TSGL: Firefox annoyances--is there an answer?

[Ian Ramsey-Planck]

Are you sure you have the right Firefox?

Firefox is portable so you can move it to another drive if you really want
to without problems. AddOn's are installed by themselves, theres nothing to
unzip or download, just click install and it does it itself.

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Don Penlington
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:27 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Firefox annoyances--is there an answer?

Cyndi wrote:
>With XP, Firefox has an tab icon up top.>>


Mine doesn't. It does show the tab bar.

Ian wrote:

<<Use that add-on, it should fix your tabs problem.>>

I did. It didn't.  The addon didn't seem to self-install, I ran it and it 
just unzipped to some folders. I manually moved their contents to the 
similar folders in firefox, but not sure if I got that right.  Do you have 
to go through all that hassle with all its addons?  I'd expect them to be 
self-installing. I couldn't find any instructions on the addons page about 
installing them.

Overall, I must say I'm very underwhelmed with Firefox and will probably 
trash it, despite its enthusiastic following and its speed.

Nor do I care for its method of installing all its data into my C-Drive, 
which I keep for the OS only. I've always thought that's bad programming. 
Maybe there's a reason.

I did manage to get the tabs bar moved, so that's one success out of 3. The 
other problems seem to be intractable.
Perhaps my system (XP SP2) or my security settings do not suit it.

Don Penlington





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