Firefox .8

TheLostSwede

Just installed the browser and i got the plugin for Flashget and it works.
However, everytime i click on something to download, firefox goes to a blank page saying "Transferred to Flashget blah blah" which is a PITA. Any way to get rid of that? Also, how do you setup so that the thumb-button to the mouse gets used as "Page back" the same way IE uses it?

Mac

primesuspect

I have a logitech MX700 and I just use the mouseware panel to set the thumb button to back. It works in Firefox .8 for me (just got it today).

TheLostSwede

What i meant was that IE uses the thumb-button by default , even without mouseware while .8 doesn't. Mouseware always thrashes my gamesettings up for some reason and i try to stay away from it. Logitech here as well.
Do you get the blank screen when using a manager as well? Thanks Prime, appreciate it.

primesuspect

I don't use a manager - i just use the standard downloader that comes with the browser. It works fine. I've never had any problems with it.

TheSmJ

Not really working for me...

Furthermore, the scroll bar on the right is gone... I have no clue why, but I miss it.

TheLostSwede

primesuspect wrote:

I don't use a manager - i just use the standard downloader that comes with the browser. It works fine. I've never had any problems with it.

Ok.

Straight_Man

Both Mozilla's and Opera's downloaders are robust-- both can resume downloads these days. FireFox is mozilla browser functionality plus downloader. Thunderbird is the mailer client from Mozilla. Mozilla per se is the combined set. Firefox .8 is almost 100% equiv to mozilla browser and downloader modules if mailer client were pulled out. Idea was to let folks browse OR email and not have to load RAM for both being up and in RAM space at same time if not wanted.

(Shades of modularizing out a combined browser-email client, ala IE and OE approach.) Firefox can use Sun Java via plugin if wanted, can use any current Mozilla plugin now out also. You can declare Acrobat Reader as a helper and run it from Friefox, or use the plugin (ditto for Opera 7 which can do same also).

John D.

TheLostSwede

But the thing is that i almost constantly have 50+ files in the que. A manager makes life much easier for me at least.

Straight_Man

Mackanz wrote:

But the thing is that i almost constantly have 50+ files in the que. A manager makes life much easier for me at least.

Well, Opera's FTP client module can download multiple ftp sessions at once, and can queue downloads. For your uses, FTP Voyager for Windows, or gftp for Linux or BSD can be very nice. Note, these are all mostly client modules, not for outward serving of FTP with multiple sessions. WS-FTP for windows is a pure FTP manager, it can push and pull files (put and get in multiple sessions). Then, because of your needs, you need something more robust than what is in a browser. A 3-4 waiting queue plus multiple sessions can be done in Firefox or Opera, though. Opera is more limited by bandwidth and tries to download if bandwidth available. FTP clients will wait and download one file at a time per session. Sunet.se can accept many multiple sessions for FTP for different files per session, they have the bandwidth outbound to support that-- try public FTP bandwidth at 1 MB\sec flow times 400 for fast downloads! They will let you pull 3-4 ISOs simultaneously at very fast rates if you have the inward bandwidth and your FTP client software can manage that and box can store fast anough so the sessions do not bog below a certain point.

I have pulled 3 sessions simultaneously through Opera, and had 2-3 files waiting. Typically, as I have a bandwidth limit not nealry in the Terra range(average right now is about 2-2.5 Mbits\sec total downward to my end node from Sweden to here in US to my machine, I can pull 3 file streams at 50-75 KB\sec average flow EACH (simultaneously as far as my end is concerned) if I close the browser session (page in this case) and let the downloading module tab\page stay open. This was from Sunet.se. Opera has a manual resume, some robust FTP clients like the ones mentioned above can active or passive FTP and can autoresume. Sunet runs Linux and Unix and BSD for FTP servers. They are in Sweden. They do not allow real HTTPable FTP (trivial FTP) connects.

John D.

kanezfan

Mackanz wrote:

But the thing is that i almost constantly have 50+ files in the que. A manager makes life much easier for me at least.

what the hell are you downloading? I mean 50 files at all times???? that's a lot of bible music my friend. is it all bible music?

-Ben

Is there actually any upgrades from firebird .8 too firefox .8 apart from just a name change?

primesuspect

There's no such thing as Firebird .8, ben... Firebird was .7 and when they release the update to .8, there was a name change. It's the same software, new point release, new name.

TheLostSwede

kanezfan wrote:

what the hell are you downloading? I mean 50 files at all times???? that's a lot of bible music my friend. is it all bible music?

Yassir!

Too many releases from Andrew Blake.

Jake

Mackanz wrote:

What i meant was that IE uses the thumb-button by default , even without mouseware while .8 doesn't.

Must just be a Logitech thing, because I've got Firefox 0.8 on a couple of my systems (loving it, by the way -- going to be switching the whole farm over once I have the time to actually sit down and do software updates) one with a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0a and one with a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 and both of them have working "Back" and "Forward" thumb buttons in Firefox. Totally vanilla install, no tweaking, just works.