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Originally Posted by robins_mca
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Very old thread. Most of the reasons they state FF is better than IE are no longer valid. Big exception is the open source status of FF.
Came here looking for some info on FF. Recently, about a month ago, a forum I frequented would not let me log on and post using IE7. It would log me off as soon as I logged on.
Naturally, my first reaction was I was blocked and not notified as to why. I sent a nasty-gram to the only moderator I knew (I couldn't look up the owner or any others since it wouldn't let me unless I was logged in) as to why I was blocked.
To make a long story short, he had no clue, cc'd the owner and other mods who also had no clue and assured me I wasn't blocked. They said everything looked ok, but reset all my permissions anyway. I ran every conceivable utility I could think of on my end, including uninstalling my virus scanner, nothing worked.
Last thing I tried, I installed FF and low and behold, it worked. I was able to log on and post in that forum w/o problem. Accessing the forum using IE7 still results in the same problem.
I like FF and want to keep it, it's a lot faster, but there are some things about it I find annoying. Here's a list:
The status bar at the bottom of the screen. To me, it's useless info that only reduces the space of the screen. In IE7, I can hide it, but not in FF. There is a Java setting in FF that has a "Hide Status Bar" option, but apparently it's a different status bar they're referring to, as I selected it but the status bar I don't like is still there at the bottom of the FF screen.
In IE7, I can hide the Menu Bar (
File
Edit
View, etc), in FF I cannot.
In IE7, I can hide the RoboForm toolbar with a click on the X on the right end. In FF I have to right click the Navigation toolbar in order to access the toolbar menu, then deselect RoboForm.
In IE7, I can lock/unlock the toolbars, resize them, and combine them on one line, e.g. I have the location bar and google bar on the same line. I can't do that in FF.
Last but not least, Adsubract/Intermute does not support FF. It can be manually configured to work with it by changing it to Fixed Port Mode, but I don't really want to hassle with it.
I would still like to keep FF, but for now I'll only be using it to access that one forum, which will mean I probably won't be posting as much.
Perhaps some of you more experienced FF fans can give me some tips to configuring it the way I would like.
And for you more experienced IE7 users, maybe you can tell me how to diagnose why IE7 will not let me log on to that one forum. It only does it on that forum, and only from my computer. I can access it on a friend's computer who uses IE7.
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