Hi all... ...!

I've got both Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer on my desktop.

I use IE to browse SimV, and post in the Forum, for the reason that I find Firefox has a rather strange text editor, in that the cursor appears directly over the characters, masking them, (rather than in front of the character, as in a normal text editor), also any smilies must be inserted during the process of typing the text.
They cannot be inserted after the text has been completed, (they only appear at the end of the text.

Internet Explorer uses an excellent text editor where additions and deletions can be performed anywhere in the text..!

Firefox is superb for logging onto sites where IE displays the annoying message...>>>

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The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.
...etc...etc...
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Does anyone know why Internet Explorer does this...?
Someone mentioned that it is due to the use of "Active X" controls by IE.
...so what is "Active X", and can IE be modified to overcome the problem...?

Many thanks... 8)...!

Cheers all... ...!

Paul....Weather's getting colder. Winter's on it's way... ...!

P.S.   I still find that Firefox is MUCH slower to download pages than Internet Explorer....(56k modem)... ...!

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Here ya go Fozz, this will explain it a lot better than if I tried to, even though I understand what it is and does for me to explain would be a nightmare
By the way Active X is also one of  the easiest way for a virus to get you!

http://www.active-x.com/articles/whatis.htm

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To speed up page downloading you can try a internet accelerator, which will basically reduce the quaility of images as they appear, I think you can actually do this within your browser, the less quaility will equal a faster download.
I use a accelerator and have it set to reduce quaility of images, the advantage of a accelerator is that it kills the annoying advertisments found on most website such as the ones that hang above our forums here and many others and you can turn it on or off with a click of your mouse for when you want to see the images in full quaility.

Firefox - Its better than sex. Thats just a guess cos I haven't been able to try the latter yet!!      8) I have ahd it a while now. Slower?? Naaaaa. I use it all the time on a 3.86Kbps connection. Works great. So does Thunderbird. Lovin' it!!
Dan

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You talking about Firefox or sex?

He probably means both... lol  8)

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Very good point!!
I did that after installing Netscape, then realized that almost all M$ related downloads couldn't be performed. As well there are still many websites that cannot be viewed on anything but IE (their loss!)

lol, I was using it and I didn't even know it... just got SBC Yahoo DSL a few weeks ago and until last week didn't know that it wasn't IE...

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Hmm, well I'd guess, once you've got started, Sex'll feel like Broadband! as you get older it becomes more like 56k..... If your really unlucky, you get disconnected!