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WHY no file extensions in FFox cache?????
Hi gang...
(The complaints and comments in this post apply to FFox ver 1.8.1.20 since I am still using 98SELite.) I can hardly believe I'm doing this, but I am going to be using FFox a lot because while Opera is supremely configurable and intelligently designed and I have been using it for years, the flash plugin and one other DLL crash it all the time and the Opera forums make it disturbingly clear that Opera has zero interest in fixing the problem. OTOH, I installed the latest 98 ver. Flash plugin and FFox runs like a dream. The design is stupid, but it is very fast and works perfectly. Bizarre, but there you are. Opera, the BEST browser becomes almost unusable, since stupid flash content (unfortunately) is on so many sites. [BTW, I feel I must report that I ran across a site which is ALL flash (it would crash Opera before it even loaded, and you would see NOTHING in OB1), http://www.skinnydipswimwear.com, and it is SO well designed that I am almost contemplating being willing to consider rethinking my anti-flash stance... But maybe the cute chicks in bikinis have something to do with it as well... Also, as much as I hate to say this, FFox saved all the images from the all-flash site which Opera never did - assuming it didn't crash to begin with... I have NO idea how they did that... Flash is flash and jpg is jpg... But maybe some embedded jpg's DO go in the cache...] Anyway, I basically hate FFox. I hate the fact you have to paste an URL and THEN hit Enter (I have NOT found an alternative - Opera's Ctl-D (in the older versions, they seem to like changing everything except their incomprehensible attitude to the flash plugin) was SO convenient, and it's easier with OffByOne as well. I hate the fact z or x don't take you back or forward. (Yes, alt right or left arrow /does/ make sense, but why confuse things? Opera AND OffByOne use z and x, and I would NOT be surprised if even IE did. But FFox HAS to be different /and/ annoying as hell.) I also hate its idiotic data paths, and I especially hate its cache which uses no file extensions. Unless I go through the tedious "save file as", I have to later check every file in the cache to see which might be the html or jpg or zip or flv that I want to keep. Fortunately, Total Commander makes it very easy, but it's still a lot of idiotic unnecessary clicking. WHY no extensions, FFox ???? Of course, file sizes are an indication, so I don't have to check (in an average session) 300 files, but I do have to check about 100. A REAL drag. Does ANYONE have an idea how to make stupid Firefox put file extensions on what it dumps into its cache? Someone told me how to customize the cache path so it is not buried 4 or 5 levels deep in the Win directory (thanks again, although memory fails AFA your name) so perhaps someone will know how to do this. Thanks. -- Lots of theoretical butchers are alleged and other bloody eyes are suitable, but will Pam secure that? |
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