[access-uk] Re: Any ideas? (and Firefox IE Tab extention)
- From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:31:29 +0100
I need to point out that according to the add-ons window of Firefox 2.0,
IETabs is not compatible. Sorry about that.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:52:25 +0100, "Ray's Home"
<rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Christopher and anyone else interested, it seems that the ability for
> Firefox to open pages in IE is through the IE Tab extention. It is
> pretty straightforward in that one opens the IE Tab properties via
> FireFox's Tools menu, into which the plug-in is installed when you
> download and install it.
>
> On opening the extention the page you are on is highlighted in the
> field next to URL and an 'add' option should be highlighted. Just
> entering or clicking on that should add the current page to the
> exceptions list. There is also an 'apply' button, so don't forget to
> use that.
>
> I am 99 per cent certain that the Windows Update pages are a default
> action of Firefox, and indeed, its hard to see why they wouldn't be,
> given the high importance of Windows Update functionality not being
> disturbed. prepared to becorrected on this one, but sure I'm right.
>
> I may well have come across the IE Tab extention via a GW Micro
> Knowledge base article, but I cannot quite remember now. In any case,
> that's probably a good way to track it down.
>
> Cheers,
>
> From Ray
> I can be contacted off-list at:
> mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf
> Of Christopher Hallsworth
>
>
> Ray, how would I go about placing such acceptions? I don't recall that
> you can tell FF to load IE on particular website? I've heard of an
> extension, load IE, is that the one? Thanks.
>
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:06:51 +0100, "Ray's Home"
> <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > Good advice Christopher, but I just wonder why so many people point
> to
> > Windows Update as a problem area when using Fire Fox as their
> browser.
> > For me at least Firefox has always worked seemlessly in that Windows
> > Update has always been handed over to Internet Explorer without
> > Firefox entering the picture at all. (Fire Fox does live in the
> real
> > world and knows all about IE being required for Windows Update.)
> You
> > can also list exceptions in FF for pages you know should use IE.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > From Ray
> > I can be contacted off-list at:
> > mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx
>
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