Charles Capps
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Netscape 7.2 is the latest release, and it's basically Mozilla Suite 1.7. Same rendering engine as Firefox, but a completely different interface...
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OK, so this Download Manager has been ticking away in the background remembering every file or image or whatever I've clicked on?! No fucking wonder it was getting so slow, I've been using it for about two months now. I tried to open the DM and it took 20 minutes! So now I've got it set to not remember anything. But what is the bloody point of the thing in the first place?! And why not just set it to NOT remember everything by default. Oh, wait, of course, I know why - because that would be SENSIBLE, and (even worse), would make the program just like IE, which was made by Microsoft and is therefore REALLY BAD and UNCOOL. Jesus. Life was much better without the internet.
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Life was much better without the internet.
LOL! Bring on 1993! Which - actually as I was thinking last night wasn't such a BAD year.
Neither was 1987, 1998, 1990, 1992 and 1995.
*Andrew knows that the internet has been around since the 1960's - but I just nominated a year when it was was primarily the domain of computer geeks and Star Trek nerds. Which used to more-often-than-not go hand in hand. I also used 1993 as a friend's brother started getting on the 'net in like 1994 - when it was all text based! *
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quote:Originally posted by Charles Capps: Netscape 7.2 is the latest release, and it's basically Mozilla Suite 1.7. Same rendering engine as Firefox, but a completely different interface...
So is Netscape worth a try again?
What about just using lynx?
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I guess if it's one of those George Bernard Shaw things where "gopher" is actually pronounced "salmon" or something.
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Charles Capps
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Using salmon to browse the web will prove unproductive.
Lee: By default, the Download Manager pops open every time you save a file. Chances are that, if you left that default on, you'd also then see that it collected a history and could, from time to time, click the button in the Download Manager window that clears its history, thus avoiding the whole issue of the history never clearing itself by default.
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Text-based browsing is the hot shit, though. Spend a few weeks of quality time with a Unix terminal and it's like a whole new internet slowly opens itself up to you, one of an almost ASCIIthereal beauty and f1337tness. Go and download Lynx for Windows now, that you may see.
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Another Firefox question: when I run Disk Cleanup, there is almost nothing in my Temporary Internet Files after I've been online all day. Does Firefox store its temporary files elsewhere? And if so, is Disk Cleanup catching these?
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Charles Capps
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Yes, they're elsewhere. No, Disk Cleanup doesn't catch them. However, unlike IE, Firefox actually obeys the cache storage limit.
You can play with (and clear) the cache under Options -> Privacy -> Cache
The default is 50 megs, I have mine set to 10. Don't set it too small - keep it up to at least five megs.
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-------------------- "Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Tao to survivial or extinction. It must be thoroughly pondered and analyzed."
"...attaining one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the pinnacle of excellence. Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 6th century B.C.E.
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So for some dumb reason when I went to open Firefox, it deleted ALL of my bookmarks, all of my options and preferences. I had to reimport everything from IE, which was a huge pain in the ass, since all of the bookmarks I've added SINCE I stopped using IE over a month and a half ago are now gone. The meticulous arrangment my bookmark folder was in was completely undone. I am so incredible pissed at Firefox.
Why? Why did this happen? I have no idea. But I'm pretty fucking pissed.
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