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Offline Clive

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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #30 on: December 18, 2008, 23:03 »
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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #31 on: December 19, 2008, 00:04 »
Oh, here we go!  ;D

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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #32 on: December 19, 2008, 09:02 »
That's just because we're more fussy over there. ;)
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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #33 on: December 19, 2008, 09:29 »
Thats a surprise to me !!!!! thanks Simon I thought maybe 200 odd you sure ?   :thumbs:

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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #34 on: December 19, 2008, 10:10 »
Oh yes.  :)x
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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #35 on: December 19, 2008, 10:13 »
God I must change this medication...... :o :o

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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #36 on: December 20, 2008, 11:59 »
I suppose one advantage that Internet Explorer has over it's main rival, Mozilla Firefox 3.x series, is that it works on all computers.  I should know as I have been using it for the last week, until this morning when I downloaded Opera (I am using Opera now) after Firefox began to crash on every website, even this one.  I had been having problems with Firefox for ages on "heavy" sites such as Facebook and some of the walking sites I visit that have loads of pictures on them, but it had reached the stage where it had become unusable.  I had done all the recommended fixes, such as uninstalling it and deleting my profile then reinstalling etc. to no avail.  The final straw was this morning when I tried to send a couple of text messages through my account on orange.co.uk, and it crashed three times in as many minutes.  I even tried using it in its own "safe mode" in case one of the two Add-ons I use, Adblock Plus and Toolbar Buttons was the problem, but it still crashed on a page with hardly anything on it.

For the last two hours, I have been using Opera and haven't had a single browser crash.  I don't know if Firefox 3x series is unstable on Linux as the spare computer I use to mess about on has Moziila's full suite running under Knoppix and it seems stable enough, but I will be looking at oldversion.com over the next few days to download Firefox 1.5x series, the best browser I have ever used.  F**k security, I want to be able to browse the www first,I'll worry about security after.

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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #37 on: December 20, 2008, 13:03 »
Reservations are growing in my mind about FF too.  It takes ages to fire up and it stumbles when accessing websites which should be easy.
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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #38 on: December 20, 2008, 13:11 »
And here am I just changed  :dunno: :dunno: :stars: :stars: :stars:

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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #39 on: December 20, 2008, 13:12 »
It's fine, David.  There's no reason to assume that the websites FF 'stumbles' on, wouldn't have given IE a problem too.  :)
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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #40 on: December 20, 2008, 13:15 »
Im happier with FF forgot how much better it was in comparison with IE  :D

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Re: Should you continue to use Internet Explorer?
« Reply #41 on: December 28, 2008, 06:16 »
FF3 is fantastic as long as you disable the awesome bar.


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