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

southsider · Post by **southsider** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:07 am

I have greasemonkey, but all the greasemonkey scripts I've found either don't work or are dead links.

Chey Kizoxie · Post by **Chey Kizoxie** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:20 am

what am i missing on bus by not having firefox? just wondering how i would change to firefox and how that would affect my overall web viewing

Post by **Jomomma** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:23 am

Just download it and brows away.

I have found it to be wonderful, not just for bus bit the net in general. I find it to be very east to use and customize

southsider · Post by **southsider** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:33 am

Chey Kizoxie wrote:what am i missing on bus by not having firefox? just wondering how i would change to firefox and how that would affect my overall web viewing

More for general internet-ness than BUS, but...
-it is faster than IE
-there is an extension that can block ads (I seriously never see ads anymore)
-it is easy to use and customize
-if your computer freezes up, firefox remembers where you were and offers to re-open your session so you don't have to start over
-etc.

It is good stuff.

Download it and give it a try. If you hate it you can always uninstall it.

Chey Kizoxie · Post by **Chey Kizoxie** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:37 am

So far it seems interesting. Is there any applications i can use to customize the colour of bus without affecting other websites?

and I love the spell checker by the way

Post by **Jomomma** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:38 am

I love the restore session feature. My old puter froze constantly and I hated having to work my way back to where I was.
Way way way better than IE hands down

Ads?
What ads?

Chey Kizoxie · Post by **Chey Kizoxie** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:49 am

I think I could really like this. I do want to change how bus looks. My poor eyes. white background with black text is hard on my eyes, then again its nearly 3 am lol

southsider · Post by **southsider** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:55 am

I didn't like the default either, so I changed the board style to one of the other ones (in your BUS profile screen). Is there one that is easier on your eyes?

Post by **Jomomma** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:57 am

SubBlack rocks

Chey Kizoxie · Post by **Chey Kizoxie** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:01 am

Access is the only one where the text is large enough. Quiddich is good but for some reason the columns are all sized kinda strange. Actualy with Subblack there is no seperator between posts.

Sorry I started on greyblue and nothing beats greyblue

i will just put up with access if I cant just invert the colours or something. maby I need to figure out why the columns are weird in quidich

Smeagol · Post by **Smeagol** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:26 am

In all web-browsers you can manually override the display of a page by customising your user style sheet. Unfortunately this requires you to learn a bit of css and to edit your browser configuration files, but once you're set up it should be fine. You can learn about user style sheets at http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/ I've not done this so I'm afraid I can't help!)

Opera is quite good for accessibility in that it has several pre-defined ways of dispalying a page, e.g. to have high contrast or what they call an accessibility layout.

Chey Kizoxie · Post by **Chey Kizoxie** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:16 pm

thanks smeagol

Mistress · Post by **Mistress** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:49 am

But Opera occasionally goes mad and hogs your system resources for all they're worth... it's not the most stable browser.

Smeagol · Post by **Smeagol** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:05 pm

So does firefox for me.

I prefer firefox because I can't live without my extensions, but opera has some nifty stuff built in. To anyone thinking of switching from IE I'd suggest trying both and seeing which suits you.

Mistress · Post by **Mistress** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:10 pm

sheer curiousity, what version of ff and what os are you running?

i've never heard of ff being that unstable, is all. my little developer neurons are sparking...

Smeagol · Post by **Smeagol** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:31 pm

I run 2.0.0.8 or 2.0.0.9 on slackware 11.0.

Firefox is pretty stable these days, btu until at least relatively recently its normal memory footprint was said to be larger than opera's. Way better than IE6, of course, but it didn't set the bar for minimal memory usage. That's what I was referring to. My partner runs an ancient laptop and he uses opera because it doesn't have enough memory to run firefox (some ancient version of slackware, fwiw).

I might not be up to date on this though. I don't follow browser developments as closely as I used to.

Mistress · Post by **Mistress** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:57 pm

thanks, i was just curious

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:33 pm

southsider wrote:More for general internet-ness than BUS, but...
-it is faster than IE
-there is an extension that can block ads (I seriously never see ads anymore)
-it is easy to use and customize
-if your computer freezes up, firefox remembers where you were and offers to re-open your session so you don't have to start over
-etc.

I agree with all the above. When I first used FF, I was amazed at how fast it was compared to IE, and now I can't stand IE and refuse to use it

Greasemonkey makes posting soo much easier, as well. And I love the smiley add on!

snowangel_03 · Post by **snowangel_03** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:35 pm

And to make the BBcode show in ^ that post, I just edited and submitted.

friarygirl · Post by **friarygirl** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:49 am

Anyone know how to stop my stupid mac automatically going to "safari" when I need a sensible browser/internet portal? I can only access emails (via hotmail) on safari, and pretty much anything else I access via the mac rather than via the internet comes up on stupid safari, though I always have Firefox up as my browser and have told it to be my default etc. I hate it because sometimes it gets stuck and I have to abandon everything I'm doing and reboot, whereas if I'm using Firefox and something goes wrong, I just hit *back* and start again with no problems. And it re-routes stuff to safari even if I'm patently only using Firefox.

I know macs are tricky. I keep trying to do stuff that needs "Activex" and I guess that doesn't work on macs - unless anyone has a brilliant way round it?

The internet is supposed to be easy. if you've got a mac, it isn't.

Sarah

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