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oh yeah, had never looked before! thunderbird has one too :P
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FF has been fine since I installed the US version (had the UK version before)..
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eh?
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Gmail Notifier Extension updated itself last night and now works again :)

eamonn what's this about a UK and a US version?? :?:
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OMG the firefox webpage has been proxied! :x :x :x

well just click on Other Systems and Languages on the firefox page
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wtf would the proxy the firefox site????

aah right i see, theres an English verison and an English (British) version, but wtf is different?!
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erm one is buggy, one is not! :lol:

have no idea why the tw*theads would proxy the FF site! If I ever own an ISP I'd proxy their site!
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probably some stupid setting I'm overlooking, but for soem reason in FF when typing a reply I cannot use the scrollwheel of my mouse to scroll up and down... in IE I can... How do I change things o I can in FF as well?
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i can only scroll using the wheel if the cursor isnt active in the textbox, ie if i click outside the box i can scroll
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1.5 now available with some security fixes, new release of thunderbird out soon too

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/start/
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cool ta :stu
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firefox and thunderbird 1.6 now avaialable
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was about to say that Gmail Notifier had stopped working again, when FF popped up to tell me updates were available for Notifier, so i installed it and it works fine again, with the added bonus of colour-coding to show if you're logged in to your gmail account or not :)
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version 1.7 released today with a multitude of fixes
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