Firebird Discussion

[X-Istence]

Originally posted by dealer
pretty important topic guys, with no further ie development, users are going to have to have an alternative browser soon enough

great support from you guys.

I've made this a sticky

if you guys don't want this a sticky, feel free to take it down.

also I want to thank everyone for the help they've given me getting this browser configured

I never give up on a good fight.

Im happy i got you to try it, and found that you like it.

 

[Perris Calderon]

Originally posted by SPeedY_B
thanks for sticking it 🙂
Did you get star downloader working?

yes speedy, perfectly

though those brief instructions are not for beginners, so here's the step by step for anyone interested

double click my computer, go to the c drive, or whatever drive you install your programs

then keep hitting the p on your keyboard till you get to "program files"

then keep hitting the S on your keyboard till you get to "star downloader"

double click that, look for the file mentioned above...right click, hit copy

then open your firebired folder, double ckick the "plugins"

hit control v

done

 

[Perris Calderon]

I can't go to yahoo games with this browser, I get a java exception;null

anyone?

 

[SPeedY_B]

Do you have sun's java installed?

 

[Perris Calderon]

yes, latest sun...coffee cup and everything

btw...I remember there's a way to turn off that coffee cup...know how?

 

[SPeedY_B]

Right click it, then hide icon 🙂

Could you give me a link to one of the yahoo games?

 

[Perris Calderon]

yahoo chess

thancx speedy

you have to log on though, then load a board aplet

 

[SPeedY_B]

Worked fine here. I'm using Java 1.4.2

Are you having problems with any other java applets? (here's one for a quick test: http://javaboutique.internet.com/Encyclo/ )

 

[Perris Calderon]

the aplet in your screeny is fine on my box also...load the game board, that's the issue.

click oon one of the games to play or watch

give me another ste and apalet, and I'll tell you if I get a java problem on a site that works for you

gonna get going and get back to this later

thanx again speedy

 

[Perris Calderon]

here's my screenshot

ps...I can't get the home page to stick either, as you can see in my screeny

 

[SPeedY_B]

The game loads up fine too (image attached)

Try loading this: http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/MutationViewer/
(note that when loaded it will pop open about 5 applet windows, but it's a good example of java at work 🙂 )

 

[Perris Calderon]

very interestin

first, I got the same error as on yahoo...plus an unresponsive program in the bird

reloaded, and the aplets went to work fine

anyway, my original screeny didn't take,so here's a zip of that error from yahoo

 

[muzikool]

Originally posted by NetRyder
You might need to do something before installing the Flash plugin. Download this .reg file (http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/resources/firebird.reg) and open it in Notepad. Edit the path in the file to your Firebird installation, and then double click the file to add the required keys to the registry. This is what the unofficial Firebird installer does as well.
After you've done that, try doing what I mentioned in my previous post.

If it doesn't work, we might have to look for some other way.

NetRyder, just got a chance to try this out. My installation is on D:, so I changed the path in the .reg file before I ran it. After doing so, I reinstalled Flash, but still no luck. I'm wondering if I should just delete everything and use the installer, because it seems that fewer people have issues with that for some reason.

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by muzikool
NetRyder, just got a chance to try this out. My installation is on D:, so I changed the path in the .reg file before I ran it. After doing so, I reinstalled Flash, but still no luck. I'm wondering if I should just delete everything and use the installer, because it seems that fewer people have issues with that for some reason.

That's quite strange. I've never had a problem installing Flash on regular zip-based builds. But you could go ahead, and see if the installer helps.

Make sure you backup your bookmarks.html file from the Phoenix profile folder if you want to retain your existing bookmarks, then delete the entire profile folder, and the MozillaFirebird directory before running the installer to avoid any conflicts.

 

[X-Istence]

Originally posted by dealer
very interestin

first, I got the same error as on yahoo...plus an unresponsive program in the bird

reloaded, and the aplets went to work fine

anyway, my original screeny didn't take,so here's a zip of that error from yahoo

Weird, loads fine here. I am unable to get to the bottom of this.

 

[gonaads]

Dealer, are you using a nightly build or the public release? And if a nightly, which one?

 

[Perris Calderon]

Dealer, are you using a nightly build or the public release? And if a nightly, which one?

o.6.1

Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.1; U)

someone put up a link to a differant version, I'll install to a differant location

 

[NetRyder]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030908 Firebird/0.6.1+

Here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/nightly/2003-09-08-08-trunk/MozillaFirebird-win32.zip

 

[Perris Calderon]

10x d00d

'I'm on slow now, I'll get that later when I'm on fast

10x again

 

[muzikool]

Something that's kind of been bothering me concerning Firebird and this Forum... the reply box is really small. See the attached image. It's this way in quick reply and the full-fledged reply screen as well. What's the deal? 😕