Firefox problem..

HeatseekerHeatseeker
edited September 2005 in Science & Tech
Hi all,

I just bought a new pc and am wondering about two things.

First off, I have my homepage set to www.rr.com which is my isp home page. However, when it loads with firefox, in the bottom left hand corner, where it says transferring data, connecting to..etc etc. it says "read hercules.rr.com" Now, I'm not sure why it's saying that, but it said that before when I used firefox with my old setup. But with IE, I don't get that there...any ideas?

Also, I have windows media player 10 installed, but I can't seem to stream videos when I use Firefox...I like firefox alot, but it's making me not want to use it now..

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  • tcithtcith Sydney, Australia Member
    edited August 2005
    Heatseeker wrote:
    Hi all,

    I just bought a new pc and am wondering about two things.

    First off, I have my homepage set to www.rr.com which is my isp home page. However, when it loads with firefox, in the bottom left hand corner, where it says transferring data, connecting to..etc etc. it says "read hercules.rr.com" Now, I'm not sure why it's saying that, but it said that before when I used firefox with my old setup. But with IE, I don't get that there...any ideas?

    Also, I have windows media player 10 installed, but I can't seem to stream videos when I use Firefox...I like firefox alot, but it's making me not want to use it now..


    The names in front of the rr.com are the names of the servers it is getting the various pieces of data that build the web page

    when I load the page I see
    content.rr.com
    quantam.rr.com
    hercules.rr.com
    content.rr.com
    and various other servers that are building the content your seeing..

    I myself tend to use IE still for most things, namely alot of the admin tools I use are activeX based thus will not run in firefox, I also tend to not like the way it renders pages - but I do pop back to it now and then to see the improvements they are making and I use it on one of my home machines just so I am familiar with it.

    The reason media player won't work is it uses activeX which firefox do not implement as it is a MS thing.

    You need to add a plugin to support those type of apps - see
    http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html
  • HeatseekerHeatseeker
    edited August 2005
    Ya know, I thought FF was supposed to be this uber safe browser...After I downloaded FF, I ran Spybot s+d and it came up with all these things like hit-box, advertising.com, avenue..When I expanded those entries, every single one of them came from firefox...sup with that?
  • tcithtcith Sydney, Australia Member
    edited August 2005
    That just sounds like cookies - not actual spyware
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited August 2005
    yeah those are tracking cookies that adware/spyware programs pick up, but theyre not really hazzardous. If you want less of those cookies, go Tools > Options > Privacy and change the settings.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    those are cookies, like tcith said. They're not something "caused" by firefox - they come from the sites that you visit. If you don't want them, turn cookies off in firefox, but be prepared for a very annoying browsing experience as nothing is kept from page to another, like logins and things like that.
  • HeatseekerHeatseeker
    edited September 2005
    tcith wrote:
    The names in front of the rr.com are the names of the servers it is getting the various pieces of data that build the web page

    when I load the page I see
    content.rr.com
    quantam.rr.com
    hercules.rr.com
    content.rr.com
    and various other servers that are building the content your seeing..

    I myself tend to use IE still for most things, namely alot of the admin tools I use are activeX based thus will not run in firefox, I also tend to not like the way it renders pages - but I do pop back to it now and then to see the improvements they are making and I use it on one of my home machines just so I am familiar with it.

    The reason media player won't work is it uses activeX which firefox do not implement as it is a MS thing.

    You need to add a plugin to support those type of apps - see
    http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html


    Hmm, I have FF 1.0.6..and the only active x plug in they have is for 1.0.4 So am i basically out of luck as far as streaming media on FF? Also, if the one for 1.0.4 works, do I just dl it, and that's it?
  • cyberratcyberrat
    edited September 2005
    i have actually gotten dialers from this new firefox i have had nothing but problems with it freezing etc does anyone know if the old 1.0.4 is avalible out there anywhere? i never had many sound problems with it either nothingk like this new one
  • jbestelljbestell
    edited September 2005
    Heatseeker wrote:
    Hi all,

    I just bought a new pc and am wondering about two things.

    First off, I have my homepage set to www.rr.com which is my isp home page. However, when it loads with firefox, in the bottom left hand corner, where it says transferring data, connecting to..etc etc. it says "read hercules.rr.com" Now, I'm not sure why it's saying that, but it said that before when I used firefox with my old setup. But with IE, I don't get that there...any ideas?

    Also, I have windows media player 10 installed, but I can't seem to stream videos when I use Firefox...I like firefox alot, but it's making me not want to use it now..

    Hey heatseeker.

    About the "Transferring data from" issue: It is a known bug in firefox, actually in the gecko engine (the basis for almost all Mozilla browsers) that causes this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39310
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