FireFox: How to make reading and posting here a lot easier

Post by **kiwi33** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:42 am

This link might help: http://www.vitalized.co.uk/apple-mac-he ... ac-osx.htm

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:47 am

Thanks kiwi. I have looked and it seems like it might work.

I will defer the trying of it till tomorrow, being much sleep-deprived at the mo. If it doesn't work I'll either post here or pm - but thanks, at first sight it looks like it may work. Oh and I can't download links that have wmv. either.

I love my mac (now, after 18 months) but I still regret losing my clunky old pc, on which I could at least access anything I wanted to access.

Post by **kiwi33** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:54 am

I can't download links that have wmv

This might work: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nents.mspx

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:04 am

kiwi33 wrote:This link might help: http://www.vitalized.co.uk/apple-mac-he ... ac-osx.htm

You are MAGIC! I did it and it worked first time - it's so good to not have to switch between browsers, and curse when Safari crashes - I can get into hotmail and Facebook via msn without flinching or going the long way round.

Thank you.

Sarah

PS will try the other one tomorrow - one successful techie thing being more than enough for me on any one day.

Post by **kiwi33** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:13 am

No worries

.

I have everything crossed (well, *almost* everything

) that the other one will work too.

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:20 am

Ok, tried the spellchecker link, and it doesn't run.
Any ideas?

Post by **kiwi33** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:25 am

*is confused*

Which spell-checker link do you mean?

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:27 am

On the first post of this thread.

sine nomine wrote:<a href="http://buslist.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=101265">For people who type as well as I do but don't wnat it to show </a>

Post by **kiwi33** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:44 am

AspellFox seems to be incompatible with Firefox 3.

A couple of suggestions:

(1) FF3 has built-in spell-checking. Go to Tools--->Options--->Advanced--->General and make sure that "Check my spelling as I type" is ticked.

(2) This add-on might work: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3099 (I have never tried it).

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:56 am

kiwi33 wrote:This might work: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nents.mspx

You did it again.

It works perfectly, and now I can see and guffaw at a very irreverent but horribly true "mom-song" my cousin sent me! Well, other things too, but that was genuinely the only one worth waiting for!

You're a star - thank you so much. How do you get to be so clever with Macs? PCs I can understand, my son is studying how they work, but macs seem so random...

Sarah

Post by **kiwi33** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:35 am

Yay!! Irreverent but horribly true songs rock

.

I was trained on MacOS (in the olden days when an uber-geek would have a Mac IIci with an amazing 4 MB of RAM

).

I still prefer MacOS (Window's propensity to sprinkle tiny but essential files for any application in randomly chosen folders annoys me).

I migrated to Windows because some day-job stuff (high-end numerical analysis/graphing apps) aren't available for MacOS. The fact that Windows has better chess software is irrelevant of course

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:08 am

Well I am so glad you did all that! (not that I actually understood any of it...) My son is studying to learn how to write games and develop AI and stuff on computers. At first he preferred macs for how they perform, but he never really got to grips with them, now he's all into pcs and he had NFI where to find what I needed, so thank you.

I also learned to use a computer on a mac, many years ago (I think it had about the same RAM as yours). Note, USE, not understand. (Actually that's not true, the first computer I learned on was one of those things that printed stuff off on green lined paper with holes all down the outsides - it did maths and word-processing and that was about it). Anyway, the first computer we had at home was a mac. Then I got shunted onto pcs for years of being a PA, then got given a mac as our home computer a year or so ago. I'm not bad on pcs, as I spent 4 working years using them and downloading stuff and even taking them to bits when things like the restart button got stuck, but yeah, macs scare me a bit as they seem so seamless and slick. I mean, I could take my old work pc to bits and clean it and stick it back together and it would probably work better, but you CAN'T take a mac to pieces!

So thank you very much, you've made an old lady very happy!

Now if you could only tell me how to get Activex for the Mac (yes I do know it's impossible unless you have a 200 year old mac, I'm joking).

Thanks a lot.

Sarah

NobodyToYou · Post by **NobodyToYou** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:03 am

Totally off topic

green lined paper with holes all down the outsides

I loved playing with that stuff! Plus those old computers could run a few selected games which I loved. (Artil, anyone?) I remember my sis sitting in my dad's lap to play that game. She was actually quite good at it, even though we were little.

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:24 am

Following the OT thingy...

OMG how old am I??? I remember some crappy basic games too - but dammit I loved them, I totally rocked at Asteroids and Space Invaders on the arcade machines - but I was a specialist at Asteroids! (Imagine how excited I get by Tomb Raider or Fable or Final Fantasy nowadays! And now go and take a cold shower...)

Yup, the green lined paper was cool - great for tearing the sides off in frustration when the computer messed up, which it usually did. And brilliant for taking the wasted paper back home for nephews and nieces to use as painting paper on the blank side. Actually it usually worked pretty well, there wasn't so much stuff to get messed up in computers back then as there is now. I spent 2 days being trained as a computer operator back in about 82 or 83 on the next generation of computers after the original BBC ones (yes, Gibraltar IS that behind the rest of the world) - huge cost to my then boss, huge advantage to me in later life.

There are still places in Gibraltar who issue their invoices on lined paper with holes down the side, and obviously have very limited word processing facilities. Imagine. And our govt is trying to be taken seriously as an independent, dynamic state. Hmmmm....

Sarah

Post by **kiwi33** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:50 am

how to get Activex for the Mac

On topic - working on it - am looking at various of my favourite geek sites and will see what I can come up with.

OT - less of this "old lady" stuff hmm, I am about your age and don't think of myself as old so why should you

.

Even more OT (prompted by NTY) - I can remember my days as a post-doc at Oxford writing code (in those days on punch cards) for numerical analysis apps and having to queue for ages to run them through the card-reader, never mind when the population geneticists hogged the mainframe for days on end...

Ah, happy days

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:12 pm

Kiwi - I had the check spelling option ticked anyway, so that clearly didn't work lol.
I installed the add-on, and I now have little red dots under miss-spelled words.
Thanks!

(re. paper with holes; I remember that as a child, so you're not that old

I had an ancient games console as a kid (cannot for the life of me remember the name!) but when we got our first family PC, I was gob smacked by the quality of the graphics lol.)

Post by **kiwi33** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:19 am

how to get Activex for the Mac

Looks like it is going to have to be 2/3

. I can't find anything that will do the job for you. Ironically, your joke about 200 y.o. Macs is relevant - I did find some stuff about how Microsoft was going to do something about it Real Soon Now* from 10 years ago, but none of the download links work.

*phrase patented by Microsoft

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:57 am

kiwi33 wrote:
how to get Activex for the Mac
Looks like it is going to have to be 2/3 . I can't find anything that will do the job for you. Ironically, your joke about 200 y.o. Macs is relevant - I did find some stuff about how Microsoft was going to do something about it Real Soon Now* from 10 years ago, but none of the download links work.

Yeah, apparently about 5/6 years back there was a thing that would make Activex work on older Macs (and I mean older even for THOSE days). And now there isn't.

It's not a big deal - the big deals, you've already given me the solution for!

. I am very happy with my newly streamlined default browser, and finally being able to read the silly emails my husband sends me. But it's irritating that different things work for different machines. It really pisses me off that if you could combine all the strengths of pcs and macs, with total accessibility to everything either can access, that would be one MEAN machine. Don't worry about the Activex thing, my son says it would only work on our original Mac from about 10 years ago - and I wouldn't even need Activex on that one as it was too ancient and clunky to even consider adding that. It's just frustrating. Why can't these people get their acts together instead of indulging in this silly one-up-manship?

Sarah

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:52 pm

Pinky told me (in the specific ignore user thread) that the extension doesn't work with newer versions of firefox but I was wondering if there was a site where I could get a script that does the same thing.
I went onto the userscript.org website and searched for ignore user and it came up with 10 hits but I haven't the foggiest how to actually do/use scripts.
Any help would be great

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