So Ive finally surrendered and installed SP2 for XP home. I'd put it off forever considering all the security garbage it throws at my brother from his comp, and its ability to make perfectly stable (though aged) games not run. However once I got Civilization IV I had to relent.
That was yesterday. Today I try to browse through my flash .swf collection, and keep getting that damnable information bar "protecting" me for active content. I know what I want to run is safe, hell I created about a third of my library myself, but no matter how much I fiddle with the security settings and restart, that damn info-bar keeps mocking me. I've followed window's piss-poor instructions to auto enable, restarted, and still get that annoying yellow shield. To be far, I suppose I deserve some form of torture for switching BACK to IE from Mozilla and Opera, but this is ridiculous.
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Anonymous2005-12-28 21:15
how odd, apparently .swf files still play fine from /f/...
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Anonymous2005-12-28 21:37
>>1 Plz read before IE bashing:
LOL loser use Mozill- OH WAIT
After reading...
LOL loser use Mozilla! WTF, serves your right for using MSIE, what the fuck did you make switch back? It's not safer or better, it's just a piece of shit of a browser, also slow and buggy as fuck.
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Anonymous2005-12-28 22:07
not by choice. My prof wants work sized and formated for IE, so it became a necesary evil. Now any solutions out there?
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Anonymous2005-12-28 22:13 (sage)
My prof wants work sized and formated for IE
How does that force you to use it for browsing?
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Anonymous2005-12-28 22:32
Laziness. I'd rather put up with IE's BS then manage two separate browsers. Yes, I fail at using teh interbutt, but once I'm done with done with this course ladder Ill probably return to FireFox or opera
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Anonymous2005-12-28 23:43 (sage)
I still don't understand. What is there to manage? Set Opera/FF as default, and keep the IE icon on your desktop so you can launch it to check your work.
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Anonymous2005-12-29 4:07
What work are you doing, (X)HTML or something? If so, just write standards-compliant code.
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Anonymous2005-12-29 4:37
Get the standalone SWF executable and set windows to open using that. Can/t remember the name, SAProjector.exe or something similar. It comes with Flash but you only need the exe file.
>>8 That's the problem, MSIE is not standards compilant, it's malware compilant.
Exactly...
>>7 Set Opera/FF as default, and keep the IE icon on your desktop
Yeah, that's pretty much how I had it... Just got stuck in the habit of ignoring the other browsers. I'm switching back to Mozilla now... anybody know how to transfer bookmarks in the order they were originally arranged in IE? I don't want to have to reorganize everything if i don't have too.
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Anonymous2005-12-30 1:32
use firefox.
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Anonymous2005-12-30 11:37
>>15
Firefox can import (Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks, then File->import I think) your bookmarks from MSIE or other browser. You don't have to reorganize, but if you need to, you can manage your bookmarks very easy in FF with the "Bookmarks Manager" that is included.
The only thing Opera has going for it is it's speed. Firefox may not be as fast as Opera, but speed alone won't win this.
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Anonymous2006-01-01 7:13
It also has gestures, which are neat once you get used to them. But Firefox probably also has them in an extension somewhere.
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Anonymous2006-01-01 9:56
The only thing Opera has going for it is it's speed.
But not just raw speed. It also speeds up your browsing with things like the mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts for everything, a fully customizable interface, and tons of little things like 'Paste and go'. Plus, it is continually ahead of FF in terms of innovation.
Also, it wins for having an actual MDI instead of those shitty tabs.
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Anonymous2006-01-01 13:45
I've grown quite fond of the tabs, perhaps one could fill me in on what MDI is?
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Anonymous2006-01-01 16:00
MDI has child windows instead of tabs. So you can unmaximize them to view several pages next to eachother and such. It also means that the kind of popups you do want to open stay inside your browser instead of opening a separate window.
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Anonymous2006-01-01 19:09
>>21
Spoken like someone who has never used Opera. GJ!
BTW, Opera's tabs implementation is a lot nicer than Firefox's. I don't know why FF doesn't rip it off.