|I am going to try your suggestions for Firefox. From past experience it
| seems that in the end Microsoft wins out with the best applications. I am
| therefore reluctant to get rid of Internet explorer.
You don't have to get rid of IE to use Firefox. The can coexist on your
computer with no problems at all.
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| "Philippe L. Balmanno" wrote:
|
| > Frank Saunders, MS-MVP wrote:
| > > | > >
| > >> I found that using IE6 I could not access Microsoft Newsgroups. I
| > >> switched to Firefox and it worked temporarily. I found that the
| > >> problem was improper use of the .net passport sign in. I got into my
| > >> .net passport profile, signed out and clicked not to be remembered.
| > >> I had to do this for both Firefox and IE6. I can now access the
| > >> newsgoups on both browsers. I believe I had the problem because I
| > >> had not been signing out.
| > >
| > >
| > > For a faster interface to the newsgroups, in Outlook Express go to
Tools
| > > | Accounts | Add (or New) | News.
| > > Set up an account for this news server:
| > >
| > > msnews.microsoft.com
| > >
| > > The server is free and does not require you to logon. This news
server
| > > carries over 2200 newsgroups related to Microsoft products and keeps
| > > messages at least 30 days.
| > >
| > > For more detail see
| > >
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
| > >
| > Good move, I downloaded Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird (calendar-to
| > replace Outlook PIM). Install them and make sure they work properly
| > setting accounts for email etc. Then uninstalled ie & oe via
| > start\settings\control panel searched\add remove programs. Once that is
| > done go to kelly's corner and get the windows messenger remover and
| > disabled and removed that so it won't kick in on boot up and bring up
| > MSN explorer (use the web to check any hotmail account). Next do a
| > google search for "speedup firefox" do all except Set
| > "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 30 or more. Setting this to 30
| > means it will make 30 requests or more at once (whichever you picked).
| > Why I say not to do this is because setting the maxrequests to 30 will
| > not do any good anyways, as the hard limit on a web server is 8, so
| > anything over 8 will be ignored. Although you can speed up your
| > connection if you do set this to 30, if the site isn't busy, but you
| > will slow down that site by doing so. Next modify your Firefox Icon by
| > right clicking and choosing properties and adding " /prefetch:1 " to the
| > end of the target line it should look like this.
| > "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /prefetch:1
| >
| > All of these tweaks are available on the search including the comments
| > on the maxrequests.
| >
| >
