OT Browser issues

Shame some of their own products require it - like InTune management.

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polygonum
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Indeed. I understand Microsoft have a nice panorama stitching website, a user elsewhere wanted to show their results and it presumptively said "you'll be installing silverlight", so I didn't go any further. The user then managed to export it to a huge jpg, and I was able to use the open source pannellum library to display it with about half a dozen lines of code ... lazy Microsoft.

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Andy Burns

Tim Lamb posted

No wonder it's so slow.

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Big Les Wade

In message , Big Les Wade writes

Care to amplify, Les?

Most Firefox upgrades are promoted as fixing security issues so I usually install on the basis I assume they know I'm still using XP.

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Tim Lamb

Tim Lamb posted

Every upgrade to every piece of software I have ever used has been slower and more memory-hungry than the last. The contribution from another poster, explaining that your version now includes its own very slow PDF reader, emphasises that.

The free Adobe reader seems adequate.

I'm surprised it even runs under XP.

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Big Les Wade

In message , Big Les Wade writes

It's in *be nice to geriatrics* mode.

Problem of the day is getting BBC videos to play. *content not working* message.

Anyone know which player is required?

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Tim Lamb

In message , Chris French writes

Yes. I suspect Firefox is blocking the version Adobe tries to install.

I am beginning to wonder if a roll back to an earlier Firefox is the answer:-(

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Tim Lamb

Tim Lamb posted

As I said, I have FF 28.0, but I too have significant problems with videos, even on Youtube. I regularly get error messages telling me I have to install something or other to make something else or other work, but I can't understand them. Why they can't just have a single format like AVI I don't know.

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Big Les Wade

En el artículo , Tim Lamb escribió:

The latest FF reduses to play Flash by default.

Yes.

I'm still on FF28. Hated the new UI ("Australis") that was introduced in FF29 onwards. Yes, I know I can install "old UI" plugins, but can't be arsed.

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Mike Tomlinson

Hooray!

I find that Microsoft Edge is very useful for precisely that purpose. (Not much good for anyone on XP...) I let Firefox block/fail to play almost everything but switch to Edge if I really do want them to run.

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polygonum

For XP, is Chrome the only alternative? Hitherto I have been at pains to avoid it:-(

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Tim Lamb

Afraid I don't know what still works on XP.

Seeing Chrome on a PC gives me a heartsink moment. Almost every computer I see with malware on it also has Chrome. This does NOT mean that Chrome itself is the cause, thought it might be some of the time, but it is nonetheless my observation. So I try to avoid it as well!

Is Opera a possibility?

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polygonum

En el artículo , Tim Lamb escribió:

Try Pale Moon.

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Firefox without all the bloat. It's also compatible with many FF extensions/plugins.

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Mike Tomlinson

Up until a week ago I was using FF 38.x ESR on XP and that is OK with Flash. I have Flash Block because I don't like flash playing immediately. If opening several tabs from newsfeeds I don't want them all playing before I'm ready.

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PeterC

In message , Mike Tomlinson writes

OK. I'll have a look.

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Tim Lamb

In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

Yes. Flash. However, Firefox has taken against Adobe and blocks Flash. HTML 5 is still OK for U tube stuff.

That's the problem! Older versions would probably run OK but vulnerably as others have suggested.

Tried Opera. Apparently needs SSE2 instructions, whatever they are.

Palemoon loads OK but when run says it has encountered a problem.

Any other ideas?

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Tim Lamb

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How old is the computer itself?

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polygonum

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If it ain't there ...

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polygonum

En el artículo , Tim Lamb escribió:

Instructions which are only availbale in prceossors later than the one you have.

Probably the same issue as Opera, reported in a different way, i.e. using instructions which your current cpu doesn't have.

Take your PC along to Antiques Roadshow, and buy another. You can buy very powerful, capable used ex-corporate machines for a few pennies these days.

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Mike Tomlinson

Er.. This century:-)

AMD Sempron, AS Rock motherboard is as much as I know.

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Tim Lamb

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