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I am so sick of active-x controls that installs the most DUMBEST programs on your computer... I have my IE settings set to PROMPT me before anything like that comes up, and still I get them!?!?!
For example, I got this stupid internet optimizer (every error page this comes up and I guess it pop-up windows alot too) and man, I finally got rid of all that (after going thru my registry and finding all assiociated .dlls and using DOS to unregister them)
grrr, if your a creator of these stupid things, please just smack yourself. save the "innocent" people who dont want your crappy things (searchbars, toolbars, porn crap, pop-ups, etc!) and just want to surf the web!
Let me continue your flame, I often help clean up computers at a middle school and one of the most annoying things are exactly what you described tim. The people who design those annoying programs are not worhty of the title "programmers."
Never surf with an Admin account. I only use my admin account when I install/remove something from my system. Other than that, I just use a limited user for everything else so nothing I run into can modify my registry or do anything else, because of the lack of access.
Forget about Active X and most of all IE - use Mozilla Firefox. It's small, powerful, cross-platform, has everything you need and, on top of that, is really beautiful.
i agree.. but right now i m using firebird.. i just didn't took time to upgrade (because i got all those add ons like css validator etc etc some side bar..) and well i m just too damn lazy.. but firebird doiing the work right now
so nyways ..does firefox is WAY better r.. it's just a different look ?
about firefox vs firebird, there are some major improvements like the downloads manager and stuff so bug fixes. i would first make sure all of your addons are availble for firefox, then switch asap
and yeah, shockwave and flash should come with it, but you guys have to remember that firefox is still in beta. when 1.0 comes out, it might have it built in
Firefox is seriously nice. At the least you should use it for testing, it has flagged some mistakes I've made that IE has missed (there is a thread on it somewhere).
Used the download manager for the first time last week. Makes downloading hassle free.
phice wrote:I enjoy using a browser that more than 90% of the internet's webpages are created for.
IE and standard-compliance is a very different issue - and if IE had to compete on the "browser-market" these days rather than being deeply embedded into the most popular operating system, it wouldn't stand a chance.
phice wrote:Firefox is starting to get pretty nice, but it still has that 'open-source feel' to it, but it's getting there.
Not sure what you mean... would be interesting to know.