Post by: Liz on July 02, 2006, 05:32:31 PM
Mozilla installed on hard drive. What have I done wrong now?
I should be getting the little dinosaur; what I have is the "G" http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firef...n-USofficial....
I said I would ask before; unfortnately, I didn't. So far [thee] are not impressed.
please.
Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 02, 2006, 05:55:07 PM
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I should be getting the little dinosaur; what I have is the "G"
I have no idea what that means, but what have you set as your desired startup page in the prefs? Not sure about Mozilla, but in FF, it's the first item in the General prefs.
Post by: Liz on July 02, 2006, 07:54:58 PM
I looked into "preferences"; I believe it had the correct setting but my "click" finger got out of control.
I clicked "USE CURRENT PAGE" . Now "preferences" has the http://www.google.com/firefox.....URL. If I knew the correct URL I could reset "preferences". However, something wasn't right before, so there must be something simple I need to do to fix it.
Post by: kelly on July 02, 2006, 08:12:37 PM
By "toolbox" do you mean the Dock?
We have no idea what little dinosaur could be.
Post by: weldiger on July 02, 2006, 08:15:37 PM
1. If you want to use TechSurvivors as your start up page, go to that page [any other page you want]
2. Open your Preferences in Fire Fox.
3. Click on General icon.
4. First item is Home Page.
5. Choice is location with place to put url, or
6. Use current page, use bookmark, or use blank page.
7. Enter what you want & close preferences.
That should give you what you want.
I have tried all of the three choices, and prefer a blank page, as it is quicker to go from blank to something else, than it is to start up one one page, wait for it to load, and then go elsewhere, and that will be for every new window you open.
Good Luck
HTH
Shalom
weldiger
Post by: Gregg on July 03, 2006, 07:32:53 AM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 03, 2006, 09:24:50 AM
You'll need to type it into the correct place in your prefs or access the site and use the "Current page" button. FF/Mozilla is a great browser, but it does not yet have enough artificial intelligence to find that page without assistance from you. Right now, it's doing exactly what you told it to do.
Post by: kelly on July 03, 2006, 01:27:40 PM
Liz. Around here we say.
No one was born knowing about computers.
Nothing wrong with not knowing things.
We'll keep working at something as long as you will.
Post by: Liz on July 03, 2006, 03:30:58 PM
QUOTE(kelly @ Jul 3 2006, 02:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Gregg. Share with us. What is the dinosaur about?
Liz. Around here we say.
No one was born knowing about computers.
Nothing wrong with not knowing things.
We'll keep working at something as long as you will.
Liz. Around here we say.
No one was born knowing about computers.
Nothing wrong with not knowing things.
We'll keep working at something as long as you will.
Post by: Liz on July 03, 2006, 04:10:28 PM
Beats me what I did. 
OK... I have a homepage. It's all in understanding exactly what the instruction is saying. I truely thought I was following inst.
I'm glad somebody knows about the dinosaur . It's the emblem of Mozilla. I was beginning to get insecure about that.
FF is getting easier to navagate. It's sure to take a bunch more study and errors before it's as easy and familiar as IE. It definately isn't as simple. (As they say, "user friendly".)
once again.
Post by: Gregg on July 03, 2006, 04:43:28 PM
Explorer's "e"
Netscape's "N"
.... it's the logo in the upper right corner of the browser window. It changes to an "m" when the page is fully loaded, but while loading, it's the head of a dinosaur.
Post by: bil207 on July 03, 2006, 05:05:39 PM
Post by: Liz on July 03, 2006, 05:09:52 PM
QUOTE(Gregg @ Jul 3 2006, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
kelly the dinosaur is the counterpart to...
Explorer's "e"
Netscape's "N"
.... it's the logo in the upper right corner of the browser window. It changes to an "m" when the page is fully loaded, but while loading, it's the head of a dinosaur.
Explorer's "e"
Netscape's "N"
.... it's the logo in the upper right corner of the browser window. It changes to an "m" when the page is fully loaded, but while loading, it's the head of a dinosaur.
Thanks, Gregg!! I'm jealous,
the dinosaur isn't in the upper right corner of mine. 