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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 19:57    Post subject: IE8 to Firefox - what a difference ! Reply with quote

Just swapped from IE8 to firefox coz IE8 kept freezing on me. The difference is amazing  Cool.  

On speedtest the ping has gone from 60ms to 16ms, and the download speed is much quicker. Changing from page to page on here is instant, instead of waiting, wondering whether it's actually going to do it or just throw you off the site. It's like a new computer  Very Happy .

I do find it a bit odd that it's spellcheck picks up "firefox" as a miss-spelling though  Laughing  Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:02    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's more than likely your IE8 is full of add-ons etc so try reseting it back to out of the box settings and try again, Firefox is sometimes quicker than IE but it should not really be that much and I suspect it will get slower as that becomes bloated to.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 13:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm on XP., so it was originally IE5, upgraded to IE8. It is very top heavy with security updates et al to the point it keeps hanging.

TBH, I only tried firefox because of on of its add-ons which was recommended by Chloe's guitar teacher for helping her to practice. So far I kinda like it, so I'm going to stick with it for a while and see how it goes.

Also I've found I'm having to run more and more things in compatability mode with IE, including this site.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 17:30    Post subject: Reply with quote

i'm a big fan of Chrome. But I sit alone in this fan club  Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 20:39    Post subject: Reply with quote

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i'm a big fan of Chrome. But I sit alone in this fan club  Laughing

Your not alone my friend Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 0:44    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm on Chrome without all the add on's Wink  Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:29    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tried Chrome a while back, and my AVG was working overtime  Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 14:51    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

Bit late to this party, but one of the good things about Firefox is
the variety of addons that you can just download and install from
the Firefox site.

One of the most usefull is Adblock Pro, which filters out all the 3rd
party banner ads that clutter up web pages and slow down load
times. Another is Noscript, which you can use to filter out 3rd party
referral sites that run scripts. Again, this improves response time.

Noscript blocks all script by default and you need to manually enable
each, so may not suit everyone. Needs a bit of clue to make best use
of, but Adblock Pro just works silently in the background, filtering out
all the ads.

Use of both can improve security as well. Have used Firefoix and the
above two addons here for years...

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 15:16    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, what a palava I've had with Firefox over the last few days.

It did a silent update on the 9th to version 18. All of a sudden I started getting blue screen crashes. Took me a while to figure out it was Firefox causing them, as I'd just had 8 windows updates at the same time, so I had to go through all of them first.

Gradually I narrowed it down to being the new Firefox, so I thought I'd go back to the older 17.0.1. , only every single download link I could find anywhere was to the new 18. Poor show by Mozilla, they should give you the option to roll back to at least the last version.

I did find one eventually, through a 3rd party site that hosts older versions of all the browsers. Finally, I've got my PC back  Cool.

I tell you what though, whilst I was trying to sort this out I was using IE8. I'd forgotten just how slow it was  Laughing.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 16:36    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you get onto the ftp site, you'l find all the old releases, here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

I'm still on Firefox 9 here, which ain't broken etc :-)...

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