FireFox
At long last, FireFox is installed on this here machine.
We could have installed it much earlier, but I was running 9.2. FireFox wanted OS-X.
FireFox was a simple download, but it was a .dmg, a file-extension we’ve never heard of.
As such it installed as a separate disc-drive on the desktop. I couldn’t find it, as desktop files are hidden, even under Windoze. I couldn't make an alias (Windoze “shortcut”).
You had to run the app from the separate disc-drive icon, whereupon it would appear in the dock. But quit the app and it vaporized.
Seemed silly. I don’t wanna run an app from a separate disc-drive. I wanna activate it from the dock from an alias.
I don’t wanna dance all over just to run FireFox. All my other apps stay in the dock, even when off. I even got my Quicken-2003 in it last night (Saturday, March 10, 2007); although of course it runs “classic-mode” (maybe-not).
Finally we copied the actual FireFox application onto the desktop, and were able to make an alias. As such the app is on the desktop — eventually it will get moved to the Applications-Folder.
So FireFox resides in the dock; even when off.
Beyond that, the actual location of the app is another “Find” (it’s on the desktop).
I now have three browsers, which would be a lot except that some work and some don’t. —Netscape 7.0 often bombs with online purchases, for which Internet-Explorer is better. Yet IE doesn’t work at all with the blog (thank ya Gates); in which case I had to use Netscape.
Yet neither worked adding pictures to the blog: IE showed no toolbar, and Netscape went off to never-never land.
Blogger says their site is written for FireFox, so WE SHALL SEE.
What was rather amazing was that FireFox seemed to be firing up even from the trash.
We could have installed it much earlier, but I was running 9.2. FireFox wanted OS-X.
FireFox was a simple download, but it was a .dmg, a file-extension we’ve never heard of.
As such it installed as a separate disc-drive on the desktop. I couldn’t find it, as desktop files are hidden, even under Windoze. I couldn't make an alias (Windoze “shortcut”).
You had to run the app from the separate disc-drive icon, whereupon it would appear in the dock. But quit the app and it vaporized.
Seemed silly. I don’t wanna run an app from a separate disc-drive. I wanna activate it from the dock from an alias.
I don’t wanna dance all over just to run FireFox. All my other apps stay in the dock, even when off. I even got my Quicken-2003 in it last night (Saturday, March 10, 2007); although of course it runs “classic-mode” (maybe-not).
Finally we copied the actual FireFox application onto the desktop, and were able to make an alias. As such the app is on the desktop — eventually it will get moved to the Applications-Folder.
So FireFox resides in the dock; even when off.
Beyond that, the actual location of the app is another “Find” (it’s on the desktop).
I now have three browsers, which would be a lot except that some work and some don’t. —Netscape 7.0 often bombs with online purchases, for which Internet-Explorer is better. Yet IE doesn’t work at all with the blog (thank ya Gates); in which case I had to use Netscape.
Yet neither worked adding pictures to the blog: IE showed no toolbar, and Netscape went off to never-never land.
Blogger says their site is written for FireFox, so WE SHALL SEE.
What was rather amazing was that FireFox seemed to be firing up even from the trash.
posted by BobbaLew at 9:49 AM
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