Please do not post website problems on the forum. I cannot possibly read every single post here and frequently miss such complaints, plus it distracts from the topic of the thread.

If you are having a problem, email me. That is the best way to get assistance or to alert me to an issue I may not be aware of.

Please bear in mind that almost all problems reported are by members using Netscape version 6-whatever or IE version 6-whatever. These are BETA browsers and I will not lift a finger to assist anyone using them as they have tons of bugs in them. Downgrade to Netscape version 4-whatever or IE version 5-whatever before complaining, as those are stable and far superior browsers. If you do not want to stop using your Netscape/IE version 6 browsers, please keep any website problems to yourself. I don't want to hear about it.

That being said, this last week I have tried the Opera browser and I can tell everyone that I am NOT EVER GOING BACK! This browser is beyond words. It can be fully customized for a variety of uses. Don't like popups? Simple, just select "refuse popups"! The browser will cancel ALL popups pointing to a different domain (meaning the elimination of popup advertisements). If you are on a dialup and want to make the forum surf faster, simply tell it to "never cache, except pictures" and once it loads the member pictures the first time, it won't have to download them again as it will pull them straight from your hard drive. Even on broadband connections this saves time. Also, unlike the infernal IE, the Opera browser when told to not cache the documents will always display the most recent version of a page, which saves me from a LOT of explaining over and over to the members that "yes your post was made and it is on the server, but your browser is cacheing the old page which is why you are not seeing it yet". (I think I have wrote those words about 500,000 times now.)

I strongly urge everyone here to download and try the Opera browser. You can download a free version at www.opera.com that has ads. For a one time very minimal fee you can buy a license and get rid of the ads. This will make a marked improvement in your surfing speed for ALL websites.

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>>> Phil

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Under the VIEW menu, select the following:
Hotlist: OFF
Main Bar: Simple (unless you want TONS of buttons)
Personal Bar: OFF
Status Bar : OFF (you can leave it on but it does take up screen real estate. You can have it on the bottom like Netscape if you like).
Page Bar: OFF
Address Bar: TOP

You'll have to bookmark pages again, but there may be a way to import bookmarks. Haven't looked around enough. On the Mac version you CAN import bookmarks from Netscape or IE so I assume you can on the Windows version as well.

Welcome to Opera. It is almost perfect, but not quite. It's waaaaaaay faster than IE or Netscape, and it can draw pages correctly. Also unlike Netscape the text isn't gigantic huge.

Here are some other settings I recommend:
under FILE/PREFERENCES

START AND EXIT
Make sure to check "show my home page" and set it to http://www.film-tech.com This will save you much time in having to go to a pesky bookmark.

BROWSER LAYOUT
Make sure "show search field and button" is checked. This gives you a direct link to the Google search engine without having to go to the Google website.

WINDOWS
Make sure under "pop-up windows" you have it set to "refuse pop-up windows"

HISTORY AND CACHE
Under "disk cache" check "cache images" Do the same for RAM cache. I highly recommend you do NOT "cache documents".

Under "check modified" select "always" for all 3 options.

That Opera ad window isn't really bothering me much (yet).

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Just a thought...

Bill

>>> Phil

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I have installed Opera again and bought it this time. Now I can print from the browser.

I am about to do all of Brad's mods.

Question:

Has anybody tried the email client yet? If so, what do you think? Does it spell check? (Most important to me.)