Internet explorer

[Nikki]

New computer!!!

What's the first thing on my list?

Download mozilla firefox!


Does anybody on this planet use internet explorer???

 

[drawboy]

I was a dedicated firefox user until I got a virus that redirected every googled webpage to some spurious sites. I couldn't be bothered getting the thing removed and re-installing windows so I bought a new lappy and I use IE8 to be honest it has been ok and I'm happy enough with it not to have to change to Firefox again yet.

 

[RGDave]

Does anybody on this planet use internet explorer???

Not me, unless it's for 1/2 a dozen sites where I can't be bothered to find my favourites.

I use Chrome anyway.

 

[Ethan]

If I have to use a PC, I use Chrome. Otherwise I use Camino on the Mac, as now.

Safari is also available for Windows.

http://www.apple.com/safari/

 

[RGDave]

Safari is also available for Windows.

Safaris for Windows users. Do I need to be a bad boy though to claim this off the state?

 

[brendy]

Chrome here also.

 

[CliveW]

Does anybody on this planet use internet explorer???

I do. What's wrong with that?

 

[HRC99]

Does anybody on this planet use internet explorer???

I do. What's wrong with that?

It's slow and crap.

 

[birdieman]

It's only as slow as your broadband speed surely?

IE is fine by me too.

 

[RGDave]

It's only as slow as your broadband speed surely?

IE is fine by me too.

Sadly, not in my experience.

I.E. is extra-slow to start and other moments are pretty arthritic too.

 

[HRC99]

It's only as slow as your broadband speed surely?

IE is fine by me too.

On most PCs, it is much slower than Firefox. I installed it the other day on my other half's father's laptop and compared it to IE. IE was six seconds to load and Firefox two seconds.

 

[birdieman]

ok just installed it, agree its faster but this GM website looks different -why?

 

[CliveW]

Does anybody on this planet use internet explorer???

I do. What's wrong with that?

It's slow and crap.

But so am I. My Broadband is slow anyway.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I use firefox and it works fine with 99% of the sites i visit.

However IE 8 is way better than its predessors and is easy to reset back to default settings if a virus does bite.

IE9 is on the horizon and this may well rival chrome for speed, although I dont like the Chrome interface.

once IE has started I see very little difference in page load times when compared to firefox

As a PC engineer, I see 30 computers a week 90% have IE in various versions. 9 % have firefox and 1 percent have Chrome.

Interestingly nearly all have Safari on their desktop as part of a itunes update but nobody knows what it is.

Another one that I have used is Opera

Both IE and Firefox are able to be compromised by Malware, so I would recommend everyone in the world downloads and uses the free version of Malwarebytes on a regular basis www.malwarebytes.org Remember to update before scanning, do the quick scan and if it comes up with loads of bad stuff, do the long scan afterwards.

Fragger

PC Hero to The Gentry

 

[Spoff]

I'm a Chrome user at home and IE at work - that's IE6!!!