Dual Monitor Annoyance

[fastbilly1]

As far as I know, it is an inherit issue with windows and multiple monitors. The only way I know to get around it is to drag firefox back to your primary monitor, restore down and maximize it a couple times. Then minimize/maximize it a couple times. Then close it. What this does is clear that cache of where programs should open and will go with the last one.

I suggest getting another browser for your tv for this reason - that is why I still use IE

[Ziggy]

Why, IE doesn't have this problem? When I get home from work, I'll try maximize/minimize and restoring it a few times, then enable my TV again and see if that does the trick. I guess I'll just have to use only IE for my TV from now on. Pretty lame, this shouldn't even be an issue in this day in age.

[fastbilly1]

I should rephrase: I use firefox for my primary browser, but I still use IE to watch hulu/youtube on my second monitor.

[Ziggy]

Oh, yes, I guess I'll just have to dedicate IE to my TV.

After "working out" FireFox on my monitor with my TV disabled, I enabled the TV as a monitor again and FireFox is now opening on my monitor.

I still wish I had nView to avoid this crap. I guess there wont ever be nView for Vista, and I've read that there isn't one on 7 either. Maybe they're just not giving us nView any more?

[fastbilly1]

I would actually advise getting Chrome. I started using a version of it at work, and dear me is it a night and day difference in speed over IE 6 and 7. I still use firefox as my primary, but I use chrome for my side browsing, ie right now.

[Ziggy]

I was using Chrome for a while after it first came out. It was still called a beta version if I remember correctly. I stopped using it because I felt it was noticeably slower loading pages over IE or FF. Maybe by now it's a much better browser, I haven't used it for about a year now.

On a side note, I dragged IE over to my TV last night to watch a movie. I dragged it back over before closing it. It still opens on my monitor... weird.

[fastbilly1]

hmm. I dont know chief, Ive always found both to be very temperamental.

[Niode]

I love chrome. So much that firefox annoys me a little bit the only thing I like about firefox is it's a bit more stable with downloads. A lot of the time with big files downloading on chrome they will get so far and then stop downloading, and there's no way to retry from where it left off. Firefox is much better in this regard so I use it for that kind of thing (IE linux distros or large files) and playing quakelive. Most of the time I will use chrome since it's multicore optimised, doesn't crash the entire browser if an applet crashes (it has it's own built in task manager, so you can just close the window that has crashed without having to shut down and restart the browser again) and the 'homepage' updates dynamically with links to websites I visit the most and has a 'recently closed' list at the bottom so I can re-open pages I've just closed.

[DrCirno]

Yeah I have this happen too, its just an annoyance inherit with multiple monitor setups. Just keep dragging firefox over and closing it. Eventually it'll re-appear on the default monitor.

[Ziggy]

Oh, I just remembered why I stopped using Chrome. It would crash every time I went to photobucket. I didn't so much 'stop using' it as much as I built a new PC and it never got downloaded again. Maybe I'll download it and check it out again, but I have no problems with Fire Fox so it falls into the "if it's not broke, don't fix it" category lol.