I had a registry tweak which allowed for me to type a bunch of words (with spaces between them) into the URL bar and it would do a google search on those words

Java applets won't play. I've reinstalled the Sun JRE about a dozen times attempting to get java to work on this thing and it still won't.

What if I want to save off those installers so I can put them on another computer without re-downloading them? Is there a procedure for that?

I can use IE as an FTP client that can upload and modify files on the server. I can even make a link to my favorite FTP sites as "ftp://username:password@ftp.sitename.com". When I try to do this in Firefox, it says something like "Operation not supported".

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In real life,

Is it consistent for you?

Re: external links opening new windows: http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#beh_reuse

it forgets about the third link and only downloads the fourth one

Folks claim that making persistent greater than 8 is bad. I don't know how to define "bad" in this case.

["SHOULD NOT" means] that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the particular behavior is acceptable or even useful, but the full implications should be understood and the case carefully weighed before implementing any behavior described with this label.

I changed it within about:config and it worked. Maybe it needs to be in whichever file that manipulates.

When I click a link say via email, or shortcut or whatever, I want it to open a new tab not take over an existing tab or open a new window.

Open external links in new windows or tabs

If another program wants to display a web page in the default browser, Firefox will reuse an existing window by default, which means that it will navigate from a page you might be reading. To stop this, add the following code to your user.js file:

// Stop reusing active windows:
user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);

What about new tabs instead of windows then? If you prefer tabs instead of windows, you must also install Tabbrowser Extensions, a very powerful extension that enhances the functionality of the tabbed browsing. After installing the extension, follow these instructions (make sure you didn't forget to add the above code to your user.js file):

1. Make sure you didn't forget to add the above code to your user.js file.

2. Select Tools > Options > Extensions, select Tabbrowser Extensions and click Settings.

3. Expand the Category list and select the topmost sub-item (it's supposed to read Advanced Tabbed Browsing but the Category list is too narrow).

4. In the Window Mode drop-down listbox, select Use multiple browsers only when I open them.

Done! Now any link opened by an external program, such as your e-mail client, will open in new tabs.

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IE, by comparison, launches almost instantly.

t's only a few critical things that keep me from fully embracing firefox.

To launch a fresh session of firefox takes a maddeningly long time, even on my 3.2ghz system.

Example? I've never seen CSS that wouldn't render properly on Firefox/Firebird/Mozilla/whatever that didn't have any errors.

when viewing the print preview in Firefox

My one major issue with it at this point is the fact that is soooo slow. It is much, and I mean MUCH, slower than IE or MYIE2. I can watch it creating the page every time, something I never see in IE. It probably takes 2 or 3 times longer to render.

Are you testing apples to apples? For example, loading from a hard disk instead of online so that random variances in network speed don't affect you?

Do you have one app or the other set to download more than two HTTP streams at the same time? That might affect download/render speed. Earlier in this thread somewhere, I think we discuss how to set that feature in Firefox, you need to make a registry change to set that feature in IE.

Finally, are you confusing Firefox's rendering style with slowness?

Already done on both. This is also a tweak I have used with IE for a long time, and is one of the first things I did with Firefox (the RFCs be damned.)

It might be interesting to see if you run into the same discrepancies and problems if you set them both back to the system defaults.

I just went to Google and hit the News link...and nothing happened.

I'll give MyIE2 a stab, thanks.

This behavior, to me, is consistent with the hypothesis that MyIE2 somehow lost my BBS cookie in the middle of a browsing session, at a point in time between the time I pressed "Reply" and the time I submitted the reply by pressing "Continue". This does not give me a lot of confidence in MyIE2...

I don't think it's a client-side problem.