adrian |
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Thunderbird as newsreader (WAS: (OT) Mozilla Firefox Advice)
On 8/7/2012 6:31 PM, Adrian wrote:
jmcquown wrote: On 8/6/2012 11:44 AM, Arthur Shapiro wrote: In article , "jmcquown" wrote: Could you shoot me an email about how to configure Thunderbird for Usenet? Just got into the office, where I use NewsXpress, but I'll try and recreate the steps (unfamiliar because I don't do it very often) when I get paroled and will contact you this evening or tomorrow. I've been thinking of putting Thunderbird on another one of the laptops, so this will provide the excuse to do so. I recall that I had to go through some grief to prevent it from also taking over my Email, as I prefer to use Outlook 2003 for that functionality at home. Art Thanks anyway, but someone else sent me info about how to set it up as a newsreader. They sure do hide it well! I'm testing it. Also testing it for email. Jill A good thing about, Thunderbird, is it quotes properly, unlike Windows Mail. Yes, that's true. I'm still trying to familiarize myself with the ins and outs of it. I despise figuring out new (to me) software. It's too much like work Jill |
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