Fun with Firefox

When I last tried Chrome on a desktop it resolutely refused to open in full screen mode. Plus various other little niggles. By not using it I also feel less entwined in the Google ecosystem.

"i think firefox just wants you to update every 3 days so that people visit its homepage."

It has never once made me go to its homepage in windows/linux.

it did today in windows (win8). might've been more of an update page than a homepage.

this, i think: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop/

"Committed to you,
your privacy and
an open Web"

which seems at odds with the ads thing.

interesting thing on slashdot today. how they get a lot of their money from google (for being the default search) but how chrome could mean that google will just stop paying them soon, leaving them up shit creek.

At home I can't go to a URL from the address bar. EG I type in "google.com" and hit enter, nothing happens. :(

http://www.cnet.com/news/in-major-shift-firefox-to-use-yahoo-search-by-default-in-us/

For a couple weeks FF on my Mac hasn't let me go directly to a URL. Doesn't matter if I do or don't use www, http, https, etc. I type it in and it does nothing when I hit Enter or the arrow button. Anybody else? I guess I could google it.

Other weirdness, on my work computer, the spellcheck dictionary defaults to Spanish, and I am pretty sure I never even added Spanish to my list of dictionaries.

Quick Googling suggests checking if you're in compatibility mode, and turning it off if you are.

Also sounds like maybe you've got a virus. :\

Thanks. I will look into it.

Are you thinking virus w/r/t of the language thing or the URL thing?

Both in conjunction, maybe -- though the first one sounds more likely.

The problem w/ the address bar not letting me go to a URL was a problem w/ a plug-in, though I couldn't figure out which one.

The problem w/ the spell-check dictionary defaulting to Spanish is now happening on my HOME computer too. I have no dictionary add-ons, so I don't know how to get rid of Spanish. It's not just an inconvenience, it's blowing my self-esteem b/c I realize how bad my spelling has gotten.

Does FF sync browser data for a single account like Chrome does?

This is the first Google hit for

firefox spellcheck language

Hi - sorry, I didn't see new answers.

My work and home computers were not synced, no. I tried that the support thing earlier, but it didn't work, but since I updated to the latest version of FF on computers, Spanish seems to have gone away. (I thought FF asked for updates automatically, but for some reason it never asked me if I wanted 39 or whatever.)