Since the "Help" button in the toolbar NEVER does that, I thought I'd ask y'all. What's the little orange square looking thing at the end of the address bar? It says something about "subscribe to this page". What does it do, why would I want it to do that, and if I accidentally do it, how do I UNdo it?
I believe that's for webpages with an "RSS feed". Which, from what I understand, amounts to your pasting some code into a webpage of your own so that whenever the RSS-ified webpage updates with new content, the new content shows up on your own webpage as well.
Yeah, I've never really taken time to find out what RSS feeds do. From what I think I know, they are like news tickers or something.
Yes, it is an RSS feed. You'll only see the "orange radio icon" on RSS enabled websites. In FFX 1.5.0.9 (not sure about other versions) when you click on that button it allows you to add the link in your bookmarks, and you can delete it just like deleting any link (right click on it and select delete). Because it is an RSS link, the link itself will connect to things like comments on the article, or other articles in the same "category" that the provider catalogs with the RSS feed. For example, if you link to Netscape's Religion RSS you'll get a bunch of different articles on religion as part of that feed - if you link to a specific article on that feed you'll get a link to comments posted on that article. Many news sites use RSS because of the information flow on their sites. And some of the stuff I've been working on this past year ties into these kinds of feeds to populate browser windows on a portal site - its kinda cool. Hope that helps!
RSS? I'm still trying to figure out how to format my hard drive. I had to get a new one. Western Digital. They say get it proffessionally installed. I'm assuming, that means swap out the old housing for the new, and let the recovery disks format the thing. That little instruction was designed for people less savvy than I, right?
Professionally installed means take it down to a computer repair shop and have them install it. Frankly, that's a bunch of bollocks. I'm not sure, though, what you're quite doing with it. If it is to replace a nonfunctioning drive and you need an operating system like Windows on it, then yeah, the recovery disks should take care of it. If it's just a secondary disk that you'd use for storage, then you'd need to format that from within Windows, otherwise the recovery disks could wipe out your installation.
