Microsoft still sucks no matter how many times you update it.

Ever since an update 2 months ago, all embedded video in a website opens with the pop up button that says click on active x control.

They used to autoplay within the browser window without you needing to click on it.

Sometime if you don't click it right away, it freezes the browser.

Or if I have multiple browser windows open and I minimize one to maximize another, it ends up closing all the webpages I was viewing.

Or if I'm in a webpage and I Right Click on a Hyperlink within that page to open it in a new window, it closes all the webpages and I have to reopen everything.

I switched to Avant Browser version 10.2 but every now and then, I get a Windows error message saying Avant is causing a system instability and must shut down.

So whether I use IE or Avant;

I am having problems!!

So whether I use IE or Avant....

Did you try with firefox?

Did you try with firefox?

I cannot get Firefox to show the Tabs on the windows.

Whenever I click on a new link in a browser, it opens a new window but it's not showing any tabs on top of windows previously opened.

I have to minimize the window to the desktop and open an already viewed webpage from the bottom of the desktop.

Firefox sucks compared to Avant.

It looks plain and cheap!!

You can download themes for Firefox if you don't like how it looks. And to make new tabs in Firefox, use the middle mouse button.

I've never used Avant, but I do use Firefox & I find it 1,000,000 times better than I.E.

You can download themes for Firefox if you don't like how it looks. And to make new tabs in Firefox, use the middle mouse button.

Oh that's so much better!!

I guess there is still hope for Firefox then!!

Thank you Shrensh!!

(((((Shrensh)))))

now it wont let me view embedded window media videos and flash videos which is the first reason I left IE to start with!!

It's asking me to DL Flash 9 which I already have on my PC!!

You need a different flash pluging for firefox thatn for Internet explorer and avant. It installs very easily and it's small

edit: We were driftining onto a new topic so thought it would be best to seperate!

I googled for it and I can't find it!!

Firefox should automatically give you a place where you can get plugins that you need. At least that's what it did for me when I first installed and I needed a flash plug-in.

EDIT: try this:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/?P...=ShockwaveFlash

i can view flash videos now, I still cannot view embedded windows media videos.

I get sound but no picture!!

I am about to junk this whole computer business!!

Windows sucks!

IE sucks!

Avant sucks!

Firefox doesn't work either!!

It should come preinstalled with everything like the other browsers!!

This is BS!!

Go here and tell me if you see this video cause I don't with Firefox; SOUND only!!

http://www.filecabi.net/video/shark081.html

and I did with IE and Avant!!

Edited August 11, 200620 yr by j7wild

I can see the video fine. It sounds like a video codec problem rather than a browser problem. Maybe you need to download some new codecs?

i shouldnt have to download anything.

videos streamed fine in IE and Avant but those browsers kept locking up on me.

Firefox should come preset to handle streaming videos without the end user getting frustrated trying to figure out what codec and plug ins to download and install.

That's it!!

I'm done!!

thanks anyway!!

It's not the browser or Microsoft's fault if it's a codec issue. Go download Ace MegaCodecs pack from here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/ACE_Mega_CoDecS_Pack.htm

I have this installed and I never have a problem playing videos.

I use Firefox and the video played fine...sounds like you're getting a little frustrated... don't give up...

I can understand, being a emebedded engineer, i write programs and design computer hardware, and these PC that Intel and Microsoft make are crap.

although that said, most PC problems is becuaes the users screw it up

if you want a PC that works more often and is harder for you to break, by an apple

fruit

i like eating green apples

Edited September 25, 200620 yr by Mick

well I gotten used to Firefox and I downloaded every add on I could find but it still won't play windows media videos embedded in the webpages;

flash files, quicktime, they all play fine.

well I gotten used to Firefox and I downloaded every add on I could find but it still won't play windows media videos embedded in the webpages;

flash files, quicktime, they all play fine.

If you look at that site again there is an option for a flash player and the media player to view the video..... big shark

Does anyone know if there's a way to change the keyboard shortcut keys for Firefox? I sometimes want to use Windows Alt key codes while I'm using Firefox, but when it try it switches tabs on me.

Does anyone know if there's a way to change the keyboard shortcut keys for Firefox? I sometimes want to use Windows Alt key codes while I'm using Firefox, but when it try it switches tabs on me.

As far as I know there isn't i'm afriad..

Unless the new firefox 2 has this option:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

I'm just about to download it.

Okay, I'll take a look at the new release of Firefox and see if I have any luck, thanks Raekwon

Anybody like the new Firefox 2? I just downloaded it and so far am mixed on it...It kept logging me out when I moved to different area in the forum....so I uninstalled and reinstalled it....now it's seems to be working better and my theme I downloaded miraculously started up too....

I'm using it but I prefer firefox 1.5.. I don't like these glowing tabs!! Sounds picky I know but.. it's so silly! I honestly didn't think the old one needed changing

i went through and discovered I somehow had cookies disabled as the reason I couldn't stay logged in to forums and such....I'm using Aluminum Kai theme...it's pretty cool....

As far as I know there isn't i'm afriad..

Unless the new firefox 2 has this option:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

I'm just about to download it.

how do you turn the shortcut keys from coming on by themselves;

sometime i tried to type ' as in he's or let's and instead of letting me type the ', it turns the shortcut bar on at the bottom of the browser and it's annoying!!

wow! i've just learnt a shortcut I didn't know that one!

From what I can tell.. If you're typing in a text area it should never appear.. it should only come up when you press it and you're not in a text box.. unless something's going wrong like!