More On The New Browsers
One of the things a webmaster has to do is ensure that his pages work in all browsers and for that reason I have several browsers loaded on my machine.
I downloaded the new Firefox browser the other day and ran into a problem. In the previous version I was able to toggle back and forth between browsers, but Firefox2 doesn't seem to want to let you do that. It all has to do with making your browser "the default browser".
After scrambling around fruitlessly for some time searching through various settings, I was informed by a participant of one of the newsgroups I read that the fix was simple.
There are freeware programs that do this for you it seems, but the easiest way is to go into "Control Panel", click on "Add/Remove", then click on "Set Program Access & Defaults".
Now I can toggle back and forth again.
Time Magazine Online writes:
I downloaded the new Firefox browser the other day and ran into a problem. In the previous version I was able to toggle back and forth between browsers, but Firefox2 doesn't seem to want to let you do that. It all has to do with making your browser "the default browser".
After scrambling around fruitlessly for some time searching through various settings, I was informed by a participant of one of the newsgroups I read that the fix was simple.
There are freeware programs that do this for you it seems, but the easiest way is to go into "Control Panel", click on "Add/Remove", then click on "Set Program Access & Defaults".
Now I can toggle back and forth again.
Time Magazine Online writes:
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By now you may have heard that the makers of the two leading web browsers launched their latest totally free editions, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 2, within a week of each other. Feature-wise, most news reports have already declared a winner: the long-awaited IE7 may be a vast improvement over its predecessors, but the new Firefox leaves it in the dust. While that's mainly true, here's what you need to know about each one, and why you should have them both on your Windows PC. Read the full story here. |
