I've been running a ME os w/IE6 for a while now, with no real problems. I've got hard and soft firewalls in place, adaware, spybot, spyblaster, and avg are all kept up to date. Same w/windows updates. No problems. This thing runs (ran) smooth. Then I decided to try Firefox. It looks good, but I decided it just wasn't for me. A few of the problems that occured "out of the box" were:
-1st thing I noticed is that it kinda took over a lot of my desktop shortcuts (slapped an orange world on them). I figured, what the heck, let it do it's thing. Well, it didn't do it very well. For instance, I click the sc for Anandtech and I get a warning box saying it can't find the url, even though it has, I just x out the box and I'm in. Ok, slight bug. Then it says I need to download a flash player. OK, click here. Nothing happens. Tried it 2 or 3 times from different places. Still nothing. Doesn't look like I need it anyway, so I move on.
-2nd thing: It wouldn't allow me to set a desktop shortcut, so I hunted down an extention and loaded that. Didn't work. At least in a way I thought it should. Minor bug.
Simple solution to main problem (rant removed): Made IE6 my default browser. Jeez.
So, there it is. Any Linux/Firefox gurus out there that've run across this problem or am I swingin' in the wind? Time to reformat anyway.
-1st thing I noticed is that it kinda took over a lot of my desktop shortcuts (slapped an orange world on them). I figured, what the heck, let it do it's thing. Well, it didn't do it very well. For instance, I click the sc for Anandtech and I get a warning box saying it can't find the url, even though it has, I just x out the box and I'm in. Ok, slight bug. Then it says I need to download a flash player. OK, click here. Nothing happens. Tried it 2 or 3 times from different places. Still nothing. Doesn't look like I need it anyway, so I move on.
-2nd thing: It wouldn't allow me to set a desktop shortcut, so I hunted down an extention and loaded that. Didn't work. At least in a way I thought it should. Minor bug.
Simple solution to main problem (rant removed): Made IE6 my default browser. Jeez.
So, there it is. Any Linux/Firefox gurus out there that've run across this problem or am I swingin' in the wind? Time to reformat anyway.
