FIREFOX, time to change

wolfman

Opera is another good browser to try.

Lighter and faster than Firefox. It's also more secure, or at least has fewer and less critical security issues open.

It was the first browser to introduce true tabbed browsing, and has everything you should need out of the box. My favourite is the trash can, where if you accidentally close a page, you can recover it rather than having to browse there again.

StephenB_2

I don't much like Firefox. <snip stuff that reads like trolling> But everyone else seems to like it. I'll give it another go ... one day.

SJB

tomthebomb

I tried to install "Customise Google" by clicking "install now" on link supplied by sra but no joy.
Also search in "get more extensions" only produced "Customise Yahoo".

sra

tomthebomb wrote:

I tried to install "Customise Google" by clicking "install now" on link supplied by sra but no joy.
Also search in "get more extensions" only produced "Customise Yahoo".

I found a new trick recently for installing extensions.

Go to the page above. don't double-click the 'install now' link. Instead just drag the link to the url bar

This bypasses the security system where you have to white-list sites to allow them to install extensions

tomthebomb

Thanks sra for that excellent tip - job done.

intel

wolfman wrote:

Opera is another good browser to try.

Lighter and faster than Firefox. It's also more secure, or at least has fewer and less critical security issues open.

It was the first browser to introduce true tabbed browsing, and has everything you should need out of the box. My favourite is the trash can, where if you accidentally close a page, you can recover it rather than having to browse there again.

Yep Opera and Avant.. :beer:

Or

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Busybody

As you will see I am not very good with the technical side of things but:- A thing called SPAMBLOCKERUTILITY came up and offered me a free download< I accepted but dont know whether I did the right thing. If not how do I get rid of it?

intel

Busybody wrote:

As you will see I am not very good with the technical side of things but:- A thing called SPAMBLOCKERUTILITY came up and offered me a free download< I accepted but dont know whether I did the right thing. If not how do I get rid of it?

Why on earth did you download it if you dont know what it is or does.


Its Spyware. Removal here http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=2185

justpaper

^ i think Busybody has too got the windows msg service running,. and hasnt upgraded winxp,.

Jollux

I love firefox! ive been using it for at least a couple of years now, and i find it so much easier to use than IE, i especially like the tabbing, rather than having numerous windows flooding the taskbar as with IE. Thanks for the configure google extension, looks great!!