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Old May 7th 09, 12:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,24hoursupport.helpdesk
thanatoid
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Default 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.


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