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Yup, by default junk mail is set to not load external images (this is one thing spammers use to track you - every image loaded in a HTML email counts as a hit on their servers which can be tracked). I hope you got the latest version of Thunderbird v0.6, which was released earlier this week ?

I wrote "on realestate.com.au and this forum" :D

You didn't load any extensions to Firefox did you ? Might be one of them causing instability. I have spent long browsing sessions opening up literally many dozens of threads on realestate.com.au and this forum using Firefox without problems. I'm disappointed that you are having problems given...

How much memory do you have in your machine sbe ? I use Firefox all day long and typically run half a dozen browser windows each with up to a dozen or more tabs open in them. I've never had problems with stability. I'm running WinXP. I do have a lot of RAM in my machine, but I also...

That's what we're aiming for. We had to prove to everyone that you can have open source and a viable business model too. Doesn't mean that everything we do must be open source, but there are parts of the solution which are better served as an open platform. The OS (eg Linux) and the...

I used Opera for a while, but I found it bloated and cumbersome - suffering a little from the same problem that the full Mozilla browser has. That's why I was so happy when I discovered Firebird. I've just started trying Mozilla Thunderbird for a mail client - it has a fair way to go in...

I wouldn't expect any real differences with Java applets - unless you moved to a new JVM which improved performance over the (rather lame) Microsoft JVM. I'd been running Mozilla Firebird for probably 7-8 months now, and from a speed and stability point of view, it's been excellent. I use it...

Hmm... Westpac is still not working for me (I have complained to them about this). I use a bookmark to get to the online banking site.

Slightly faster ? I'd say it's a heap faster ! :D I've found swapping back to IE (on those occasions I have to use it *sigh*) to be really really slow and painful compared to Firebird. I've had a number of people at work tell me how amazed they were at the speed of Firebird/Firefox...

There is a setting in the BIOS for "wake on modem" or similar. This needs to be disabled. There might be a setting in WinXP that does the same - I'm not sure. Playing with the BIOS is dangerous if you don't know what you are doing - but it's easy to make the changes if you are game. You...

Actually, Firefox should do that automatically for you. Look at "web features" in the Tools -> Options menu. You can turn on popup blocking (if it's not on by default). You are notified that a popup has been blocked by a little blue exclamation mark in the bottom left hand corner of the...

Yeah, Sun has a long history of complaining about the rest of the industry not wanting to play their game. So many times have they threatened to "take their ball and go home" - especially over the tooling. There are only two vendors in the Java tooling race. Borland and IBM. Sun is an also...

I find it so difficult to use IE these days. Especially with my wheel mouse - when I'm browsing I tend to open multiple browser windows at once so I can lauch a whole heap of links and go and read them once I've finished reading the current site. In IE this leads to a very cluttered task bar...

Not sure what you mean there PT ? As far as I am aware, IBM adhere to all the standards where relevant. Was there a specific technology or example you were thinking of - or was it a comment about JREs ?

Hey - I'd give more details if I had them, but there are nothing more than rumours at the moment. All we've been told is that it will happen. Probably won't mean terribly much to the average consumer given that it will be targeted at the corporate world, but I'm hoping the outcome will be...

Keep your eyes open for announcements later this year from IBM in regards to other "desktop" alternatives to Microsoft - both in the Office productivity space and the OS space. Things are about to get interesting in the IT world again !

My web browser of choice, Mozilla Firebird has just had an upgrade and a name change. Mozilla Firebird is now Mozilla Firefox and is v0.8 I've been using it since last night without any problems. (PS. the small text entry box for posts when using Firebird/Firefox is fixed in...