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firefox and me

19 years ago

I want to use firefox more as I understand it is better for security and seems to download faster. I know I have to go through AOL. What would you do first if you wanted to use

firefox? Mail? Bookmarks? ???

Thank you for your replies.

May you have a long path of life.

pinecone64

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2sweetpea
19 years ago
Are you on Broadband? If so you do not have to go through AOL You can reach your AOL account for Email on Foxfire just by going to the web site- www.AOL.com and logging in. I kept my FREE AOL for mail, but use Foxfire for everthing else.
jerry_nj
19 years ago
I don't understand your connection of AOL and Firefox. Are you an AOL subscriber? If yes, so what? Firefox is a generic browser and works with all web sites that do not require Active-X features of MicroSoft Internet Explorer: e.g, the Microsoft update and support site, Panda is another, but only for active scan functions.

For email I recommend Thunderbird, the sibling of Firefox. It to is generic, a generic email "client". It should work with AOL, Worldnet, you name it...
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pinecone
Original Author
19 years ago
pamies.......I am on dialup. Only other way would be a satellite. That is way out of my budget. Broadband in the next 20 years.

jerry nj I sign on with AOL (which is IE from what I understand) then I go to firefox. What do you mean by "so what"? That sounds a little off to me.

My question is what do you who use firefox use, the list of add ons is long and I was wondering what would benefit a person who does research with the future hope of setting up a web site??

Thank you for your replies.

pinecone
gipster
19 years ago
Hi pinecone,
From what I understand you are on dialup and you do a lot of research.Then you will like using Firefox's tabs.For example say your doing a Google search for "pinecone".Once you have the results from google for your search I just middle click(that would be clicking on the scroll wheel) I can put the item I'm clicking on in a separate tab WITHOUT closing the Google page. I can then go to as many as I want and they will load in the background.
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Hope this helps ya.
amy_z6_swpa
19 years ago
I downloaded Firefox after months of problems with the new Netscape (8) and both IE 6 and 7. I love Firefox! I love the tabs, because that's what I loved most about Netscape (7.2 was great--I still use it at work). And I have NO bookmark problems, NO loading problems, NO login issues, no problems at all *knock on wood*. :)

p.s. I have DSL through Verizon.

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