Federal Government warns about Internet Exploer bugs

[Mike AA]

I downloaded Firefox lastnight, installed it within a few seconds and I like it better already. BLocking popups. Only thing I have against it is that I cant use my touchpad on my laptop on the sides to scroll the screen. Anything I'm missing as to how to make it work that way?

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I downloaded Firefox lastnight, installed it within a few seconds and I like it better already. BLocking popups. Only thing I have against it is that I cant use my touchpad on my laptop on the sides to scroll the screen. Anything I'm missing as to how to make it work that way?

It should work. That's a function of Windows itself, not so much the program. Maybe it wasn't focused on are?

[Lisa Perez]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I downloaded Firefox lastnight, installed it within a few seconds and I like it better already. BLocking popups. Only thing I have against it is that I cant use my touchpad on my laptop on the sides to scroll the screen. Anything I'm missing as to how to make it work that way?

I did that too, except I didn't have any problems with scrolling.. It works if you press both of the buttons by the touchpad, and then drag your finger on the touchpad. But I don't know if that helps or not

[trev2023]

I use SlimBrowser, and it's worked great for me. It has the tabbed windows, no popups, etc. I've never had a problem with it. I *think* it embeds IE, but I'm not sure.

[Denman]

what is sooo wrong with the humble ie?
everyone hates it because it is a microsoft product, yet without microsoft where woudl we be in computing? no games?! no decent os ! etc etc
(note that microsoft sponsoring us has no effect on my opinion)

[ngreen]

Originally Posted by Denman

what is sooo wrong with the humble ie?
everyone hates it because it is a microsoft product, yet without microsoft where woudl we be in computing? no games?! no decent os ! etc etc
(note that microsoft sponsoring us has no effect on my opinion)

I think security is my biggest concern. Whenever I use IE at least 2 pop-up ads show up immediately. I've had multiple viruses using IE but haven't had any with firefox. And it works better. Is more customizable and has some cool features. I don't have a lot of issues with microsoft like some people. I just use what I think works best and I like the most. And in this case IE doesn't win.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Denman

what is sooo wrong with the humble ie?

Did you read the article?

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Denman

what is sooo wrong with the humble ie?
everyone hates it because it is a microsoft product, yet without microsoft where woudl we be in computing? no games?! no decent os ! etc etc
(note that microsoft sponsoring us has no effect on my opinion)

Decent OS!?!?! Yes, we would have games, look beyond the front of your nose. Games were out for Mac (and even many Microsoft applicatons) before Windows 3.1. I know the university I'm working in now has dumped IE, and I've converted my whole family to firefox.

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally Posted by JosephM

Decent OS!?!?! Yes, we would have games, look beyond the front of your nose. Games were out for Mac (and even many Microsoft applicatons) before Windows 3.1. I know the university I'm working in now has dumped IE, and I've converted my whole family to firefox.

Yes I totally agree with you JosephM. The reason why there are a paltry number of games for the mac and linux is because Microsoft bribes game developers to use Direct X instead of Open GL. Even the games that are on the mac are not as good as they can be. Companies like Aspyr and Macsoft use Direct X converters to transform PC games to the mac. However these converters don’t have any optimization, which makes the game on mac worse than on a Wintel machine with the same specs.

Anyways

IE 6 for Wintel has 90% of the market share browser, so hackers definitely will find all of its weaknesses.
If some people change browsers it would defuse the amount of people using one browser, and decreasing the risk of security violations.
Also it would be a plus for the open source community which has trying to get developers not to code just for IE.

[jrgrim12]

I have been using Firefox for some time now and love it. It has so many more features that IE doesn't have. If you look under the tips and trick section of www.mozilla.org (http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html) (look for: Speed up page rendering, enable pipelining, and ad blocking) you can find ways to make your web pages load fasters as well as ways to block other things that you may not want to see My webpages are very clean looking now

Extension I would suggest having:

Allow Right Click> It will allow you to right click on pages that won't let you

Bugmenot> www.bugmenot.com a network of usernames and passwords for logins

SpoofStick> www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/ Let's you know the website's true URL to avoid being scammed

IE View> Will open the current page in IE (If you dare)

I can't believe Andy Baker doesn't use FireFox

[codeoftherobot]

Let's see I've been using Netscape for, ooo how long, since the company started. I've progressed through many versions of Netscape, from the 2.0's to the 7.1's. Then after 7.1, I decided to switch to Mozilla after I heard the rumor that Netscape might not continue. Mozilla had all the same features as Netscape (without the AOL add-on stuff) and was even better as it could be easily customized and had many cool themes (currently using Mozilla 1.7 with Venerable Modern). Plus when I migrated over to Linux, Mozilla was already the default browser on my Red Hat stuff so there was no difficulty in trasitioning. Never been an IE person though I have had to use it on occassion for certain websites.

Originally Posted by jrgrim12

I can't believe Andy Baker doesn't use FireFox

No, he uses AOL...ahhhhh

[JohnBoucher]

I have been using Opera as my main browser for a while now and really liked it. Jess came home and beat me up because I wasn't using Firefox, So it's up and I like it.
But I'm not seeing any alt tags on images. Is that a setting that is not turned on during setup or does it not render alt tags?

[mtrawls]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Did you read the article?

Psht! you must be new here.


(Sorry, wrong site ... oh, IE no good at chiefdelphi? sooo confusing.)

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck

No, he uses AOL...ahhhhh

I am now a happy user of Firefox. Because of this thread, I am happy to say.

However, my ISP is AOL. It is still hard to beat the sweet deal that Delphi got with AOL for its employee's personal use. I pay $3 a month. That is it. I can save my other money to put shoes on my kids feet and put food in their mouths. I complain about being on dial-up... but for $3, I don't mind.

I just gotta remember to pull the twine tight when I am downloading a file.

Andy B.