BongoBob Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 hehe, we got a 60 day demo with this computer. We redid our HDD and then after we moved I wondered if the new adress would change anything and bam, new 60 day subscription I still can't believe it worked. I expected the SWAT team to bust in and ask if I had the rights to record it from ABC and the NFL[/endjokeonlyafewpeoplewillget] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by BongoBob I expected the SWAT team to bust in and ask if I had the rights to record it from ABC and the NFL[/endjokeonlyafewpeoplewillget] Just ABC... heh. *prepares for a tackling* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 Originally posted by Mike Windu I have no anti virus proggie. The one I have is 7 years old with NO updates since 1999. I do have spyware sweeper etc. a 7yo AV program... wow Mike, you is one crazy cowboy. I sense your compy is old and you dont value it much mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted January 5, 2005 Share Posted January 5, 2005 I don't use any AV programs, never had a virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Main Reasons Firefox = good: 1 - As far as i know it is the FIRST browser to implement things PROPERLY. Netscape never managed it. IE does so many things wrong that people have actually started to think its way is right. Opera was almost there. 2 - Tabbed Browsing. Once you get used to it (in firefox, or opera, or avant, or any browser excet IE) you can't live without it. I have 17 tabs as we speak. Try that in IE!! 3 - Extensions. These are genius. Once you find a few you like you can't live without them. The web developer one is esential for making pages. Session Saver is great. Image zoom, nuke anything, tabbrowser preferences. Plus you can get weather, rss, media player, news reader plugins, plus plugins from most cool sites (bloglines...) 4 - Security (although this may not last forever, it is unlikely to ever be as bad as IE) 5 - Its open source. The more i see of open source, the more i like it. It pretty much guarantees it isn't going to be messed with in the future. Open office is excellent too. Changing browsers is always weird, like changing mice, you have y=gotten used to how it works. Even if you just use it very basically it will protect you more than IE, if you want to customise it or be an advanced user then you will never look back. That said, i get the tiny lucasforums box, but that is cos i havent updated to the latest firefox for reasons beyond my control. (or their code is bad) more and more sites are supporting it. And if you code your site to work in firefox then you know it is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Oh, and if you really don't like the occasional errors then the NEW netscape is based on firefox, but has a command to switch to the IE renderer when somone has coded a page to only work in IE. Of course the problem with this is that it still gives encoragement to web people to keep writing bad IE code rather than doing it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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