Trying a New Browser

[Renee750il]

Over here on the Dell/Vista machine. Downloaded Google's Chrome browser. So far it is freaking blazing - for a Windows machine

 

[SisMorphine]

I've heard some good things about Chrome. But until I put a bigger hard drive in my compy I'm hesitant to download anything that I don't immediately need. I can't wait to be able to test it out!

 

[Domestika]

For a browser I used Mozilla. Or Opera. But there are still things that only work on Explorer, for some reason. :/

 

[Renee750il]

I don't like Mozilla at all, and on the machine at the store, Opera's been a big source of viruses. So far Chrome is far faster on the Windows machines than Opera ever was anyway, so I'm tickled with it. So far.

 

[Nechochwen]

No love for the firefox?

even with the flashblock and ad-block add-ons installed?

 

[jess2416]

I love Firefox...

its awesome

 

[Nechochwen]

I don't like Mozilla at all, and on the machine at the store, Opera's been a big source of viruses. So far Chrome is far faster on the Windows machines than Opera ever was anyway, so I'm tickled with it. So far.

Wrong, users are the source of viruses.

 

[Renee750il]

All I know is Charlie was bitching about the Opera on the store computer because the machine was suddenly turning up a lot of viruses on the AVG scan at night. Undoubtedly the viruses are coming from all of his porn sites, but they aren't coming through when he uses Safari. At some point you have to believe the evidence. It's not like he's going to stop spending hours on free porn sites

 

[CanadianFreeSpirit]

I have a fairly new HP Vista. I was using IE7 on it, but then IE8 came out and I upgraded. Suddenly my yahoo mail wasn't working. I called my ISP, and found out that they don't support IE8 yet. so, by Hobsons Choice, I had to install Firefox. Slowly I'm learning how to use it, but there are things that I could do without thinking on IE that I haven't figured out how to do at all with the Firefox. Every day I'm learning a bit more. I tried Chrome, but it really wasn't for me. So the learning will continue.

 

[Renee750il]

No love for the firefox?

even with the flashblock and ad-block add-ons installed?

Nope. None at all. I like it as much as I like IE.

 

[GlassOnion]

<3 Firefox

Slowly I'm learning how to use it, but there are things that I could do without thinking on IE that I haven't figured out how to do at all with the Firefox.

Such as? They're laid out a bit differently in their options but I think Firefox is more intuitive than IE ever was. Only thing that threw me with Firefox was that switching from IE where changes to the browser itself was made under 'Preferences', I got lost when looking for 'Preferences' instead of 'Options'. I dislike when basic stuff isn't standard.

Other than that it's a wonderful browser. Have played with Chrome and it's also good but Firefox kicks its butt for the moment. Though I wouldn't be surprised if I start using Chrome in the future once it's past its fledgling stage.