MOZILLA-Some questions

[underpants]

First of all I want to thank all my fellow DU'ers for their help in clearing up some virus/spyware problems I had earlier this week. I followed all the informed advice and it seems to be working quite well-Spybot and spysweeper find nothing now and AdAware only found three little problems.

Part of the advice I got was to install and use the mozilla.org's firefox. Well I installed it but I don't understand how to use it.

-Do I have to have my Internet Explorer up and running to use it?
-When it asked if I wanted to make Firefox my home page I clicked YES but all that came up was a google page, I don't understand. :shrug:
-It said that all my favorites would be imported but I can't find them on the mozilla, What did I miss?
-As the first test of it I tried to put DU in the address line and hit GO-the home page for DU came up but when I tried to login or go to LBN just to read it a box came up saying democraticunderground.com not recognized. I don't seem to understand. :shrug:

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[NashVegas]

1. reagarding the bookmarks

AFAIK, it automatically imports other Mozilla versions' bookmarks, but for IE, I think you have to manually import.

Try bringing up boomarks > manage bookmarks > tools.

I use an older version of Mozilla so that may be off.

[Wilber_Stool]

2. I installed it yesterday.

Totally painless. Asked if I wanted to import everything, said yes, and it did it all. You might try to uninstall and reinstall and pay attention to the prompts.
The only problem I see with it is I might not live long enough to get it completely set up. Lots and lots of options.

[gottaB]

3. I'll try

Do I have to have my Internet Explorer up and running to use it?

Nope.


When it asked if I wanted to make Firefox my home page I clicked YES but all that came up was a google page.

Hmmm. Look under Edit --> Preferences --> General. The first item let's you set a home page.


It said that all my favorites would be imported but I can't find them on the mozilla.

Try the menu item Bookmarks --> Manage Bookmarks. That will bring up the bookmark manager. In that window choose File --> Import. It should have some options there. If IE doesn't appear as an option, choose "from file" and select the bookmarks file. I believe it's called Favorites, but where it exactly it is will depend upon which version of Windows you are using.


As the first test of it I tried to put DU in the address line and hit GO-the home page for DU came up but when I tried to login or go to LBN just to read it a box came up saying democraticunderground.com not recognized.

Could that have been a temporary problem with DU? Or using your ISP's dns server? It might have nothing to do with Mozilla Firefox.