Jason Skywalker Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 IE because I use it and is always on my Computer. *Don't throw stones at me* *throws stones* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I use IE only because i used firefox once and i hated it as all the sites i normally viewed were differemt. It didn't work too well with flash and i hated the interface. It's gotnothing the new IE doesnt have anyway. Also after the great Oblivion patch crisis, i will never install any updates, patches or any un-nessasarily required software ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 Ouch, looks like IE is getting Pwnd... What are these Firefox extensions you people are talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 What are these Firefox extensions you people are talking about? Embedded plugins that extend the functionality of the browser in a variety of ways. Look here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 Cool, I have to admit, Firefox doesn't seem to suffer from a certain FlashPlayer problem I've been having with IE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 And may I mention ChatZilla which is another way to use IRC. And of, course, I didn't mention, but everybody else did, tabs. Total awesomeness. Though, yeah, somethings have to be downloaded through IE. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Definitely Firefox... As a sidenote for the people having problems using FireFox and having to revert to IE. It's because IE is the only browser that refuses to structure itself with established Internet Standards. Their little "custom" browser additions (embeds and such) are a nightmare and horribly implemented. It's another reason (other than the OS monopoly and wide distribution) why it's so much easier to hack into the browser. And because the browser has ties with the OS itself.. it can be devastating... FireFox users can download the extension jmac posted above if you'd rather not have to switch to IE for those certain pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igyman Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 If this poll happened a few months ago I would have said IE, but since it's happening now (and I've suddenly experienced some browser crashes with IE) I say Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Firefox--and I'm a recent convert. The tabbed browsing is fabulous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremia Skywalk Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 ern. Maxthon. Firefox is pretty much IE in my opinion if you have decent antivirus. Maxthon, however is much more convinient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 I use firefox and it's variants (camino). But these days I really don't have preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/ Thanks again, jmac. You are so helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Thanks again, jmac. You are so helpful. I aim to please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 Someone said that in Firefox you can make those annoying flash banners go away, but how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Someone said that in Firefox you can make those annoying flash banners go away, but how? Install the AdBlock extension. Then when you are on a page with annoying Flash banners, go to the Tools menu --> AdBlock --> Overlay Flash (or press CTRL-SHIFT-F). This will make all the Flash content on the page briefly substituted by a clickable image; when you click on them a filter box will appear. If you just want that particular banner gone just click OK, otherwise you can refine the filter by using * as a wildcard character to block out whole ranges of URIs or pages. (http://*.adserver.com/*.swf* ...would for example block out any Shockwave Flash content served by any subdomains of adserver.com.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Definately Firefox. The tabbed browsing and extra security/stability/customization make it the clear winner. Unfortunately, Netzero's software only supports IE, so if I want accelerated dialup, I'm stuck using it for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 hmmm, would you say that last bit of advice blocks out most flash banners you encounter? Edit: I'm talking about stoffe's post btw... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 hmmm, would you say that last bit of advice blocks out most flash banners you encounter? It should block out any whose URI matches the filter (where the wildcard character represents any text). I'd only recommend putting a blanket *.swf filter for dedicated Ad servers though. I don't feel too bad about site blocks for dedicated hosts which serve lots of intrusive malware-like banners that ruin your browsing experience. Putting broad filters on sites like YouTube might yield less desirable results though. I usually take a moment to inspect the URI of the annoying banners I block, and adapt how strict/loose the filter criteria is depending on what type of server it seems to be. Often flash banners reside on separate ad servers and not on the server you see them on the pages of. It might be a bit of clicking and filtering initially, but once you've got all the major Annoying Flash Banner Ad providers in your filter you don't notice much of it and you'll only have to update your filters occasionally. You can often nail those annoying floating boxes with banners that show up on top of the page content on some sites by right-clicking on them and picking "AdBlock IFRAME" in the context menu. Banner providers often put their content in IFRAMEs. You can block hysterically blinking images (even page/table backgrounds) in the same way by right-clicking and using the context menu. If you want to see all the assets that are displayed on a page (images, javascripts, embeds, iframes etc) you can click on the word "AdBlock" down in the status bar to open a window listing the URIs of all those things for the currently loaded page. It can be used to block things normally not visible on a page, such as annoying or malfunctioning javascripts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDJOHNNYMIKE Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Well, thanks to advice from LFers a while back, I am now digging all of the firefox. I kind of accidentally deleted IE and couldn't reinstall it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 It should block out any whose URI matches the filter (where the wildcard character represents any text). I'd only recommend putting a blanket *.swf filter for dedicated Ad servers though. I don't feel too bad about site blocks for dedicated hosts which serve lots of intrusive malware-like banners that ruin your browsing experience. Putting broad filters on sites like YouTube might yield less desirable results though. I usually take a moment to inspect the URI of the annoying banners I block, and adapt how strict/loose the filter criteria is depending on what type of server it seems to be. Often flash banners reside on separate ad servers and not on the server you see them on the pages of. It might be a bit of clicking and filtering initially, but once you've got all the major Annoying Flash Banner Ad providers in your filter you don't notice much of it and you'll only have to update your filters occasionally. You can often nail those annoying floating boxes with banners that show up on top of the page content on some sites by right-clicking on them and picking "AdBlock IFRAME" in the context menu. Banner providers often put their content in IFRAMEs. You can block hysterically blinking images (even page/table backgrounds) in the same way by right-clicking and using the context menu. If you want to see all the assets that are displayed on a page (images, javascripts, embeds, iframes etc) you can click on the word "AdBlock" down in the status bar to open a window listing the URIs of all those things for the currently loaded page. It can be used to block things normally not visible on a page, such as annoying or malfunctioning javascripts. Thanks for all your help, but I am an ultra n00b when it comes to this...I've been trying to block the ads on this page right, so my page isn't forced to be smaller on ther right if you know what I mean...The Ads don't show up now but the page still doesn't stretch out (hope this makes sense at all lol) I don't want to bother you more about this, but do you maybe know a tutorial site for this or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSI Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 IE because I use it and is always on my Computer. *Don't throw stones at me* At last we got something in common... [shake Hand] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Some people here should work for firefox, i mean if there was a woman with that name, she'd be yours, no questions asked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaelastraz Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I despise IE. It is a travesty that people still use it. QFT Seriously, I've been using Firefox for years now and never ever did I open IE again. Except once when I got a hijack virus that affected IE but not Firefox. If someone still uses IE nowadays it is because: 1.) They want to support Microsoft 2.) They are too lazy to get Firefox and IE is enough for their use of the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Firefox all the way. the tabbed browsing thing just pwns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I've been trying to block the ads on this page right, so my page isn't forced to be smaller on ther right if you know what I mean...The Ads don't show up now but the page still doesn't stretch out I don't want to bother you more about this, but do you maybe know a tutorial site for this or something? Don't know if it's possible to eliminate the margin, it could be part of the page layout with a fixed size space reserved for banner ads. Even if you remove the banners the page layout would still have the space defined for them. As for tutorials, sorry, can't help with that. I'm more of a trial & error person than a tutorial person. QFT If someone still uses IE nowadays it is because: 1.) They want to support Microsoft 2.) They are too lazy to get Firefox and IE is enough for their use of the internet. Or: 3.) They have automatic updates in Windows turned off (to avoid having a 10Mb+ background service running all the time that only serves a purpose once per week at most) and have to use Windows Update manually, which only works with Internet Explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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