I love Firefox & add ons,http://www.firefoxaddiction.com/
Firefox Addiction 12-Step Recovery Program
Yes I need it bad

nice you found it, I forgot to paste the link, but it was not too far away to miss it

Hey I just saw this topic Thanks Graylox for sending me here, I just downloaded the Cats theme and Love it!! IT is soooooo cool to be able to have different Themes....gee now look what you started I am going to go Theme crazy now...lol
Kathy

one more (out of thousands):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ug7WEUxH68

Please haalam and all you other nice people, please no more kitty cats !
It's so hard to resist them, isn't it?
Though I had cats a very long time or should I say the cats had me ?, I have only a few photographs of them. What a bummer!

great link, haalam- thank you.
if you keep clicking the top of the page you keep getting more funny cat photos...once again, a link that can keep you occupied for a loooonnnng time.

For graylox and other cat lovers:

http://blog.esaba.com/projects/catphotos/catphotos.php?image=759

That is only one of MANY pictures. I found it in the iGoogle add-ons.

I have been using the FF theme of blue cat for a long time -- and love it too!

Hi, LeKanaw, 3 fingers? Lucky you!
Please wright as you like - I'm learning and sometimes kidding.
graylox

Hi Graylox
LeKanaw why not LaKanaw?
Well, "Kanaw" is a phonetic way of writing "Canard" which means "Duck" in French.
It's a masculine noun, so we say "Le Canard". Ok, u uncovered the truth, I'm A Duck!!!

...you know I'm having problems with American slang, so what do you mean with BM?
I looked into those Urban Dicos definitions. Bwahahawa
That was just sooo funny!! Thank you :-)
Yes, I meant Bookmarks Manager, sorry about that!
I abbreviate a lot when writing by hand and I only use 3 fingers for typing so it's easier for me...
Peace, Manu

I'll get more photos up as I have time and find how to let y'all look through the whole set; I'd rather *somebody* got to enjoy them than just set around on dvd's.

Yes, little bit of paradise, to me
for many, many years we had 23 little Asian chipmunks in 2 room flat.
At first there were only 2, the person in the pet shop said, that they would not get youngsters in captivity; but those fur-balls didn't seem to understand him. 1 year later we had 6 chipmunks, 1/2 year later we had 23 - then we decided to move house...

sounds like a crazy household......i love it!

actually gg (renamed *mr* gigi after he got marymag preggers) was a cat of a house guest, since moved out.

The rest- well. Mostly my wife's, though I get to clean the litterbox- but jeebus cripes is terri's personal PITA as Mindy Mayhem has become mine.

Or, from the cat's pov, most share us as common slaves, while a few have personal body servants.

And that's just part of the current roll call- I have photos of some that have passed on, kitten photos of many of them, and others from elsewhere.

9 'housecats' plus rascal, a woodlands bobcat-canadian lynx exotic in the house at the moment. On the right side of the picture of the cat painting are some printouts of some of the others, past and present.

We've had a few dogs, other cats, a tarantula, several generations of ferrets... not counting the wild turkeys and the occasional deer that wander into the yard and stay for a week or so, then move on.

goodgotd- are these some of your kitties?
very cute and they like computers, just like their daddy.

ok- enough of the cutsey voice.
cute cats.

a few more...

http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mindywatchingss3.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wellofcoursethatsterrisfl5.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=youmovehimpj2.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=yourlaptopyousaynomyfookk3.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aaahhhhyeseo6.jpg
http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=itscomfygv5.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whosezicantqr1.jpg

:)))

Just for you graylox,

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3743/Cookie+Cat/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3798/Cute+Kitten/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/492/Melt+Your+Heart/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4980/You+Keeping+Me+Right/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4134/I+Has+A+Money/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/100/Which+Cat+Is+On+Drugs/

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4987/I+Fixed+Ur+Blinds/

I'll have to post more pix to my online album, IIRC the last time I checked my catalog, since I got that c200 camera back in.. '98 I think... I've racked up ~42,000 digital photos (some are macros using a ricoh 4200- *useless* for most purposes as it has no optical viewfinder- see http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ricohmagnifierandrealtizd1.jpg) but most are cats, scenery...

That off-white lump hurts when he falls asleep and rolls off the monitor mounted on a shelf above my athlon's monitor on my head.

I'll be back.

i miss my cats too. :(

lekanaw- great idea about the thread.

i have seen no difference in my computer speed since switching to the kitties and they make me so happy.

my laptops' desktop wallpaper is currently simple. i'm using a plain purple background, because i have a really cool beatles .gif that i use on top of that( it's pretty small), but once again it makes me happy. also my 3year daughter is an

enormous

i guess this might make my computer run a little slower, but i haven't noticed a real difference.

1 person has rated this file, and it was rated 10 out of 10.
thanks for that giggle !
The white one is really a great guy - we had two graying kitty cats. I miss them.

http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lookoutbelowavatarfo9.jpg

ours still sit on the monitors. and everywhere else, too.

Thanks goodgotd I'll try the Littlefox. That sounds good.
I miss my cats still very much, they used to sit on the monitor when they was not allowed to sit on the keyboard. Now I have downloaded quite a lot of those silly cat pictures you can find in the net. G

And I shall enter the lists first. <lowers visor, takes lance>

I use 2 themes (well usually one, but 2 are updated- littlefox and night launch) for:

A) maximum viewable space- I.E. small icons, all but a bare minimum of toolbars supressed unless actively in use.

and

B) since most of the laptop's use of the browser [ok, use, period] (no scoffing; I still have a lance and armor! and a sword, but the lance gets there first.) is reading ebooks, to provide a light-on-dark low-eyestrain theme.

The laptop has a locked font, gray on black text, and the NoSquint plugin set for 120%, to read ebooks in html form.

The other 2 computers allow the web page's stock colors and fonts, but I learned long ago to tweak windows to light text on dark backgrounds. It's easier on the eyes.

desktop wallpaper is generally darkish, and so are screensavers. slowdown is minimal-

Utility first!

I have 9 cats here in real life, decoration is of *no* interest to me- just ask my wife. Function over form, to the point of driving her up a wall.

Next!

LeKanaw why not LaKanaw?, you know I'm having problems with American slang, so what do you mean with BM ? :

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BM+Manager

or quite simply "bookmarks"?
Well the folder with my bookmarks is not my main problem, that's the programs folder, with it's hundreds of unused proggies ( WR: no games, they are on the H:drive, and are used - sometimes !).
Back to our beloved FiFo : I too think a special topic for it could be useful.May I ask the first question ?
You all like themes, I'm afraid they will slow down my system ?
Normally I like a plain desktop, no icons, no wallpapers, no themes; but on the other hand I like a little bit of kitsch, you know, cute kittens and so.
So - slowdown or no slowdown that's the question .
graylox

@Gdgotd: Yap, that's what we do.
No need to complicate stuff.
M.

uhh, set firefox *and* IE not to check, and start the one you want?

Graylox: Yes I do the right click, but hate to look at IE, as I love the layed back peaceful look of Mythical Sirens.

Morrig: Yes welcome!!!!

LeKanaw: Love your idea! I have the multiple PC problem also. Bit of a chore, but I don't mind. I just make sure my hubby is chained to His PC, lol. When he heads for THE Main ( that's what I call my Desktop that everthing else runs thru ) I hover behind him like a Mama Bear protecting her cubs!

Funkymom: " for all the annoying site that won't get with the program " Let us take up arms and do battle!!!!

goodgotd: That is naughty, lol. I would like to do something like the Jurrasic Park movie to my husbands PC!

Suki

Hi Peeps,
You know what could be really kewl?
To start a thread about our best Foxy's(à la Morrig!) Add-Ons/Themes/Extensions/SearchEngines.
Bet we could learn a lot from that.
But lets add a note for each add-on, stating what it does & why we like it, otherwise it's just a bunch of links. It's easy to do a list w Dump + Extension Manager.
We also could add the ones we have disabled/uninstalled & why.

Thank you for the Links Graylox, girl ur full of surprises!!! Tell me, just how *big* is this BM Manager of yours? Wow :*)

Hi Morrig and Welcome to the forums

Goodgotd: We also have several PC/Laptops. I find it increasingly difficult to keep up w Maintenance/Updates/BkUps/... for all of them!! I feel I work for them instead of them working for me. *sigh* And expensive to keep up also!
Peace, Manu

I guess I didn't put it right.

When I open Firefox I have it set to ask me if I want it to be my default browser.

My husband is computer challenged, if I were to set Firefox as the Defaut, he would think he screwed it up, lmao!

I changed it on MY Laptop, so IE is now the back-up.

What I was getting at is that I should be able to use any browser I like!

Suki

Start firefox, menu: tools > options, bottom of 'main' tab (system defaults) check the box that reads "always check to see if firefox is the default browser at startup' and tap the "check now" button next to it. Job done.

I'd like to be more precise about *my* relationship with IE and its *real* simple- on the 3 of 4 computers on the LAN that are 'mine'- IE has been renamed to "Router Administration" (because the 3com 3CR858-91 1.12 firmware fix to allow entering virtual servers *only works with IE*) and the homepage is the router's login page, by IP number.

Period-dot-zip. Heh.

Also I highly recommend the NoScript extension. Google-analytics hasn't seen me for a loooong time, since I only allow the minimum permissions per site...

The exact opposite to my wife whose computer is the only one using IE as default- *because* she uses it for Pogo.com 99.9% of it's online time. OTOH, that computer also has limited (read-only) access to the other machines, and that only so I can pipe over video files to it as it's the 'play' side of the digital DVR system in place. <grin>

Yeah, there's the add-on to switch rendering engines from Gecko to IE, but I haven't needed it in a year or more.