normal Useful article comments: 2009 Oct 25 - Oct 31

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Chris_Ilias

Sorry this is a little late. There were a lot of useful comments.

How to find which folder a bookmark is in

"Here the answer presented... starts with problem already solved! Where's any discussion of identifying its folder location when you're only able to find the bookmark inside "organize bookmarks" and its "library." Long a vexation of mine, I can't use the latter to discover the subfolder locations of bookmarks."

Let's make it clearer that you need to use the location bar to go to the bookmarked page.

Jendela Unduhan

"Why don't you simply explain WHERE the downloaded file is residing. You explain where the window is but not WHERE the file is."

In the Preferences section, lets note that one of those prefs is the download location.

Protecting stored passwords using a master password

"The maximum password length is not provided, either here or in firefox password prompt window. Such info would be useful!"

Is there a max?

Firefox will not start

"and if you cant start in another user??? come on people, you can be a little for helpful then this!"

"The article for disabling 3rd party cookies does not work for Firefox v3.5.3. There was no box for an option to disable the cookies. Only browsing history is mentioned under tools/privacy."

There are screenshots we can copy from the Jendela Pengaturan - panel Privasi article.

Backing up your information

"This and several other support pages need updating for Windows 7. Without this information it will be more difficult and timeconsuming for me to install Windows 7."

Cannot clear Location bar history

"The item I want to delete has been bookmarked. I do not wish to delete all that I have not visited for a while. How?"

Preferring to delete one single bookmark from the drop-down list makes sense to me. It's a more understandable use-case.

Accessing FTP servers

"Need ability to Set/Force "active mode" for FTP sites that require it like ftp://ftp.HP.com.
I would receive error msg from firefox v3.5.3: "425 Can't open data connection."
I DL'ed and successfully used filezilla in "active mode", passive mode does not work at HP.com."

Maybe we should mention that Firefox (natively) does not do active mode.

Favicons do not display

"FOR THE BOOKMARKS TO APPEAR, I HAD TO CHANGE MY PRIVACY SETTINGS TO "REMEMBER HISTORY""

Is my Firefox problem a result of malware

"provide links to diagnose and remove malware"

I think a TOC would make that article much better.

Error loading web sites

"when loading Firefox for 1st time, get a warning: Publisher could not be ferified. I then 'run' anyways and while 'extracting' it stops at "FILE IS CORRUPTED". This is a re-install because I kept getting knoked off with an error message that brought me back to my desktop."

Bookmark Tags

"How do you remove this stupid things? Tags and libraries and Recent xxx?"

Memasang Firefox di Windows

"It says it doesn't recognize my license when updating to 3.5.4."

Shortcut Mouse

"Alt-Left Click does not open the save as dialog as described."

AFAIK, the comment is correct. It automatically starts downloading.

Upgrading to Firefox 3ยท5

"please correct the grammar on this page .. upgrading to Firefox 3.5

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Upgrading+to+Firefox+3%C2%B75
Private Browsing Mode, which allows you to browse the Internet without Firefox retaining any (of) data about which sites and pages you have visited.

either delete the "of" or change to (of the)"

Websites say cookies are blocked

"Yes, this solves the problem BUT I DO IT EVERYDAY! can't login to gmail, yahoo, etc. i delete cookies and it works, but shouldnt have to do this all the time. seen MANY other threads on this problem. somethimes get: Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete. Please advise / fix."

How about we remove the two last sections, and replace it with deleting the cookies.sqlite file?

Check for Updates is disabled

"'Changing the permissions on the Firefox installation directory' is all well and good as a suggestion, but what should they be? Insufficient information to try this troubleshooting step."

Problems using Facebook in Firefox

"I've ran into issues myself, mainly the "Not able to edit status or other areas of the page" and usually its the fact that the overlay used for the modal dialog is blocking user interaction... some how sometimes, its not getting hidden when it should be..
Hope this helps,"

Using the Windows Media Player plugin with Firefox

"i would recommend adding the information that you can download mplayer from the ubuntu package manager. If you select the mplayer plugin for firefox 3.5 that it installs flawlessly. :-) "

Missing vertical scroll bar

"i found the problem
in options
use the cursor keys to navigated within page
i turned this off and now i have vertical scrolling
im sure im not the only one
thats been frustrated with this problem.

curser keys scroll again !!!

this was so frustrating
firefox stopped being my main browser
chrome became the main

now if it would just load faster
chrome might go into second place"

Memasang Firefox di Linux

"This article does not explain how to create an icon for firefox once it is installed"



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Using the Windows Media Player plugin with Firefox

"i would recommend adding the information that you can download mplayer from the ubuntu package manager. If you select the mplayer plugin for firefox 3.5 that it installs flawlessly. :-) "

The problem is that the mplayer plugin is no longer mantained, albeit in the repositories. That's why I proposed (and changed) the references in that page.

If you look at this page

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

you'll see that the plugin is not updated since June 2008. Its author has been focusing his effort on gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer.

http://kdekorte.googlepages.com/

All this said, mplayer plugin may still work on some distros (especially old ones)



underpass
Installing Firefox on Linux

"This article does not explain how to create an icon for firefox once it is installed"

Tricky one...
The problem, as usual, are the different desktop environments each distro can use.

If we can talk about Ubuntu (and Gnome-based distros) I can write this part (I have to localize the system with en-us language).

For KDE, I would need extra help.



Bo

Re: *How to find which folder a bookmark is in, I already edited this, see my comment in the edit.

Re: Protecting stored passwords using a master password, let's not put the maximum length in the article, if there is one.

Re: Backing up your information, I put an edit in for this.

Re: Cannot clear Location bar history, what do you want to do? You can hide bookmarks in the Location bar or you can delete the bookmark.

Re: Bookmark Tags, what made that comment seem useful to you?

Re: Memasang Firefox di Windows, I think there's a bug in here somewhere... I saw it on the js3250.dll thing. I'll see if I can make it happen reliably.

Re: Websites say cookies are blocked, do we have reason to believe that deleting cookies.sqlite would solve that user's problems better than clearing cookies? If clearing them works for a while, but then they stop working again it's problem something else intervening.

Re: Check for Updates is disabled, we could link to MS or Apple documents on changing permissions, but I don't think we really want to do too much of it in our KB.

Re: Problems using Facebook in Firefox, interesting, but how to fix?

Re: Memasang Firefox di Linux, maybe link to GNOME and KDE docs on making launchers?



Bo

Re: ((Downloads window), we didn't mention that you can open the containing folder. I added that to the article.



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