Yes. I've tried it a couple of times and it does do some dubious things and takes a bit of hacking out. Comodo does a version without some of the nasty bits, but it's still in the early stages. I did see a 'sanitised' version somewhere; there is a portable version.
Ah, got the wibble:
Thanks Adrian. Sorted. ;-)
I use opera 95% of the time, ff 5 and at work its useless IE. opera because of personal bar can right click and search whatever I've installed before, eg screwfix
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:46:14 +0000, Andy Burns gently dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:
Y'know ............... you could be right :-)
I will try again ... thanx
Mike P the 1st
Rather than delete the bookmarks, you can try updating them to
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:23:20 +0000, Andy Burns gently dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:
Ok .. done that now
Mike P the 1st
"Mike P the 1st" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
I have just gone over to using Opera. It seems to be pretty fast, certainly compared to IE6. IE8 just kept bombing my PC and I got fed up of reformatting .... FireFox also has some issues but I much prefer Opera Jim
Chrome is fast, but the open source version Chromium is faster (and less buggy). Firefox with a few add-ons if you are scared of Gogle spying on you. Both are best under Linux, of course.
R.
PeterC wrote: [Google Chrome]
Chromium is the open-source version of Chrome supposedly without the Google-phoning-home stuff. I haven't tried it.
Theo
I'm happy with Firefox, but I do keep getting annoyed by the resource issue.
I tend to leave the basic internet machine on 24/7 and open tabs and leave them open because I'm still working on whatever it was. Currently I seem to have 47 tabs open.
To get ram usage back down from the 2.15 gigs to the 'ticking over' 1.0 gigs, I'll just close FF and reopen. But should I have to do this?
In message , the_constructor wrote
I was running Opera for years until the late Version9/Early version 10 when they completely lost the plot and on my computer, running Windows XP, it froze on a regular basis.
I changed to Firefox and find it OK.
I'm running Opera 10.10 on my Windows 7-64 box and it runs just fine. For a few sites I have to use Firefox, reverting to IE only when really necessary.
Thanks for all the replies: looks like Firefox wins by a long margin!
So, as someone who's only ever used IE in anger, how often is it 'necessary' to revert to it FF fails to work? I presume it's advisable to keep IE installed but set the default browser as FF, and only use IE when 'necessary' - is that a pain (in other words, if I change the family PC to FF, am I going to get grief from SWMBO et al who of course see no problem with using IE in the first place...?)
David
I rarely need to switch from FireFox to IE - the last time, was when trying to use the Highland Council website. And I _really_ like the add-ons!
FF for 'emergencies'; Opera 10.10 currently; slowly changing over to Opera
10.50 (I have Opera so highly modified that it takes some time to get everything right).IE is blocked by the firewall - that thing's not allowed out.
I've set sf for Screwfix, ts for - guess what, etc., so 2 or 3 letters in the address bar, hit Enter and there's the site.
FF is set up to be as like Opera as possible - most of it works but a bit sluggishly.
That's the one!
Lobster gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Not so much FF failing to work, but encountering sites where the designers have failed to account for browsers other than IE. And, these days, that's very rarely. The odd site might "look a bit funny", but usually you wouldn't know unless you looked at 'em back to back. Even they're getting scarce - designers have realised that there's a lot of people turning away from IE.
If you/your missus uses Outlook Web Access to get to your work email, you'll find that works a lot better in IE - odd, that - but works fine in FF and others, too. Even Microsoft have realised the world is not a monopoly.
Some online banking sites - RBS, for one - resolutely refuse to play with anything but IE. Can't see that lasting much longer, though.
Others - FD, for one - are fine in FF.
If you're on Windows, you have no choice.
Just tell her it's a new version of IE.
OK, but in SWMBO-speak, that's the same thing...
The plot thickens - yes, *she* does use OWA :-(
...and in fact we are both regular RBS online users :-(
I like it...!
David
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