[Wylug-help] firefox and bulletin boards

[James Holden]

He's almost certainly posting on a board which uses an active X applet 
for the editor. Either that or it's Java and he doesn't have Java 
configured.

If it's active X, this plugin:

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozactivex-ff-10.xpi

...should allow it to work.

James



Dave Roberts wrote:

> I'm trying to wean a friend of mine off Internet Explorer and he is 
> quite happy to use Firefox for most of his browsing. However, he uses 
> bulletin boards and when putting up a notice when using IE you can 
> format the text via a toolbar ie alignment, font, bolding etc. but 
> with Firefox it looks as though you have to edit the HTML to do all 
> the formatting. On that basis he still wants to use IE certainly for 
> his posting on boards. I've looked around at various extensions sites 
> but can't find anything which gives the facilities needed.
>
> Any ideas.
>
> Dave
>
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