TapcisForum  

Go Back   Tapcis Web Forums > Open Forums > Non-Tap Technical

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old November 1st, 2006, 03:52 AM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default Mozilla Back Button

Judy,

How are you?

For some reason, the back button (top left on the toolbar) has stopped working on Mozilla. The little button beneath it works OK but <Alt - left arrow> doesn't function either. It's not disastrous but it's annoying.

The only change I've made is to add the IE Tab add-on; would this have affected my settings somehow?

- Douglas.
[London Forum - now on Yahoo!]
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #2  
Old November 1st, 2006, 05:54 AM
earler earler is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 788
Default

The ie tab add-on won't cause that. What version of firefox are you using?

-er
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #3  
Old November 1st, 2006, 12:53 PM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default

Hello Earle.

I have Mozilla 1.7.11

- Douglas
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #4  
Old November 1st, 2006, 11:58 PM
Judy G. Russell Judy G. Russell is offline
Chief Cook & BottleWasher
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 13,076
Default

Douglas, I'm no longer using Mozilla but I seem to recall that this was an issue with setting the history at 0. In addition, however, I see that some people are having problems caused by installing extensions. You can try uninstalling, then reinstalling, and see if that helps.
__________________
-- jgr
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #5  
Old November 2nd, 2006, 02:05 AM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default

Judy,

I have a pre-installation version of Mozilla to which I've now reverted. None of the toolbar buttons work in the post-add-on version.

Which program are you using now?

- Douglas.
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #6  
Old November 2nd, 2006, 09:40 PM
Judy G. Russell Judy G. Russell is offline
Chief Cook & BottleWasher
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 13,076
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by douglaswmartin
I have a pre-installation version of Mozilla to which I've now reverted. None of the toolbar buttons work in the post-add-on version.
Try completely uninstalling, rebooting and then reinstalling. Sometimes that fixes things.

Quote:
Originally Posted by douglaswmartin
Which program are you using now?
Firefox. I have always used a separate program for email, so all I need is a browser, and Firefox is everything I could want in a browser.
__________________
-- jgr
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #7  
Old November 3rd, 2006, 01:24 PM
davidh davidh is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1,935
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by douglaswmartin
I have a pre-installation version of Mozilla to which I've now reverted. None of the toolbar buttons work in the post-add-on version.
I have a very old version of Mozilla (1.1) installed but not in use. It does NOT allow customization of the navigation tool bar. Perhaps Mozilla 1.7 does? At least Firefox does allow customization of the that toolbar. If such customization is possible with Mozilla 1.7, then it might be worth trying to remove one of the buttons and then restore it back to the toolbar. If such an experiment restores the functionality of that particular button, then perhaps the other buttons could be restored similarly. As I say, I don't even know if this works at all with any version of Mozilla. YMMV, DH
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #8  
Old November 3rd, 2006, 10:13 PM
Lindsey's Avatar
Lindsey Lindsey is offline
I'm here for the beer
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 5,601
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by davidh
I have a very old version of Mozilla (1.1) installed but not in use. It does NOT allow customization of the navigation tool bar. Perhaps Mozilla 1.7 does?
Yes, Edit | Preferences | Navigator allows you to choose what buttons you want on the toolbar.

Sometimes I have a problem with the "Back" button working in Mozilla -- usually on the NY Times web site, after reading one of the TimesSelect columns, but those columns don't always give me that problem. Sometimes Back works, and sometimes it doesn't. In any event, when the Back button won't back me out, even after clicking on it a couple of times, I get around it by using the Go menu and selecting which page I want to go back to. That always works.

--Lindsey
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #9  
Old November 4th, 2006, 01:29 AM
davidh davidh is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1,935
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindsey
Yes, Edit | Preferences | Navigator allows you to choose what buttons you want on the toolbar.
That works in Mozilla 1.1 too. I just didn't know how to do it. I was trying to right-click on the toolbar as if it were Firefox.

DH
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #10  
Old November 4th, 2006, 08:34 PM
MollyM/CA's Avatar
MollyM/CA MollyM/CA is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: California: Central Valley
Posts: 421
Default

You wouldn't be interested in taking a look at SeaMonkey, would you? It's the continuing version of Mozilla, with updated security stuff, and I like it even better than Mozilla --to which it's nearly identical in most ways. Read about it

here
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #11  
Old November 7th, 2006, 06:02 AM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
I have always used a separate program for email, so all I need is a browser, and Firefox is everything I could want in a browser.
Judy,

Which email program do you use?

- Douglas.
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #12  
Old November 7th, 2006, 06:06 AM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindsey
Yes, Edit | Preferences | Navigator allows you to choose what buttons you want on the toolbar.


--Lindsey
Lindsey,

I can see where to change Bookmarks, Go, Home, Search and Print but not Back, Forward, Reload or Stop.

I think I'll have a look at Seamonkey, as Molly suggests.

- Douglas.
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #13  
Old November 7th, 2006, 06:09 AM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MollyM/CA
You wouldn't be interested in taking a look at SeaMonkey, would you?
Molly,

Yes, thank you. I'll have a look.

- Douglas.
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #14  
Old November 7th, 2006, 10:17 PM
Lindsey's Avatar
Lindsey Lindsey is offline
I'm here for the beer
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Richmond, VA
Posts: 5,601
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by douglaswmartin
I can see where to change Bookmarks, Go, Home, Search and Print but not Back, Forward, Reload or Stop.
Ah! Right, I forgot the Back button was the one you were trying to delete. Those navigation buttons look like a permanent fixture.

I hope SeaMonkey works out better for you!

--Lindsey
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #15  
Old November 8th, 2006, 06:43 PM
Judy G. Russell Judy G. Russell is offline
Chief Cook & BottleWasher
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 13,076
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by douglaswmartin
Which email program do you use?
I use Eudora now but will probably end up switching to Thunderbird, another Mozilla product.
__________________
-- jgr
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #16  
Old November 8th, 2006, 07:40 PM
Mike Mike is offline
Mike King (Troublemaker)
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 3,085
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
I use Eudora now but will probably end up switching to Thunderbird, another Mozilla product.
And you may be able to get the best of both worlds...

http://eudora.com/press/2006/eudora-..._10.11.06.html
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #17  
Old November 8th, 2006, 10:16 PM
Dan in Saint Louis's Avatar
Dan in Saint Louis Dan in Saint Louis is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Posts: 1,093
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
I use Eudora now but will probably end up switching to Thunderbird, another Mozilla product.
TB2 is in alpha testing. The beta test is about to go public -- it will be interesting to see what features have been added. (Current release is 1.5.0.8)
__________________
--Dan in Saint Louis
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #18  
Old November 8th, 2006, 11:32 PM
ndebord's Avatar
ndebord ndebord is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 3,822
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by douglaswmartin
Judy,

How are you?

For some reason, the back button (top left on the toolbar) has stopped working on Mozilla. The little button beneath it works OK but <Alt - left arrow> doesn't function either. It's not disastrous but it's annoying.

The only change I've made is to add the IE Tab add-on; would this have affected my settings somehow?

- Douglas.
[London Forum - now on Yahoo!]
Douglas,

One thing you can try is to load a newer version of the Mozilla Suite on top of your current one and see if that fixes the issue. Mozilla Suite's last official release was 1.7.1.3

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozi...-installer.exe
__________________
N -- Dulce bellum inexpertis
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #19  
Old November 9th, 2006, 02:34 AM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ndebord
Douglas,

One thing you can try is to load a newer version of the Mozilla Suite on top of your current one and see if that fixes the issue. Mozilla Suite's last official release was 1.7.1.3

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozi...-installer.exe
N,

I've now installed new, separate versions of Firefox and Thunderbird and consigned the old Mozilla suite to the historical archive. I've also added FireFTP, which is superb.

Thanks to everyone for your advice and be wary of IETab.

- Douglas.
Reply With Quote
  View Parent  #20  
Old November 9th, 2006, 02:50 AM
douglaswmartin douglaswmartin is offline
Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 13
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
I use Eudora now but will probably end up switching to Thunderbird, another Mozilla product.
Judy,

I've dumped Mozilla and installed new versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, which represents a considerable improvement. Having plunged into ordure via IETab, I have emerged bearing the fragrance of roses.

Thanks for the advice.

- Douglas.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:49 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.