I’m aware that this has been recently noted in another post, but I figured after all the heck I’ve gone through in the last 12 hours trying to post pictures other folks might need to know. When I downloaded IE 7 it changed the posting page, eliminated the tool bar, and somehow messed up the img tags and inserts. After rolling back to IE 6, the posting page returned to normal and my pictures straightened themselves out! [:O]
While this won’t fix everyone’s problems I hope it will contribute a partial solution to smoother operations in the new forum. So, as we say down south, “Good luck, ya’ll!” [C):-)]
Stopped using IE a long time ago due to problems with it. Mozilla is the way to go. No problems with this site and only 1 really of all the places I go to.
Funny, I have Firefox and IE6. With IE6 this new forum is rendered very well on my widescreen notebook PC. In Firefox it displays in a narrow strip down the middle of the screen. In IE6 I can reply and quote, with Firefox it does not display the icons to allow this. I basically gave up with Firefox because I could never get it to work right on half the web sites I frequent. No such issues with IE. I guess each to there own, but in my experience with my PC Firefx has been a bust.
For what it is worth, I have invested several hours with Firefox tweaking settings and on support forums with no success in getting it to work better.
Thanks to the thoughtless few who’s only goal in life seems to be to see how many computers they can destroy, and btw concentrate their effort on IE 6 (if you think because you use Firefox or Safari or somethign else, you’re totally safe, you’re delusional), IE 7 has been made SO locked down that it is just about useless for anything but very plain vanilla sites, without loosening up the security somewhat. Relax some of the highest settings and I’ll bet it will work here just fine. And prevent viruses and worms by simply not willy-nilly clicking on links in unsolicited emails and so forth.
I’m with Joe. I have the same version of Firefox with Windows XP. I have the same setup on two different manufacturers of PC, a Sony Desktop and IBM Thinkpad. Once I read the how to posts, I can quote, post photos and have an avatar with no problems.
As for IE7 and Vista. Mircosoft is discovering what many other in the computer biz have found - “You can make it safe, you can make it useful but you can’t make it safe and useful”
I am Beta testing IE 7 for Microsoft, and there are some issues trying to use some features on this forum. For one thing, I cannot see any drop down list when I enter REPLY. I am using VISTA Beta version 2, so I will be working with MS to update IE 7 to see if it corrects some issues. And YES, security is much tighter. And if the hackers have a tough time getting into the new VISTA or IE 7, guees where they look next? If you think you are safe with another browser, it is only because the hackers have gone after MS because they are so big and widely used, why waste their efforts on the smaller browsers…until now!!!
rrinker said: IE 7 has been made SO locked down that it is just about useless for anything but very plain vanilla sites, without loosening up the security somewhat. I loosened every security thing in IE7 and still couldn’t get it to work. And brothaslide, you appear to be the first using IE7 that has no problems. You are saying you are able to see the text formatting bar and you can quote without problems?
Did you upgrade to the latest version of Firefox 9 (1.5.0.6). I have all the Message Bar stuff (Font, Size, Color, Highlight, and Insert Smiley as well as the Bold, Italic, Underline and paragraph stuff). Is there something else that should be showing?
Ditto for using Firefox as the primary browser! Firefox’s tabbed browsing is a welcome irritation remover when using forums like this one. Under “Manage Bookmarks” I have made extensive use of bookmarks and sub-category folders for many of this forum’s links.
I.E. 7x is beta software, not even alpha software, and is still busy incorporating Firefox features like tabbed browsing. I now have only one I.E. 6x folder left fondly titled => “Borg of Redmond - Resistance is futile!” => for those fewer websites that must be still bookmarked only for use on Internet Explorer.