Firefox 7 (related to Word and QuickTime) - 10/07/11 05:23 PM
To the moderator: I'm posting this under the browsers forum even though there are ancillary issues which might properly be posted to other forums. Please relocate the post if it seems to be misplaced here.
OK. The stormy seas are beginning to calm, and the sailing is getting a bit smoother. However, at least a few niggling problems remain to interfere with my computing pleasure ...
Running Firefox 7.0 in OS 10.7.1:
When I cut some text from a newspaper article or some such in which there are one or more hyperlinks and paste the selection into a (new/blank) Word 2011 document, the hyperlinks are 'active', meaning highlighted and underlined.
I don't want such – just the text – which is just how it worked with my old iMac DV SE running OS 9.0.4 and Word 98.
I've gone over the Preferences for Word and Firefox repeatedly to toggle that feature off ... to no avail.
Does anyone have a clue how to deal with this?
Likewise in Firefox:
Is there some way to allow Web pages to appear early on in the loading process? With my dial-up access (56K V.92 USB modem) it often waits until 80-90% of the page has been acquired before showing up and then finishing the process. So, eg, opening a newspaper's website (such as The New York Times) produces a blank window until ca 80% of the page is loaded. [I suspect that it might have to do with the huge amount of graphics that accompanies the page, but I don't want to block images completely, since I want to see the pictures associated with the news articles (but not images associated with sidebar ads and such).] Can any of this be altered? And if so, how and where?
A similar problem holds true for QuickTime:
When selecting a 'movie' (usually an mpeg) for viewing within a Web page, the entire item downloads into the computer before it will play. In my old iMac running OS 9.0.4 and QuickTime 6.0.2, such mpegs would load partially and begin playing well before the download was complete. Can this be adjusted in my new set-up?
Also in the new iMac the Download progress panel shows up every time something is implicitly and explicitly being downloaded. Most annoying. How do I alter that behavior?
I'd be grateful for any resolutions to the above issues.
OK. The stormy seas are beginning to calm, and the sailing is getting a bit smoother. However, at least a few niggling problems remain to interfere with my computing pleasure ...
Running Firefox 7.0 in OS 10.7.1:
When I cut some text from a newspaper article or some such in which there are one or more hyperlinks and paste the selection into a (new/blank) Word 2011 document, the hyperlinks are 'active', meaning highlighted and underlined.
I don't want such – just the text – which is just how it worked with my old iMac DV SE running OS 9.0.4 and Word 98.
I've gone over the Preferences for Word and Firefox repeatedly to toggle that feature off ... to no avail.
Does anyone have a clue how to deal with this?
Likewise in Firefox:
Is there some way to allow Web pages to appear early on in the loading process? With my dial-up access (56K V.92 USB modem) it often waits until 80-90% of the page has been acquired before showing up and then finishing the process. So, eg, opening a newspaper's website (such as The New York Times) produces a blank window until ca 80% of the page is loaded. [I suspect that it might have to do with the huge amount of graphics that accompanies the page, but I don't want to block images completely, since I want to see the pictures associated with the news articles (but not images associated with sidebar ads and such).] Can any of this be altered? And if so, how and where?
A similar problem holds true for QuickTime:
When selecting a 'movie' (usually an mpeg) for viewing within a Web page, the entire item downloads into the computer before it will play. In my old iMac running OS 9.0.4 and QuickTime 6.0.2, such mpegs would load partially and begin playing well before the download was complete. Can this be adjusted in my new set-up?
Also in the new iMac the Download progress panel shows up every time something is implicitly and explicitly being downloaded. Most annoying. How do I alter that behavior?
I'd be grateful for any resolutions to the above issues.