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I recently downloaded Firefox as an alternate to IE. I like many
things about it, and am happy to be trying something that is reportedly
less vulnerable to spyware. However, I have found that some of the
screens I use daily in IE are different in Fx. Two examples:

--I participate in a Yahoo group and go to Yahoo mail to read and
compose messages for this group. In my AOL browser or in IE, the Yahoo
mail composition screen has a formatting toolbar. It does not appear
at all in Fx. I can find no option or setting for this.

--I read email for my institutional college mail via Outlook Exchange
(not Express). In IE I can modify my email screen's layout, but in Fx
the layout button does not exist on the Exchange toolbar and I can find
no way to set that button.

I have visited the Firefox site and have not found any reported bugs on
this topic. Why would Firefox change options that are basic to a
site's functionality? Anyone have any experience with this? Helpful
feedback? Thanks in advance for all ideas!!

Betsy
 
I recently downloaded Firefox as an alternate to IE. I like many
things about it, and am happy to be trying something that is
reportedly less vulnerable to spyware. However, I have found that
some of the screens I use daily in IE are different in Fx. Two
examples:

--I participate in a Yahoo group and go to Yahoo mail to read and
compose messages for this group. In my AOL browser or in IE, the
Yahoo mail composition screen has a formatting toolbar. It does not
appear at all in Fx. I can find no option or setting for this.

--I read email for my institutional college mail via Outlook Exchange
(not Express). In IE I can modify my email screen's layout, but in Fx
the layout button does not exist on the Exchange toolbar and I can
find no way to set that button.

I have visited the Firefox site and have not found any reported bugs
on this topic. Why would Firefox change options that are basic to a
site's functionality? Anyone have any experience with this? Helpful
feedback? Thanks in advance for all ideas!!

Betsy
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Hi Betsy!

The new Netscape looks very good and configurable. Maybe there is a
easier way, depending your concern.
The Internet Engine with Netscape ist the same as you have now,
Mozilla. You can change to MS IE-Mode, so you can see pages especially
made for other browsers, as well specially made for IE. Anyhow, I don´t
think IE is the problem. That´s more a problem of using html
effectively!
I know nothing about Firefox, sorry. Only IE and Opera a little bit.




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
Hi Daniel-

Thanks for replying. My concern/curiosity is really about Firefox, not
IE. Your reference to "IE-Mode" to see pages built for other browsers
might be exactly at the root of my issue, though. Perhaps what I'm
seeing is what has been built for Firefox. Something for me to consider
reporting to their bug site. Altough I want to be sure before I do
that. Their bug reporting process is rather involved, so I only want to
do it once...

Betsy
 
In Firefox I can access a formatting toolbar by choosing "New! Compose
your message with Rich-Text Editor (Beta)." at the top of the page.
That what you want? Our groups want plain text so I haven't used it but
its there to use.
 
In Firefox I can access a formatting toolbar by choosing "New! Compose your
message with Rich-Text Editor (Beta)." at the top of the page. That what you
want? Our groups want plain text so I haven't used it but its there to use.
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hi
 
Why would Firefox change options that are basic to a
site's functionality?
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They didn't. Many things you think of as functions in one program
that affect another program are actually effects in the other program
that the first program has a link to. (Like the editor in Outlook -
it's IE.) Unless the authors of Firefox reverse-engineered Outlook
(which, aside from being more difficult than holding your left elbow
in your left hand, is illegal) they'd have no idea how to call which
Outlook dll file where to have Firefox cause Outlook to perform the
intended function. (If you had trouble following that sentence, it's
simple compared to the difficulty of figuring out someone else's dll.)

Firefox has an email program - Thunderbird. It's probably linked
pretty tightly to Firefox - and it's missing some of the
vulnerabilities of Outlook.
 
I recently downloaded Firefox as an alternate to IE. I like many
things about it, and am happy to be trying something that is reportedly
less vulnerable to spyware. However, I have found that some of the
screens I use daily in IE are different in Fx. Two examples:

--I participate in a Yahoo group and go to Yahoo mail to read and
compose messages for this group. In my AOL browser or in IE, the Yahoo
mail composition screen has a formatting toolbar. It does not appear
at all in Fx. I can find no option or setting for this.

--I read email for my institutional college mail via Outlook Exchange
(not Express). In IE I can modify my email screen's layout, but in Fx
the layout button does not exist on the Exchange toolbar and I can find
no way to set that button.

I have visited the Firefox site and have not found any reported bugs on
this topic. Why would Firefox change options that are basic to a
site's functionality? Anyone have any experience with this? Helpful
feedback? Thanks in advance for all ideas!!
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You might want to consider using the IE View extension for trusted pages
that you need to view in Internet Explorer.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox
 
Thanks for these replies and my apologies for not getting back sooner.
(chalk that up to major home related disasters, plumbing and
electrical...!)

I don't use Outlook. The mail manager that I referred to is Outlook
Exchange. This is set up by techs at the college where I teach. It's
web-based and should appear the same in any browser, I'd think. So far,
Firefox is the only browser that seems to deliver it differently. I
would have thought the same with Yahoo's web-based email composer.
Again, Firefox is the only browser that delivers this differently.

Art, you suspected correctly that the dll discussion sorta lost me. I
do have intention of checking out Thunderbird. However, I don't see
how that impacts my original question. Neither Outlook Exchange nor
Yahoo are my default email programs. They each just happen to serve
two tasks that I do once each day. The mail I write for those tasks
are not done with a locally installed program, as they are web-based.

I will look into the IE View extension. I have not checked out any
extensions for Firefox yet, so I have some reading and understanding to
do first.

Hope my questions are making sense and that I've not lost your
interest! Thanks again for any further ideas...

Betsy
 
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