browsers

Waterfox is a web browser that advertises itself as a "Fast and Private Web Browser. Get privacy out of the box with Waterfox." So I thought I'd give Waterfox a spin on Windows to see how well it works for a local web page. I had problem, though, in that the Windows system doesn't have access...

You know that thing when you open a new web page, and it'll load completely, only for the screen to go white and the loading to seemingly start anew from scratch, and only when it's done can you start navigating the web site? Ie. the website seems to need to load twice before? I've had this...

Or so MS has been telling me, off and on for a few months, as I start up a FF session :rolleyes: But there's a little 'x' in the pop-up that carries this handy advice, so I click it and it goes away. Until tonight, when I clicked the 'x' and it started up an Edge session. Is this even legal...

Let's see so far here's what I know of: IE: An MS product? lol. right. Edge: See IE. Chrome: #### you Google and your snooping prying ways. Pass. Opera: the UI always sucked donkey dongs. I just installed the latest and that's still true. Pass. Firefox: Sooner or later I have...

I received a video camera about a month ago which I'm using to film myself bringing friends and family in other countries up to speed with how and what I'm doing. I opened a YouTube channel to upload the videos so they can watch it. I mainly use Chrome to browse as I like how fast it is. Almost...

I started using Chrome yesterday (in order to participate in rbutr) and I like it a lot, though I'd been very happy with Firefox for a long time. Which browser do you use the most? (Poll will be up shortly. I added some I'd never heard of which I found on Wikipedia's timeline of browsers.)

In case you are also having it, their web site addresses it. Here is the fix for Macs. Must be something in their latest upgrade. I haven't fixed it yet, I'm toggling between Chrome and Safari instead.

Biostar P4M90-M4 w/ Celeron 2 GHz 2 gigs PNY DDR2 (PC2-6400, 400 MHz) VIA Chrome9 HC IGP Soundblaster 24 bit Samsung 40 GB XP Pro, SP 3 Linksys E2000 Problem: Browsers eating up 100% of CPU, esp. with flash sites. This is the case with firefox, IE, chrome and opera. All are sluggish and tough...

So, I've been using Firefox for many years now, and despite the issues others may have encountered, I've never, ever experienced poor performance. I run it on four different machines, and have run it on both Windows 7 and Windows XP. Until now. The latest version of Firefox seems to run like...

This comes as no surprise to us Opera users: The fact that users of Internet Explorer are dumber than average is even less news for everybody else, and in an attempt to prove the point, a group of them is threatening to sue AptiQuant. :D

I have a client that needs to play AVI video files, in a web browser, preferably though the QuickTime player. (If not QT, then some other player where the user can examine the videos frame-by-frame, that is readily available.) And, theoretically, they must be AVIs, since they are the primary...

I've been trying Firefox 4 for a couple of days. I like it. The initial appearance is Chrome-like, but it looks a little friendlier once the menus are shown. It's a good deal faster than 3.6, both on a Vista PC and a 6 year old XP laptop. I know we have plenty of FF fans here. Comments?

Has anyone else tried RockMelt? It's a Chrome-based browser with integrated social networking (Facebook & Twitter, mostly). I'm trying it out now. Seems interesting. We'll see how it goes.

What's the best substitute for IE and why? I have Firefox on my laptop but that's a memory hog (or did they fix it)? I've had Safari 4 which made sites look slightly different. Is Safari 5 better? I've had Opera way back when, and I liked the mouse gestures, but as far as I know Opera isn't...

Has anybody updated to Flash 10.1 recently? It seems that Adobe in their infinite wisdom have moved the preferences pane of my own locally running flash plug-in to a flash script running on their webpage. Which include the settings for turning on and off permissions for activating my webcam...

So I've switched back to Chrome for my day-to-day web browsing. I've tried it before, back when it was still an early Beta, and I didn't consider it stable enough for regular use. But I just reinstalled the latest version, and I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised. I like it so much that...

So for the last month or so I've been using Firefox, since so many people say it's the shiznit. I'm not impressed. It does a terrible job of blocking popups, and it lets in all kinds of malware. My last anti-virus scan found 92 infections! Almost all tracking cookies, but still... I never had...

Curiouser and curiouser... Very little to read on the page... http://www.opera.com/freedom/ A stylised cloud with a lightning bolt: http://www.opera.com/bitmaps/freedom/design.png A rather curious comment in the source code: <!-- We start our little story with the invention of the modern...

According to the news, Google is releasing a browser named "Chrome" today; I'm a little surprised that I can't find anyone talking about that here. Anyone heard of it? Anyone downloaded it (or planning to)? Any issues or problems we might want to be aware of? And what do you think of this in...

What is the number one motivation for upgrading to I-E 8 browser ? I know that it probably won't be possible for me to install (still running Win98) but what about at my work? Is there any visible adavantage?

So, I just installed a fresh clean copy of Windows XP on a brand new hard drive for my home computer. The old copy was getting all broken down and I needed the extra space anyway. It took a while but I think I have everything running smoothly now with all the latest service packs and security...

We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Netscape Navigator. Does anyone have memories of the deceased they would like to share?

OK, time for me to grow up. I've been lazy - using IE for pretty much my whole time on-line. I had a brief love affair with Opera, but somewere around 6 or 7, the thing got all messed up. I enjoyed playing with Neoplanet, but that one went belly-up fast. Netscape Navigator? Ugh. But the...

I've used Firefox for a good few years but lately I've found little annoyances creeping in: It would forget passwords that I'd like it to remember In threads with pictures it wouldn't redisplay quoted images Various things stopped working, e.g. on my Gmail account the Quick Contacts list broke...

Gidday all, Article from the SMH this morning: http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/firefox-claws-more-users/2007/05/02/1177788202450.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 Interesting to see that Firefox has 25% of the Oceanic market (as such, since it's free). Whilst I like the browser, and use it in...

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Hi all. We recently (last weekend, after a huge server crash) switched to wordpress to run our college website, and now I'm working on a site where I can't easily test out the pages on my desktop because it's pulling from a sql database. Is there freeware out there to let you "view" a page in...

I'm sure the majority of people here are aware of the major changes to browsers lately (tabbed browsing would have to be the main one). What do you want to see next? Keep in mind that everyone has to put up with your feature!

I thought I'd give Opera a try. Is there a way to clone the current page, so it opens a new tab with the same page as the current tab? ~~ Paul

A Java applet normally doesn't have permission to open a new browser window (say, to display a page with help). I find this odd, but anyhoo. Does anyone know how to get around this restriction, short of granting full permissions to the applet? ~~ Paul