Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Mozilla Firefox / September 2008

Unlike Internet Explorer 6, apparently Firefox 3 can zoom pictures at
the same time it zooms text. Here, I usually open the picture in a new
window. It's no big deal, but can the picture window be zoomed without
automatically zooming all of the other Windows at the same time? Can ...

OK, this can't be *that* hard to do. How do I erase my browsing history in
the address bar? I have checked every option in the tools > options >
security and tools > options > privacy  boxes that refer to clearing
histories and erasing histories, etc.

Using Thunderbird for mail and IE for my browser.(formerly Firefox)
When a web link is sent as a part of the email, I can't just click it
and have it open.  It is looking for Firefox, which I disabled.
How can I change this so the link will open in IE ? ?  

I noticed my bookmarks.html file hasn't been modified lately, so I
changed my bookmarks, exited Firefox, and then did a search for files
I changed today.
No bookmarks file.   But I did see a 20,000 line foxmarks.log file.

First came the spam popups.  Popup blockers were created.  Now there
seems to be a flood of "query suggestions" or "search assist" on
website search boxes.  These are just as annoying.  First Google did
it...... you begin to type in your search word or phrase and google

If someone sends me pictures and I want to forward those to someone else
it's no problem in Outlook.
However with Thunderbird, latest version, this seeme to be some major deal.
When I click the forward button I only see the red frames that surround each

Firefox 3.01 fails to display some .jpg's: complaining that the image
contains "errors"!
It does this even for my local startup pic on my PC which has
displayed for 18 months in V 2.xxx without any problem at all

For about a month now, Firefox keeps telling my I have a new update for
Firefox 2 - update 2.0.0.16 to be precise. When I download and install it,
all seems to be fine....for about a day. Then I get the same message and it
has to re-install this very same update. But whenever I ...

Is there a way to turn off the Google query suggestions in the search
box, in Firefox?  This is one of the most irritating things google has
ever done.  It's darn near as bad as popup ads.
Yes, I know I can set the preferences on Google, but I am not going to

Firefox 3.0.1, Windows XP SP3.
Is there a function in Firefox that opens a new tab with the current
webpage displayed in the new tab? In other words, opening a new tab
that's identical to the old tab (a copy of the old tab). The

I downloaded several software with MozillaFF and can't find them. I was not
given a choice as to where to save them. Where does MozillaFF store the
downloaded software?
TIA

Before, and with every browser I've ever used, the only way items
ended up on my address box dropdown list was if I typed them in
directly.  Now, if I access a site from my Bookmarks, even subsites
from a bookmarked page, they all end up on the dropdown list,

Firefox 3.0.1
Trying to download Flash Player from Adobe's website. After choosing
Save File, the Downloads dialogue comes up but remains empty.
There is a small letter "l" after some menu choices.

When I send an email with an embedded image (not attachment) from either
Firefox or Seamonkey to a hotmail address, the image is greyed out on
arrival.
However if I send the same email using Outlook Express then the images

How to mark event as done in Sunbird 0.8?
I can enter task and set progress to 100% but I cannot do the same to event.
Maybe there is a clue for example to mark event - assign an icon?