Question for fellow Firefox users

Fox — 5/31/2005 4:32:04 PM (archived)

I did a complete hardware upgrade a couple weeks ago, which naturally came with a newer OS (formerly ran Win98SE, now WinXP/SP2). On the old system, I had FF tweaked so that special characters -- like "curly quotes" in Word and WP, for instance -- were displayed as they were meant to be seen.

Upon installing FF on this new box, the problem returned. I've switched the "Character Encoding" selection a bunch of times, and nothing seems to work, though I could swear one did work on the previous setup... and, predictably, I forgot to note the changes I'd made, and the old box has since been reformatted and retired.

So I'm wondering -- Is it the browser alone? Is it the browser in combination with XP? Do I have a clue?

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Question for fellow Firefox users - Fox - 5/31/2005 4:32:04 PM
- Why do you use Firefox rather than vanilla Mozilla? - Gary - 6/10/2005 4:18:17 AM
  - Oh, you mean muddy Mo? - et - 6/11/2005 4:11:37 AM
    - A side-comment - Fox - 6/11/2005 4:58:33 PM
    - That was Firefox, this is Mozilla 1.7. (n/t) - et - 6/11/2005 4:16:16 AM
      - And this is epiphany. Follow the breadcrumbs Gary... - et - 6/11/2005 4:22:59 AM
  - re: Why Firefox? - Fox - 6/10/2005 2:28:39 PM
    - Well, I could think of some reasons but let's give him a chance at moderating before we break out the rail.... ;) (n/t) - et - 6/11/2005 4:14:25 AM
- More info - Fox - 5/31/2005 4:57:03 PM
  - Huh. Synergistic affiliation.... - et - 6/1/2005 12:35:22 AM
    - UTF-1 ? - Fox - 6/1/2005 2:07:56 AM
      - The acronym is WTF-!.... re: my oopsie - et-1 - 6/1/2005 2:42:57 AM
        
        re: WTF-!.... - Fox - 6/1/2005 8:20:03 PM
        
        Found it! - Fox - 6/3/2005 5:26:54 PM
        
        re: Found it! HooooYaaaH! - RNE - 6/5/2005 5:38:45 PM
        
        I see by your outfit... - Fox - 6/5/2005 6:57:26 PM
        
        That you are a cowboy.... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/7/2005 6:56:28 AM
        
        Running joke on the "Dusty and Lefty" segment of PHC - Fox - 6/7/2005 2:03:42 PM
        
        Actually, I was running an old Smothers Brothers routine - Tom Brosz - 6/8/2005 6:30:43 AM
        
        *grin* - Fox - 6/9/2005 2:32:31 PM
        
        "A lot of leftys in Seattle". 8D (n/t) - alcaray - 6/7/2005 10:07:10 PM
        
        re: I see by your outfit... - RNE - 6/5/2005 8:07:32 PM
        
        That you're a cowboy, too... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 6/7/2005 6:57:02 AM
        
        Thanks - SDG - 6/3/2005 8:01:05 PM
        
        That's what this page is for - Fox - 6/4/2005 3:25:20 PM
        
        ;) (n/t) - et - 6/3/2005 5:58:22 PM

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