That being said, Chrome sucks on many other levels.
Posted on 01/10/2016 8:20:13 PM PST by Utilizer
January 13 is the last day for business and individual users to move off older versions of the Internet Explorer web browser, before Microsoft pulls the plug on support including security patches.
The deadline this week comes 18 months after Microsoft warned that it would cease to support Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10, giving users time to upgrade.
Microsoft suggests users upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 and 8.1, or use the new Edge browser if they're on Windows 10. Edge is able to launch Internet Explorer 11 when needed, for backwards compatibility.
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Haven’t used it in 15 years or better.
Good. Internet Explorer 11 is the fastest, cleanest, safest browser on Windows, at least from what I can tell.
Not sure why people still use Fire fox. It’s turtle slow. And Chrome is weird. It drains my battery like no tomorrow.
The company I am at uses IE10. IE11 does not work well with some of our own websites along with client sites. I do not know what Microsoft did to screw up IE but we have had this issue since IE6 and every version afterward.
I recently discovered what you said about Chrome draining battery. I love Chrome in all other respects, and was happily using it until I got a new laptop (a Surface Book). I was concerned that battery life wasn’t anywhere near the promised/published numbers. In researching the issue, I ran across some forum posts mentioning the huge negative impact Chrome had on battery life. I dumped Chrome and have been using Edge, and my battery life is much improved.
I really love Edge. There is still the occasional compatibility issue, and I wish they would hurry up and add plug-in support, but I think it has a promising future.
I’ve been using Mozilla since Netscape 2. Tried IE and all the others but none of them were that impressive to stick, as well as Netscape Communicator worked for my website back then.
I had heard that Windows 10 had privacy issues— ex. keeping track of your internet browsing history for marketing purposes, etc.
Is Windows 11 better in that regard?
I don’t like EDGE. It seems to want to tell me what I want to do, go to, and see. Give me back ctrl-o for crying out loud, how hard is that?
eh late...I think I am confusing Windows with IE...
Nonetheless, I would like to know more about IE 11.
That being said, Chrome sucks on many other levels.
I had my grandson set mine up with the privacy filtering and forced all popup off. I think he changed the tracking settings also.
Now I don’t have any ads, have no popups, and it’s really, really fast. Works great, and rarely crashes. Sometimes I get sites that don’t show up right. But that’s because of all the garbage they load. That’s when I use Chrome, when needed.
Thank you. I’m going to try that now. I use it rarely, so that’s a real plus.
Using Firefox on Win7 64 bit, the text “paste” function ceases to work. I have to close and reopen the browser, then I can paste into a dialog box. The problem has spanned several versions.
I’d like to get away from FireFox, I only stick with it because of the plugins I run. I’ve gotten really tired of them disabling features and making security decisions for me with no way to override them. It torques me off to no end. I flat don’t trust google so that’s out.
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Best Sarcasm of the day
It’s not sarcasm. If it’s set up right without all kinds of garbage loading, I’d say it’s about twice as fast and clean as Chrome.
More of a seat of the pants observation. Loads right. No ads. Don’t even need an ad blocker.
One more thing I forgot. The Flash program is turned off. What a relief that is when it’s not running.
I let it update every time. When it won’t paste, I open Notepad and I can paste the text into it, but not Firefox.
TV’s Andy Levy on FNC’s “Red Eye” put it best, when he said, Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 11 will be the last version of IE. Congratulations to Netscape for winning the ‘browser war!’”
Mark
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