[pchelpers] Re: download problem

Thanks Ekhart,

I did not know about that little bit of investigation regarding FF.
Fortunately the add on that I require happens to work in IE so
I am good to go until the add ons in FF catch up. The only
one that is critical to me is Robo Form and fortunately it did
not get blown away by the IE-8 upgrade.

FF does indeed help with pesky sites. The regularly updated Hosts
file works for both Browsers, so far I have been fortunately clean.
Do not mind at all when either of the browsers indicatesit is unable
to load a web page.

Spybot S&D finds a few cookies now and then so that is
happy.

Cy

Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
> Hi Cy
>
>   
>> There is only one problem with Mozilla Firefox. Every time they upgrade
>> the add ons seem to take a long time to get updated.  IE8 was not likely
>> the problem since it worked for me.
>>     
>
> Well, you don't have the add-ons in IE anyhow, so you probably can live
> without them for a while whenever Firefox is updated.
>
> And if it's an add-on that's important to you, there's a very simple
> solution: don't update immediately/ automatically. When minor bugs 
> (often) and especially when major bugs (rarely) are discovered in 
> Firefox, Mozilla produces updates much faster than Microsoft does for 
> Internet Explorer, so even if you wait a while before updating, you're 
> still much better protected even when you wait weeks, months, and 
> sometimes years before updating FF. And since Mozilla produces bugfixes 
> so quickly, crackers almost never have time to or bother to write any 
> malware that exploits the bug.
>
> In FF, go to
>
> tools < options < advanced < update
>
> and choose either "ask me what i want to do" or if you choose 
> "automatically..." at least also choose "warn me if this will disable 
> any of my add-ons"
>
> Very often you can get an update to the add-on before it's on the 
> official Mozilla site by going to
>
> tools < add-ons
>
> and rightclicking on the add-on and choosing "visit home page". Once 
> there, you might also want to give the developer a friendly reminder and 
> perhaps even offer to donate something. Remember that most of the 
> developers are non-professionals or are professionals who get no money 
> for writing and updating this add-on and who have other jobs whose 
> duties go first. If the add-on is so important to you, a small donation 
> or at least a friendly request/reminder will probably help to convince 
> the developer to update the add-on much sooner.
>
>
>   


-- 
Cyril Halbach
Williamsburg Kentucky



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