Firefox users....can you answer a question for me ?

[Justice Is Comin]

Is there supposed to be an indicator that lets you know when you have received a new email? Yahoo is my preferred default email.

On the internet explorer browser there is a little bell that pops up in the toolbar with a simululation that it's ringing. It shakes back and forth and catches your attention to let you know that you have new email.

Is there something that is supposed to catch your attention on the Firefox toolbar? I have the little envelope but it doesn't do anything.

It also is apparently not recognizing that YAHOO is my default email either, as it does on IE.

Can anyone help on this? Thanks.

[RoyGBiv]

1. You need a toolbar ...

This behavior is not native to IE either. At some point you installed the Yahoo toolbar, which integrates with IE to provide the features you're describing. FWIW, both IE and Firefox are web browsers, not mail clients and so have no innate facility to know what your preferred e-mail address is.

In any case, the Yahoo toolbar is also available for Firefox.

http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox

[Justice Is Comin]

4. Eureka, that's the ticket.

I didn't know about this. Thanks my friend.

Thanks Syrinx below too.

[Karmakaze]

6. No wonder you switched to Firefox...

If you did not realise you had installed the Yahoo toolbar, I wouldnt be surprised if you picked up some other even more unfriendly hitchhikers along the way.

[Syrinx]

2. Roy makes a good suggestion. Here's another.

Yahoo! Mail Notifier 0.9.9, by Morac, released on Mar 28, 2006

This extension notifies you when new messages arrive in your Yahoo mailbox.

Notification options include: customizable sound, notification alert, status bar and toolbar icon. Also allows the user to map different mouse buttons to open Yahoo Mail in different tabs,windows,etc.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1264/

[RoyGBiv]

3. This is actually better ...

And had I been thinking clearer would have suggested this instead.

I loathe Yahoo applications. Nothing but bloat, imo.

But, the behavior described, right down to the little bell, is Yahoo Toolbar behavior, so it was the first thing that popped to mind.

[Syrinx]

5. Well, I haven't actually tried the plugin...

So I don't know if it works well, but I figure it probably does since it's on the mozilla site.

[SlackJawedYokel]

9. I use that one, it works fine.

There is also one for Gmail.
And if you have a Gmail account check out the GSpace plug.

Cletus

[sweetheart]

7. Firefox and digital radio

I've had firefox go in to a meltdown many times when
running any of the audio players from itunes to realaudio,
and perhaps the radio stations buffer their streams in
the browser causing it to grow to a monstrous virtual
memory before painfully-slowly crashing on my computer...
that i go in with the process monitor and kill "dumprep"
... or just kill "firefox" before it goes monster.

Gosh, i love that browser for text, but there is a real
problem with the media players. When i installed a new
version of msft media, it kicked the firefox icon off my
toolbar. It is so incredibly puerile this desktop wars,
and i wish they could sort out their boy-problems without
crashing my computer with their fights.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. I have the same problem with media and will have the media players

freeze. What I will do then is open the media files through IE or AOL which I still have.

[blogslut]

10. Firefox is browser only

...as far as I know. If you want a browser bundled with an email client, try Mozilla. Otherwise, install Thunderbird and set it to the proper smtp/pop settings