Two Firefox questions

radiospan

How do I get rid of the links bar underneath the address bar in Firefox? I recommended FF to a friend a few weeks ago, and he has a 15" monitor and that bar takes up a considerable amount of the screen at 800x600.

The other question is a problem which I've been having with my homepage ( http://news.bbc.co.uk ) for ages now. Firefox has not been rendering the page correctly. Is the red BBC News header towards the top of that page missing for anybody else in Firefox?

Screenshots of it in Firefox and IE on my comp:
http://tinypic.com/xzwpd - Firefox
http://tinypic.com/xzwpx - IE
(spot the difference)

Could it be Adblock blocking something?

Standard Toaster

BBC site is fine here on Firefox.
What firewall app you using?

Kerio and zonealarm will block ad etc too.

tman

view/toolbars/bookmarks toolbar

the bbc site looks alright to me... could be worth clearing your cache

Sniipe

works for me too. I've only recently re-installed my whole PC today. Installed firefox 1.0 and I also downloaded flash plugin,

give flash a go.

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

let me know if it works

radiospan

Thanks tman, I knew that had to be something simple!

I think Adblock is causing the thing with the BBC site. I disabled Adblock and it loads properly. Now I just have to figure out which of my filters is causing it to be blocked.

I don't think there's Flash on the BBC site, but I've to install it anyway, thanks Snipe.

Sniipe

np

[EDIT adblock stoped it... and SP2 or norton on mine didn't stop it. Must be agressive program/]

dahamsta

The BBC site is likely borked because both images in that panel have "banner" in their name. This is a common occurence with immature blocklists. Doesn't happen with the pierceive list, try that.

adam

radiospan

Thanks adam, thats a great link.

*bookmarked* :-)

omnicorp

how do I change the homepage on Firefox, it's stuck on google

aidan_walsh

By looking in the options...

Tools->Options->General. Find the box that says "Homepage" and type in an address. Then hit "Use Current Pages".

omnicorp

thanks.

aidan_walsh

And I even resisted telling you to simply RTFM... It must be Christmas afterall...

Capt'n Midnight

try pressing F11 to show/hide menus - though this may need an extension.

Sniipe

firefox download thingi sucks, is there an extention for it?

aidan_walsh

Sniipe wrote:

firefox download thingi sucks, is there an extention for it?

Now I wonder why nobody else thought of that...

Syth

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

try pressing F11 to show/hide menus - though this may need an extension.

F11 on Linux Firefox causes it to go full screen. It does hide the menus in a way...

aidan_walsh

Syth wrote:

F11 on Linux Firefox causes it to go full screen. It does hide the menus in a way...

Windows too.

Sniipe

thanks, doodle_sketch, that ftp proggy may come in handy anyway. I was looing for a download manager that would do resumes. but I don't want DAP or getright, etc T'would be nice if there was an integreated one.

greglo23

http://tinyurl.com/6d3zp
try star downloader. the free version is ad and spyware free and it integrates with firefox and mozilla.