I'm Firefoxing Lucky!

[darkside]

sorry if this is obvious/already been posted........

the address bar in firefox doesnt only use URL's, if you type 'pc mech forum' and hit enter look where it takes you!

it uses Googles im feeling lucky function so it takes you to the first result from the search. v handy imo

Nathan

[Stevevai9]

um......do you want a nobel prize for this marvelous discovery? I bet with your knowledge you could discover a cure for cancer some day. Yep, your going places.

[Force Flow]

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[darkside]

like i said.....

sorry if this is obvious/already been posted........

[dinoguy87]

hello i have been using firefox for a few months now and i like it. mostly cause of the taps at the top and the download window also the way it blocks popups.

i what to start using thunderbird to do you know any thing about it. like what web email works with it.

[darkside]

slightly off topic but i dont suppose it matter all that much, i know hotmail doesnt work and i dont think i could get my gmail to work either. you CAN get hotmail to work with thunderbird but its a lot of messing.

if you use gmail then there is an extension on the mozilla site that is basically the gmail notifier built into firefox and its quite good, logs you in automatically and stuff.

i think your mail account has to be POP3 for it to work with thunderbird but im only about 25% sure so im more than likey wrong

[Stryker]

Hey that's pretty cool dardside! Didn't know that, and I've been using firefox for well over a year.

Thanks for the tip.
Stryker

[dinoguy87]

thank you. i will try that. sorry about taking you of topic

gmail i havnt heard of that

[Force Flow]

Check out gmail.com

[BIG jay]

thunderbird? what is it and where do i find a reveiw of it?

[Stryker]

Thunderbird is Mozilla's e-mail manager (like outlook).
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

[BIG jay]

ahhhhhhh, ok
i dont use outlook so i dont think i will use this then, but thanks 4 the info

[craze2]

Thanks for the recommendation...I'd just switched to Firefox two weeks ago, and I wish I'd known about it sooner! So much nicer.

[ztx]

Heh, I've been using Firefox for awhile, I love how it has extension's to further customize your browser experiance.

[darkside]

i like how they are 3rd party extensions so its not one group of dev's coming up with the ideas, open source rocks

[ffreeloader]

slightly off topic but i dont suppose it matter all that much, i know hotmail doesnt work and i dont think i could get my gmail to work either. you CAN get hotmail to work with thunderbird but its a lot of messing.

Thunderbird works well with gmail. I use it every day for that. gmail just doesn't use standard ports for connecting to their pop3 server. You have to follow the instructions available in your gmail account to set up Thunderbird. It's not all that difficult to do.