http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/forum/8 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Forum: Software Talks - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:26:20 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99345 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:47:49 +0000 engin1984 99345@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>i like 3x3 fast dial feature </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99344 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:33:19 +0000 Robert 99344@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Nola,<br /> See if compacting the sql databases helps loading FF.<br /> CCleaner has a feature to compact FF&#39;s databases.<br /> Also try to clear cache&amp;cookies on a regular base.</p> <p>Using a portable FF,like mikiem said, is my favorite way.<br /> (I keep a portable FF ever since FF 3 up till 9,and I keep switching from one version to another)<br /> Still.. on my old XP machine FF 3.26 tends to loads slower than the newer versions.<br /> Also..I&#39;m using the &quot;memory fox&quot; addon to improve memory management,mainly because usually I have a lot tabs active.</p> <p>Just noticed PortableApps has a portable version of <a href="http://portableapps.com/news/2012-02-10_-_firefox_portable_10.0.1_released">FF 1O.01</a> ready for download.<br /> (so...wondering if the claim that all FF4 extensions will be compatible is true) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11205#post-99332 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:21:21 +0000 delenn13 99332@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Nola, Don&#39;t get Incredimail..unless you pay for it. The free one has spyware and you don&#39;t want that on your new laptop.</p> <p>Check out Eudora OSE - MozillaWiki - <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_OSE</a> It&#39;s light and it&#39;s open source. If you decide to get an older version of the Pro.. I have a code..would just have to find it. Message me. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2650/page/4#post-99328 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:28:21 +0000 graylox 99328@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Gizmo&#39;s <a href="http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/wallpaper-week-forest-through-trees.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmosbest+%28Gizmo%27s+Best-ever+Freeware%29">Wallpaper of the Week</a> found again a good site for wallpapers:<br /> <strong><font size="2"><br /> <a href="http://dizorb.com/category/hd-wallpapers/" rel="nofollow">http://dizorb.com/category/hd-wallpapers/</a></font></strong></p> <p>This web-site is an excellent source for friends of graphics and design, with fonts and icons etc.</p> <p>graylox<br /> <em><font size="1">11.02.12</font></em> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11205#post-99327 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:13:13 +0000 ChrisS 99327@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Nola, did you actually check if Thunderbird had any plug-ins loaded? Mine uses the same plug-ins as FF, which I can enable/disable separately in each program, and I&#39;m pretty sure that Thunderbird just copied them from FF without any direct action on my part. If you didn&#39;t check, click &quot;Tools&quot;, then &quot;Add-ons&quot; and the &quot;Add-on Manager&quot; should open on the &quot;Plug-ins&quot; page. If you&#39;re running a much newer version of Thunderbird than FF then it&#39;s possible the plug-ins need to be updated. Unfortunately, that will likely require a FF update because the new plug-in may not run with the old FF version despite any claims of &quot;backward compatibility&quot;. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99320 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:43:48 +0000 delenn13 99320@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Guys, if only for security, you really need to update those browsers....as mikiem2 said.</p> <p>For my wayward add ons, I use Disable Add-on Compatibility Checks <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkcompatibility/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkcompatibility/</a></p> <p>&quot;About this Add-on</p> <p>While it used to be possible to disable add-on compatibility checking entirely, by setting the extensions.checkCompatibility preference to false, it is now necessary to set a different preference for each new application version. This add-on re-enables the functionality of extensions.checkCompatibility irrespective of the current application version and disables checking by default. Checking can be re-enabled by disabling the add-on (which can be done without a restart) or by toggling the preference.<br /> &quot;</p> <p>And to help Firefox...</p> <p>Add-on Compatibility Reporter <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/?src=api" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/?src=api</a></p> <p>&quot;Help Mozilla make sure your favorite add-ons get updated for upcoming Firefox releases by using this extension to report whether they still work or are having some issues with alpha and beta releases.&quot; </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2650/page/4#post-99317 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:19:56 +0000 delenn13 99317@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Desktop Wallpaper: The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim | TechRepublic - <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/desktop-wallpaper-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/6342837?tag=nl.e174" rel="nofollow">http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/desktop-wallpaper-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/6342837?tag=nl.e174</a></p> <p>IIRC, you have to join but it&#39;s free. They are all landscapes from the game. Thought Wabbit might like them. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11205#post-99311 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:45:11 +0000 NolafromNZ 99311@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Chris, I don&#39;t have any addons or plug-ins whatsoever for Thunderbird, like you I just want to use the program. I got off the Thunderbird merry-go-round at the same version as you are using,and I have no idea if there have been further updates.</p> <p> However, I do have some addons and plugins for Firefox, although not a whole lot. I have stopped on Version 3.6.26 but even before that it wasn&#39;t very stable. Occasionally I can&#39;t even get into it, but like I said somewhere else, I just load up Chrome and use that until Firefox decides it better pull its socks up before I dismiss it altogether, which still could happen.</p> <p>Bubby I checked out the update process and it seems to be finished. At the moment (fingers crossed) Thunderbird is working reasonably well. Perhaps that&#39;s because I have now bought a Windows 7 laptop courtesy of my daughter who got a $6,000+ tax refund and gave me $2,000 of it for doing all the accounting and because she is a general wonderful daughter. It has got Win 7 Home Premium, 8gb RAM, so I will install the latest Mozilla products, plus Chrome to hedge my bets and maybe Incredimail to teach Thunderbird a lesson. It is sitting beside the naughty, ancient laptop, we will see how we go now.</p> <p>Copmom, I too, get a lot of Not Responding on Firefox (never Thunderbird), although particularly on my daughter&#39;s baby laptop. In fact, every time I go into Firefox on her laptop (usually late at night when I can&#39;t sleep) I can guarantee getting that message usually on startup but sometimes later on too.</p> <p>Thank you to you all, I appreciate your comments and I am glad that I&#39;m not alone with my Mozilla Woes. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99265 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:43:04 +0000 mikiem2 99265@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Firefox 10.0.1 is out <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-1001" rel="nofollow">http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-1001</a> - no release notes up yet [as I type this anyway] but AFAIK the 0.1 updates usually fix bugs &amp; gotchas &amp; such that slipped into a version release. </p> <p><blockquote>... I am still using Firefox 3 ...</blockquote></p> <p>Generally part of major version updates for each browser release, regardless brand, are security related. </p> <p>Far as browsers go, there are quite a few alternatives, many with portable versions so you can try them out before making the commitment to install. Many people forget about, or maybe never heard of Opera, plus there are several efforts that are based on major browsers but <em>[probably not the best choice of words]</em> re-imagined by another developer or developer team. Maxthon is one <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/maxthon-3342000" rel="nofollow">http://www.neowin.net/news/maxthon-3342000</a> but there are several others like Seamonkey -- you can get both of those in portable versions at portableapps.com. I don&#39;t know how up to date it is, but there&#39;s a table listing several alternative browsers at the bottom of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser</a> . </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11205#post-99262 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:56:45 +0000 ChrisS 99262@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Try disabling the plug-ins and see if that fixes your problem. You could also try the opposite, update Firefox and Thunderbird to the latest versions and then update all plug-ins and add-ons. I&#39;m running FF version 6.0 and Thunderbird version 9.0.1 and don&#39;t seem to have any problems but I&#39;ve quit using a lot of add-ons and plug-ins over the years because of version incompatibilities. I&#39;ve also gotten off the Mozilla update cycle because I want to use the software, not test it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11205#post-99261 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:56:15 +0000 copmom 99261@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Mostly what I get on both Thunderbird and Firefox is &quot;not responding&quot; when I&#39;m trying to reply to an email or change web pages! Takes forever for that to go away, sometimes need to reboot to restart things on that! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11205#post-99254 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:18:06 +0000 BuBBy 99254@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Has the version 10.0 update actually completed and been installed?</p> <p>Go to Help about and check the version (and whether the update is still trying to download). I fixed one of my parents PCs yesterday - the complaint was it was downloading email too slowly, so they restarted it - same problem.</p> <p>When I checked - the update wasn&#39;t getting a chance to download fully then install and restart. Once all of the update business had a chance to download &amp; install, things seemed to run a little more smoothly.</p> <p>For users on dialup - this process would be even more painful. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99251 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:53:21 +0000 Buzz 99251@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Might be time for an update. Using v2.0.0.20 now. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99248 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:37 +0000 NolafromNZ 99248@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>As for Firefox, on this laptop (my main one) I am still using Firefox 3.something. And, yes, I have problems with it. Sometimes it refuses to load, so I just go to Chrome for that day which has all my imported tabs and bookmarks from Firefox. That makes Firefox sit up and take notice, and it usually behaves for the next few days.</p> <p>My daughter&#39;s baby laptop is running Firefox 9 but I suspect that I should have left it at Firefox 3. something too as it only has minimal 512mb ram and can&#39;t be upgraded (because the ram is netbook ram, hundreds of dollars to upgrade here, better to buy a new laptop.) So, it takes absolutely forever to load. (I&#39;m talking 9 minutes from turning it on to having Firefox ready to go with 3 tabs maximum).</p> <p>So, I don&#39;t think I will be going to Firefox 10 any time soon, although my main laptop has 1.5gb. Both laptops run XP Pro. I am intending to purchase a new laptop later this year when I have saved enough money, probably by then it will be Windows 8 and Firefox 15, lol. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11205#post-99247 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:55:10 +0000 NolafromNZ 99247@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Does anyone in this forum use Thunderbird? If so, are you having problems with it, like hanging unexpectedly (often, meaning a reboot) or refusing to change to the Inbox when you want it to? Also, very update removes the tabbed items which I keep until I have dealt with them and they were a reminder to me as soon as I looked at my emails, hence I dealt with them quicker. </p> <p>Thunderbird just updates automatically (nearly as often as Firefox) and I have had lots of little problems that so far I have been able to sort out, but are very annoying as they happen nearly daily. I have stopped the automatic updating now in the hopes of getting a stable copy and keeping it which so far hasn&#39;t happened. I even wish could go back to a stable Thunderbird, but I don&#39;t even know how far back that would be now, I suspect quite a few updates have been made since then, as I often lose my tabs now. (Well, I did until I stopped the automatic updates, but sadly I still don&#39;t have a reliable Thunderbird.) </p> <p>For the refusal to change to my Inbox I hunted through Thunderbird and found a repair prog which sorted that problem out, but till I found that, I was ready to throw my laptop out the window. It is amazing what you learn or find when you can&#39;t get to your Inbox no matter how many times you reboot. </p> <p>I&#39;m curious to know if others are having problems like this or if it is just my ageing laptop, purchased in 2005/6 and running XP Pro with 1.5gb ram. I am probably taxing it severely as I have 3 external hard drives (all powered), a powered 10 port hub, and a strong cooling pad running off it as well as all the detritus that I deem necessary to my life nearly filling it. The internal dvd writer has also given up the ghost and reverted to a DVD-RAM or CD drive only so when I need to I have to remove one of the external drves to use an external dvd burner.</p> <p>I would welcome comments from other users. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99246 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:40:51 +0000 NolafromNZ 99246@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you Graylox, I downloaded everything you so clearly listed out except for one item that I don&#39;t think I will need. (and that wasn&#39;t the backup program, which I already had an earlier version of).</p> <p>You wrote it all out so well, thank you for that. I&#39;m away now to back up. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11200#post-99232 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:45:18 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 99232@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Idunno; dpownloaded and installed. Great little freebie. :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99229 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:52:09 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 99229@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the update. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7615#post-99213 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:44:37 +0000 Inas 99213@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Will download PWS 2 - I love all kinds of image editor programs - thanks, Idunno. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11200#post-99212 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:42:51 +0000 Inas 99212@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you, Idunno, looks like a wonderful program. Can&#39;t wait to use it. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11200#post-99209 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:25:45 +0000 Idunnobutiwastold 99209@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><font size="2"><strong>Antenna</strong></font> (4 Mb)</p> <p><u>Description</u>:<br /> Select from a list of Internet Radio Broadcasters and listen to their programs, using your PC.<br /> <strong>Pre-requisite: Adobe AIR Runtime</strong>.</p> <p><em>Works rather well on my computer.</em></p> <p><u>Homepage</u>:<br /> <a href="http://bcdef.org/" rel="nofollow">http://bcdef.org/</a></p> <p><u>Download</u>:<br /> <a href="http://bcdef.org/antenna/" rel="nofollow">http://bcdef.org/antenna/</a></p> <p><img src="http://image.yogile.com/kxfvpawu/tlsywfblaet6lgnanapi02.jpg"> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7615#post-99199 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:56:24 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 99199@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the update Idunno. :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7615#post-99197 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000 Idunnobutiwastold 99197@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>&quot;The upcoming release of PWS, <em>PostworkShop 3</em>, will be only available as the equivalent of the (commercial) Pro Edition.<br /> The Basic / Artist / Value Editions of the previous release, <em>PostworkShop 2</em>, <u>will be discontinued</u>.&quot;</p> <p>Annoucement here:<br /> <a href="http://www.postworkshop.net/newsletter-january-2012" rel="nofollow">http://www.postworkshop.net/newsletter-january-2012</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2650/page/4#post-99147 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:53:38 +0000 hotdoge3 99147@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://download.chip.eu/en/Windows-8-Wallpapers_161738502.html" rel="nofollow">http://download.chip.eu/en/Windows-8-Wallpapers_161738502.html</a></p> <p>Gallery: Windows 8 Wallpapers</p> <p>We have collected 25 of the best Windows 8 high resolution wallpapers, so you do not have to waste your time scouring the internet to find your favourite.</p> <p>File size:15.7MB </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99077 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:47:25 +0000 Inas 99077@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I also upgraded to FF10 and all is well, only 3 incompatible add-ons like you, Dragonlair. I love FF - much nicer than IE, in my humble opinion. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11178#post-99073 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:00:51 +0000 graylox 99073@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Please read the FAQs and learn how to use the GOTD project before posting such accusations.</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6195#post-93052" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6195#post-93052</a></p> <p>I can&#39;t see any &quot;rip&quot; - &quot;<a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/melomania18/">No free upgrades to future versions</a>&quot; is part of the terms and conditions when downloading a giveaway.</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11178#post-99069 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:27:58 +0000 Speedbump 99069@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Don&#39;t download the update if you recently downloaded the free version from GOTD. I did and now I am using an unregistered copy that will expire in 9 more uses.</p> <p>What a rip! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99047 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:22:12 +0000 Dragonlair 99047@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I got upgraded easily and then checked my add-ons and plug-ins. Add-ons (only 3 or 4) were fine. I had my plug-ins check for updates (most are auto-installs from elsewhere and are unknown to Firefox). It did say my Java and Silverlight were outdated so I updated them. (with FF not loaded). It took a REBOOT, not a &quot;Refresh&quot; from what Firefox said to get it to recognize the new Silverlight.</p> <p>Other than that, no problems updating. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99046 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:59:31 +0000 graylox 99046@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong><u><font size="2">Don&#39;t forget to back-up!</font></u></strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.mozbackup.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mozbackup.org/</a><br /> <blockquote><strong><font size="2">What&#39;s <a href="http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/">MozBackup</a></font></strong>?</p> <p>MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc</blockquote></p> <p>Or/And:<br /> <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/extension-list-dumper/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/extension-list-dumper/</a></p> <p><blockquote><strong><font size="2"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/extension-list-dumper/">Extension List Dumper</a></font></strong> 1.15.2<br /> by Sogame</p> <p>This extension adds a button (&quot;Dump list&quot;) to the Add-ons window. When this button is pressed, a new window is opened with the list of installed extensions, themes or or plugins.</p> <p>The browser version and the Operating System are also dumped.</p> <p>This extension is useful to keep a list of your extensions and themes, or when reporting a bug or a conflict to an extension author.</blockquote></p> <p>And the next time your Firefox is sluggish (I have heard this could happen now and then...) use<br /> <strong><font size="2"><a href="http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox">SpeedyFox - Boost Firefox in a Single Click!</a></font></strong></p> <p><blockquote>Your Firefox is working slowly?</p> <p><strong><u><font size="2">Boost Firefox in a single click with SpeedyFox absolutely for free!</font></u></strong></p> <p>You get:<br /> Boost Firefox startup in up to 3 times!<br /> Speed-up browsing history<br /> Quicker operation with cookies<br /> Available for both Windows and Mac OS<br /> ...<br /> Mozilla Firefox is a fast browser, but with the lapse of time it starts working much slowly. The reason is fragmentation of profile databases. A free tool SpeedyFox is designed specially to resolve that problem. The method used in SpeedyFox is 100% safe for your profile (e.g. bookmars, passwords, etc), it&#39;s well documented and tested on millions computers.<br /> ...<br /> <a href="http://www.crystalidea.com/more-about-speedyfox">More About SpeedyFox</a><br /> </blockquote><br /> <a href="http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox" rel="nofollow">http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox</a></p> <p>And here is one more list :</p> <p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/url-lister/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/url-lister/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.bin-co.com/tools/firefox/extensions/urllister/"><strong><font size="2">URL Lister</font></strong> is a Firefox Plugin that shows the URLs of all the open tabs in a textarea so that it can be copied easily.</a></p> <p>graylox<br /> <em><font size="1">31.01.12</font></em> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11170#post-99044 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:48:46 +0000 dsekirka 99044@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I downloaded Firefox 10 this morning and I did not have any problems with it yet. </p>