Firefox

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I found Firefox to be slightly faster than IE. Plus I like the huge
amount of extensions you can install.

There are some drawbacks to using Firefox. IMO, the most significant
is that several websites are not 100% compatible with this new browser.

 

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Cyclops wrote:
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> Ben Myers wrote:
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>>In a word, yes. Microsoft has improved the quality of its patches and fixes,
>>but there are plenty of war stories about automatic updates hosing up a system.
>>I've lived through several of those war stories myself while attempting to bring
>>client's systems up to speed, only to be forced to roll back updates to get the
>>systems right again. Especially noteworthy are the driver "updates" which
>>replace new drivers direct from the hardware mfrs web site with older ones.
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>
> Then buy a Mac.
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No matter what type of computer PC (Windows/Linux/whatever) or Mac, it
is always best to backup your data before any OS Upgrade. No amount of
testing can prevent all possible problems and every if they tested
completely, one slight configuration change could screw something up.

 

[Guest]

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I do own a Mac. So what? It has nothing to do with Microsoft's haphazard
approach to patching and fixing the poorly-designed Windows operating system
with a similarly designed on-line update "system"..

Read what I wrote again. "... while attempting to bring CLIENT'S systems up to
speed." These are not MY systems. They belong to other people. I fix them for
a living. So I get to see just a little more of the warts and zits on Windows
than the average bear. Some people can't accept reality and they go into
denial. I have to confront the reality of Windows every day, so I sure can't
deny it or avoid it. So I find it useful to vent a bit and to inform other
people that Windows is not the warm and cuddly operating system that Microsoft's
PR apparatchnicks (word chosen carefully, but possibly misspelled in
phoneticizing the Russian word) hype it to be... Ben Myers

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:37:10 -0700, Cyclops <david.hagar@gmail.com> wrote:

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>Ben Myers wrote:
>> In a word, yes. Microsoft has improved the quality of its patches and fixes,
>> but there are plenty of war stories about automatic updates hosing up a system.
>> I've lived through several of those war stories myself while attempting to bring
>> client's systems up to speed, only to be forced to roll back updates to get the
>> systems right again. Especially noteworthy are the driver "updates" which
>> replace new drivers direct from the hardware mfrs web site with older ones.
>
>Then buy a Mac.
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Paul Knudsen wrote:

> On 26 Jun 2005 14:52:56 -0700, qywpmp802@sneakemail.com wrote:
>
>
>>I just spent a week ridding my Dell 8300 from spyware and assorted
>>Trojans. Anyone have Firefox? Opinions?
>
> I do and like it. Some sites require IE, or simply look better with
> it, though. Not that you can uninstall IE anyway!
>
> You need a Firewell, Anti-Virus and Spyware Sniffer with ANY browser.
> A previous version of FF had some security issues.
>
>>Can you run both Firefox AND
>>IE?
>
> Yes.
>
>>How would you set the default? How does the email client work?
>
> Firefox offers to make itself the default browser when you install it.
> I suggest saying "no" until you check it out. I don't use the email
> client--didnt' know it had one, in fact. You can go on using OE or
> anything else you want.

FF does not include a mail client - the accompanying product is
Thunderbird, also free from mozilla.org. Mozilla provides a complete
suite (like Netscape) called "Mozilla", which I am happily running as we
speak.

 

[Guest]

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For those that have the "Adblock" extension, did you notice if it caused a
slight decrease of speed in FF?
Monica

"Sparky Spartacus" <Sparky@universalexports.org> wrote in message
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> Paul Knudsen wrote:
>
>> On 26 Jun 2005 14:52:56 -0700, qywpmp802@sneakemail.com wrote:
>>

 

[Dave]

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Not at all. If anything it's a bit faster as the ads with lots of
graphics don't display.

It can take a while to train it to get the really obnoxious, animated
ones.

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:59:50 -0500, "Monica"
<monicakm@cox-internet.com> wrote:

>For those that have the "Adblock" extension, did you notice if it caused a
>slight decrease of speed in FF?
>Monica
>
>"Sparky Spartacus" <Sparky@universalexports.org> wrote in message
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>> Paul Knudsen wrote:
>>
>>> On 26 Jun 2005 14:52:56 -0700, qywpmp802@sneakemail.com wrote:
>>>
>