Of interest I can’t play any Muxtapes in Firefox on either my laptop (Vista) or the eee PC. I think it might be something to do with the extensions that I have installed. I need to rouse myself and troubleshoot it further.

I realised that it probably wasn’t my extensions that were causing the problem when I discovered that YouTube videos weren’t playing in FireFox. I’ve had this problem before – only in Vista – that the video appears to load, plays for two seconds and then stops. If I drag the slder along it starts briefly but without sound. It’s an issue with Macromedia Flash.

Fortunately I found the answer a couple of weeks ago (it happens regularly) in the Mozilla Forums. Sure enough, navigating through to My C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Macromed\Flash folder finds two files with “FlashUtil” as part of the name, FlashUtil9e.exe and NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe. I clicked on the second file, ran the installer, rebooted and YouTube works again. Even better, my new Muxtape works too!

Of course I still want to sort out the eee PC’s Muxtape problem as well. In this case YouTubes are playing?

EDIT: It was a Flash problem as well. Thanks to the friendly guys at the Eee PC forum at http://wiki.eeeuser.com I was directed to upgrade my Flash Player to the latest version…

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ajaxWrite works inside the Firefox browser (on versions 1.5 up). It has a range of features and allows users to save their work back to their computer. The software is platform independent, which means that any internet connected computer with the correct browser can use the wordprocessor.

The developer says that this is only the first of many programmes that will be launched. In fact he says there will be a new idea released every week.

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But, others of us remember being online before Internet Explorer. When people first began to use computers and phonelines to communicate the World Wide Web didn’t exist. I used to be a part of FidoNet, a communication network that was used by bulletin boards. I used to dial into the service and if I got a line in I would wade through several login pages and finally enter the bulletin board. The whole thing was text based and to navigate you had to use a combination of key strokes and typed commands. Just like you see in the movies! I could send email (it was called netmail), play games and download files. My modem was a blistering fast 2.4 kbps. Today modems reach 56 kbps, and high speed internet access at far greater speeds is the norm. My home connection is 2 megabytes per second – gazillions of times faster than the old 2.4 kbps modem.

Enough history! In my last post I mentioned Tim Berners-Lee and his vision of the World Wide Web. A central component of his vision was the browser. The web browser allows you to see web pages. It allows you to navigate the world of the WWW and to interact with the pages that you come across. Without the web browser, we’d still be typing in arcane commands and viewing everything without pictures, music or other multimedia.

Most of the time I use Firefox as my browser; on the Mac I use Camino or Safari. I like the flexibilty that Firefox offers and the fact that I can add in the extras that I want. Internet Explorer is due to be upgraded soon and hopefully it mean that more people will discover RSS and other internet goodies. Not to mention the security advances that Microsoft keep promising.

Thanks, Lorelle for your excellent post about the web browser!

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