Hello all! Well as ever my learning curve is getting bigger again as I take on board all the fab advice on pprune. I've just installed Mozilla Firebird. It is excellent. Can't believe how much quicker it is, and the tabbed browsing is phenomenal. The cookie handling, and blocking advertisers images is well cool.
So far I have encountered only one problem. One of the major sites I use requires java to run a particular section. When I get/got to the part of the site that requires it, it says click here to get the plug in. I did so and it installed j2re1.4.2_03, which now resides in my program files folder. However the site I use still says 'click here to get the plug in'.
The link goes here
http://plugins.netscape.com/plug-in_...tion/x-java-vm This is the link to install java from sun for netscape, which I understand is part of the source for Firebird.
I have also read the info
here about using the installer. I would benefit from some advice at this point. The Java I installed seems to do nothing. Am I better to uninstall everything and put back using the installer via the link?
I downloaded a zipped file of firebird and unzipped it into c: \Program Files. I run AOL (yeah ok!!) as my default browser under the highly acclaimed windows ME, Athlon xp2400, K7S5A, 512Mb ram, latest BIOS.
JAVA and Javascript both work ok under windows aol/IE. Is the JAVA in my programs folder just for mozilla /netscape? It all has a date of 22/01/04 which was when I downloaded it. You ever get that feeling your knowledge makes you more dangerous? Cos I got that feeling.