A little Mozilla question

[Theodoric]

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?

[bbwannabe]

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

[bob_builder]

Originally Posted by Theodoric

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?

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

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by bob_builder

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

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.

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by ianathuth

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.

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

[Gareth]

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

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.

[Richard M]

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>

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?

[Richard M]

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

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