Highwayman

But Firefox does not allow the combining of tool bars like IE does. Too many lines are taken up at the top of the screen, unless you remove the toolbar.

Pandit, not sure l know what you mean.

I have the Menus (File, Edit etc.), the address box, the search box and 7 icons on one line.

On the next line l have all my bookmark toolbar folders, RSS feeds and the navigation icons.

That's only two lines, plus a line that shows all my open tabs.

Just right click anywhere on a blank space on the toolbars, select customize and you can drag and drop everything to where you want, even to the bookmarks toolbar. You don't need any other toolbars if you use small icons.

jaidee, this is the extension l'm currently using with a MOOX version of Firefox 1.0 RC1

ReloadEvery

I can't guarantee that it works with your version but give it a try. It's been around for nearly a year now.

For anyone interested in obtaining more extensions, the best site l've found is Extension Mirror. It has the largest number l've seen plus they are kept up to date better than any other site, even the Mozilla site imo. They even have an RSS feed so you can see at an instant what new extensions are being added to the list.

There is a hack to make many extensions that aren't compatible with newer versions of Firefox work, but it involves editing the extensions.rdf file.

Yes, you are correct.

BigC History

Guess l've only read the French based websites telling it from when it started for them.

Spellbound and Ad-Block in their current versions just cause too many problems with my versions of Firefox lately. I use the MOOX optimised builds and Spellbound broke my browser. First time l've had that happen. I set everything up again and confirmed it. It worked fine up until about 0.92 and unusable since which is a shame as it's one of the best extensions out there. (note, you have to carefully read the options when you download Spellbound as for some people that is where the problem lies) I'll give it another week or so before trying again. The comment about using the HOSTS file is indeed correct. Otherwise you have to configure Ad-Block one item at a time with sites like Thai Visa and especially Yahoo! Mail if you want to have any hope of it working at all.

I've recently been testing some other browsers including Maxthon, Crazy Browser and Avant. These fitted my requirements of being freeware and having tabs. Once you've used tabs e.g. Firefox, there's no going back.

Maxthon looks good, has some nice features but l found it to be extremely slow. I tried the following test with Firefox versus Maxthon. Using the auto refresh, the same page in Firefox could be set to reload every 30 seconds and would usually take only 10 seconds to refresh. Quite acceptable for dial-up l thought. Using Maxthon the page renders very differently. Trying to refresh every 30 seconds was useless as it could not complete the display of a page before the next reload. I had to set it to 70 seconds for auto refresh to function properly. In the end it just did not perform when compared to a nicely tweaked version of Firefox.

Crazy Browser: Not bad, unappealing interface, could use a few more features but if you want basic then it's reasonable.

Avant: Looks good, with a number of skins included to account for most tastes. Performed the above speed comparisons with Firefox and while not as quick it was acceptable. A good range of options allow you to set it up well. I was really surprised when l downloaded it from Major Geeks to see when installing that it had been downloaded in Thai. The download mirror had picked up on my Thai IP address and set the language accordingly. I've changed it back to English since but this could be a handy alternative to IE for a Thai user.

Overall l've found nothing to come close to Firefox, once you have tweaked it with suitable extensions etc. If you want an alternative then l would recommend Avant based on my testing over the past weeks. One reason l will keep using it, is that it allows Yahoo! Mail to work properly, Yahoo! is not fully compatible with Firefox no matter what you do. There is a project for an extension to make it so but l think that's going to be a while coming.

Btw, l can't say l've really had any problems using ThaiVisa with Firefox. They fixed the insertion of smilies so that you can insert a smilie where you want now without having to c+p from the end of a post all the time. thats gotta be a good thing.

*I've used Opera in the past but it simply will not work, period, with some sites l need my alternative browser to work with, thus it is not an option for me.

The C in BigC stands for Casino, the name of the French supermarket chain who set up BigC.

As everyone says, it's about freebies. There's also tickets available to enter big prize draws depending on how much you spend.

When l was reading this in the paper this morning, my wife asked me why l had just said unbelievable for the tenth time in a row.

In most countries an accused double murderer who had previously been on the run would not be granted bail of even one billion baht, even if his his wife was about to give birth to quintuplets, his mothers funeral was tomorrow, his father was dying of cancer, his brother was being held hostage in Iraq and his sister was about to get married.

However this is obviously a special case as he has promised not to run away or interfere with witnesses.

You live here a while and you think you have heard just about every Amazing Thailand story there is and then along comes this.

Is this guy even in the country anymore? Bailed last Thursday and it only makes the news today.

Next thing you'll hear is that he will be getting that award for service to the community that they put on hold a few weeks back.

Andrew Drummond

Special to The Nation: 08.11.2004

One of Scotland's most infamous football thugs appears to have escaped an assassin's gun in Pattaya.

PATTAYA: -- James "Fat" McLeod, 35, underwent critical surgery at an international hospital in the resort. Doctors saved his life but he lost his left eye. The attempted murder took place at the new home McLeod bought in the beach resort, where he has taken a local girl named Nok as his wife.

The notorius Fat was washing the dishes when a hired gunman fired a shotgun through the kitchen window.

Although the incident was reported to Lothian and Borders Police in Scotland, police in Pattaya were either blissfully unaware of the attempted murder of another foreigner in the resort or looked the other way. McLeod said to hospital officials that he was the victim of a gas explosion and told them to keep "shtum". McLeod does not want Thai police to interfere in his personal affairs. This week he was keeping a low profile, although a hospital spokesman admitted that he came daily to have his dressings changed.

"The big guy doesn't want any trouble with the local police. He settles things his own way," said a local Scot, demanding anonymity. "The attack has got to be a revenge attack for something. It was carried out by a Thai but he didn't take any money like"

McLeod is understood to have made several enemies in the foreign and Thai communities in Pattaya and has reportedly insulted members of both. He rides a chopper motorcycle, is believed to have invested in property in Thailand. He once ran a clothing business called Original Casuals in South Clerk Street, Edinburgh.

In June 1998, after several years of skull cracking at football matches, McLeod, a leader of Hibernian Capital City Service football gang, planned to disrupt a World Cup game between Norway and Scotland and destroy the reputation of Scotland's usually well behaved Tartan Army. But the plot was wrecked in a joint operation between Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service and French and Spanish police.

The following October, however, he was among 18 hooligans jailed by a month by a Dutch court for his actions during the "Battle of Eindhoven".

He was singled out by Dutch police as "one of the most vicious of the Rangers' group" - even though he is a Hibs fan. Glascow Rangers were playing PSV Eindhoven when the violence broke out. Rangers' fans charged after someone shouted at the Dutch fans: "come on, you know we are here for a fight." Police have also linked McLeod and a fellow hooligan Warren Bennett, to neo-nazi groups including the racist British National Party.

McLeod feels at home on Pattaya. His local bars are the International Bar in Soi Yamoto run by Scotsmen from Edinburgh, with connections to the Ulster Defence Army (UDA), and the famous Dogs <deleted>. The bosses at the Dogs <deleted> bar are ex-Chelsea "Headhunters". The bar was opened by Chelsea headhunters Chris "Chubby" Henderson, author of "Who Wants It?" and Steve "Hicky" Hickmont author of "Armed for the Match".

Chelsea Football Club fans are known to be connected with ultra-right wing groups and involved in the beatings of Africans, Indians, Pakistanis and Chinese.

But Fat, Chubby and Hickey appear to have almost been tamed by Thai wives, who are unlikely to fully understand their past and may not care while the cash is still flowing.

However, there have been several incidents involving the Chelsea Headhunters in Pattaya - mainly involving Japanese and Western journalists. Henderson was turned back by police in Japan during the last World Cup.

By all accounts McLeod has been celebrating his life in Pattaya by greeting arriving friends from the UK with dinners of haggis and turnips and a "half and a half" (whisky with a beer chaser or vice-versa)- traditional Scottish fare.

I've never looked at the VIP forum so it's not that.

Scrub that info about restaurants and river access. My wife just told me l'm thinking of Wang Takhrai falls.

Not sure if i/d be keen on camping considering the current situation though.

Pointer #1

If you are not a fan of Thai music blasting out at full volume from every second pick-up in the area then avoid going there between noon on Friday and Sunday evening.

No problem at all about access to the river. Just drive into the park and the road runs along both sides. We approached it on #305 which if you're coming from Bangkok is probably the road you will be using from Rangsit. Plenty of food outlets around and l think l saw places to stay but can't give you any details as it's only a daytrip for me.

I understand that there are size limits to avatars that are downloaded from a posters computer. When someone tries to use a larger than acceptable file, the Thai Visa site then resizes it, well and good.

Why then does it have to resize a file that is within the limits? I've found that trying to use a 70x70px file results in it being enlarged to 90x90px, thus distorting it. Is there another way l should be submitting smaller than 90x90px avatars so that they are displayed as originally intended?

Okay Huski, l'll bite. I also see the File Attachments area that RDN refers to fairly often when l post.

If the Forum doesn't support it, then why does it show up? Is it just a coding problem or something else?

Maybe this extension will help.

I saw ManUtv and Arsenaltv on UBC28 or 29 the other night so maybe a Brit comedy channel is in the works.

Anyone know what percentage of UBC subscribers are non-Thai?

Chatuchak market is one place. Each Wednesday the large plant section is restocked, hundreds of stalls and reasonable prices.

Plenty of garden furniture at any department store. HomePro, Index and Koncept come to mind.

Try looking here:

WinMX Central

Are u experiencing problems with the flood control?

err, with only 150 posts?

No, just the first time l can remember getting that message on this forum. Most forums l've posted on only apply flood control to new posters.

Looks like you must have been moving this topic and that's what caused my posting problems. Also only one choice of skins now so no more errors there.

Slightly off topic but does the flood control apply to all members? (not including moderators).

Trying one more time:

Are the IPB Skin options meant to work now? Trying IPB Pre2.0 brings up (Firefox):

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: radio_panel() in /home/thaivcom/public_html/forum/sources/boards.php on line 213

George, you said earlier something about fixing posting for Firefox. I never had problems before but l'm getting error messages now if l try to post using a popular extension called BB Code which l use to post in colors etc. Shows up ok in preview but that's as far as l get.

Is the Thai Visa logo in the top left hand corner displaying ok to everyone? Using Firefox, just the basic version, and the logo is sitting right on top of the ThaiVisa url, almost cutting into it. I think it's meant to only be in the blue banded section, not overflowing into the grey section.

At Least 78 Die After Thailand Riot

PATTANI: -- At least 78 people were suffocated or crushed to death after being arrested and packed into police trucks after a riot in southern Thailand, officials said Tuesday.

The announcement dramatically increased the death toll from the latest eruption of violence in Thailand's Muslim-dominated south to 84. Officials had earlier said that six people were shot to death during clashes Monday at a police station in Narathiwat province.

Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunan, a forensics expert who works for the Justice Ministry, told a news conference Tuesday that she and a team of doctors conducted autopsies on 78 bodies at an army camp in Pattani province and found that most of them had perished from suffocation.

The dead were among some 1,300 people arrested Monday following the police station riot.

Maj. Gen. Sinchai Nujsathit, deputy commander of the fourth army, said the victims may have died from suffocation "because we had more than 1,300 people packed into the six-wheel trucks."

He did not say how many trucks were used.

Manit Suthaporn, deputy permanent secretary of the Justice Ministry, said the victims probably suffocated because they were piled on top of each other in the vehicles.

The violence erupted Monday when about 2,000 Muslim youths demonstrated outside a police station in Narathiwat's Takbai district to demand the release of six detained men.

Police and military forces tried to disperse the rowdy crowd with gunshots, water cannons and tear gas. Six people were killed and several injured in the melee, army commander Gen. Pisarn Wattanawongkhiri said Tuesday.

Yahoo/AP

There is an acute need for Korean-speaking Thai tour guides in Phuket, he said.

A campaign to inspect local businesses and identify foreigners working illegally would be launched soon, he said.

I heard this story the other day, and on the face of it this has got to be one of the more insane things l've heard recently.

Getting rid of the people who can do the job without having anyone available who can replace them. Shooting yourself in the foot l believe it's called.

You're right about the snow part being popular at Dreamworld. Funny how l didn't think to suggest Dreamworld as l only have to look out the window to see it.

Went to Safari World a little while ago. I was surprised at the huge number of animals there. I've never seen a place that had 40 giraffes before.

I saw that comment from Stickman. Just checked the Ancient City website where it still says 100 baht for adults. No mention that l could see about two tier pricing though l wouldn't be surprised at all if Stickman is correct.

Coolestuk also suggested 300 baht in his post. I was last there about six months ago with a van load of Thais and it was 100 baht for all adults back then.