Mozilla Firefox or Opera, choose your browser. (2 Viewers)
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Simply put, netscape just sux. Sure, I want to support the underdog company fighting against the evil corporate empire, but netscape just doesn't render pages properly :down:
Thanks for the info Martin, maybe I'll give Mozilla a go. I used it way back when I was trying out Linux, but I think Windows and IE is too built into my (mental) system now...maybe I'll give it a go, and if the transition is as seamless as u say, I really hope all those IE annoyances are put behind me
Thanks for the info Martin, maybe I'll give Mozilla a go. I used it way back when I was trying out Linux, but I think Windows and IE is too built into my (mental) system now...maybe I'll give it a go, and if the transition is as seamless as u say, I really hope all those IE annoyances are put behind me
Hey, I'm liking Mozilla already! Usually, when I try to post, and i get the "60 seconds" message, I have to write the whole thing out again (If i forget to copy the message to clipboard along the way, which i do very regularly), but in Mozilla, it keeps what was in the fields! I know you can enable this in internet explorer, but it actually requires customisation on my part, which is just an annoyance. Hurrah for Mozilla!
Martin, you are my saviour. I have always hated IE, for many reasons, so I've been using Opera for a long time, but Opera is not as good. It is very slow, it has bad features, and keyboard commands are so laboured. Mozilla is much better. It has good keyboard commands, good feature, it looks good, and it is easier to use. I love the text size feature and the pop-up blocker is very good. Thanks very much for hte recommendation, if you have any others for good programs, I for one would love to hear them.
I'm glad a few people have found it helpful 
Ian, I never quite could get used to Opera myself. Not enough to make a permanent transition anyway.
Speaking of other software, it's not as easy. Mozilla is a glearing example because it's miles ahead of IE, other cases are much more even, it's harder to argument for those. I would especially take Trillian vs the msn client (another glearing case) but m$ announced they are shutting out any 3rd party clients so unless that resolves itself, it doesn't make much sense.
But put it like this: what other software do you hate?
Ian, I never quite could get used to Opera myself. Not enough to make a permanent transition anyway.
Speaking of other software, it's not as easy. Mozilla is a glearing example because it's miles ahead of IE, other cases are much more even, it's harder to argument for those. I would especially take Trillian vs the msn client (another glearing case) but m$ announced they are shutting out any 3rd party clients so unless that resolves itself, it doesn't make much sense.
But put it like this: what other software do you hate?
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But put it like this: what other software do you hate?
But put it like this: what other software do you hate?
Sure, there's tweaks and maintenace jobs u can do on ur comp, but sooner or later it has to be done. I've been on this windows installation for about 2 years now, and I'm considering a reformat, even if it's just for a psychological sense of speed.
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I'm glad a few people have found it helpful
Ian, I never quite could get used to Opera myself. Not enough to make a permanent transition anyway.
Speaking of other software, it's not as easy. Mozilla is a glearing example because it's miles ahead of IE, other cases are much more even, it's harder to argument for those. I would especially take Trillian vs the msn client (another glearing case) but m$ announced they are shutting out any 3rd party clients so unless that resolves itself, it doesn't make much sense.
But put it like this: what other software do you hate?
I'm glad a few people have found it helpful
Ian, I never quite could get used to Opera myself. Not enough to make a permanent transition anyway.
Speaking of other software, it's not as easy. Mozilla is a glearing example because it's miles ahead of IE, other cases are much more even, it's harder to argument for those. I would especially take Trillian vs the msn client (another glearing case) but m$ announced they are shutting out any 3rd party clients so unless that resolves itself, it doesn't make much sense.
But put it like this: what other software do you hate?
Other software that I hate...hm....I hate my peer to peer program Kazaa it is so slow and hard to use. I tried WinMX and it's even worse...Any suggestions there?
Regular Kazaa sucks, it's packed with ads and installs spyware. There is an alternative however, Kazaa Lite: http://www.kazaalitekpp.com/
Another one, which isn't on the Fasttrack network, is Emule, which runs on the edonkey network: http://www.emule-project.net/
For scanning and removal of spyware I recommend Spybot: http://security.kolla.de/news.php?lang=en
Another one, which isn't on the Fasttrack network, is Emule, which runs on the edonkey network: http://www.emule-project.net/
For scanning and removal of spyware I recommend Spybot: http://security.kolla.de/news.php?lang=en
of the RIAA crackdown on pirate file sharers?another possibility is mldonkey...
it's amazing - u have so many networks in one app... - edonkey - kazaa - gnuuutella - bittorrent - soulseek - openft - opennap
it runs in the background... it has a browser-interface and u just have to enter a link to access it.... but if u don't like the browser-interface there are also some "normal" graphical interfaces around...
http://mldonkey.org/ - check it out.....
ps.: i don't know how it runs with windows, but on my mac it's really gr8....
(a friend told me once that it's difficult to start on windows, but that the rest works just fine..)
it's amazing - u have so many networks in one app... - edonkey - kazaa - gnuuutella - bittorrent - soulseek - openft - opennap
it runs in the background... it has a browser-interface and u just have to enter a link to access it.... but if u don't like the browser-interface there are also some "normal" graphical interfaces around...
http://mldonkey.org/ - check it out.....
ps.: i don't know how it runs with windows, but on my mac it's really gr8....
(a friend told me once that it's difficult to start on windows, but that the rest works just fine..)
Is it just IE that freezes or the whole system? If it's just IE then getting rid of it very well could be a solution to the problem. But I'm assuming your system is a little dated, it's less likely for this to happen on a really speedy system unless it's bogged down by unnecessary services/viruses. So going by that assumption, you might want to go for Mozilla Firebird or Opera, rather than Mozilla, just to optimize the performance cause Mozilla is bigger than IE, more efficient perhaps but still bigger.