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:-)) I was just thinking exactly the same thing.

"FarmI" wrote in news:477ae597$0$30456$ snipped-for-privacy@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net .au:

you mean IE doesn't have tabs? i *love* tabs. you can have multiple websites open at once in one browser window & flip back & forth between them. it's so handy for comparing prices or doing research. lee

Ummmmmmmm????? In words of one syllable or less; what's a 'tab' look like?

It might have them but since I dont' recognise that word.....................???

i *love* tabs. you can have

I can flip backwards and forwards from one URL to another easily in IE. For example, if I do a google search and come up with the usual 60 million hits, I will highlight one that I'm interested in and then select "Open in a new window" and, while that is opeing, I can then go on highlighting at the google screen and "opening in new windows" till I have 10 or many more URLs showing. i can then just go backwards and forward by hitting on the site I want to read and back again. Does that make sense?

Tabs are similar, except that only one window is open, but multiple tabs of it. It's sort of like an indexed notebook, if that makes any sense--one notebook, but many tabs with different subjects in each. One option is to open a tab that makes the website think you are opening it in Internet Explorer. Some sites either look weird in Firefox, or they won't open at all, so this is handy. (For the record, I rarely use this option.)

Coincidentally, I just showed my husband how to use the tabs in Firefox today!

That makes sense. I think Acrobat (or one of the other progs I use) has that sort of thing.

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Syncronicity at work!

I don't understand how I use IE to open a tab for Firefox and not open IE at all. That 's what it seems like this is saying. How do I *not* open a program and still have access through that program to open another program.???

I know how to use tabs like I'm opening another window and go back and forth between them. Done that already. But make a site think I'm using it in IE when I'm in Firefox............??? From what I've been experiencing it's not like I have a choice. I have IE and am using a tab in IE to access another site. I open a window and go to eBay, sign in etc and check on some items. I want to check a price so I open a tab and google the item. Nothing there tells me I'm not using IE when I open a tab in IE. I really don't get this.

Then I read today from someone elses post how some programs look funny in Firefox or don't work at all. OOOohhhh noooo!! That's not an option. If you think I'm IT challenged don't even begin to talk to hubby about IT things. He gets more befuddled than I when talking IT or worse it's not working when and how it is supposed to. I get the blame if it doesn't work right. It must be all those emails I get doing the damage!!!

I think we better just quit this while I still have a brain. Or do I just open a tab and have a new brain...................

AK in PA

Is you DH my DH's long lost brother? If any problem comes up on this puter you can hear him yell from miles away, JUNO, Somethings wrong with the computer. Usually it's because he's hit the wrong thing, but he'll never admit to that. So you see it probably doesn't matter if you understand what's happening or not, He's still going to yell, what's wrong here. Then you make up an answer like it the -------- (Fill in the space with your own reason)thing. Juno

"AK&DStrohl" wrote in news:477c07f6$0$30790$ snipped-for-privacy@news.enter.net:

you don't use IE to open anything. you use the Firefox browser, which has little add-on programs (called extentions) available to make it more useful to your individual ways of browsing. things like flash blocking, which prevents any website from using flash without your express permission, or ad blocking, or the virtual IE tab, which allows Firefox to act like an IE browser in one (or more if you like) individual tab... without the gaping security holes that the real IE browser has. in other words, you never have to use IE again, even for the abysmally programed sites that only work properly in IE. you have your Firefox browser open, you go to a site that doesn't work correctly, you hit the little button on the bottom right of the browser window which switches the browser to IE mode & hit reload page. ta daaaa. i *never* use IE or OE. ever. my browser is Firefox, my email is Pegasus (although that's no longer supported), i use xNews for reading Usenet. anything Microsoft does, third party software can do better, safer & cheaper.

because you're using IE. you're not using Firefox. if you use Firefox, you can add an extention that allows Firefox to emulate IE.

which is why we use IE Tab. see, Microsoft makes a substandard web design package called Front Page, which doesn't follow standard web design (HTML) protocols. their IE browser can read their substandard design (because it's designed so people have to use their browser to see Front Page written sites), but *real* web browsers can't translate the bad design language. the IE Tab add-on to Firefox "translates the bad design, without opening the security holes that exist when using IE.

oh, i certainly could use a new brain extention or even a tab! yup, that would be *so* useful about now :) lee

AK, you have to have the extension mini-app loaded into Firefox, which you can download from Mozilla.com for free. Then it allows you to make a choice how to open a program, but there's a little trick to it. Instead of simply clicking on a bookmark, you have to right-click on it. A menu opens, and one of the choices is "Open in IE tab". When you click on that option, the new tab opens, and it is literally in Internet Explorer, but inside the Firefox program.

I just tested this to see if it would work for me with our American Express account, which I've never been able to open in Firefox. It does! Plus, that option allows me to also use the script-limiting program I also installed recently, called NoScript, and the other cool little apps that Mozilla lets you add on. If you go to the website there are all kinds of programs, with descriptions.

Hope this helps!

Karen Maslowski wrote in news:7ae4$477c21c5$422a87ca$ snipped-for-privacy@FUSE.NET:

really? i open AmEx is Firefox with no problms. i have a blocked Flash window in the middle & the log-in box on the left. when i first got Firefox i had a problem & called AmEx tech support to complain. they said they were working on a fix. it was implemented a week or so later & i haven't had a problem since. lee

I'll have to try it, then. Thanks for the update!

Any idea if you can delete individual news messages on Thunderbird?

Many thanks.

Susan