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post #21 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:01am
sorry thats was just old me, no offense. Still blame my twin
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post #22 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:03am
No respect from the Joe Blogg these days...
stu
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post #23 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:05am
I see you edited that post rosky, thank god because I was really confused.
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post #24 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:09am
Sorry, Axiom, this thread was about browsers. Not the male type, either. Tsk tsk.

(all in good fun! Think Florida... ahhh...)

Firefox here!
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post #25 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:11am
Hey in my defense I was not the one who completely steered this baby off topic. My M$ comment had some correlation to the discussion, even if it had no real purpose.

Rosky brought up the gender issues.
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post #26 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:13am
You have issues with gender, Rosky?
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post #27 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:18am
Quote:
Originally Posted by REDDEVILVS
I realize it's been talked about many times but--- I am getting more and more fed up with IE. Do you guys and girls use an alternate browser and have any feedback,esp. negative? My IE home page was mysteriousely set to "about:blank" and NO Spyware removal can get rid of it! If I keep IE I may reinstall it to get rid of iy !!
use CWShredder to get rid of that one
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post #28 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:21am
eh no issues with gender. Was a bit confused about the pic, blame it on me being retarded since no one else sees its

Apologise for going offtopic, but no issues with gender or anything else
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post #29 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:22am
(I was joking around... didn't mean to startle you.)

(I like jokes.)
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post #30 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:26am
Another vote for Opera! Firefox is very very good, but Opera is better. Opera is still the fastest, file download size is also the smallest (version without Java), intuitive, excellent tabbed features (it allows you to have the tab separators below or left, Firefox doesn't), very good password manager (wand)....... and the most important: Free and safe from viruses
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post #31 of 44
7/21/04 at 11:31am
I tried opera a little while back. If memory serves its full of ads and such, this still the case?
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post #32 of 44
7/21/04 at 12:25pm
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Originally Posted by Rosky
rephrase that, its equivalent to a stand alone browser from mozilla
negative, it's equivalent to the holy grail.
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post #33 of 44
7/21/04 at 12:44pm
Opera isn't free.

There is a free version but it is supported by ads and I don't need to see that crap when I'm browsing. You can purchase it to get rid of the advertising.

I have both Opera and FF and I find FF to be just as fast as Opera, but you have to tweak it some. A good place to start is to download Mozilla Optimizer (free tool which you can delete after you use it) and then to visit the FF forums and read the tweaking tips in one of the sticky threads there. FF also handles rendering of certain pages better than Opera, which I find screws up more.

Avant and MyIE are shells to IE and he will still get the same problems with it that he's getting now. They just add certain functionality such as tabbed browsing, but the engine is the same.
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post #34 of 44
7/21/04 at 12:45pm
Jumbie, can I find the optimizer by googling it? And are the FF forums on the FF site? (Or is it one of these "www.firefoxforums.com" type of deals?)
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post #35 of 44
7/21/04 at 12:57pm
Yeah, just throw it into google.

Actually, here you go http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/3/12-3-112.shtml

Tweaking thread is here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650 Their forums seem really, really slow at the moment though and it's a pretty long read, but definitely worth it. However, just using Mozilla Optimizer should make a noticeable difference. It applies some of the tweaks found in that thread.
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post #36 of 44
7/21/04 at 1:29pm
about:blank is a completely legitimate address in IE (Netscape does the same thing) which is shown when your home page is set to blank. Ad-Aware and other spyware programs erroneously flag this as a browser hijack because they assume you have a standard URL as a home page (some of us just want our browsers to start blank, though) and because some browser hijacks write to the same place in the Windows Registry. Spybot does not make the mistake of assuming this is a hijack, IIRC.

I use Mozilla in addition to IE6 because it is the only non-IE browser to include Windows authentication features to log onto secured intranets etc. that use single sign-on to avoid having to remember separate passwords from the network username and password. Never noticed much of a speed difference between IE6, Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9.x, and so on, in fact usually it seems like IE6 loads slightly faster than anything else but I do not have the Mozilla system tray preloader running (hate extraneous applets).
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post #37 of 44
7/21/04 at 1:51pm
yeah the reason IE loads a tad bit faster is that MS integrates it into the OS, therefore it's basically already loaded. And as for the about:blank thing, I actually prefer that because usually a browser loads faster with a blank page as a homepage. IE definitely does, but who cares about IE, it sucks.
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post #38 of 44
7/21/04 at 1:52pm
Yeah, my IE6 homepage is about:blank cause I don't actually have one. AdAware flags this as a problem so I've set it to ignore.
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post #39 of 44
7/21/04 at 3:03pm
opera then firefox.
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post #40 of 44
7/21/04 at 3:33pm
firefox, because the fox is cute and cuddly
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