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Good experience with Firefox over IE

by grandpaw7 Sep 28, 2004 6:11AM PDT

I tried to download a couple of MS Knowlege Base articles via IE. All I could get on my screen was the title to the articles, not the body, and that after a considerable waiting period. Then, I tried to download Everest, the successor to Aida32, again via IE. After I clicked the initial dialog asking if I wanted to open the file for download, nothing else happened. I switched to Firefox, and the download went fine. grandpaw

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Re: Good experience with Firefox over IE
by Steve Oct 4, 2004 7:33AM PDT

Hi,

I also like Firefox, it's a VERY GOOD browser, unforntunately many sites I visit REQUIRE IE and do not display properly without IE 5.5+, not sure why that is, IF I could visit every site "properly" with Firefox, IE would be off this machine in a heartbeat believe me.

Steve

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Steve, you need IE...
by glenn30 Oct 4, 2004 7:55AM PDT

For Windows Updates. I use Firefox almost all time... like it! But do keep IE for Windows Updates and those few sites Firefox will not load.

Happy

Glenn

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Re: Steve, you need IE...
by JP Bill Oct 4, 2004 11:02AM PDT

Not sure if this will work for you, but.

There is an extention that is available to "view pages as IE".

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Re: Steve, you need IE...
by Steve Oct 5, 2004 8:47AM PDT

Bill,

I did a google search for that extension, do you have a URL I can download it from easily?

Thanks,

Steve

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Not Steve, but try this...
by glenn30 Oct 5, 2004 9:55AM PDT
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