[Wylug-help] firefox and bulletin boards

[Dave Roberts]

Installed the extension in Firefox on his machine and various other bits 
of advice but to no avail. Looking at it a bit more closely, whether you 
are in IE or Firefox the same AOL web page is called when posting a 
board message. ie. http://boards.aol.co.uk (you can only access this if 
you are logged onto aol).

However, although the page is the same, when called in IE it has text 
formatting buttons (bold, centre etc) but in Firefox there is no means 
of formatting the text.

Dave

James Holden wrote:

> 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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