is apparently on the way. I mostly use ie7 over firefox 2, although firefox
has a couple of things that I like better. The text sizer and zoomer produce
superior results, and I still haven't figured out how to induce ie7 to resume
when it ws last opened. Other than that there is not so much one way or
another between them. One reason I use ie7 is because of msdn downloads,
which don't work right in firefox.

I'm afraid firefox 3 is going to be overkill, heavy, weighty, doing gobs of
things I don't need. That's why I have no add-ons for either browser.

dennist

Hi Dennis,

FF has an extension addon called IEtabs that embeds the MSIE web browser
control inside a page to allow you to view web pages using the IE rendering
engine.
I just downloaded the Netscape v8 browser, which has IE emulation (active
embedded IE) built-in.
They are both fine browsers, but as a commercial alternative to IE, they
lack the extensibility, ActiveX and security certificate support that is
built-in to IE. It is ironic that non MSIE browsers are now offering IE
emulation as an extension or built-in to their browsers, while IE7 is being
accused of being an FF2 copy.

I am surprised that you perfer the FF text resizer to the zoom features of
IE7 (If you are having problems with text sizes on web pages, switch the
option on the General tab of Internet Options, Accessibility button, to
"Ignore font sizes specified on web pages", and as required use the
ctrl+mouse wheel shortcut to zoom-in and zoom-out of pages. I think this
feature has been recently improved as this has not always been the case.

Regards.
"dennist685" <dennist685@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> is apparently on the way. I mostly use ie7 over firefox 2, although
> firefox
> has a couple of things that I like better. The text sizer and zoomer
> produce
> superior results, and I still haven't figured out how to induce ie7 to
> resume
> when it ws last opened. Other than that there is not so much one way or
> another between them. One reason I use ie7 is because of msdn downloads,
> which don't work right in firefox.
>
> I'm afraid firefox 3 is going to be overkill, heavy, weighty, doing gobs
> of
> things I don't need. That's why I have no add-ons for either browser.
>
> dennist

Le Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:05:04 +1000, Rob ^_^ a caressé son clavier pour
nous dire dans uU69NzDdHHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl ce qui suit :

> It is ironic that non MSIE browsers are now offering IE emulation as an
> extension or built-in to their browsers, while IE7 is being accused of
> being an FF2 copy.

Some bad web sites are poorly coded without accounting W3C standards with
MS propriatory bad codes .... hopefully with ff increasing use they are
recoding yjeir sites and in a few months .... no more need of IE !

--
Utiliser le butineur, le courrielleur, le lecteur de nouvelles
et l'OS avec lesquels vous vous sentez le plus sécurisé ;)

Hi Michel,
Wish on. It will never happen! See thecounter.com. Regards.
"Michel Doucet" <mimi@home.invalid> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.04.01.09.50.46@home.invalid...
> Le Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:05:04 +1000, Rob ^_^ a caressé son clavier pour
> nous dire dans uU69NzDdHHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl ce qui suit :
>
>> It is ironic that non MSIE browsers are now offering IE emulation as an
>> extension or built-in to their browsers, while IE7 is being accused of
>> being an FF2 copy.
>
> Some bad web sites are poorly coded without accounting W3C standards with
> MS propriatory bad codes .... hopefully with ff increasing use they are
> recoding yjeir sites and in a few months .... no more need of IE !
>
> --
> Utiliser le butineur, le courrielleur, le lecteur de nouvelles
> et l'OS avec lesquels vous vous sentez le plus sécurisé ;)

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:05:04 +1000, Rob ^_^ wrote:

> They are both fine browsers, but as a commercial alternative to IE, they
> lack...ActiveX...

I don't miss it at all. I only ever saw one slick ActiveX trick that had me
saying, "Wow." A mouseover manga translator.

--
Norman
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~now in the air the spring is coming.
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~singing down the hills and valleys.