Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Mozilla Firefox / October 2008

Since Comcast ng server is gone, I can't figure out how to get rid of
the folder newsgroups.comcast.net.  Anyone know how to do this?

Firefox appears to be incapable of revealing the shading behind text -
which appears when text+shading pages are viewed in Internet Explorer.
For example, if you look at the following page website:
http://www.davidcade.net

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Flash player not working with Firefox on wifes machine but works on IE.
Works on my machine with Firefox and Chrome.  Wonder how I can correct?
Frank

I normally have several tabs loaded with the daily news, and find it
very annoying to suddenly have someone chatting away in the background.
Then I have to flip through the tabs to find which clip has started, and
hit stop/pause, then return to what I was doing. It wouldn't be so ...

In FF2 and earlier, if I clicked on a link in an e-mail it brought up
a dialog box to select the user for Firefox (there are 3 users). This
would be if a browser windows was not already open.
Beginning with FF3 this no longer happens.  Clicking on a link in an

Is firefox worth downloading as I have heard a lot of horror storie
where peoples browser keep crashing horribly. :eek:
I dont want to take any risks my browser must be rock steady and no
some buggy piece of junk that crashes every 5 mins. :rolleyes:

I have an older program (AdSubtract) I've used for years to manage cookies in IE
and Mozilla browsers including Firefox.  But FF 3 screwed the pooch by changing
the cookies folder to sqlite format since AdSubtract is looking for a folder
named cookies.txt.

Is there a way to expand the bookmark menu bar downwards so that there
are two rows? Thanks.

Here's the deal -- Win XP and T-Bird v 1.0.5.14
I have been using NGs in T-Bird for several years via Comcast/Giganews
news server (server name: newsgroups.comcast.net).  I have many message
filters set up for the various groups I use in Comcast NGs.  Oct 25th is

Can someone please explain how I can get rid of History in Mozilla FireFox
3.0.3?  I click on History but see no way to clear the places I went to
online.

I hit "save as" and tell it the folder, but nothing saves.
what am I doing wrong?

Have been using Thunderbird like forever. Just today, attempted to send
an email and message came back....unable to connect to SMTP server.
Went to the Comcast mail program, it connected and send just fine. Far
as I know, I havn't changed or added anything lately.

Is it possible to search for a message in *all* the email accounts in
one go (TBird 2)?  Afaik see I have to search one email account, then
select the next and search that  etc. etc
thanks

Although I don't think there has been a recent update (I am still on
v3.0.1) all of a sudden today I can't get any maps or directions from
maps.google. com.  Same site works fine, still in IE7  I can fill in
start and end addresses and tell it to get directions, but the next