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jimmy-cleveland

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Do the two of these work together?

I had my internet explorer hikacked somehow, and I use mozilla for most everything. I cannot use Google Earth of Bing Maps anymore on my desktop though.

Is there a way to get Mozilla and Google earth to work together?

Anyone know a good way to recover Internet Explorer after it has been hijacked?

Thanks,
Jimmy

Posted : September 7, 2010 5:03 am

DeralOfLawton

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No help on Mozilla but I use the free browser from Apple called Safari and I use Google Maps all the time. I just set my internet to point to it instead of IE. On my machines it's twice as fast. I think this is because it does not carry all the baggage that IE carries around with it.

Just another alternative.

Posted : September 7, 2010 5:12 am

jimmy-cleveland

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Deral,

Thanks for the heads up. I have never used Google maps. The aerial photos are pretty up to date in my area. Another good tool.

I like the Google Earth because it is helpful looking for benchmarks with the shape files you can get from NGS.

Thanks again,
Jimmy

Posted : September 7, 2010 5:29 am

DeralOfLawton

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My bad Jimmy. I misread Google Earth for Google Maps. I use the Google Maps with the street level view often when looking around town.

Oops.

Posted : September 7, 2010 5:36 am

RFB

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I've been using these 2 together for quite some time now.

Must be a setting somewhere.

:coffee:

Posted : September 7, 2010 5:56 am

Jeff D. Opperman

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Same as RFB - no problems whatsoever.

Posted : September 7, 2010 6:44 am

Frank Baker

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I've been using Mozilla at home for about a year. During that time my system became infected with a hijacker that made some operations impossible. Finally, I backed up all of my important files and reformated the computer. I forgot how fast my computer used to be.

Jimmy, I bet if you reformat your system you'll be able to load the Google Earth with no problem. I haven't reload Google Earth yet but I am using Mozilla. I'll download the latest Google Earth when I get home and let you know how it goes.

Posted : September 7, 2010 6:46 am