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CLK
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Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1139
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 9:55 am: |     |
I've had one IE crash too many, and I'm going to be using Netscape for a while.
However I have a rather large, complicated set of IE favorites, and I want to move them into Netscape. Anybody know of a q&d way to do this?
Thanks! |
CLK
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1140
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:02 am: | |
OK, now I'm remembering why I couldn't stick with netscape on earlier tries.
Is there ANY way to get Netscape to not give you that annoying box every time you go into a new MOL thread - the one asking you which userid you want to fill out the form with? (mine says, of course, "clkelley" and "clkelley" ... hmm, is that really a choice?) |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 7732
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:41 am: | |
Go to the password manager and delete one of those, so that there is no longer a choice.
But really, it sounds like you have an out-of-date browser. Mozilla Firefox is the cutting edge of the Netscape browser. Download it from http://www.mozilla.org
Also, the Opera browser just got better. I like it even more than Firefox. http://www.opera.com
I believe when you install both of these, it gives you an option of importing your IE bookmarks.
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CLK
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1141
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 11:17 am: | |
Opera kept pooping out on me (couldn't find the download file) so I figured I'd try Firefox for now. It did indeed give me the option to import my bookmarks. I'm up and running right now - should be an interesting adventure ... |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 7770
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 4:29 pm: | |
What do you mean couldn't find the download file?
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 7772
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 4:48 pm: | |
And speaking of bookmarks, has anyone solved the problem of leaving your bookmarks on one computer and wanting them on another? I can't stand that. So I never bookmark things in my browser. I do it on a webpage I can access anywhere. The trouble is, it's not all that convenient to add to it, but that should be easy to fix, maybe with a wiki or blog.
My bookmarks are at http://whatexit.org/~tommy/bookmarks.html
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Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 1137
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 11:47 pm: | |
tom, you might be able to do it with a bookmarklet... a snippet of javascript to update the page |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 1763
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:39 am: | |
Why not just type the links into a Word doc? Kind of overkill to make a web page. |
CLK
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1151
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:50 am: | |
It said "file xyz.whatever can't be found." |
CLK
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1152
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:51 am: | |
Tom, you can also use something like my yahoo to save your bookmarks anywhere. I have a few saved that way. If you use the yahoo toolbar, you can get at your bookmarks on the toolbar if you're on your own computer. |
CLK
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 1156
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 2:02 pm: | |
fwiw I've been up and running with firefox for about 24 hrs now, and so far so good. It crashed fairly seriously early this morning though, and I had to re-start my computer - but seeing as how this was happening 5-6 times a day with IE that seems OK to me. (this happened during a post to MOL, which I couldn't be bothered to re-type.) It has some features that I really like, such as (found this out accidentally) if you double-click on a folder in your bookmarks you get a new window with lots of tabs, each one being one of your bookmarks inside that folder. Cool. |
kevin
Citizen
Username: Eloso
Post Number: 71
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 5:18 pm: | |
Tom,
If you are using firefox there is an extension called 'bookmark sychronizer' that will sychronize your bookmarks between computers on a ftp server. It sychronizes automatically everytime you start your browser.
Kevin |
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