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| Thread ID: 52564 | 2004-12-22 03:08:00 | IE6 vs Opera and Firefox, OE vs Thunderbird | Mike S (1766) | Press F1 |
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| 306704 | 2005-02-21 17:27:00 | Regarding your auto-dial problems. A lot of discussion has gone on in forums regarding the auto-dial (or lack of it) in firefox. I can only comment on XP as I have not tried another OS with firefox. To alter your auto-dial settings - Go to Control Panel/Internet Options. Click the 'Connectios' tab. Click Settings, then Properties, then Options. You will see some check-boxes. The pertinent ones are 'Prompt for name and password...' and 'Prompt for phone number'. Uncheck them for auto-dial and check them for a dialog box which waits for you to click Connect. | Ruffian (6650) | ||
| 306705 | 2005-02-22 04:25:00 | I found a way around the auto connect thing a while back, First go to control panel / internet options. Create a New Connection, using any goboldygook in the phone no. password etc. This will then become your default connection. Then delete it. You will now have no default connection for progammes to connect with. Do not reset you origional connection as default or you will have just wasted your time and have to start again. Then create a batch file to use for your dial up. To do this open Notepad and type: @echo off rasdial "your connection name" your username your password c:\Progra~1\firefox\firefox.exe Then save as Dialup.bat to somewhere convenient, like taskbar (save to desktop then drag and drop to your task bar) You could even allocate a keyboard shortcut. this will then connect to your isp and start firefox, or whatever browser you name in the batchfile. Note that i've used "progra~1" in the command line, this is because .bat files use only 8 character filenames and this is the protocol for shortenind long filenames, i.e. if you had another file called "programme whatever" it would be called progra~2 as it is after progra~1 alphabetically. This approach gives you total control over how and when you connect. Plus it's very geeky and impresses the hell out of your peers. ;) pressf1.co.nz |
Barnzy (6015) | ||
| 306706 | 2005-02-22 04:35:00 | What is the point when you can connect with your normal dialup connection shortcut and open your browser at the same time - doing the same thing isn't it. I don't understand all the concern with auto dialing, never use it, it is much more reliable to control the connect and disconnect manually. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 306707 | 2005-02-22 05:10:00 | What is the point when you can connect with your normal dialup connection shortcut and open your browser at the same time - doing the same thing isn't it. I don't understand all the concern with auto dialing, never use it, it is much more reliable to control the connect and disconnect manually. The point is that the original question was about a programme attempting to dial a connection without asking. There are ways of controlling this behavior but all the while you have a "default" dialup it can be exploited, this method removes that possibility. |
Barnzy (6015) | ||
| 306708 | 2005-02-22 06:14:00 | What is the point when you can connect with your normal dialup connection shortcut and open your browser at the same time - doing the same thing isn't it. I don't understand all the concern with auto dialing, never use it, it is much more reliable to control the connect and disconnect manually. A few people use a dial up connection to the Internet. Actually lots of people. A few people just want to get the Email and don't need to open a browser to do so depending on what Email client is used. In this case I think you just use the mail client and it hopefully will dial. I take it that YOU have a shortcut on the desktop and do the dial up before you check mail or get into the browser or whatever you want to do. Some peple don't have a shortcut on the desktop to do the dialing in the first place. Some people use WinXP with IE6 and Outlook or Outlook Express and dial up. Some people use alternative operating systems, like linux, BSD etc and other Browsers and mail clients. |
AMD1 (6552) | ||
| 306709 | 2005-02-22 06:58:00 | I take it that YOU have a shortcut on the desktop and do the dial up before you check mail or get into the browser or whatever you want to do. Some peple don't have a shortcut on the desktop to do the dialing in the first place. How difficult do you think it is to put a shortcut in a readily accessible location. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 306710 | 2005-02-22 07:05:00 | I was wondering if there is a good 3rd party program to disconnect after checking Email cheers |
stevensaaron (6348) | ||
| 306711 | 2005-02-22 07:11:00 | How difficult do you think it is to put a shortcut in a readily accessible location. In WinXP SP2 not very difficult at all. Right click on the desktop. New, shortcut. This will give you a shortcut wizard if you like. It wants you to type in the location of the file you want to make a shortcut to or browse to the location. Now this is where some people may have a problem. I have seen shortcuts on a desktop to *.dll files rather than *.exe files. I have seen shortcuts on the desktop to *.doc files which have been moved or deleted. |
AMD1 (6552) | ||
| 306712 | 2005-02-22 18:52:00 | If you want to control the connection then drag a shortcut to the little icons beside the "start" button, (bottom left of window) then just click on the dialup when you want . I have used Opera for years and love it . It was literally years ahead of IE a couple of years back, and is still my favorite browser . You can configure the adverts to be google ads, which take up a minimum of space (about the height of a tool bar at the top of the screen . ) You lose your setting beacuse somehow on loading you must have clicked on the "standard" opera, so got another template . It has happened to me as well, your original one is still there . I really like the "open in background page" option being able to open multiple pages whilst reading the first one . As well as making the images draw only from the cache, it certainaly speeds up dialup access . having tried firefox, it seems just a stripped down opera . I really don't know why anyone seriously uses IE any more, its just old buggy technology |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 306713 | 2005-02-22 23:07:00 | I really appreciate all the feedback everybody. Thanks a lot. Sorry I've been out of the action for some weeks: you must think me very rude. You've given me lots to work through before I can make any sensible (well... maybe semi-sensible !!) comment. Lots to do. Mike S |
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