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Re: Browser choices?

#16 Post by lazarus » Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:07 pm

MartDude wrote:I'm currently using IE 8, & it's pissing me off, 'cos it keeps crashing.

Just done a search on here re Chrome & Firefox, and haven't come across any recent comments on them; just wondered how they compare now to IE?

Thanks in advance
Have used Firefox and nothing else for years now. It just works. Never ever crashes. Very occasionally I'll come across a badly set up site where the things you click on dont appear in Firefox but it's rare.

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#17 Post by Viking » Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:39 pm

D-Rider wrote:Well you do have the facilities down there .....
*Applause* Well played, sir!
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#18 Post by MDKsmiffy » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:54 pm

+2 for Chrome for me, +1 for Firefox, -2 for I.E.

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#19 Post by Samray » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:21 pm

One for you IE and opera users:
Microsoft warns of new Windows zero-day bug
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/0 ... ndows.html

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#20 Post by Willopotomas » Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:30 pm

Had similar before.. They'll come out with a patch or some sort of fix for it.. As it goes, Opera did an update earlier this week, so it's probably already been done.. :smt001
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#21 Post by Viking » Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:37 pm

I migrated from FireFox 3.6 (or something) to Safari 5.0.4, and everything seemed pretty good for a while.

Now Safari is as fast as a tranquilised tortoise stampeding through peanut butter. I've tried all the usual cache-flushing tricks without any success.

So now I'm evaluating FireFox 4.0. In my (so far) 30 seconds of testing, it's faster than a greased pig. Hopefully it will stay that way.
It's the V-twin thing. There's just something about it that inline-4s don't have at all, and V-4s don't have enough of.

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#22 Post by Aladinsaneuk » Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:10 am

try http://discussions.info.apple.com/threa ... 4&tstart=0

a few others have noticed similar


Let's face it, you wouldn't go to a nurse to get good advice on a problem with a Falco - you'd choose an Engineer or a mechanic...


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#23 Post by Viking » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:02 pm

Thanks for that. I'll have a poke around with Safari and see if I can be bothered to go back to it...
It's the V-twin thing. There's just something about it that inline-4s don't have at all, and V-4s don't have enough of.

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#24 Post by Dalemac » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:06 pm

I use pretty much every major broswer on the web.

firefox & chrome are my main 2.

opera,safari, ie8, ie9, ff 3.7, ff4.0, - all used to some extent when web designing.

I even dabble into netscape every now and again just to have a laugh at it.

They are all pretty much the same these days. Use whichever one crashes the least, and has the best apps.
(never had chrome crash, but firefox has the best apps)

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#25 Post by Willopotomas » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:32 pm

Good old Nutscrape. Was good until it was bought out by AOL in the late 90's. The Netscape browser hasn't been around for years. AOL ditched it and not many used it. Mozilla developed the last few, but was ditched in favour of Firefox.

I've switched to Chrome for now.. Pretty stable and never had a crash.. yet!
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#26 Post by Dalemac » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:45 pm

Willopotomas wrote:Good old Nutscrape. Was good until it was bought out by AOL in the late 90's. The Netscape browser hasn't been around for years. AOL ditched it and not many used it. Mozilla developed the last few, but was ditched in favour of Firefox.

I've switched to Chrome for now.. Pretty stable and never had a crash.. yet!
yeah, but you can still download netscape. version 9.4 or something.

How it lays things out is comical, and it doesn't even have an understanding of AJAX - funny as netscape pretty much designed and implemented javascript.

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