Anthony A
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Well, I guess it will be a tough time choosing the one to keep. I always thought Opera would always be faster than Firefox without the help of benchmarks. Now I don't see the difference in the naked eye.
why do you think you need to get rid of one? Keep both. I have FF2 and 3, Opera 9.60, Maxthon 1 and 2, Avant, and IE7 with IE 7 Pro on my machines. I keep up on all of them.
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Ha Ha. Hazel Nut for VP to.
In all seriousness anything is better than the absolute retard that's in office now. I don't like either of the two buffoons running now at all.
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FF3 Portable is a great browser. I didn't have much luck with FF3 Desktop.
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It was an ad block issue. The first thing I did when I couldn't play the video was disable ad blocking globally with a simple click of a button I have for that. The video still wouldn't play. I changed the way Opera identifies itself to all the different options for it and still no go. Than I realized that even though ad blocking was disabled globally it was still enabled in the site preferences for that site. Once I disabled ad blocker in the site preferences it worked
I am going to go stand in the corner again.Always remember that site preferences override global preferences in Opera and there are many settings that can be tweaked in site preferences.
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Any of you using Opera can you play video on this site http://www.marketwatch.com/ the video links in the top right corner. I used to be able to play video with Opera on the site now I can't.
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I think Image Shack should be banned as a pic hosting site on these forums before I put my fist through the computer screen. Images hosted on Image Shack load very slow in fact this whole thread loads slow because of it. Every time I look at a thread about screen shots or loaded with pics I know I will pull my hair out because of Image crap Shack. Not just this forum but any forum.
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I tried auto-hide. I can't stand it. I tried it with Taskbar a few times. Just a personal preference I guess.
I have both the dock and the Task Bar set to autohide. In FF, Maxthon, and IE I set the toolbars to autohide as well. I would do it in Opera to but it doesn't have that feature.
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Dennis (and others), I don't understand your fascination with docks. Once you open a browser or program, the docks' usefulness is pretty much gone. You're 2 clicks away from change instead of 1 via the task bar.
Sure, it looks cute, but so does Vista.
Wrong. My dock is set to always be on top like the task bar and auto hide so it's out of the way until I move the cursor to the bottom of the screen and than the dock appears. I can get at everything this way without having a desktop full of icons.
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I've been using it since this morning (UK time). Not sure yet if it's faster than 9.52, but it certainly isn't any slower.
I didn't notice a speed difference either from 9.52. Some one who has not use Opera since before the 9.5 release will be very surprised though with the speed increase from previous versions of Opera. Opera 9.5+ is very fast compared to anything under 9.5.
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Spent some time going through the entries on both FF 2 and 3 in the prefs.js file. Surprisingly no left overs from any of the extensions that I have removed. It looks like the about:config works fine for removing everything.
One thing to keep in mind using about:config. When you uninstall an extension if you see some left over about:config entries for that extension try right clicking the entry and select "reset". Than restart FF. Those entries will be gone. That's what I have been doing and my prefs.js file is clean of left over garbage. I just did a fresh set up of FF 3 portable so that wasn't a good one to check for this but by installs of FF2 are well over a year old and I have tried many extensions and removed them and the prefs.js file for it is clean to. I will keep on eye on it in the future and see if anything does get left behind in there though.
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Yeah, that has been discussed on here in the past but using the built in about:config doesn't show you absolutely everything. There's some instances where you actually have to load prefs.js in a text editor such as Notepad to remove leftovers.
I will check it out. I don't mess with that file very much usually just use the about:config.
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Don't forget to snoop around inside your FF prefs.js file too located in your profile folder, many FF add-ons put settings in there and completely fail to remove them after they've been uninstalled.
The prefs.js was the file Hazelnut sent me info about and I was looking for when I realized I didn't delete the Google Toolbar data folder.
From what I understand the about:config feature in FF is the UI for the prefs.js file.
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I figured this out and it was a stupid oversight on my part. There is a Google Toolbar data folder in the FF Profile folder that needs to be deleted. I had deleted this on my other machines and thought I had on the machine with the problem to but didn't. Hazel Nut sent me a link about some files in FF that might be the problem and while I was looking for those files in my Profile folder I noticed I had not deleted the Data folder for the Google Toolbar. Deleted it and problem solved. I will go stand in the corner now.
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This might help. The lad who wrote the software, and maintains the site has posted on here before.
It might be a case of putting the toolbar back and using his software for a clean removal. I've never used it, so not too sure of that.
Thanks I will look at that.
MR G or some one on his team must know what CCleaner uses to see if The Google Tool Bar for FF is present.
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Have you checked the registry for a google key? HKCU\Software\Google
Yes and no key. Thats where the Google Toolbar for IE would be. The Google Toolbar for Firefox is installed in Firefox where as the Google Toolbar for IE is installed in Windows and actually has it's own add/remove programs entry to uninstall it.
CCleaner obviously looks for something to determine if The Google Toolbar for FF is installed. I need to figure out what.
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I recently removed the Google Toolbar for Firefox. The entry in CCleaner is still there though on one of my machines. What file or reg key do I need to delete to get rid of the entry? I looked at the winapp.ini file but it doesn't provide a path for the file or reg key it just says "special key". So I need to know what CCleaner is detecting to list The Google Toolbar for Firefox.
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I recently "installed" Notepad++Portable on 3 machines. On two of them everything is fine. On the one machine I am having this annoying problem with the right click "open with" menu. When I right click on a file and select "open with" the right click menu list programs you have used to open this type of file with before. If you don't see the program you want you can select "choose program" and a extended list appears. If you still don't see the program you want you can select "browse" and navigate to the exe for the program you want to use.
My problem is I want to add Notepad++ Portable. When I select browse and navigate to the Notepad++Portable exe and click on it to add it it just doesn't work. It's not added to the list. I have Notepad++Portable in C\Program Files. . No such problem on the other machines. Something with the path corrupted. Any ideas? If I put in on the Desktop I can get it in the "open with" menu but thats the only folder that it will work from for some reason
Also I tried going in to the Windows file settings and selecting Notepad++ Portable from there and no go. Again if I move the folder Notepad++Portable is in it will work.
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Anthony,
I'm a fan of Sandboxie...been using it now for about 6 months now. My browsing is always sandboxed and I'm venturing into downloading new "test" programs into individual sandboxes.
I currently have Nod32, Spybot, and SAS on my system (free versions of the latter two) and I'm beginning to seriously reconsider my need for having all three of these programs. I'm not bold enough to dump all three, but since I very seldom ever scan with Spybot, I'm considering to remove that one.
Your thoughts?
I use Avira AntiVir running the real time protection. I also have Spybot, SAS, A-squared, Malwarebytes, Adawre SE, Windows Defender, and a couple Anti Root-kit scanners installed non of these with real time protection. I use them for the occasional scan and I have them just in case I do get infected.
It doesn't hurt to have the anti malware apps you have. Personally I would keep them. You only have 3 apps.
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I use them both Anthony
Me too.
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Use Sandboxie and you will better off than you would with any AV.
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Two tests. Two very different results.. They were taken a few minutes apart.
I am going to go stand in the corner again.
An insight into Flash/Shockwave plugins.
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I do not have that in my FF plugin folder. The only thing in the FF plugin folder is npnul32.dll. FireFox uses the Flash files from c/windows. Same with Opera.
On FF Portable I have manually added Flash and WMP plugins to the plugin folder since I use it portable.