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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Drag/drop bookmarks between two html/xml files

« on: April 01, 2009, 07:09 PM »

Are you using FF 2.x or 3.x??

If using 2.x you could just edit bookmarks.html.  I'm not familiar with the FF 3 format.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox 3 load faster

« on: April 01, 2009, 07:02 PM »

... about tabs ...

-Paul Keith (April 01, 2009, 03:35 PM)

Wow!! iirc the most insane(or useful I guess depending on your perspective) plugins for Maxthon were tab related(makes me think of that movie "Gang Related" with Jim Belushi) as people there really get into big time too.  Me, the most rambunctious I get is I have a folder with 3 bookmarks and I open all in tabs, first thing on startup. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox 3 load faster

« on: April 01, 2009, 06:57 PM »

Whoa!! That's some heavy tabbing.  What I'm still trying to find out is why it's written in stone that the back button has to reload the page.  I don't fathom what the cache is there for if you can't reload stuff you just downloaded 3 seconds ago when you hit the back button.  Very strange design.

-MilesAhead (April 01, 2009, 02:40 PM)

That debate or question has been asked on mozillazine and other related places for years, going back to the mozilla days. Never understood it.

-rgdot (April 01, 2009, 02:53 PM)

It is really weird.  If you get into it all you get back is something along the lines that it's so hard-wired into the browser that it will never be undone as it would break too much code or something.  Sounds really bizarre to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox 3 load faster

« on: April 01, 2009, 02:40 PM »

I guess this tweak isn't for me. I normally open FirefoxPortable with 25+ tabs minimum.

-Paul Keith (March 31, 2009, 06:22 PM)

Whoa!! That's some heavy tabbing.  What I'm still trying to find out is why it's written in stone that the back button has to reload the page.  I don't fathom what the cache is there for if you can't reload stuff you just downloaded 3 seconds ago when you hit the back button.  Very strange design.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Firefox Theme(s)

« on: April 01, 2009, 12:12 PM »

I always liked breeze, based on our own NonTropo's theme for Opera -- don't know if it's still maintained, though. Ought to fire up the Firefox more often.

-allen (April 01, 2009, 07:37 AM)

Looks like it's just been updated in March but for FF 2.x
You never know.  Might work on FF 3 with Mr Tech

For my Vista 32 bit I got Aero Diamond Final style that has very cool blue glass bead look to scrollbars.  After that I hate to not at least have the browser scrollbars with some color to them.

Breeze 2.0 does have a nice look though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Firefox Theme(s)

« on: March 31, 2009, 02:30 PM »

Hmmmmmmm only bummer I noticed so far is it seems to hose all my favicons. On my other system I installed Minefield as well as this one.  When I switch to Aeon 3.2 on the other system I still have my Favicons.  On this system, even with AnyColor uninstalled, I have little blue dots.  Seems to be no such thing as an automatic favicon refresher that works without visiting the site(at least not that I've found yet.)

Only difference I can pinpoint between the 2 systems is I never installed AnyColor on the one where the favicons still work.


edit: hmm looks like the bug is in Minefield.  Firefox 3.1 beta 3 doesn't get this.

edit: just wasted 3 hours to get favicons back. On one machine I'm ok but on the other for some unfathomable reason, I can no longer install FF 2 or it won't let me add any addon.  Had to wipe everything out and put 3.1 beta 3 on as the only FF browser.  I don't even want to figure out why!!
What a hassle!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox 3 load faster

« on: March 31, 2009, 01:00 PM »

Hmmmmm don't know about load time since I haven't booted since install, but this Minefield seems to surf in snappy fashion!  AddOns seem to work thanks to Mr Tech. I'm using March 31 daily build.  So far it seems pretty stable.  Seems to be a bit less lag time when loading a page than FF 3.1 beta 3. Just started using it but so far I see no reason to stop.

Edit: did a reboot.  First thing after I got desktop I ran Minefield.  Subjective time I'd say it came up in about 10 seconds!!  I think I'm gonna' like v. 3.6!

Edit: guess I see why it's called Minefield.  Just wasted 3 hours trying to get favicons to work. Somehow I got into this thing where I could not put FF 2.x back on the machine.  It just wouldn't let me install any addons.  Had to put 3.1 beta 3 on as the only FF browser.  Really weirdy. Prolly shoulda' stuck with 2 as per my original plan!! Sheesh!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Firefox Theme(s)

« on: March 31, 2009, 01:27 AM »

My favouite is Any Color.  You can customize your themes yourself.  You can also use images from your picture files to customize Fire fox.  https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/6991

-herneith (March 30, 2009, 08:41 PM)

That looks kind of interesting.  Can you change sizes of stuff like buttons or is that more complicated?
(I have it on now and I'm just starting to mess with some of the presets)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« on: March 30, 2009, 06:58 PM »

Hmmmmmm trying FF 3.1 beta 3 with Fasterfox disabled.  So far it seems just as snappy.  My other AddOns seem to work with the blessing of Mr Tech.  So far so good.

Edit: now using Minefield March 31 build.  All my AddOns seem to work and there seems to be just a bit less lag time between clicking a link and the page starting to load.  Looks like it has this "jit" javascript thing enabled by default.  Seems pretty stable but I've only been using it for 1/2 an hour.  Just hope there wasn't a good reason why it was named Minefield !!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Free ActiveX Controls for Programmers

« on: March 30, 2009, 05:35 PM »

Let me say thank you for sharing these.

-mouser (March 30, 2009, 04:38 PM)

You are most welcome.  I hope those who use them have a smile rather than a bald patch from ripping their hair out. I think I got all the bugs anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Favorite Firefox Theme(s)

« on: March 30, 2009, 05:28 PM »

I was using Blue Ice Lite
with Firefox 2.x but because of the "no vertical scrollbar" with some themes when I upgraded to FF 3 I investigated some others.  Right now Aeon 3.2 seems pretty good.

My bookmarks toolbar is all folders except for one bookmarklet, so I like themes that don't use the default large yellow folder.  I have 10 folders and I can't stand it when I get the '>>' on the rhs.  With smaller folder icons I can fit all the folders on one line without making the FF window too big(I tried several of the bookmark toolbar "wrap" customizations but every one I tried hosed the FF scrollbar)

I do Vistaglazz and Aeon seems to go pretty well with the Vista themes I use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Firefox 3 load faster

« on: March 30, 2009, 05:14 PM »

...
Don't need minimize to tray anymore! 

-dantheman (February 12, 2009, 07:43 AM)

I tried FF Minimize to tray but it acted a bit funny.  Now I use a general purpose AutoIt3 freebie called WinTray.  If you hold down Shift while clicking the minimize button it minimizes just about any app main window to tray.

http://www.autoitscr...85841&hl=WinTray

I'm still using v 1.0.  I guess he's up to 1.6 now but you can also download source for it somewhere it that thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to monitor computer start-up?

« on: March 29, 2009, 10:12 PM »

There also may be a setting in msconfig to log the bootup. It only shows driver loads.  But if you are trying to load drivers that don't exist it can really slow things down as the system goes on a hunt for every nonexistent .sys file.

If there is the setting the created file should be named "ntbootlog.txt" in the Windows folder after the next boot.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension which would let you choose which browser opens a hyperlink

« on: March 29, 2009, 04:55 PM »

I've been wanting FARR to be able to handle these sorts of situations as I believe that may make it possible for FARR plugins to be written to customize such handling

-ewemoa (March 28, 2009, 04:51 PM)

The only thing I'm thinking is if you right click a link in a browser window to use a different browser, the browser with the link is bound to have a bunch of right click handlers and you wouldn't want to cut them out of the loop.  So it may be better to use a hotkey than a mouse click.  Just thinking out loud. Although there's so many browsers out there it would be tough to know what initiator would be "neutral" in that context.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to monitor computer start-up?

« on: March 29, 2009, 04:45 PM »

When you say you have over 100GB free drive space, what % is that of the total size of the drive?

One simple thing that may help is running defrag with the -b switch to defrag boot files.

Or you can use TuneXP.  It's a nice little tweaker.  Afa defrag goes, I've gotten in the habit of keeping my drive usage below %30 and running frequent quick defrags using Auslogics defrag mostly.  Once every few months I do the defrag -b as I mentioned.

Also you may want to turn on boot logging and see what's happening during startup.  You may find the system is trying to load drivers for stuff no longer installed.  I got this problem when I uninstalled Norton Internet Protection instead of using the removal tool.  Boot log showed multiple attempts to load the Norton drivers even though the program was no longer there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend Vista CD Burner

« on: March 29, 2009, 04:35 PM »

For Audio CD both burrrn and CDBurnerXP are nice.  Both have built in support for .flac files.  Even though burrrn is a bit dated, it works on Vista 32 bit. The only "bug" I noticed is in the scrolling log.  In Vista the log has double entries for each operation.  But the burns come out fine.. at least on my hardware.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Paragon Drive Backup 9 Special Edition For Free!

« on: March 29, 2009, 04:27 PM »

Sorry should have commented - merge done earlier today. 

-Carol Haynes (March 12, 2009, 12:40 PM)

Looks like the free backup finally died.  I believe you can still get the Paragon Drive Backup Express edition.  I tried several paragon offers that were past date and it looks like the form that you fill in your email to get the reg codes is automated and still sends the codes.  But when you log in, the download has no link.  Guess somebody decided to put the whammy on past-due freebies. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 29, 2009, 01:15 PM »

Hmmmmm I don't know too much about the custom keyboard buttons. I use HP PCs but I have a KVMA switch.  I used to try to program the special buttons but every time I jumped to the other PC it messed it up, so I gave up trying.

AutoIt3 has a very simple command built in to set the wav volume
SoundSetWaveVolume(percent)

It also has some hotkey facilities.  The hotkey mechanism isn't as extensive as AutoHotKey but the syntax is easy to understand.  It's a pretty good lanuage for a beginner programmer.

You'd use the HotKeySet() function to set the hotkey.
Then in the handler adjust the percentage up or down and
call SoundSetWaveVolume().

Should be less than 20 lines of code even if you set up the tray menu.
Just a matter of which keys HotKeySet() allows you to use.
I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

AutoIt3 has a forum
http://www.autoitscr...com/forum/index.php?

There are newbies asking for help all the time.  Seems
like a pretty easy project to start with.  If you get it
to work it will a lot more fun to use it.  You could even
stick an icon with your name on it(well initials anyway,) on the thing.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 28, 2009, 09:15 PM »

...
I've got some shortcuts on this keyboard, like phyisical keys. I also do not know wether the multimedia keys would work.

Have you looked in Control Panel?  Sometimes those buttons have an applet where you can enter commands.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« on: March 28, 2009, 06:38 PM »

hmmmm on Firefox 3.08 now.  Found SyncPlaces to sync my bookmarks. It also claims to sync passwords and other stuff I don't use to personal ftp site so I'll give it a go.  Haven't used it enough to know how stable it is.  But AutoCopy, ContextSearch, Secure Login, Launchy and FasterFox seem to be working so I guess FF 3 is at the point of usability for me.

I'll see how it goes.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension which would let you choose which browser opens a hyper

« on: March 28, 2009, 05:40 PM »

Hmmmmmm I wonder if this could be something added to Mouser's
BrowserTraySwitch

Like, perhaps set default browser and goto the url in the clipboard or something?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension which would let you choose which browser opens a hyperlink

« on: March 28, 2009, 05:33 PM »

The programming should be trivial if the user is willing to configure by browsing(pun intended) to each installed browser to let the program know what's installed.  If the utility has to search and catalog the stuff like Launchy does that would likely be most of the code.  Otherwise you'd just have the URL as command line param and the path to each different browser stored as answer to the hotkey(maybe pop up a list or have it go directly using more than one hotkey modifier or something.)

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension which would let you choose which browser opens a hyperlink

« on: March 28, 2009, 12:34 PM »

Hmmmmmmmmmm if you were using Firefox it already has an AddOn named Launchy that does what you want.  I took a quick look on Chrome AddOns and I didn't see anything similar but there may be.  Try googling on Chrome Plugins and see if anything is already out there.  Other than that seems like it would need a clipboard monitor and some GUI to show you the browsers installed.  Basically duplicating what Launchy already does but in a Hotkey type of thing.  AutoHotKey for me right now is pretty much limited to one page scripts since it's so hard to find out how to do stuff with the syntax.  Strings a quotes "here" but not THERE and it's way confusing for the neophyte.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Paragon Total Defrag 2009 For Free - Powerful but controversial

« on: March 28, 2009, 12:22 PM »

cmpm thanks for the additional info.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: i'd like to buy some discipline please.

« on: March 27, 2009, 08:32 PM »

Nudone,

I might not disagree with the main point you are trying to make.. but i think one could also argue it in this way:

There is no magic "system" that is going to fix you and make you more organized.  Your problems may have deeper causes.
And maybe there is nothing that much better about one system over another.
But it's possible that in a search and exploration of new systems you might discover some deeper issues or leave yourself open to learning something about yourself that helps.

At least that's a more positive take on the search for an organizational system that suits you.

-mouser (March 26, 2009, 02:33 PM)

Hmm one could take an eclectic approach.  Personally I think most "systems" degenerate into dogma that crams reality into the mold with enough pressure to make it "fit" the system.  Better to steal one good gimmick/feature or two from each and chuck the rest.