Everyone seems to love Firefox. Everyone, that is, except for this man...

[Richard M]

I've never had any of those problems in years of using Netscape/Mozilla Suite/Firefox.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by Richard M

I've never had any of those problems in years of using Netscape/Mozilla Suite/Firefox.

Heh, even if you had, I don't think you could admit it now

[LemonyBrainAid]

I've had a few problems with the "This document contains no data", but thats about it. Only when I tried to send an email through gmail, though..

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by LemonyBrainAid

I've had a few problems with the "This document contains no data", but thats about it. Only when I tried to send an email through gmail, though..

I have that problem too, also it tends to lock all of my systems up needing a reboot, which isn't good for several reasons

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by philip.j.fry

...Now that I'm officially a geek/techie I can see many problems with IE, the biggest in my opinion being a disregard for hard won standards (Richard made the very good point about TCP/IP and what would happen if one company altered it so it was incompatible).

Uh-oh:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1714680,00.asp

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Uh-oh:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1714680,00.asp

Don't click the above link if you have Spybot S&D installed. The link tries to install doubleclick and S&D will keep you clicking on the 'blocked doubleclick' box till you press ctrl/alt/del and shut your browser down

[Richard M]

"install doubleclick"?
Doubleclick.net is an advertising company who will give your browser a cookie.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Don't click the above link if you have Spybot S&D installed. The link tries to install doubleclick and S&D will keep you clicking on the 'blocked doubleclick' box till you press ctrl/alt/del and shut your browser down

I just clicked it and have Spybot S&D installed. Went to the page no problem. As Richard said, it will just have created a cookie for doubleclick which will show up when I next run Spybot or Adaware.

[TheBlueRaja]

Ah, the beauty of SpySweeper, it simply flicks it away automatically like an annoying fly.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by theblueraja

Ah, the beauty of SpySweeper, it simply flicks it away automatically like an annoying fly.

I'm running that as well but S&D seems to jump on that cookie first...................

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

I'm running that as well but S&D seems to jump on that cookie first...................

There is an option in Spybot to either block or allow the cookie automatically without telling you.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by scastle

There is an option in Spybot to either block or allow the cookie automatically without telling you.

Any idea how....I've had a nose around in advanced settings but can't find anything about it

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Any idea how....I've had a nose around in advanced settings but can't find anything about it

This is based on the version 1.3 (as I have just had to download it anyway).


Click on "Immunize", then at the bottom of the window, find a section headed "Permanently running bad download blocker for Internet Explorer". There is a list box below. Change this to "Block all bad pages silently". The other two options are to display a dialog when blocked, or prompt the user for what to do.

[AndrewJ]

Really LOL, well I switched over to Firefox a long while back and always get the latest version on date of release.

Not a issue with it nice little bit of kit,

[basa]

Originally Posted by AndrewJames

Really LOL, well I switched over to Firefox a long while back and always get the latest version on date of release.

Not a issue with it nice little bit of kit,

Erm...so why the "Dump Firefox" in your sig ??