Aaron62

JakesDTVBlog

IE8 ... ick. I've tried every browser that's out there -- up to and including IE8 -- and just keep coming back to Firefox. It's so much friendlier, and you can customize it in ways I haven't even figured out yet. The different add-on features I use (a weather display, TwitterFox, and a couple others) are well integrated and don't take away from the usable space on my netbook's 10" screen at all.

HTNut

.....and the no-ads add-on has been quite useful for me with Firefox. Can't tell you how many virus' I caught with IE, but after switching to FF I haven't had one since.

JakesDTVBlog

There's a no-ads add-on? Well, I am SO all over that! It will be installed before I hit the sack, I tell you that much now.

Ditto on the no viruses thing, too. IE was the death of two previous computers. This one (an MSI Wind U100) has had FF from day one, and knock on netbook plastic, there have been none so far!

Piggie

My wife continued to use IE for years after I switched to Fx. She continued to get viruses even with anti-virus software.

I told her she had to switch to Fx. That was over 2 years ago. Now when I check her virus and spyware programs they have not even trapped anything.

I was a Netscape person for years, then they put themselves out of business trying to sue MS. Soon their old version 3 was out of date and IE5 did indeed pass them by to the point I had to switch to IE which I had never even used before. But a few years later Fx (same people as Netscape to a large degree) came out and I tried and the same day never went back to IE.

Now when I set up a new machine or reinstall windows, I don't even bother to set up IE. Still if you don't use IE you need to do the IE updates from MS as IE is so deeply intertwined with Windows, you can end up with problems not applying patches. I left XP at IE6 and MS keeps sending patches for it. In other words, I don't mean upgrade the version but do the patches to what ever IE you have now.

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Eureka

Firefox download
Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox

DTVuser2009

There's also FlashBlock add-ons too. that way if you want flash player you can still watch Youtube or Hulu yet no longer get the stupid annoying flash ads that intrude over what you're reading online.

IE 8 is always installed without user permission through automatic updates. thank goodness i have that turned off long ago. i like to give permission to update my computer when i want, not have it do things behind my back (hello, Microsoft? spyware?)

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Eureka

Not here. Running Linux.

DTVuser2009

yea but not everyone uses Linux (or Mac).

I use Safari though. the PC version. my phone uses Opera Mini.

Firefox was too slow on even my new netbook too. it seemed to take forever to load and had this bad habit if trying to update just like Microsoft. no way to turn it off and i also had the annoying 'continue' message on some sites due to 'invalid security certificate' and couldn't turn it off. that last one was a deal breaker for me. i mean how long can you live with this each time you sign in to Yahoo! Mail or Online Banking or even DTVUSA Forum? (image used was an example, in my case the date/time WAS correct it just annoyed me to no end)



And as much as i hate windows forcing me to update itself, the last thing i needed was a browser doing the same. either annoying me to death until i gave in such as the next example image to even going ahead and forcing it, leaving the 'Later' option greyed out.

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Disabling Firefox auto-updates is easy: