Firefox or Safari???

isofa

suzanne wrote: »

OK So its Firefox as the winner then?????

It's personal preference, you'll never get an answer. Which is the best car? Answer than and I'll tell you the answer to your question.

In my eyes FF is the best and most configurable around.

Daniel59

isofa wrote: »

Ahhh you are running a beta! Perhaps you opted into the Beta and have always been running Betas, so you get offered them first...

No I have not used beta before not even RC version. may be they select users randomly.

Marty_J

suzanne wrote: »

OK So its Firefox as the winner then?????

Download them all and try them out. It will not cost you anything apart from your time.

There's really no point us telling you what we use.

asininity

suzanne wrote: »

OK So its Firefox as the winner then?????

Yes:D. But try others as well.

suzanne

5 pages of rubbish chat then?

Marty_J

suzanne wrote: »

5 pages of rubbish chat then?

Well, gratifying as it is to argue over which browser is better, only your opinion counts.

You can certainly use other peoples' recommendations to guide you when comparing browsers though.

mean_momma

suzanne wrote: »

5 pages of rubbish chat then?

Thank you for the most interesting information. The other day I was shocked to see a banner advert at the top of my Orange email inbox, directed at me. I know this because I had been checking out white TVs on the M & S website, and there they were - all three of them, with photos and serial numbers, in an advert for 'Your M & S'. Certainly not 'my' M & S and I would like to know whether what is their role in this 'in your face' advertising.

On checking the same webpage through Internet Explorer, a random insurance company ad appeared, no connection with my browsing.

Firefox support have suggested Adblocker, but I would really like to get to the bottom of which organisation is invading my privacy and deal with them accordingly!.

Apart from the obvious Firefox, Orange is mentioned in connection with Phorm, also Talk Talk, who I think own the ISP in question (Nildram). Then there is search engine, Google.......

Incidentally the current Firefox version on this PC is Firefox/3.5.7

Would be grateful for further advice!

busenbust

mean_momma wrote: »

Thank you for the most interesting information. The other day I was shocked to see a banner advert at the top of my Orange email inbox, directed at me. I know this because I had been checking out white TVs on the M & S website, and there they were - all three of them, with photos and serial numbers, in an advert for 'Your M & S'. Certainly not 'my' M & S and I would like to know whether what is their role in this 'in your face' advertising.

On checking the same webpage through Internet Explorer, a random insurance company ad appeared, no connection with my browsing.

Firefox support have suggested Adblocker, but I would really like to get to the bottom of which organisation is invading my privacy and deal with them accordingly!.

Apart from the obvious Firefox, Orange is mentioned in connection with Phorm, also Talk Talk, who I think own the ISP in question (Nildram). Then there is search engine, Google.......

Incidentally the current Firefox version on this PC is Firefox/3.5.7

Would be grateful for further advice!

So, what is your current security setup?

mean_momma

Security set up? I suppose just the most recent AVG free scanner, plus Vista Windows Defender. We sometimes run programmes such as Ad Adware or SpyBot, but they often seem to cause everything to slow down, or even sometimes crash (?clashes)

busenbust

We sometimes run programmes such as Ad Adware or SpyBot, but they often seem to cause everything to slow down, or even sometimes crash (?clashes)

Re 'clashes'. There is no incompatibility between your anti-malware and anti-virus installs. I have no issues with SpyBot but I think AdAware is next to useless. And an ever better alternative would be a periodical clean with Malwarebytes.