Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird on a 5GB hockey puck sized USB portable hard drive. Unbeatable. This rox!!
Posted on 01/15/2006 2:13:21 PM PST by zeugma
Not that I know of. That's why I went over to Firefox.
Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird on a 5GB hockey puck sized USB portable hard drive. Unbeatable. This rox!!
All these products (and types like them) are FREE or very cheap. Anyone who surfs without them is just asking for an attack. Add a popup blocker and it's about as safe as you can get.
I must be lucky. I have been using IE for over half a dozen years without a problem. The only virus I had was when I was with AOL, using their browser.
Thanks! I printed it out. What I was refering to though was the initial time it takes from a blank desktop with nothing open to when my home pages come up in Firefox. I don't have the fastest PC in the world (933Mb PIII/384MbRAM) but it seems like forever (maybe that's because now with DSL once I get there things are so much faster than my old dial-up connection).
Again, thanks for the advice.
Windows based IE is used in roughly 90% of all OS worldwide. Firefox, Opera, Safari, Netscape and other browsers make up the other 10%. So called computer hackers and malicious intruders concentrate on Microsoft products because they're the ones used most. If these internet sob`s placed as much emphasis on exploiting browsers like Firefox, Opera, Safari and Netscape, rather then IE, you'd see the same type of problems popping up in that catagory of lesser used browsers.
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ssshhhhhh!! You can't say things like that in the usual Microsoft-Bashing threads.
Oops – sorry – I forgot.
Yeah, agree, especially now that it is FREE!!
Thank you. I use Safari and love it.
Firefox is not made by Apple.
Hey, I tried your Firefox speed-up directions, wow!!!
What a difference on my Broadband, Thanks.....
I'll ask you what your source is for that claim. I'm guessing you have no idea what the breakout is. Of course the rest of your post is simply the mantra excuse of Windows users that provides a convenient way of avoiding the plain fact that Microsoft produces lousy products.
MS IExp: 7 Days
Firefox: 56 Days
Doesn't this say that FF had 8X as many days with an unpatched security hole as MSIE? How does 8X more days with an unpatced security hole translate into less unsafe?
What am I missing in the interpretation of what was written here? I don't get it.
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MSIE - 7 days *withOUT* an unpatched security hole.
I was confused by the poor format of caparison. It should have been written as follows:
Days with unpatched security hole:
MSIE: 349
Firefox: 56
It is easier to follow that way.
Yeah, I even did it to the Firefox that I have on a computer networked via a hub (to this computer) and sharing the same connection via Internet Connection Sharing, BIG DIFFERENCE.....So 2 Firefoxes going and viewing 2 different sites at the same time, now much faster, just the breakthrough I needed, GREAT....
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