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Another Firefox Question (sorry)

Aquos76 · 2005-01-02 17:50:18

Are there anybody else having problems with the bandwidth tester that come with firefox. I was using it with no problems up to a couple of days ago. Now when I try and run it is just freezes up and then closes any firefox windows I have open.

02-01-2005 6:50pm

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Are there anybody else having problems with the bandwidth tester that come with firefox. I was using it with no problems up to a couple of days ago. Now when I try and run it is just freezes up and then closes any firefox windows I have open.

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#2 02-01-2005 7:01pm

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Bandwidth Tester? I didn't know Firefox had one.

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#3 02-01-2005 7:01pm

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Yeah - elaborate on this bandwidth tester of yours...

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#4 02-01-2005 7:05pm

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plazzTT wrote:

Bandwidth Tester? I didn't know Firefox had one.

Sorry guys should have enclosed a link

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=178

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#5 04-01-2005 12:23am

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Just to let anyone that was remotely interested in this thread. The bandwidth tester is now working fine again. It must have been a problem with the tester itself, as there has been a newer version of it released today and all is fine again.

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#6 02-02-2005 11:02am

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I've a firefox question,

Is there any way of turning off the auto complete feature in firefox, I just find it anoying and have searched there help index but can't find anything that will do it.

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#7 02-02-2005 11:08am

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TIPPTOP wrote:

I've a firefox question,

Is there any way of turning off the auto complete feature in firefox, I just find it anoying and have searched there help index but can't find anything that will do it.

Tools > Options > Privacy > Saved Form Information. Untick the box there.

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#8 02-02-2005 11:15am

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Tried that but it doesn't seem to work for the address bar, any other suggestions

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#9 03-02-2005 3:27am

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tools > options > privicy... expand history and type 0 into the "remember visited pages" text box.

that might work.

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#10 03-02-2005 11:23am

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Did my solution work TIPP?

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#11 03-02-2005 11:34am

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That worked all right, I'm new to firefox just wondering is there a highlight button or an extention available to highlight words.

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#12 03-02-2005 11:38am

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TIPPTOP wrote:

That worked all right, I'm new to firefox just wondering is there a highlight button or an extention available to highlight words.

What do you mean? As opposed to double-clicking on them?

Or are you looking to highlight all occurences of a word on a page?

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#13 03-02-2005 6:39pm

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To highlight all occurences of a word on a page,

Thats the one used find it very handy when researching things, any posible downloads to get it apart from a tool bar.

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#14 03-02-2005 6:54pm

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Look at Advanced Highlighter Button, a Firefox extension.
(In Firefox, click Tools/Extensions/Get More Extensions ... Search Tools)
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Linux&category=Search%20Tools&numpg=10&id=191
Available from http://membres.lycos.fr/pcdingo/

A screenshot of the extension showed loads of words highlighted on the screen.

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#15 03-02-2005 7:01pm

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TIPPTOP wrote:

To highlight all occurences of a word on a page

Just "Ctrl+F" search for the word then click the highlight option

This is also found by Edit then Find on this page...

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#16 03-02-2005 8:45pm

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Thanks for that,
Their should be a sticky for FIREFOX that answers all these questions as more people turn to firefox. I was persuaded last week by the article in the Irish Independant to install it. And I ain't going back to IE

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