Smilies

[solarman216]

Have not been able to use smilies for a while, I know it is a browser problem (I use Opera) cos if I use IE they work but it is far too slow on a dongle, but have discovered that smilies work if I type the written description (:thumbs2) :thumbs2 so anyone out there able to answer that, Rick

[solarman216]

seems it works even if I enclose it in ()? Rick

[lacroupade]

I've not used Opera but I know one or two people who have and haven't had the best experience.

Can you not use Firefox or is Opera a 'lite' browser - and I'm assuming here that your dongle bandwidth is restricted somehow?

And what are you actually running it on, a laptop?

[solarman216]

Yes I am running a laptop with an extended antenna in the roof, most times have a good signal, the odd thing is I have no problem with Opera and smilies have worked in the past, so I thought maybe an Opera update was to blame so erased the latest version and all the stuff that goes with it and loaded an old version, still the same, so I think it must be some setting somewhere that I have altered that is causing the problem, but blowed if I can find where, Rick

[lacroupade]

Sounds like an HTML problem of some kind.....but thats the level of boring detail where I lose the will to live I'm afraid LOL....but there will be an anorak among us somewhere :augie

[solarman216]

Sounds like an HTML problem of some kind.....but thats the level of boring detail where I lose the will to live I'm afraid LOL....but there will be an anorak among us somewhere :augie

Thanks anyway, I can live with it, Rick

[briggie]

try firefox rick mate

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

[solarman216]

try firefox rick mate

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

I have firefox, and it is a lot slower on my machine than Opera, also it hangs a lot more, Opera hangs from time to time but not as often as firefox and IE is absolutely hopeless, how is your master cyl doing, Rick

[briggie]

I have firefox, and it is a lot slower on my machine than Opera, also it hangs a lot more, Opera hangs from time to time but not as often as firefox and IE is absolutely hopeless, how is your master cyl doing, Rick

i have absolutely no idea mate .... no calls from the garage ..... im getting a bit fed up now ...... i AM GOING TO RING THEM this morning :eek:..... perhaps they havent sourced a kit ? :nenau....... either way im going to find out whats going on

[lacroupade]

Firefox should never 'hang' - its an extremely robust browser and if you are having such problems I'd be looking at the hardware or whatever might be cluttering up your hard drive. :)