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Bill Marsh

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I am fed up with Internet Explorer!

Anybody have something else they like?

I am running Windows XP Professional on a PC machine.
 
Mozilla

Firefox & thunderbird have completely replaced IE and OLE on my computer. My next one might just feature Linux instead of windows.

I am not a computer geek, ask Bruise if you need serious advise.
 
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I am not a computer geek, ask Bruise if you need serious advise.
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I use Firefox and Thunderbird. It's a free download and it has features that can import all of your bookmarks, old mail and such. Did I mention free? If I didn't... It's FREE! It's the right price for me.

I'm not a computer geek. I'm just the regular sort of geek. All the geekiness without the brain to go along with it.
 
Firefox all the way:) I've been very happy with it. There's a special place in computer hell for the ding dongs that designed IE. IE was great when that was there was to use;) I'm not sure what a firefox is but it's a wonderful animal...although i'm sure it's not very cuddly. IE is the sound I make when my computer gets swamped with pop ups it was suppose to block. "AyyyyyyEEEEEEEEEEE!" <drop kick to the computer's case> <rabbit punch to the A drive> <Atomic elbow smash to the motherboard>
IE used to make me hate my computers. Now we get along smashingly well when I use it;)
Firefox has saved me hundreds of dollars in hardware as well as anger management classes.

Jake
 
Mozilla Firefox all the way. www.mozilla.org The new 1.0.3 version is running great on my PC, they seem to have fixed a lot of the compatibility errors I was getting before.

BTW, if you use a mouse that doesn't have front/back browser buttons, try the All-in-one Mouse Gestures extension. Just right-click and drag left to go back a page, or right to go forward a page. I have a Logitech MX-700 mouse with the buttons on it, but the gestures extension works just as well and makes navigating the forums a bit easier.
 
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BTW, if you use a mouse that doesn't have front/back browser buttons, try the
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I use those fancy toolbar buttons at the top. Or you can go alt-left arrow or alt-right arrow.

I was thinking about getting one of those fancy keyboards with the buttons on top for browsing but I'm cheap. I still use the same keyboard from my 486 40mHz machine. :)
 
I had ongoing problems with Firefox, and finally just deleted it. I was also unhappy with the bookmarks. They weren't alphabetized, and since I have so many, it was hard to find what I was looking for in some of the folders.

A Firefox is also known as the Red Panda. Cute little guys. They had a pair at the Central Park Zoo and some in the Bronx Zoo that I used to stop by and watch.
 
Not on my version. I could only sort them while organizing them. When they diplayed them, they were mixed again.
 
Another vote for firefox.

BTW there is an extension that will sort the bookmarks in all the folders by clicking on it...
 
You'll never want to use IE after you get mozilla Firefox. And I'm one of those pig-headed people who stubbornly refuse to change even if its for the better... :D

I finally made the switch last year after i got a new PC and was bloody sick of all the bugs and security patches and all-round nuisance - never looked back. I'm on Win XP Pro myself and Firefox is very stable on my machine - probably more stable than the operating system it runs on :)

Try it, you'll like it.
 
Another vote for firefox 1.0.3. the std. release is great (opera sux) and i only use IE6 when billy bob gates forces me to.

you can also try optimized builds by third parties i am using stipe's at :

Stipe's optimised build linky


the d/l link is in the 1st message in the thread just above his siggy & line starts S8V6 which is his current build of the 1.0.3
 
I've tried Firefox too and I can't really complain, but maybe I'm too set in my ways with Opera. :p I will say that Opera is probably not as easy to set up as Firefox seems to be, especially if, like me, you tell it to allow cookies only from specified sites. Still, I find Opera faster than anything and the mouse gestures have become second-nature to me by now. Between those and the ability to open multiple pages (tabs in Firefox lingo) in the background as I search for whatever I'm looking for, there's nothing that can touch Opera. That said, I think I have at least 5 different browsers on this computer right now. :eek:

Whichever you choose, though, you really can't go wrong moving up from IE. :rolleyes:

Paul
 
Another vote for opera. Yes firefox is good and fast, but being able to open your browser and have it load three forums and a news site or two automaticly (and log you in) is just too useful.

The default mouse gestures in opera are more intuitive than the radial menu thing I downloaded for fire fox. In opera it is a gesture. Drag mouse left-and right click to go back, hold right click move mouse right-left-right to close a tab. Firefox is easier but not as quick. Firefox is: press middle mouse button which pops up a circle with back, forward, and close tab buttons on it.

I say use opera for daily haunts and fire fox for browsing. Fire fox also has a search engine menu that you can add a whole list of sites too, my most recent version of opera (probably not the current release) only has a fe default sites to search with.
 
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