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Internet web browser which is best
« on: September 04, 2006, 11:55:53 PM »
your experiences/preferences please and reasons for and against
 i have been using explorer and outlook ever since i came out of the "darkages" but im tossing up to try mozillafirefox and thunderbird email  im still only running windows98se on a 4 yr old system 256ram 900 hz processor?   
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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2006, 12:23:27 AM »
Mozilla Firefox would be my preference as it's very reliable and less prone to peculiar things happening or "attacks" as many viruses are aimed at exploiting Microsoft products such as Internet explorer. I don't use outlook or thunderbird for email, as at work we have Linux so I use good ol' pine for email and at home I can logon to my work, hotmail or OER email accounts. So I can't comment on which is better for email. The only negative is the odd site is designed for Internet Explorer use so keep IE on hand for those situations.

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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2006, 08:36:11 AM »
Firefox for sure 632!  :thumbsup

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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2006, 06:37:23 PM »
I MADE THE CHANGE  SO FAR SO GOOD  thanks folks
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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2006, 07:33:53 PM »
I use Firefox, 632. With IE, I used to get an error message often which made it close.

I tried Thunderbird for a while but reverted to Outlook Express. Only because I lost the settings and couldn't be bothered setting it up again when I still had Outlook set up. Didn't find either better or worse for my usage.
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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2006, 07:47:32 PM »
Firefox, except it doesn't like the AFL stats site and some other sites - change to IE on sites I have problems with.
Outlook for email - don't need to change - it works

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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2006, 09:26:22 PM »
your experiences/preferences please and reasons for and against
 i have been using explorer and outlook ever since i came out of the "darkages" but im tossing up to try mozillafirefox and thunderbird email  im still only running windows98se on a 4 yr old system 256ram 900 hz processor?   
I'm computer illiterate, I wouldn't have a clue. I use IE though  :P If that helps
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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2006, 10:38:07 PM »
Firefox.
Netscape lets u have multiple tabs now too.

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Re: Internet web browser which is best
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2006, 10:41:17 AM »
I like the new IE version and I'm keeping it.
Had lots of problems with Firefox, getting lots of pages not loading.

I luv the personalised web pages on IE - although I'm having problems putting OER on there.  Can it be done?