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Title: KILL THE COW
Post by: d_goddard on January 31, 2007, 08:02 AM NHFT
The spelling cow is dumb.
It takes extra time to load, makes the page interactivity slower, and is totally redundant for people who use FireFox 2.0, which has a spelling checker built right in.

Furthermore, since FireFox's spelling checker is active on every single webpage where I type stuff in, its dictionary already knows words that spelling cow things are mistakes (like, for example, FireFox, or LSR, or Burridge)

And I am not going to spend my time teaching a cow what the FireFox already knows.

Please, kill the cow, or at least make this a cow-optional community.

Thank you.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Kat Kanning on January 31, 2007, 08:11 AM NHFT
Can't you just uncheck the box?
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Raineyrocks on January 31, 2007, 08:19 AM NHFT
QuotePlease, kill the cow, or at least make this a cow-optional community.

Where is this cow?  I don't see it on the board.  I usually just go to word and do a spellcheck there and then come back on here and type the word.  How do you spellcheck with firefox or whatever then?

Kill the cow, that is a funny topic heading!  :laughing6:
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Kat Kanning on January 31, 2007, 08:23 AM NHFT
You don't see a cow at the bottom of the post form?
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Kat Kanning on January 31, 2007, 08:24 AM NHFT
By the way Denis....

Don't have a cow, maaaaan!  (http://buttercup.spellingcow.com/spell/images/cow_25px.gif)
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on January 31, 2007, 08:26 AM NHFT
 ;D
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: error on January 31, 2007, 08:28 AM NHFT
Most of the time I just use the quick reply. No Cow!
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Raineyrocks on January 31, 2007, 08:30 AM NHFT
Quote from: Kat Kanning on January 31, 2007, 08:23 AM NHFT
You don't see a cow at the bottom of the post form?


Oh yeah, duh!  I don't know how I could've missed that!  So I guess I just click an udder, huh? :laughing9:
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: d_goddard on January 31, 2007, 12:54 PM NHFT
OK, ok, at least unchecking the box makes the cow go away.

Folks, just go download Firefox 2.0. Trust me.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: error on January 31, 2007, 12:59 PM NHFT
Quote from: d_goddard on January 31, 2007, 12:54 PM NHFT
Folks, just go download Firefox 2.0. Trust me.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

+1 hundred million. ;)
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Russell Kanning on January 31, 2007, 01:29 PM NHFT
Quote from: d_goddard on January 31, 2007, 12:54 PM NHFT
OK, ok, at least unchecking the box makes the cow go away.

Folks, just go download Firefox 2.0. Trust me.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
I like the newest firefox, but the latest opera is working even better for me..... on linux. :)
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Kat Kanning on January 31, 2007, 01:37 PM NHFT
Dead cow:

:burger: :burger: :burger: :burger:
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Pat K on January 31, 2007, 04:22 PM NHFT
This is an udderly silly thread, but I thought I would Moo-ve in and milk it for all it,s worth. Then hoof it out of here, for better pastures.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Raineyrocks on January 31, 2007, 04:29 PM NHFT
Quote from: Pat K on January 31, 2007, 04:22 PM NHFT
This is an udderly silly thread, but I thought I would Moo-ve in and milk it for all it,s worth. Then hoof it out of here, for better pastures.

:laughing6:
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: d_goddard on January 31, 2007, 05:09 PM NHFT
That was cheesey
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Kat Kanning on January 31, 2007, 05:18 PM NHFT
You guys are whey not funny.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on January 31, 2007, 05:26 PM NHFT
Curd ya give the rest of us a break!
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Raineyrocks on January 31, 2007, 05:30 PM NHFT
 I'm going to steer away from this bull! :laughing6:
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Kat Kanning on January 31, 2007, 05:33 PM NHFT
Please, cud you guys stop!
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Pat K on January 31, 2007, 05:43 PM NHFT
Well it looks like we might be coming
to the tail end of this. Might be time to put it up in
the barn.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on January 31, 2007, 05:52 PM NHFT
We're only at the shank of this topic
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: eques on January 31, 2007, 06:49 PM NHFT
Careful!  If you keep prodding for puns, word will get round and bells will start ringing!  We'll be rounded up, corralled, headed straight for the slaughter!
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Pat K on January 31, 2007, 07:23 PM NHFT
This thread might become prime rib, yet.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: KBCraig on January 31, 2007, 07:28 PM NHFT
Quote from: eques on January 31, 2007, 06:49 PM NHFT
Careful!  If you keep prodding for puns, word will get round and bells will start ringing!  We'll be rounded up, corralled, headed straight for the slaughter!

That's what happens when you get branded as a rebel.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Pat McCotter on February 02, 2007, 07:05 PM NHFT
Quote from: d_goddard on January 31, 2007, 12:54 PM NHFT
OK, ok, at least unchecking the box makes the cow go away.

Folks, just go download Firefox 2.0. Trust me.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

No.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on February 02, 2007, 07:06 PM NHFT
Did you mean to say "Utterly bad idea"?
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: eques on February 02, 2007, 10:38 PM NHFT
Quote from: KBCraig on January 31, 2007, 07:28 PM NHFT
Quote from: eques on January 31, 2007, 06:49 PM NHFT
Careful!  If you keep prodding for puns, word will get round and bells will start ringing!  We'll be rounded up, corralled, headed straight for the slaughter!

That's what happens when you get branded as a rebel.

C'mon, cut the bull and quit clowning around.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: KBCraig on February 03, 2007, 03:12 AM NHFT
Seriously, I'm not cuddin'!

This subject is deserving of more rumination.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on February 10, 2007, 09:45 AM NHFT
Quote from: d_goddard on January 31, 2007, 12:54 PM NHFT
OK, ok, at least unchecking the box makes the cow go away.

Folks, just go download Firefox 2.0. Trust me.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

OK, I downloaded Firefox and have been playing with it for about a week.  I find it interesting, but, not a lot different from IE. One problem is....say... when I am on this forum and I click on a link, I can't back out of it and return to the page I was on.  The back arrow is unlit!  I have to hit the red X and a box comes up telling me I will be closing two tabs, but, giving me no options except  cancel, which, is no option. I click and it goes back to desktop!
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: aworldnervelink on February 10, 2007, 10:10 AM NHFT
Sounds like the browser is opening the link in a separate tab. Look below the main toolbar and you will see a row of tabs... instead of having just one main window you now have multiple tabs. It's useful because you can follow links and branch out from a main page and then immediately return just by closing the tab. There should be an X at the left edge of the tab allowing you to close it.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on February 10, 2007, 10:25 AM NHFT
Tabs?

Top Row: File,edit, view,history, bookmarks, tool, help
Next row: Back arrow, forward arrow,refresh symbol,stop loading symbol, little building, Sage symbol, address bar, google
Third row:  Getting started, latest headlines
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: KBCraig on February 10, 2007, 10:26 AM NHFT
If your back arrow isn't lit, you've opened in a new tab. Look below the URL box: you should see two tabs that look like the tabs on file folders. Each will have a small "circle x" icon; you can click that and close that tab. Then you'll be back at your original, untouched, window.

When you get the "you are about to close two tabs" warning, it's telling you exactly what you're doing: closing the front tab (that you've been reading), and the original tab. Just close the tab, not the browser.

If you have a scrolling mouse, you can "wheel click" links, and they will open in a new tab behind the current tabs. It's very handy. That's how I read forums and news sites. I "wheel click", and the new tabs open in back, so I'm still looking at the main page. When I've opened everything, I close the front tab, which takes me to the first item; close that, and you'll have the next item, etc.

Kevin
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: KBCraig on February 10, 2007, 10:29 AM NHFT
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on February 10, 2007, 10:25 AM NHFT
Tabs?

Read up about it here:

http://opensourcearticles.com/articles/introduction_to_firefox_2

(http://opensourcearticles.com/articles/introduction_to_firefox_2/images/tabbing1.png)

Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Lloyd Danforth on February 10, 2007, 10:33 AM NHFT
Got it!  Thank you both
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: error on February 10, 2007, 04:43 PM NHFT
Yep, looks like this.

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Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: Russell Kanning on March 04, 2007, 05:12 PM NHFT
now Lloyd has moved into the world of tabbed browsing.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: YixilTesiphon on March 04, 2007, 09:03 PM NHFT
I also agree that the cow thing is stupid, though I've just unchecked the box.
Title: Re: KILL THE COW
Post by: error on March 04, 2007, 09:10 PM NHFT
Yeah, I'd rather have the built-in spell check anyway. :)