The Official "woo-hoo/anti-moan" Thread

Andrew 83 · 06-12-2006 01:43AM

Yeah I use Firefox all the time now. The icons on the top and the tabs are very good. The older versions used to annoy me as they seemed to have a tendency to crash for no reason. Not being able to open up Acrobat files without using Internet Explorer is annoying still but that's about the only drawback. Actually the way it sometimes just saves to the desktop without you getting to choose where you save to is annoying too.

06-12-2006 02:00AM

I just like the way i can finally get into my corp finance website....

Pet · 06-12-2006 02:01AM

Not being able to open up Acrobat files without using Internet Explorer is annoying

Get foxit reader, it's a plugin. Opens almost instantly, unlike the lumbering behemoth that is Adobe Acrobat, and it's a cinch to install.

Actually the way it sometimes just saves to the desktop without you getting to choose where you save to is annoying too.

Tools-options-main-"always ask me where to save files".

Other great addons include auto-refresh (so your webtexts are always on with no signing in hassle), scrapbook (the most handy addon I've ever installed) and IE tab (lets you open whatever pages you want in an internet explorer tab within Firefox).

I used to be skeptical, but I'm well and truly converted. Firefox is the shiz.

Andrew 83 · 06-12-2006 02:11AM

Pet wrote:

Get foxit reader, it's a plugin. Opens almost instantly, unlike the lumbering behemoth that is Adobe Acrobat, and it's a cinch to install.

Tools-options-main-"always ask me where to save files".

Other great addons include auto-refresh (so your webtexts are always on with no signing in hassle), scrapbook (the most handy addon I've ever installed) and IE tab (lets you open whatever pages you want in an internet explorer tab within Firefox).

I used to be skeptical, but I'm well and truly converted. Firefox is the shiz.

What's scrapbook? All the rest sound excellent. Thanks a million!

ApeXaviour · 06-12-2006 02:40AM

Pet wrote:

Tools-options-main-"always ask me where to save files".

For saving porn. Obviously...

thanks btw

Pet · 06-12-2006 03:20AM

Andrew 83 wrote:

What's scrapbook? All the rest sound excellent. Thanks a million!

It lets you highlight and save bits and pieces of different webpages to look at later. It doesn't sound that great, but once you start using it, you realise it's amazing, especially if you're researching something - you can have snippets of webpages (including the original formatting and any pictures) right at your fingertips. It won loads of web awards iirc.

For saving porn. Obviously...

Pffh, who needs to save porn when you've got xtube?

Stargal · 06-12-2006 03:34AM

That does sound really useful (the scrapbook, not the porn). I don't see it in add-ons though?

Pet · 06-12-2006 04:00AM

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/

Nietzschean · 06-12-2006 09:22AM

Pet wrote:

scrapbook (the most handy addon I've ever installed) and IE tab

google notebook not a nicer version of that? can access your notes from any machine...

06-12-2006 10:23AM

stargal wrote:

All the boys could throw their Trin ID cards into a bowl in the centre and the girls could all choose one

But seriously: swinging always makes me thing of bored, chubby, unattractive and perhaps most importantly, useless in bed couples, rather than hot exciting sex.

Maybe we need a society to dispel these misconceptions...

Hey, I'm not useless ;(
wandering around in my big heavy raincoat and runners makes me look totally attractive though >.<
That does seem to be the stereotype though
that's what the bf thinks anyway lol

smith wrote:

Anyone who doesnt use Firefox Is an enemy to the Internet...

FACT*

my uni messed up the firefox installation on the computers
we still have to use IE
it sucks, I'm used to having about 5 tabs at least

Nietzschean · 06-12-2006 10:57AM

They don't have IE 7 with tabs at least?...and messed it up how? only browser i've seen in maynooth was ff, though that wasn't student labs...

europerson · 06-12-2006 12:17PM

We've just had a cool Maths lecture, in which we were learning about n-tuples. My mind's fairly stretched after it, but it was so much fun.

John · 06-12-2006 12:47PM

FFFTW

And what's the problem with trying to use Adobe Acrobat with FF? (apart from Pet's astute observation of the slowness of Acrobat) It works fine on all my machines.

Tricity Bendix · 06-12-2006 01:36PM

europerson wrote:

We've just had a cool Maths lecture, in which we were learning about n-tuples. My mind's fairly stretched after it, but it was so much fun.

Better than acid.

I'm tempted to work out the distance between myself and Hitler in space-time.

06-12-2006 02:54PM

Nietzschean wrote:

They don't have IE 7 with tabs at least?...and messed it up how? only browser i've seen in maynooth was ff, though that wasn't student labs...

I don't know how, all I know is that it won't work
and that was the public computers

my beloved mathsphys lab has apparently cut off net access which sucks
I got used to living in there

Nietzschean · 06-12-2006 03:15PM

Haha. Tunnel via some unix box if they allow you to connect to it locally on campus....(one with external access) must be some floating about postgrads can use...

Andrew 83 · 06-12-2006 03:19PM

John wrote:

FFFTW

And what's the problem with trying to use Adobe Acrobat with FF? (apart from Pet's astute observation of the slowness of Acrobat) It works fine on all my machines.

On my computer if i try to click on a Acrobat file in Firefox Acrobat starts to load up then says that they can't be opened on this browser. If I do it on IE, Acrobat loads them up in the IE window.

06-12-2006 03:24PM

Nietzschean wrote:

Haha. Tunnel via some unix box if they allow you to connect to it locally on campus....(one with external access) must be some floating about postgrads can use...

I'm not *that* bothered ;D

tbh I should just set up in the postgrad office, the prof said I could have a desk in there but I haven't gotten around to nagging him about it yet...

Time Magazine · 06-12-2006 04:47PM

europerson wrote:

We've just had a cool Maths lecture, in which we were learning about n-tuples. My mind's fairly stretched after it, but it was so much fun.

"It's really exciting!"

.

John · 06-12-2006 06:16PM

Andrew 83 wrote:

On my computer if i try to click on a Acrobat file in Firefox Acrobat starts to load up then says that they can't be opened on this browser. If I do it on IE, Acrobat loads them up in the IE window.

Try downloading a newer version of Acrobat

06-12-2006 06:24PM

Where can I get Foxit Reader?

06-12-2006 06:28PM

original_psycho wrote:

Where can I get Foxit Reader?

Try google?

Edwardius · 06-12-2006 07:02PM

b.ie curious wrote:

Better than acid.

I'm tempted to work out the distance between myself and Hitler in space-time.

Right, I'll be expecting some time related catastrophe that leads to you frog marching and the rest of it (taking down ahem, errrr ummm "international finance").

Andrew 83 · 07-12-2006 12:39PM

John wrote:

Try downloading a newer version of Acrobat

Fair enough.

Nietzschean · 08-12-2006 07:18PM

Wii Boxing.

shay_562 · 09-12-2006 01:16AM

Mario Kart tournament. Free Phil mulled wine. M&S Xmas Port. Pub. Drunken ice-skating. More pubs. Life is good. Say what you will about Ultimate Frisbee as a sport - they throw a damn good mystery tour.

(til the "waking up to study" part, of course, but that's kinda tangential)

09-12-2006 04:50PM

Woohoo for the feeling you get when you're really hungry and then reach into your pocket to find a toffee crisp which you purchased the night before but forgot to eat

Plus end of term. Woohoo!

Time Magazine · 09-12-2006 05:10PM

Myth wrote:

Plus end of term. Woohoo!

Some of us have exams :mad:.

But some of us have gigs to go to tonight though

.

11-12-2006 02:51PM

Woohoo: The coke machine in the Hamilton has been re-stocked!

europerson · 12-12-2006 03:19PM

[Anti-Moan]

CRANN is looking very well, especially with the climbing wall. And the whole place is massive.

[/Anti-Moan]

[Woo-Hoo]

One exam down.

[/Woo-Hoo]

The Official "woo-hoo/anti-moan" Thread

Comments