Indeed we do.
Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats
Posted on 10/20/2010 8:28:50 AM PDT by ShadowAce
This is a hoot, thanks!
I’d only add that many of us were FORCED to use IE and only IE by corporate “preventers of information technology” who had bought into the Microsoft mythology hook line and sinker, and were more than anxious to express our defiance in whatever ways we could, including running other browsers at home, and I daresay, even installing them on our work computers - what audacity!
IE7 had the same problems Office 2007 and Windows Vista has,
They took a simple and easy to use interface and moved/hid everything leaving you to spend hours trying to hunt down simple functions that were easily found in previous versions.
The Flashblock add-on makes Firefox worth using over everything else. Sure, I have to click one extra time to get a Youtube video to start, but it also keeps the 95% of Flash that is utter crap from ever running.
I’ve totally forgot about NoScript.
Hopefully it will do the trick.
Indeed we do.
Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats
Check the newer versions and then open the task manager and whoa!!
FireFox with the NoScript plugin is the way to go. It keeps you from experiencing the internet version of “grab your ankles, hold my beer, and watch this.”
Isn’t Firefox a new version of Netscrape?
Plus....the Extensionssss....Nothing like them in I.E.
I always say nothing makes the current version of IE look good quite like the next 2 versions. Every version of IE has been a pain, ugly, slow, piggish, tons of annoying “security” features that mostly stop you from browsing but never seem to slow down the malware. And MS has maintained the remarkable streak of always making the next version worse in every category. So the IE6 you fought hard to avoid when it came out becomes the IE6 you’re desperately protecting from automatic updates now that 8 is out. And in a few years you’ll be guarding against the evils of 10.
I started out with Netscape [dial up days]. It was ok, until around version 4.7. Then it became a nightmare and crashed on many websites.
IE4 and 5 were just getting started.
About the time I found FR, I also found a web browser [Fastbrowser Pro] that was IE6 based and had tabs. I still use it for FR, because it has some add-on features that later IE versions do not support.
I also found Firefox and stated using it around version 0.7. It was okay and the extensions/add-ons were nice, but it sucked up memory.
I tried IE7 and immediately deleted it, because it lacked many features. I also tried Google Chrome and deleted it for the same reason.
I am still on XP sp2. I still use Fastbrowser Pro for FR and Firefox 3.6.3. Some versions/upgrades of Firefox have been monsters, destroying profiles and files. When I use Fastbrowser Pro to look at Youtube videos, Youtube gives me a warning that the browser is out of date — but the videos still load, so I keep using Fastbrowser Pro.
I tried a later version of Chrome. It was faster than Firefox, but doesn’t have comparable extensions/add-ons that Firefox has.
One program that I use has already warned me not to use it with IE9, as IE9 will corrupt its files.
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I keep thinking about a new computer with Win7, but so far, for home use, I haven’t been able to justify the cost vs home use.
They took a simple and easy to use interface and moved/hid everything leaving you to spend hours trying to hunt down simple functions that were easily found in previous versions.
It wasn't so bad with IE7, or with Vista, but Office 2007 is absolutely horrible. Even my shortcut keys don't work the same any more ( e.g. [alt][E}{C] for 'copy'). The still work (sometimes) in IE8, but not in Office. What were they thinking when they changed the interface? All it did was create a situation where anybody that had been using Office for the last 2 decades required training, either through a classroom or 'trial-and-error'. And, training costs companies money.
Had I known, back in 2007 when I got Office 2007, that it was going to be different, I'd have gotten 2003 instead.
Cause it sucks? Because in an attempt to stave off monopoly accusations, MicroShaft knitted it so closely into Windows that it probably has the access to do more damage than a third party browser? Cause it's sort of the AOL of browsers?
I tried going back to IE, because I am running a 64 bit OS, and thought I’d like a complete 64 bit brower.
Yuck.
Ditto to a number of the points people raised. Iam going to raise one more small but important (for me point).
I go to NUMEROUS websites that have usernames and passwords. Sometimes I have to guess at one or the other (was the user name an e-mail address or not? Did I have to capitalize the password?)
Anyway, when I make my best guess, Firefox submits the entry, while asking if I want it to remember. If it loads properly, I say YES. IE will not submit the entry UNTIL I tell it if I want it to remember. If I say YES and I’m wrong, I have to go through it again, with IE auto-entering the wrong info. I hate that.
Opera, busy or not works very well.
By the way, I can see November from my house.
On Nov 2, Pelosi’s house will be foreclosed on by we the people.
caddis the elder
I’ve never used IE as my regular browser. I went from Mosaic straight to Netscape Navigator.
Jesus! How many add-ons do you have? Ever think about turning some of them off? I use NoScript, AdBlockPlus, and Ghostery, and I’m running around 80 Mb (80,000 Kb). I agree that a browser should be agile, but lightweight has gone the way of the dodo!
With newer machines coming in with more than 4 GB RAM and hard drives reaching 3 TB, sure we want fast, but memory and hard disk footprints don’t much matter anymore.
Lets you toggle colors (I HATE sites with dark backgrounds and grey text!), images, Flash, and Java off and on with a check box for each, right up top in the menu bar for instant access.
I am so used to browsing sites like FR in "plain text only" mode that when I login from an IE-using computer I sometimes don't recognize where I am....
Well I only have 5, most are for stopping stuff from loading like FlashBlock and Ad Blocker.
I do have a habit of never closing the program down completely, so it just keeps using more resources until it is crawling.
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