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**CGM** · 02-22-2009 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by miles

I use Firefox and sometimes IE.

I'm becoming more computer literate than I used to be, and I'm wary of intruders. The old computer met a sorry end, so I'm much more careful with this one.

Good plan. It seems to me that with modern day viruses and trojans, firewall and antivirus and anti spyware only gets you so far. It really is best to avoid questionable websites, stick with reputable sites as much as possible. I know some serious users who have two computers, one for messing around on the web, and the other for serious stuff.

**Gandalf** · 02-22-2009 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by CGM

Originally Posted by miles

I use Firefox and sometimes IE.

I'm becoming more computer literate than I used to be, and I'm wary of intruders. The old computer met a sorry end, so I'm much more careful with this one.

Good plan. It seems to me that with modern day viruses and trojans, firewall and antivirus and anti spyware only gets you so far. It really is best to avoid questionable websites, stick with reputable sites as much as possible. I know some serious users who have two computers, one for messing around on the web, and the other for serious stuff.

I know it sounds strange, but I didn't even know a thing about computer viruses up until a while ago. But these days I'm much better, much more aware.

**CGM** · 02-23-2009 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Saddo

I was a big IE user but just upgraded to IE8 and although it has some funky new features it is totally wank for some things.... so i'm using Firefox a lot more over the last week and liking some of the stuff it does

I like the way Firefox has tabbed browser sessions within a single frame. There also seems to be an automated spellchecker in Firefox, which is kinda nice. I prefer the way IE deals with configuration of security and privacy options.

On the whole, IE seems noticeably faster, but Firefox is more stable. One thing I do notice is that Firefox is a noticeably slower for somethings, such as posting and replying here in the forum. I actually have to sit there and watch the little icons on the message toolbar fill in, ditto for the smilies on the right. Have you noticed this Saddo?

**killersheep** · 02-23-2009 02:15 PM

I use IE until it gives me problems, then I go over to FF. The only reason I still use IE is habit, I like FF much better.

**CGM** · 04-08-2009 05:05 PM

I decided to give Google Chrome a testdrive. What a sad joke of an application it is. It probably works fine, and it's faster than greased lightning, but it's soooo non-intuitive. The user interface is absolute shit. Pure garbage. Why they did things that way is beyond me. I mean, whoever heard of an application without a file menu? Took me ages to figure out how to load an html file from my hard drive.

And what's this horsehit about the install? Click on the download button and it automatically downloads, installs, imports all your favorites from IE without giving the user any options? Sorry, but I like to separate the install from the download, none of this automatic shit for me.

In short, my reaction is that it has potential, but the user interface is a complete turnoff. I wouldn't recommend it to my enemies, though I might suggest it to ICB if he ever shows up.

over and out. I have an application to uninstall.

**Deanrw** · 04-08-2009 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by CGM

Anyone else notice that youtube videos are a little herky jerky in Firefox?

Also I have notice that Firefox doesn't seem to get bogged down on some facebook pages like Internet Explorer does.

I'm using Windows 2000, don't know if that makes a difference.

I used to notice that with firefox. it happens when the bookmarks toolbar up above fills up with bookmarks. If it gets to the point where it shows an arrow at the end to show more, youtube videos will be jumpy. Delete some so they only fill the page or less, and the jumping will stop.

**CGM** · 04-08-2009 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by Deanrw

Originally Posted by CGM

Anyone else notice that youtube videos are a little herky jerky in Firefox?

Also I have notice that Firefox doesn't seem to get bogged down on some facebook pages like Internet Explorer does.

I'm using Windows 2000, don't know if that makes a difference.

I used to notice that with firefox. it happens when the bookmarks toolbar up above fills up with bookmarks. If it gets to the point where it shows an arrow at the end to show more, youtube videos will be jumpy. Delete some so they only fill the page or less, and the jumping will stop.

hmm, can't say that I had a lot of bookmarks in Firefox, in fact I had only a few. However, since I made that post I have upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 2000. Because I couldn't get wireless networking to work under Win2000. And also a newer version if IE. Now the problem does not seem as noticable. Actually, I think with XP that youtube performance in Firefox might be a little better, and a little worse with IE. Probably because as usual with Microsoft, new versions of anything are more resource intensive, whereas it is the opposite with their competitors.

Unfortunately. Once I upgraded to XP, I experience a lot of video corruption with Firefox. Especially on Saddo's. I have an NVidia Riva TNT2 series video card that came with my Dell PIII quite a few years ago. The video corruption only happens with Firefox, go figure. I like Firefox, so eventually I will try and get to the bottom of this, but damn I am getting tired of dicking around with my PC.

However, in spite of the video corruption, Firefox still handles Facebook pages better than Internet Explorer. sigh....

**CGM** · 04-09-2009 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by CGM

I decided to give Google Chrome a testdrive. What a sad joke of an application it is. It probably works fine, and it's faster than greased lightning, but it's soooo non-intuitive. The user interface is absolute shit. Pure garbage. Why they did things that way is beyond me. I mean, whoever heard of an application without a file menu? Took me ages to figure out how to load an html file from my hard drive.

And what's this horsehit about the install? Click on the download button and it automatically downloads, installs, imports all your favorites from IE without giving the user any options? Sorry, but I like to separate the install from the download, none of this automatic shit for me.

In short, my reaction is that it has potential, but the user interface is a complete turnoff. I wouldn't recommend it to my enemies, though I might suggest it to ICB if he ever shows up.

over and out. I have an application to uninstall.

I'm kind of changing my mind on Chrome. The interface is kind of weird, but entirely functional once you get used to it. The viewable area seems a bit bigger than Internet Explorer, and it is quite a bit faster, especially on an older machine like mine that does not have a gig of RAM like modern PC's. On my machine it blows the doors off of both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

**the_PRODIGY** · 04-10-2009 02:26 AM

I love the new Opera..you can keep any search bar of any site you like. and it's faster than Firefox. It also has a bandwith indicator and a resumable download manager.

**Clanger** · 04-12-2009 06:26 PM

I use Fire Explorer and Internet Fox.

**rialex** · 06-09-2009 12:32 PM

i commonly use chrome. i think its simple interface is ideal for not-so-computer-literate-persons like myself. i also have firefox in my computer but i seldom use it since it takes years before i can open an internet site