A little Mozilla question
 

After you have installed Mozilla Firefox do you end up with 2 browser icons, Mozilla and IE, on your desktop so that you can choose which one you wish to use by the click of a key? Or, to put it another way, are they 2 completely independent systems with no adverse interaction between them?

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independent. Only thing firefox uses is IE's favorites, but it doesnt really need IE interaction.

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Yes, independent. You can even run both at the same time and be logged into the same website with two IDs!

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Yes, it can be a bit of a laugh when you do that, particularly in a chat room when you go in with two different identities, be a tad contraversial with one of them and then leave with that identity. Your remaining identity picks up exactly what is being said about you when you leave. :D

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i wouldnt admit to that in public, unless you have schizophrenia... :erm:

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Hahaha, and if you set IE to use a web-based proxy server, so that peeps didn't realise 2 users were sharing the same IP address, then it would be even more effective :D :D

off topic...
 

Does anyone notice that the "Alternative" text for images in Firefox sometimes doesnt display?

Sometimes it looks like it comes up but its actually "Title" text.

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That's the way it's supposed to work though, IE is actually wrong by displaying the alt text in a tooltip.
Other browser do it properly by displaying the text if an image if unavailable or if someone has them switched off.
As an example, I use this for a site logo usually:
<h1><image src="sitelogo.png" alt="Site Title" /></h1>

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Of course, hence "Alternative text" haha how silly of me. So its a general misunderstanding by me and web site designers/coders. It only bugged me when you have a small image, say a button, that isnt obvious. By habbit i would look for the alt text to identify the button but sometimes its not displayed so id have to look at the image properties.

I know in IE you can select to always display ATL text, do you know if it can be done in Firefox? about:config maybe?

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There was an extension around somewhere, check http://update.mozilla.org

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Found, Thanks.
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/popupalt