At times, no browsing

[ms]

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If the XP & W9x machines are working fine then they are probably
already set to automatically find the DNS server, nowadays almost all
ISPs have their clients use automatic settings obtain IP & DNS
addresses.




They're .evt files in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config folder.
(%SystemRoot% is a variable for the system folder, WINNT on Windows
2000, or the same thing as %Windir%). You can't really read these
files without special tools, use the Event Viewer to view the logs.



You're welcome, I glad to see that you got things fixed.

John

Again, many thanks for your help.

ms

 

[Sid Elbow]

I read a month ago on a ng that Fx 2 users were upset when trying Fx 3 that
the bookmarks were a different system, bookmark utilities no longer worked.
They quoted a web page but I had no time to search it.

Do you have a bookmarks.htm file in Fx 3?

A search does turn up a number of (Firefox) bookmarks.html files but I
believe these are all left over from Firefox 2. I can't find anything
from FF3. Bookmark dropdowns etc *are* present as normal in the GUI
though and behave the same way and you can export them as an html file
if need be.

By "bookmark utilities" I assume you mean 3rd party Firefox add-ons. If
so, this is not a problem confined to bookmark utilities. The system of
user-generated add-ons sounds fine in theory but in my experience
whenever FF is updated (whether it be a version change or an
intermediate update), several of the add-on's fail. And being user
developed on an ad-hoc basis, there is no guarantee when (or if) these
utilities will ever be updated. Right now, I have more "broken" add-ons
than good ones. And given that FF seems to get updates even more
frequently than IE, I don't normally bother with the add-ons any more
they're just too much trouble.

 

[b.jeswine]

In

I read a month ago on a ng that Fx 2 users were upset when trying Fx
3 that the bookmarks were a different system, bookmark utilities no
longer worked. They quoted a web page but I had no time to search it.

Whoever said that had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, as do
you.

Do you have a bookmarks.htm file in Fx 3?

Of course not ... it's "bookmarks.html".

 

[ms]

A search does turn up a number of (Firefox) bookmarks.html files but I
believe these are all left over from Firefox 2. I can't find anything
from FF3. Bookmark dropdowns etc *are* present as normal in the GUI
though and behave the same way and you can export them as an html file
if need be.

By "bookmark utilities" I assume you mean 3rd party Firefox add-ons.
If so, this is not a problem confined to bookmark utilities. The
system of user-generated add-ons sounds fine in theory but in my
experience whenever FF is updated (whether it be a version change or
an intermediate update), several of the add-on's fail. And being user
developed on an ad-hoc basis, there is no guarantee when (or if) these
utilities will ever be updated. Right now, I have more "broken"
add-ons than good ones. And given that FF seems to get updates even
more frequently than IE, I don't normally bother with the add-ons any
more they're just too much trouble.

My comment was from people that, like me, use separate utilities- Moz
Backup for backing up Fx bookmark files, etc. I use extensions, they
behave as you describe in new versions, I only use PrefBar.

It appears there's a way to work with FX 3, but I have no reason to
upgrade. In over 10 years, I've never seen a internet threat due to my
"outdated" software. I keep the same browsing patterns.

ms

 

[Sid Elbow]

In

Whoever said that had absolutely no idea what they were talking about, as do
you.


Of course not ... it's "bookmarks.html".

Are you sure your bookmarks.html file is associated with FF3 and not a
left-over from FF2? (I'm talking about a real bookmarks file in the
Documents and Settings tree not the short file in the Firefox\defaults tree)

Why the confrontational attitude btw?