<p>My IE keeps on popping up ads that are not from websites. I suspect that it’s a virus but cannot eliminate it with my firewall programs. I want to switch to firefox.</p>
<p>Is there a feature in firefox that could import all of the “favorites” websites I have had in IE? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>s this what you’re looking for? <a href=“Firefox Help - Firefox Bookmarks Tutorial (The Mozilla Help Site)”>Firefox Help - Firefox Bookmarks Tutorial (The Mozilla Help Site);
<a href=“http://browsers.about.com/od/tipstutorials/ss/imp_bkmrksIE2FF.htm[/url]”>http://browsers.about.com/od/tipstutorials/ss/imp_bkmrksIE2FF.htm</a></p>
<p>I am completely inept with this stuff, but I’m positive that when my son switched me from IE to Firefox he imported all my bookmarks.</p>
<p>yup yup. thanks</p>
<p>Mozilla Firefox the best browser and worst enemy of pop up ads.</p>
<p>I follow my computer literate hubbie’s advice and only use firefox. There is a sign posted on our family computer: “No IE on me”!!</p>
<p>Firefox makes it as painfree as possible - when you install, it asks if you’d like to import your favorites.</p>
<p>If you’re getting random popups, however, switching to firefox won’t solve the problem (it will likely stop future infections of similar ilk in the future though, so I’d still switch). Download “spybot search and destroy” (<a href=“http://www.spybot.info/[/url]”>A cosa serve blindman.exe? - Spybot Anti-Malware and Antivirus : Spybot Anti-Malware and Antivirus) or “ad-aware” (<a href=“Free Antivirus Download for PC | Adaware Virus Protection Software)%5B/url%5D”>Free Antivirus Download for PC | Adaware Virus Protection Software)</a>, update the definitions, and run them. Standard firewalls and antivirus softwares won’t usually stop them as, technically, they’re not viruses.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>If you do switch to firefox, (I’ve used it and its predecessors for years), don’t dump your IE. You can’t anyway, as it is a fundamental part of XP, but beyond that, some websites will only work properly with IE.</p>
<p>Any site that uses active-x controls, and a lot do, will only work properly with IE. So if you go to a site and things don’t seem to be working right, copy the whole URL line and paste it into IE. You may be surprised.</p>
<p>You are most likely to find active X controls with sites that do something beyond simple browsing - sites that check things on your computer (like pcpitstop.com), some shopping sites and so forth.</p>
<p>Be aware.</p>
<p>Your other option (may be a time saver over copying and pasting into IE) is to install the IE View plugin for Firefox - <a href=“https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/35/[/url]”>https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/35/</a>. You just right click and select ‘view this page in IE’ and it opens right up.</p>
<p>karth,</p>
<p>Good point. One of the best things about Firefox is the addons.</p>
<p>The other thing I’ve liked about Firefox and its predecessors is that bookmarks (or favorites, in IE speak) are just an HTML page. I use that page (meaning my bookmarks) as my home page. Speeds things up, especially when I first load, as I don’t need to wait for someone’s website to load, and loading any website will take longer on startup because the browser is refreshing the cache usually.</p>
<p>The thing I like about firefox (and maybe this is obvious I don’t know) is that you can do “Control T” and get a new tab which is like a new window but enables you to browse more than one site at a time without opening up a new firefox thing. </p>
<p>Oh man, does that make any sense at all???</p>
<p>Yes, weenie, it makes sense: tabbed browsing is another nice feature of Firefox (although Mozilla also offers that feature).</p>
<p>Really, except for the neanderthal websites that won’t display things for you properly unless you open IE, there’s very little reason not to move to Firefox immediately. Well, OK, I take that back: there’s no reason not to move. ;)</p>
<p>(PS: My 84-year-old father was so pleased with early versions of Firefox that he sent a contribution to the development team and had his name in teeny tiny letters in the launch publicity notice that went out a year or two ago. He has not been disappointed.)</p>
<p>^^ hahaha. if only he had bought 10% shares of stocks</p>
<p>I am so glad to see this thread! I have a problem. I suddenly cannot access comcast.net. I contacted them, and they say they only support Explorer users, not firefox users, but that the problem has to do with cookies.</p>
<p>Can anyone help me? All my e-mail is on comcast.net, and I cannot get to any of it, and it’s driving me crazy. If I get any more frustrated with this problem, never mind the cookies - I’m reaching directly for the double fudge.</p>
<p>Hayden:
I use comcast, and have used it for years, and have used firefox and mozilla for years as well. I’ve recently (within the last two months) found myself unable to access my favorite blogs on my main computer…although I can access them in the next room, using a different computer (but same server). I think it’s a cookie problem, but haven’t been able to resolve the problem. There are geniuses here…there is hope.</p>
<p>P.S. comcast has never told me that they don’t support mozilla before. But I have had occasions (such as online banking) where I was told that a prompt won’t appear in a certain window if you’re using Mozilla/Firefox, but if you go ahead and type, your info will be entered.</p>
<p>Hayden - see if you’re allowing FF to set cookies: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Cookies.</p>
<p>I use both safari and firefox
you can configure safari for various levels of cookies
always- never & only from sites that you natvigate to
You also can dump your cookies either one by one, or all at once
they do get messed from time to time</p>
<p>I have noticed that some sites that dont show up correctly in firefox, will in Safari
I don’t use explorer at all.</p>
<p>I never liked firefox. The download manager always ****ed me off; I liked the expected feature set of the IE download window. I just use google toolbar to block popups and NOD32 antivirus to stop malicious webpage scripts (it includes spyware and browser hijackers in its antivirus signatures)</p>
<p>firus - if the only complaint you had with ff was the download manager, there are plenty of addons to take care of that ;).</p>
<p>I agree, but I have alot of inertia – what actual advantage is there? I don’t use favorites. It seems to me like the biggest thing firefox has going for it is that it isnt made by M$. I don’t care about the security; I have my bases covered. I dont care about tabbed browsing (I always end up with 20 windows open, usually all pointing to gmail, after an intensive day of browsing. I dont really know why 
)</p>
<p>They both have memory leaks, and firefox can’t render a few pages (as mentioned in previous posts). SELL ME!</p>
<p>Bobert - </p>
<p>You definitely have a virus/hijack on the IE causing the popups. I agree with the poster who recommended Spybot. You can also use AdAware and also a Microsoft utility called Windows Defender - <a href=“Cloud Security Services | Microsoft Security”>http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx</a></p>
<p>I’ve used both IE and Firefox and like them both (until IE gets hijacked). I’ve been using IE v7beta2 for a while now and haven’t had any hijack/virus problems.</p>
<p>Regarding persnicketty websites, I’ve experienced some that will only work well in IE and other that’ll only work well in Firefox. Decent website developers will test their websites to work with ‘all’ of the top browsers but unfortunately, not all do.</p>