I may be switching from FF to IE
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From: shegeek72 on 10 Jun 2010 01:39 As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3) to IE8. Why? I'm getting tired of getting 'you need to install a missing plugin.' Then when I hit install I get 'install manually.' So I have to go to the software's website, download and install it manually and hope it works (sometimes doesn't). Also, FF continually crashes, usually when I'm deleting emails from my yahoo account. And when I'm on facebook and try to play a video I often get 'an error occurred, please try again later.' However, when I use IE it plays fine. I've used FF for years because of the security holes in IE. However, with IE8 MS seems to have addressed those vulnerabilities. When I check for exploits, FF seems to have just as many, or nearly as many, as IE. And I have to admit I like IE's interface better - it's slicker. I did a check on mozilla.com to find out about the problems with FF and there were many, including crashing while on yahoo. Their answer? They blamed yahoo. I'm sorry, but that just smacks of 'we're too lazy to fix FF so we're blaming it on somebody else.' I thought the whole point of open source was thousands of people could tweak the code to solve the problems I'm having. Am I wrong?
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 10 Jun 2010 03:52 On 6/10/2010 13:39, shegeek72 wrote: > As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3) > to IE8. Why? I'm getting tired of getting 'you need to install a > missing plugin.' Then when I hit install I get 'install manually.' So > I have to go to the software's website, download and install it > manually and hope it works (sometimes doesn't). Also, FF continually > crashes, usually when I'm deleting emails from my yahoo account. And > when I'm on facebook and try to play a video I often get 'an error > occurred, please try again later.' However, when I use IE it plays > fine. > > I've used FF for years because of the security holes in IE. However, > with IE8 MS seems to have addressed those vulnerabilities. When I > check for exploits, FF seems to have just as many, or nearly as many, > as IE. And I have to admit I like IE's interface better - it's > slicker. *BACKUP* your current Firefox profile, un-install Firefox, then re-install Firefox and start a NEW profile!! If it worked, restore bookmarks and other stuff into the new profile! -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34 ^ ^ 15:50:01 up 22 days 19:01 2 users load average: 1.01 1.04 1.01 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 10 Jun 2010 03:52 On 6/10/2010 13:39, shegeek72 wrote: > As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3) > to IE8. Why? I'm getting tired of getting 'you need to install a > missing plugin.' Then when I hit install I get 'install manually.' So Is it Flash or Quicktime? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34 ^ ^ 15:52:01 up 22 days 19:03 2 users load average: 1.07 1.05 1.01 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Jon Danniken on 10 Jun 2010 08:26 shegeek72 wrote: > As much as I hate to say it, I may be switching from Firefox (v3.6.3) > to IE8. I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does inline auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the favorites/bookmarks folder/file. Jon
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 10 Jun 2010 09:18
> I'm still stuck using IE6.x until I can find a browser that does inline > auto-complete from the address bar, using entries from the > favorites/bookmarks folder/file. > Firefox is doing it, isn't it? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34 ^ ^ 21:18:01 up 23 days 29 min 2 users load average: 1.07 1.02 1.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa |