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I don't know the answer to your question but I'm moving this topic into a more appropriate forum.

Humm... that workaround is a bit strange... I'd say it takes advantage of one of IE's CSS bugs I've been thinking about this but I can't come up with a solution... :\

I'm not giving you any more suggestions for trying out operating systems Here's a list of what I'd like to try out: 1 - Darwin, the OS X core 2 - Dragon Fly BSD 3 - Yoper, a REALLY fast Linux distro (it is, I tried it ) There's some other stuff, like the AmigaOS, which I think has a port for x86 CPUs. I'll add more to the list if I think of them

That's an interesting problem you've got there, Tracy. I don't know the answer (yet) but I'll think about it, search the web and I'll let you know if I come up with something. EDIT: this is just something that popped into my head and to be honest, I don't think it'll work but have you tried setting the opacity to 2.0 (2x0.5 = 1)? EDIT 2: What's the workaround for IE? Perhaps if I see that I can think of something similar.

That's it, no need for safe mode unless something is wrong and you can't start the browser, for instance. Think of it a bit as Windows' safe mode

Thomas, the safe mode is usefull for when Firefox doesn't want to start. For example, with 0.9, if you'd install more than one extension before restarting it, the next time you'd start it, it would crash. The solution was to make it start in safe mode, uninstall the still uninstalled extension, restart firefox in normal mode and install only one extension at a time.

You're kidding, right?? Doesn't Solaris have a non-destructive drive partitioner?? What happened? I did something similar, once. I was going to install Linux but by mistake I selected the "server" instalation option and I didn't read everything, especially the part where it said that it would delete every partition and take over every hard drive for the instalation. And I didn't have any backups, either... I hate it when things like that happen! Mad!!! And I feel kind of guilty, since I'm the one who suggested you'd try Solaris... Sorry... :\

Yes, I thought about that too, Jim. I just happened to look at the bottom of the screen and noticed the search bar but I think lots of people will not see it at first.

LOL Yeah, I know sometimes I'm a bit feverous but hey, you don't need to be saved, you already use something else other than Windows and that's enough for saving your soul Seriously now, I do have the opinion that Windows and MS are very bad in many ways but I totally respect someone's opinion if he/she wants/needs to use their software. Besides, most of my comments regarding this matter are only half-serious, I'm always joking

Rob, just to see my response? Bruce, what I like isn't the shortcut. I already knew that and I use it since I can remember The thing I like is the fact that now you don't have a search dialog popping. Instead, you have a tiny search bar at the bottom of the browser, just above the status bar

Well, yesterday I installed Firefox 1.0PR and it has at least one new feature which I love: when you press CTRL+F ("Search on this page"), instead of popping up a window where you'll input what you want to search for, it will open a little bar at the bottom, just above the status bar I also didn't have much of a problem with extensions. I have 12 extensions installed (Web Developer, Single Window, Image Zoom, OpenBook, Sort Bookmarks, User Agent Switcher, JavaScript Console Status, Open Java Console, Allow Right-Click, Nuke Anything, Magpie and Duplicate Tab) and the only ones that are not compatible are Sort Bookmarks, Javascript Console Status, Open Java Console and Duplicate Tab. The only one that I kind of miss is the Javascript Console Status (if there's something wrong with a script on the page you're viewing, a tiny red cross will appear at the left of the status bar) but when a new version comes out, Firefox will automatically update it - yes, the extension updater finally work! Rob, as for your Unix desire, BSD is not Unix either, it's BSD I'm serious, both BSD and Linux are derivations of the original Unix. But BSD is still more "Unix" than Linux, so... You should give Solaris 10 a try (Sun is going to make it open source ), it's a "true" Unix system. I never tried it myself but but from what I've heard, it's one of the best Version 10 will have a ton of new cool stuff, like a hardware failure detection system, a new revolutionary filesystem, the ability to run unmodified Linux binaries and a lot more. I'm curious to see what they're up to

Firefox on Linux: everything seems to load fine.

Sorry, Thomas, I have installed SP2 but since I rarely use Windows nowadays (and much less IE - that pop-up blocker only applies to IE, right?), I really just installed it and came back to Linux, so I don't know the answer to your question And yes, taking care of an operating system I don't use is just one of those Geek Things Anyway, I'm moving this to a more appropriate forum, for organization

Aella, server-side and client-side scripts serve two different purposes. Server-side scripts, such as PHP and PERL are used to access databases and perform actions on the server, while JavaScript is usually used to manipulate the web page layout and appearence after it has been loaded from the server. Of course there are some common tasks that can be performed by both, like displaying a date on a page. Deciding which (server- or client-side scripts) which to use in these cases is just a matter of deciding where you want to place the load on, the server or the browser. So it basically depends on what you use JavaScript for. If you don't need complicated stuff, like accessing a database, opening TCP sockets to communicate with other servers, saving files on the server, etc, then you're probably fine with JavaScript. On the other hand, if you do need some of this stuff, or even if you want to learn PHP/PERL/whatever, then go for it. Knowledge is never too much

Happy new year? Interesting! May I ask where you live? And why do you celebrate new year today? I mean, it's obviously something related to your country's religion/culture but what is it?

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I'm back. Sorry for being absent, yesterday was a complicated day... :\ Mike, note that the <embed> tag is not a standard tag either, and so, although many browsers do support it, if you want to make your web page "future-proof" (that is if you want to make sure it will work on future versions of browsers), you shouldn't use it, you should use the <object> tag instead. Rob, if you're going to install a new OS and have the time/patience, give Yoper a try. I've been reading some reviews about it and everyone says it's lightning fast compared to every other linux distribution out there.

Kasey, as Dick pointed, you're looking for a Perl library, not PHP.

Arvind, are there incompatible extensions with this release? I thought that from 0.9 onward, the extensions would be compatible :\

By the way, there's new versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and Mozilla on the lose As for the sound question, I'd say it's because the <bgsound> tag is not part of the HTML standard, and perhaps Firefox is ignoring it but I'm not sure

Well, I never had any problems with background music but if you can tell me the link to the problematic page, I'll investigate it.

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The MySQL server is "locahost". As for the username and password, you can go to the MySQL Manager in cPanel and create a new database there and also a new user (although a new user is not necessary, since you can use your cPanel username and password to access any database in your account). You can set the authentication mode to "config" but beware that anyone will be able to use phpMyAdmin. I'd recommend that you install phpMyAdmin in a directory with a "strange" name and after installing it, go to cPanel and password protect that directory.

Sorry, I had to go out for a while but I'm glad you figured it out, Thomas About your problem with Thunderbird, yes, you can PM me or even contact me on AIM/Yahoo/MSN Messenger, if you'd like, and I'll try to help you out

Yes, they are the same thing. "www" is just a link/shortcut to "public_html". And yes, that's where you have to install it