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Lo all..........couple of questions.
How do I get rid of the 'bookmarks toolbar' & can anyone point me to a good FF spellchecker?
:dunce:

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Right click next to the address bar and untick Bookmarks Toolbar.

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Spellbound http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
dictionaries from the site in the first paragraph http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/

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Doh! :dunce: Tnx :blush:
Someone rep 'im plz :)

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Done :)

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Glad you decided to move to Firefox Ramrod. :)
Out of interest, does anyone use Portable Firefox?
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

I installed it on my USB key the other day and now use it when I'm in work or college - the ability to use the same set of bookmarks and cookies is excellent.
I recommended it to my mates who thought it was really useful. :)

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Yep.....thought I'd give customising it a concerted effort and I'm about there now :tu: :)
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My one gripe is that it hasn't got the range of tool bar themes that I have available for I.E. (using Y's toolbar)

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Toolbar themes?
If you want themes then go here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/themes/?application=firefox

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Yep, already been there....not much choice compared to the Y's toolbar themes ('course it took me ages to collect those :D )

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There are 83 themes there. That's not enough for you? ;)

Or you could try here

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Yeah I use it- but only if a PC is so ****ed IE doesn't work, so I can troubleshoot on the net.

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thats the best thing about firefox why do you not want to have it ?

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If Firefox is supposed to be standards compliant, how come it can't render this properly?

http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html

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Bah!

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=28494

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I remember seeing someone else mention that and by all accounts there are quite a few browsers that fail it.

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No current browser renders it, Safari is getting close though.
As you can see by the screenshots, Firefox is much closer than IE:

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bifta scroll down on that page, do you see anything? just out of interest.

the first link in that page just links to the same page but further down, and the second link links to somewhere else, so it seems, I will check the code later, just about to go out for a few.

ik

EDIT: and my IE6 does not render it correctly, and get an error

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Strangely, FF rendered it just fine but IE made a complete hash of it :confused:

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So Firefox isn't fully standards compliant? (and the original question wasn't how well Firefox renders it compared to IE)

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Those are the results I get!
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Lets not turn this into a FF v IE war again please! :mad:

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Curious the one on the left is IE and the one on the right is FF...

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Like I just said, I'm not interested in how well it renders it compared to IE, I asked if Firefox was supposed to be fully standards compliant, is it or isn't it?

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You know very well that Firefox isn't 100% standards compliant.
Anyway, Firefox is not as standards compliant as Safari and Opera but all 3 are light years ahead of IE.
I know which I'd rather develop for, IE wastes so much of my time in work it's unreal.

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Actually I didn't know, hense the question. Thankyou for finally answering it though.

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Fair enough.
Here's a handy site which has several tables of browser CSS compliance:
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/...owser_support/

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Next question.......why can't I click on/select a smilie or bring up the rep box using FF? :confused: :dunce:

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you need to enable javascript, in options/web features

you might want to go to 'advanced' and uncheck the things you dont want webstes to be able to do, if you enable it.

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have you allowed cable forum to show pop ups?

in FF go to tools > options > web features > block pop-ups and click allow, and enter cable forums web address.

ik

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Yep done all that.....still no good..........<insert confused smilie here> :D
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Edit...goddit! It was the 'no script' extension............bit of a rottweiler of an extention :D

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I must say that the number of FF extensions is amazing! :tu:

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Some might feel time for a rethink of FF v IE after this from The Register :erm:

Hmmm..............Opera for me ;)

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Join the thread ;)

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Firefox (in fact, the whole Mozilla project) aims for 100% standards compliance. However, some of it (CSS2?) isn't finished yet. That's a less than ideal state of affairs, but on the other hand no browser that I know of has 100% standards-supporting code yet.

For the record, here are shots from the latest versions of Firefox, Konqueror (the basis of Safari) and Opera. Running Linux, so I can't test MSIE.

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Ouch, Konqueror and Opera don't handle that very well.
That surprises me because I always thought that Konqueror (the KHTML engine is used in Safari on Mac) had better support than Gecko.

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And just for fun, here's the page in Links :)

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Next question...........
How do I (is it even possible) put the toolbar that contains the back/forward/refresh buttons and the address area/bar thingy up a level so that all that is next to the file/edit/view/go bookmarks etc buttons?

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right-click on a blank bit of the toolbar, customize. you can then drag & drop buttons, address bar etc. or the toolbar as a whole

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I knew that but couldn't get it to work......your post made me go back and try again and I managed it......ta m8 :tu: :)

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Ramrod, have you seen this thread which s1lv3r posted?

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Ta m8...I'll have a look :)

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you can fit a lot on the toolbars if you really try, even rss feeds. mine are all a tad bigger than normal as well... :)

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Unfortunately the google toolbar refuses to budge up.......... :(

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ditch it, use the mini one... i couldn't find a use for any of the buttons on the full toolbar!

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Nah........I use all the buttons that you see on my screenshot.......I just want to move the whole lot up a level..............

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This is why I love FF.
If you don't like some part of it then you can change it to exactly what you want! :)

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I can see that this is all gonna go horribly wrong..... :erm:

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So how do I move the google toolbar up smartypants? :D

(see post #38 to see what I mean)

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No idea, I don't have any extra toolbars ATM.

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try the google toolbar............it's very good! :)

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Do you really need all the extra buttons on the google toolbar? It's just that the built-in search is very good. You can get all sort of search engines and it's small, so you can fit it on any toolbar that's got space.

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Yep, I love the search site , highlite words, image search and the search uk facilities and use them every day...............

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Ramrod,

try to right click your google toolbar, to see if this gives you an option to move where it sits on your browser.

in Failing that, click view > toolbars > customised there you should see small box with everything on your browser screen and if you left click and hold your google toolbar, you may be able to move it around your browser.

it all depends if there is enough space or not.

you could also try to find out in the user.css if you can customize the google toolbar as well, and just change values that may deal with the google toolbar, but I don't have the google toolbar, as I prefer the quicksearch box that is standard with firefox.

ik

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Avant has something exactly like that already built into the program. I prefer the highlight on Avant's one to Googles one though, as if it doesn't find anything on the page, it will report it to you.

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What, you mean like pressing / and then typing in Firefox?...

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No, the search bar in Avant is to the right of the address bar, type in what you want to highlight, then click on highlight and it will search through the webpage. If nothing is found to highlight, it will popup saying nothing was found to highlight.

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Yeah, we get that by pressing forward slash.