Firefox 3 is Gold

[riffer]

Well at least the bloody Google toolbar is working again. A recent RC3 instal at home had incurred the wrath of my darling wife due to its wiping it out...

[vifferman]

Nice. Although I have a couple of add ons to track down now.

It did that for me.

[mowgli]

What really gets my goat is that MS has written the new version of OWA so that for full functionality you have to use IE.

All other browsers automatically go to OWA light.

grrrrrr

How very convenient for MS .......

[Badjelly]

What really gets my goat is that MS has written the new version of OWA so that for full functionality you have to use IE.
All other browsers automatically go to OWA light.

What is this OWA of which you speak?

[Hitcher]

It did that for me.

It has now done that for me as well. I had a couple that auto detect thingie for some reason couldn't find. But that's all sorted.

I have yet to find anything that is particularly significant about V3.0, other that some wizzier cosmetics?

[riffer]

What is this OWA of which you speak?

Outlook Web Access.

It allows you to interface with your company's Exchange server offsite.

[vifferman]

I have yet to find anything that is particularly significant about V3.0, other that some wizzier cosmetics?

It doesn't particularly wizz my cosmetics. And it does a crap job with my HTML Help doco - mebbe there's some setting somewhere what'll fix it, but I can't be bothered.
But the price was right.
So... I use the horrible IE7 for my doco, and the tewwibly twendy FF for everything else. Because I can.

[vifferman]

Outlook Web Access.

It allows you to interface with your company's Exchange server offsite.

Isn't that what the various webmails are for? Our "company's Exchange server" has a webmail address we can use instead. Dunno how it works (some black voodoo magic?) but it does.
Or I can used RDP or whatever it's called and just access my PC from home or the Sarf of France oir whereever. (As if...)

[riffer]

OWA ain't just about email. You also have access to any shared calendars, contact lists, and sharepoint services, infopath forms etc.

As for RDP using Remote Desktop Control, meh, I use LogmeIn. Much better, and easier to implement without getting down on bended knees to IT.

[Tank]

Isn't that what the various webmails are for? Our "company's Exchange server" has a webmail address we can use instead. Dunno how it works (some black voodoo magic?) but it does.
Or I can used RDP or whatever it's called and just access my PC from home or the Sarf of France oir whereever. (As if...)

OWA ain't just about email. You also have access to any shared calendars, contact lists, and sharepoint services, infopath forms etc.

As for RDP using Remote Desktop Control, meh, I use LogmeIn. Much better, and easier to implement without getting down on bended knees to IT.

I think he meant RPC not RDC - you can use RPC over HTTP allowing you to use the full outlook client over port 80 - no VPC's etc required.

only issue for us is that some of our clients block this - ahh the joys of extremely security aware clients.


edit: fuck I sound like a nerd. ummmmm so Im off to drink beer and shag strippers.

[vifferman]

Much better, and easier to implement without getting down on bended knees to IT.

Don't have to do that - because the ability to work from home (or further afield) is a company policy, it's already set up.

edit: fuck I sound like a nerd. ummmmm so Im off to drink beer and shag strippers.

Quite right.

[Mental Trousers]

Opera's up to version 9.5 therefore has to be better than IE & Firefox.

That just means they had to rewrite it more often

I been using it for the last 2 or 3 weeks... I may go back to 2.x

v3.0 seems much less buggy than the release candidates. Update and try v3.0 before going back.

Nice. Although I have a couple of add ons to track down now.

As is normal, more than half of the addons I use aren't working now. Even more typical, they're the addons that I use heaps.

So, obviously a trip to Mozilla's Firefox addons site was in order to try and locate updates that weren't found automatically. 10 addons installed later and I still haven't found updates for 9/10 that were broken.

This is my Firefox updating story everytime .....

It doesn't particularly wizz my cosmetics. And it does a crap job with my HTML Help doco - mebbe there's some setting somewhere what'll fix it, but I can't be bothered.
But the price was right.
So... I use the horrible IE7 for my doco, and the tewwibly twendy FF for everything else. Because I can.

Use IE tab in Firefox. Either that or go get Maxthon (uses the IE rendering engine) or Opera.

[Big Dave]

Doesn't make any real difference but so far I'm not impressed.

On OSX 10.4.11 - Image downloads are sometimes flakey, it moves the folders on my desktop if I save to them, and the flash player is not as reliable. It still runs out of memory once a session.

Edit/ And the new Bookmaring system blows chunks.

[Strang0r]

I miss my addons Hope they get updated soon...

[vifferman]

Use IE tab in Firefox. Either that or go get Maxthon (uses the IE rendering engine) or Opera.

It's not quite as simple as that - I have to think about what our thousands of customers are most likely to use.
Most of tem are liekly to go with IE, just because that's what their computer dudes will tell them (and because we're a Micro$slob partner, software house or whatever).
So... I've told them that the doco was optimised for IE, but will work for FF, Netscape etc. and documented what is different about them (means I have multiple browsers installed on my PC just to do a few screendumps and some testing).