Linkification does nothing for non Firefox users.

The point was to use Firefox. There are 9.5 million pages in Google regarding it.

Apart from being lean and mean, it has many features similar to Opera, but free.

It blocks popups.

It doesn't use active x (which is an open door for malware and spyware and trojans)

It isn't tied into the operating system like Internet Explorer so it doesn't affect the whole system if it gets compromised.

What I like is tabbed browsing (like Opera) but clicking on a link, or a shortcut with the mouse wheel button opens the page in its own tab.

And because the text on some webpages is too small, I just hit "control +" to increase the font, then "control -" to decrease it again.

I find it to be head and shoulders above Internet Explorer.But to each his own.

Oh, i agree. I avoid MSIE whenever possible. Personally i prefer Netscape to Firefox, but they're based on the same code. However, superiority doesn't mean that Firefox will replace MSIE. Most everyone uses it to browse, and most everyone will stick with it no matter what we try to tell them.

Personally i advocate designing websites for the lowest common denominator. Be creative and you can make websites that are still interesting and useful even in older browsers like MSIE & Netscape 3.x. That way everyone can get to the content and no one has to worry about browser incompatabilities.

https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&numpg=10&category=Navigation

I can't remember what Firebird was. Now there is Thunderbird also.

But Firefox is the way to go.

After install it copies all IE favorites and is ready to go.

I had my "Links" toolbar set up in IE with icons and folder of my favorite sites (like this one) for a 1 button click and Firefox copied that too.

I was reading the system specs' on Firefox page and it seems to prefer XP. What drawbacks would there be for a Windows 2000 user?

I installed Firefox and linkification. I have a web site that each page has a 60kb .aif sound file that plays one time each time you visit the page. It does not play on firefox?

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I haven't tried it on anything other than XP, but it is a small program that won't interfere with Windows, so there should be no problems.

Not sure why they say (recommended) after XP when it is cross platform.

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Usually if it needs a plugin for anything it just goes and gets it.

If you disable the plugin it will download the file instead.

I haven't run into a website yet that doesn't work.

Although if it was supposed to play a tune and didn't, I guess I wouldn't know the difference.

I've noticed a few that don't work like this one

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ from the other thread and also a couple that ended in a like such as "wmv" at the end.

I guess it is looking for a certain pattern to make linkable.

EDIT notice that http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ is clickable here when I just copied it from the other thread where it didn't work and now it does??

Weird.

EDIT test http://www.filmsound.org/

> What drawbacks would there be for a Windows 2000 user?

None that I can see. I'm using it on Win2K system.

Good to know. Sometime in the next few weeks, I'm going to give this a try. I have gotten pretty sick of my current browser and all the timing out and "The page cannot be found," messages, the poor way it handles graphics and so on.

Thanks for the extension, i use firefox and love it, lots of extensions, just never have time to go through them all and decide which ones i should be using.
my fav extensions are
weather fox
down them all
and now linkification

I used Firefox and it's predecessors for over a year but I had to stop using it eventually because of a bug I had since 0.9.3 (and still in 1.0) that made my whole computer blue screen and wiped out the bookmarks when I exited. Firefox is the only program that has ever made my comp blue screen.

The thread on that problem is here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=126123

I also think Mozilla have handled the whole issue of compatibility of extensions very badly. There's been so much confusion about which extensions are compatible with which version and if you like extensions then upgrades are a pain.

Now I use Maxthon which is basically a shell for Internet Explorer. It's fantastic and very stable. No more problems with IE-only pages not displaying properly, and sometimes I HAMMER it with like 20 tabs open at once and it copes perfectly.

In my experience I've also found this hype about Firefox being faster than Maxthon or IE to be a myth.